Recently I realized that a device with some Qualcomm Kryo 4xx cores reported in `lscpu` that it was _not_ vulnerable to Spectre BHB. This seemed unlikely to me. I wrote up a patch series to attempt (with a lot of guesswork) to add Qualcomm cores to the tables governing how the Spectre BHB mitigation worked. In response to that patch, Will suggested that I flip the mitigation on its head and assume things are vulnerable until we find that they're not [1]. This patch series _attempts_ to accomplish that. In case it's not obvious, v2 of this patch series was pretty different than v1 because it flips the logic on its head. Some of the patches carried over, though. v3 is yet more different, avoiding the guesses (and thus dropping some patches) and also incorporating feedback from Julius in response to v2. v4 addresses minor feedback plus re-adds Qualcomm cores since I managed to find a contact at Qualcomm to provide confirmation. As a last caveat, I'll note that I am certainly no expert on Spectre. Mostly I ended up here running `lscpu` on a device and noticing that it thought that it wasn't affected by Spectre v2 when I thought it was. Link to prev versions: v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241209174430.2904353-1-dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx/ v2: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241214005248.198803-1-dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx v3: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241219205426.2275508-1-dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx [1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241211213410.GB17486@willie-the-truck Changes in v4: - Re-added QCOM_KRYO_4XX_GOLD k24 patch after Qualcomm confirmed. - Add MIDR_BRAHMA_B53 as safe. - Get rid of `spectre_bhb_firmware_mitigated_list`. - Re-added KRYO 2XX/3XX/4XX silver patch after Qualcomm confirmed. Changes in v3: - Removed QCOM_KRYO_4XX_GOLD k24 patch. - Don't guess the mitigation; just report unknown cores as vulnerable. - Restructure the code since is_spectre_bhb_affected() defaults to true - Removed KRYO 2XX/3XX/4XX silver patch. - arm64: cputype: Add MIDR_CORTEX_A76AE - arm64: errata: Add newer ARM cores to the spectre_bhb_loop_affected() lists Changes in v2: - Slight change to wording and notes of KRYO_4XX_GOLD patch - arm64: errata: Assume that unknown CPUs _are_ vulnerable to Spectre BHB - arm64: errata: Add KRYO 2XX/3XX/4XX silver cores to Spectre BHB safe list Douglas Anderson (5): arm64: errata: Add QCOM_KRYO_4XX_GOLD to the spectre_bhb_k24_list arm64: errata: Assume that unknown CPUs _are_ vulnerable to Spectre BHB arm64: errata: Add KRYO 2XX/3XX/4XX silver cores to Spectre BHB safe list arm64: cputype: Add MIDR_CORTEX_A76AE arm64: errata: Add newer ARM cores to the spectre_bhb_loop_affected() lists arch/arm64/include/asm/cputype.h | 2 + arch/arm64/include/asm/spectre.h | 1 - arch/arm64/kernel/proton-pack.c | 218 +++++++++++++++++-------------- 3 files changed, 120 insertions(+), 101 deletions(-) -- 2.47.1.613.gc27f4b7a9f-goog
