This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ARM: 9196/1: spectre-bhb: enable for Cortex-A15
to the 5.17-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
arm-9196-1-spectre-bhb-enable-for-cortex-a15.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.17 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 0c4b9326d8fede6f2a89fec9da11a17a4bc2f64b
Author: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Apr 20 09:44:51 2022 +0100
ARM: 9196/1: spectre-bhb: enable for Cortex-A15
[ Upstream commit 0dc14aa94ccd8ba35eb17a0f9b123d1566efd39e ]
The Spectre-BHB mitigations were inadvertently left disabled for
Cortex-A15, due to the fact that cpu_v7_bugs_init() is not called in
that case. So fix that.
Fixes: b9baf5c8c5c3 ("ARM: Spectre-BHB workaround")
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/proc-v7-bugs.c b/arch/arm/mm/proc-v7-bugs.c
index 06dbfb968182..fb9f3eb6bf48 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/proc-v7-bugs.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/proc-v7-bugs.c
@@ -288,6 +288,7 @@ void cpu_v7_ca15_ibe(void)
{
if (check_spectre_auxcr(this_cpu_ptr(&spectre_warned), BIT(0)))
cpu_v7_spectre_v2_init();
+ cpu_v7_spectre_bhb_init();
}
void cpu_v7_bugs_init(void)
