From: Diana Craciun <diana.craciun@xxxxxxx> commit 7fef436295bf6c05effe682c8797dfcb0deb112a upstream. In order to protect against speculation attacks on indirect branches, the branch predictor is flushed at kernel entry to protect for the following situations: - userspace process attacking another userspace process - userspace process attacking the kernel Basically when the privillege level change (i.e.the kernel is entered), the branch predictor state is flushed. Signed-off-by: Diana Craciun <diana.craciun@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/powerpc/kernel/head_booke.h | 6 ++++++ arch/powerpc/kernel/head_fsl_booke.S | 15 +++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+) --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_booke.h +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_booke.h @@ -42,6 +42,9 @@ andi. r11, r11, MSR_PR; /* check whether user or kernel */\ mr r11, r1; \ beq 1f; \ +START_BTB_FLUSH_SECTION \ + BTB_FLUSH(r11) \ +END_BTB_FLUSH_SECTION \ /* if from user, start at top of this thread's kernel stack */ \ lwz r11, THREAD_INFO-THREAD(r10); \ ALLOC_STACK_FRAME(r11, THREAD_SIZE); \ @@ -127,6 +130,9 @@ stw r9,_CCR(r8); /* save CR on stack */\ mfspr r11,exc_level_srr1; /* check whether user or kernel */\ DO_KVM BOOKE_INTERRUPT_##intno exc_level_srr1; \ +START_BTB_FLUSH_SECTION \ + BTB_FLUSH(r10) \ +END_BTB_FLUSH_SECTION \ andi. r11,r11,MSR_PR; \ mfspr r11,SPRN_SPRG_THREAD; /* if from user, start at top of */\ lwz r11,THREAD_INFO-THREAD(r11); /* this thread's kernel stack */\ --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_fsl_booke.S +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_fsl_booke.S @@ -451,6 +451,13 @@ END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(CPU_FTR_EMB_HV) mfcr r13 stw r13, THREAD_NORMSAVE(3)(r10) DO_KVM BOOKE_INTERRUPT_DTLB_MISS SPRN_SRR1 +START_BTB_FLUSH_SECTION + mfspr r11, SPRN_SRR1 + andi. r10,r11,MSR_PR + beq 1f + BTB_FLUSH(r10) +1: +END_BTB_FLUSH_SECTION mfspr r10, SPRN_DEAR /* Get faulting address */ /* If we are faulting a kernel address, we have to use the @@ -545,6 +552,14 @@ END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(CPU_FTR_EMB_HV) mfcr r13 stw r13, THREAD_NORMSAVE(3)(r10) DO_KVM BOOKE_INTERRUPT_ITLB_MISS SPRN_SRR1 +START_BTB_FLUSH_SECTION + mfspr r11, SPRN_SRR1 + andi. r10,r11,MSR_PR + beq 1f + BTB_FLUSH(r10) +1: +END_BTB_FLUSH_SECTION + mfspr r10, SPRN_SRR0 /* Get faulting address */ /* If we are faulting a kernel address, we have to use the
