From: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
To: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>, marc.zyngier@arm.com
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, catalin.marinas@arm.com,
ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org, lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com,
christoffer.dall@linaro.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
labbott@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 07/11] arm64: Add skeleton to harden the branch predictor against aliasing attacks
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2018 12:16:28 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5A53611C.5030003@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1515157961-20963-8-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com>
Hi Will, Marc,
On 05/01/18 13:12, Will Deacon wrote:
> Aliasing attacks against CPU branch predictors can allow an attacker to
> redirect speculative control flow on some CPUs and potentially divulge
> information from one context to another.
>
> This patch adds initial skeleton code behind a new Kconfig option to
> enable implementation-specific mitigations against these attacks for
> CPUs that are affected.
[...]
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/mmu.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/mmu.h
> index 6f7bdb89817f..6dd83d75b82a 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/mmu.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/mmu.h
> @@ -41,6 +41,43 @@ static inline bool arm64_kernel_unmapped_at_el0(void)
> +static inline struct bp_hardening_data *arm64_get_bp_hardening_data(void)
> +{
> + return this_cpu_ptr(&bp_hardening_data);
> +}
> +
> +static inline void arm64_apply_bp_hardening(void)
> +{
> + struct bp_hardening_data *d;
> +
> + if (!cpus_have_const_cap(ARM64_HARDEN_BRANCH_PREDICTOR))
> + return;
> +
> + d = arm64_get_bp_hardening_data();
> + if (d->fn)
> + d->fn();
> +}
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c b/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c
> index 22168cd0dde7..5203b6040cb6 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c
> @@ -318,6 +318,7 @@ static void __do_user_fault(struct task_struct *tsk, unsigned long addr,
> lsb = PAGE_SHIFT;
> si.si_addr_lsb = lsb;
>
> + arm64_apply_bp_hardening();
Due to the this_cpu_ptr() call:
| BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: print_my_pa/2093
| caller is debug_smp_processor_id+0x1c/0x24
| CPU: 0 PID: 2093 Comm: print_my_pa Tainted: G W
4.15.0-rc3-00044-g7f0aaec94f27-dirty #8950
| Call trace:
| dump_backtrace+0x0/0x164
| show_stack+0x14/0x1c
| dump_stack+0xa4/0xdc
| check_preemption_disabled+0xfc/0x100
| debug_smp_processor_id+0x1c/0x24
| __do_user_fault+0xcc/0x180
| do_page_fault+0x14c/0x364
| do_translation_fault+0x40/0x48
| do_mem_abort+0x40/0xb8
| el0_da+0x20/0x24
Make it a TIF flag?
(Seen with arm64's kpti-base tag and this series)
> force_sig_info(sig, &si, tsk);
> }
Thanks,
James
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-08 12:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-05 13:12 [PATCH v2 00/11] arm64 kpti hardening and variant 2 workarounds Will Deacon
2018-01-05 13:12 ` [PATCH v2 01/11] arm64: use RET instruction for exiting the trampoline Will Deacon
2018-01-06 13:13 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2018-01-08 14:33 ` Will Deacon
2018-01-08 14:38 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2018-01-08 14:45 ` Will Deacon
2018-01-08 14:56 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2018-01-08 15:27 ` David Laight
2018-01-05 13:12 ` [PATCH v2 02/11] arm64: Kconfig: Reword UNMAP_KERNEL_AT_EL0 kconfig entry Will Deacon
2018-01-05 13:12 ` [PATCH v2 03/11] arm64: Take into account ID_AA64PFR0_EL1.CSV3 Will Deacon
2018-01-08 7:24 ` [v2,03/11] " Jayachandran C
2018-01-08 9:20 ` Marc Zyngier
2018-01-08 17:40 ` Jayachandran C
2018-01-08 17:51 ` Will Deacon
2018-01-08 18:22 ` Alan Cox
2018-01-09 4:06 ` Jayachandran C
2018-01-09 10:00 ` Will Deacon
2018-01-19 1:00 ` Jon Masters
2018-01-08 17:52 ` Marc Zyngier
2018-01-08 17:06 ` Will Deacon
2018-01-08 17:50 ` Jayachandran C
2018-01-05 13:12 ` [PATCH v2 04/11] arm64: cpufeature: Pass capability structure to ->enable callback Will Deacon
2018-01-05 13:12 ` [PATCH v2 05/11] drivers/firmware: Expose psci_get_version through psci_ops structure Will Deacon
2018-01-05 13:12 ` [PATCH v2 06/11] arm64: Move post_ttbr_update_workaround to C code Will Deacon
2018-01-05 13:12 ` [PATCH v2 07/11] arm64: Add skeleton to harden the branch predictor against aliasing attacks Will Deacon
2018-01-08 0:15 ` Jon Masters
2018-01-08 12:16 ` James Morse [this message]
2018-01-08 14:26 ` Will Deacon
2018-01-17 4:10 ` Yisheng Xie
2018-01-17 10:07 ` Will Deacon
2018-01-18 8:37 ` Yisheng Xie
2018-01-19 3:37 ` Li Kun
2018-01-19 14:28 ` Will Deacon
2018-01-22 6:52 ` Li Kun
2018-01-05 13:12 ` [PATCH v2 08/11] arm64: KVM: Use per-CPU vector when BP hardening is enabled Will Deacon
2018-01-05 13:12 ` [PATCH v2 09/11] arm64: KVM: Make PSCI_VERSION a fast path Will Deacon
2018-01-05 13:12 ` [PATCH v2 10/11] arm64: cputype: Add missing MIDR values for Cortex-A72 and Cortex-A75 Will Deacon
2018-01-05 13:12 ` [PATCH v2 11/11] arm64: Implement branch predictor hardening for affected Cortex-A CPUs Will Deacon
2018-01-05 14:46 ` James Morse
2018-01-05 14:57 ` Marc Zyngier
2018-01-08 6:31 ` [v2, " Jayachandran C
2018-01-08 6:53 ` [PATCH 1/2] arm64: cputype: Add MIDR values for Cavium ThunderX2 CPUs Jayachandran C
2018-01-08 6:53 ` [PATCH 2/2] arm64: Branch predictor hardening for Cavium ThunderX2 Jayachandran C
2018-01-08 16:46 ` Will Deacon
2018-01-08 17:19 ` Jayachandran C
2018-01-08 17:23 ` Will Deacon
2018-01-09 2:26 ` Jayachandran C
2018-01-09 9:53 ` Will Deacon
2018-01-09 12:47 ` [PATCH v2] " Jayachandran C
2018-01-16 21:50 ` Jon Masters
2018-01-16 21:52 ` Jon Masters
2018-01-16 23:45 ` Jayachandran C
2018-01-17 18:34 ` Jon Masters
2018-01-18 13:53 ` Will Deacon
2018-01-18 17:56 ` Jayachandran C
2018-01-18 18:27 ` Jon Masters
2018-01-18 23:28 ` Jayachandran C
2018-01-19 1:17 ` Jon Masters
2018-01-19 12:22 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] " Jayachandran C
2018-01-19 12:22 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] arm64: Turn on KPTI only on CPUs that need it Jayachandran C
2018-01-22 11:41 ` Will Deacon
2018-01-22 11:51 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2018-01-22 11:55 ` Will Deacon
2018-01-22 18:59 ` Jon Masters
2018-01-19 19:08 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] arm64: Branch predictor hardening for Cavium ThunderX2 Jon Masters
2018-01-22 11:33 ` Will Deacon
2018-01-22 19:00 ` Jon Masters
2018-01-23 9:51 ` Will Deacon
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