arm64: use RET instruction for exiting the trampoline
authorWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Tue, 14 Nov 2017 16:15:59 +0000 (16:15 +0000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 16 Feb 2018 19:22:49 +0000 (20:22 +0100)
commit68a65ce7039aa247b911e00ed5c743db35167781
treeddc112073b024080cdbb00e63efc875274e2044f
parent3882b5f63f3cfff225cee691dcb8357bf6714d07
arm64: use RET instruction for exiting the trampoline

Commit be04a6d1126b upstream.

Speculation attacks against the entry trampoline can potentially resteer
the speculative instruction stream through the indirect branch and into
arbitrary gadgets within the kernel.

This patch defends against these attacks by forcing a misprediction
through the return stack: a dummy BL instruction loads an entry into
the stack, so that the predicted program flow of the subsequent RET
instruction is to a branch-to-self instruction which is finally resolved
as a branch to the kernel vectors with speculation suppressed.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S