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@google.com>
Sat, 6 Jan 2018 11:41:50 +0000 (12:41 +0100)
commit753593688bfab89b6cbf085f62fec44012a6820d
treef9472314cf74037c7a46a71e6ecf1fe33c2902da
parent06fe41f85237c9d3c915447b9f9d51f1e85c4891
arm64: use RET instruction for exiting the trampoline

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: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@google.com>
arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S