arm64: Turn on KPTI only on CPUs that need it
authorJayachandran C <jnair@caviumnetworks.com>
Tue, 3 Apr 2018 11:09:18 +0000 (12:09 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sun, 8 Apr 2018 10:12:55 +0000 (12:12 +0200)
commit2adcb1fb389f1e4d650ecbd25b9ecace0fe5d014
treef4bc0a1a2b84204744e32ce6770d1ba6e1541ca4
parentf93aea3da223df5a79b4d103b1e4e6d30296b527
arm64: Turn on KPTI only on CPUs that need it

commit 0ba2e29c7fc1 upstream.

Whitelist Broadcom Vulcan/Cavium ThunderX2 processors in
unmap_kernel_at_el0(). These CPUs are not vulnerable to
CVE-2017-5754 and do not need KPTI when KASLR is off.

Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jayachandran C <jnair@caviumnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linaro.org> [v4.9 backport]
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> [v4.9 backport]
Tested-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Tested-by: Greg Hackmann <ghackmann@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c