[PATCH v2 2/2] ARM: Remove AES hwcap for parts affected by errata

[James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>]

Cortex-A57 and Cortex-A72 have an erratum where an interrupt that
occurs between a pair of AES instructions in aarch32 mode may corrupt
the ELR. The task will subsequently produce the wrong AES result.

The AES instructions are part of the cryptographic extensions, which are
optional. User-space software will detect the support for these
instructions from the hwcaps. If the platform doesn't support these
instructions a software implementation should be used.

Remove the hwcap bits on affected parts to indicate user-space should
not use the AES instructions.

Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
---
 arch/arm/kernel/setup.c | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/setup.c b/arch/arm/kernel/setup.c
index 1e8a50a97edf..8a409bfd33f2 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/setup.c
@@ -501,6 +501,15 @@ static void __init elf_hwcap_fixup(void)
 		return;
 	}
 
+	/*
+	 * HWCAP2_AES can get the wrong result due to A57's erratum #1742098 or
+	 * A72's #1655431.
+	 */
+	if (read_cpuid_part() == ARM_CPU_PART_CORTEX_A57 ||
+	    read_cpuid_part() == ARM_CPU_PART_CORTEX_A72) {
+		elf_hwcap2 &= ~HWCAP2_AES;
+	}
+
 	/* Verify if CPUID scheme is implemented */
 	if ((id & 0x000f0000) != 0x000f0000)
 		return;
-- 
2.30.2


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