powerpc/64s: Add support for a store forwarding barrier at kernel entry/exit
authorNicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Sat, 2 Jun 2018 11:09:08 +0000 (21:09 +1000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 6 Jun 2018 14:44:37 +0000 (16:44 +0200)
commite9b911a97bbd8d781d7281e913a1bc872e02f3cb
tree47cf3ea8b42f9ee5596e3247c7c395c7aba17857
parent2149936d12894357af9f50cb3effb99f3b41b4ce
powerpc/64s: Add support for a store forwarding barrier at kernel entry/exit

commit a048a07d7f4535baa4cbad6bc024f175317ab938 upstream.

On some CPUs we can prevent a vulnerability related to store-to-load
forwarding by preventing store forwarding between privilege domains,
by inserting a barrier in kernel entry and exit paths.

This is known to be the case on at least Power7, Power8 and Power9
powerpc CPUs.

Barriers must be inserted generally before the first load after moving
to a higher privilege, and after the last store before moving to a
lower privilege, HV and PR privilege transitions must be protected.

Barriers are added as patch sections, with all kernel/hypervisor entry
points patched, and the exit points to lower privilge levels patched
similarly to the RFI flush patching.

Firmware advertisement is not implemented yet, so CPU flush types
are hard coded.

Thanks to Michal Suchánek for bug fixes and review.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauricio Faria de Oliveira <mauricfo@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Michal Suchánek <msuchanek@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/powerpc/include/asm/exception-64s.h
arch/powerpc/include/asm/feature-fixups.h
arch/powerpc/include/asm/security_features.h
arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S
arch/powerpc/kernel/security.c
arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
arch/powerpc/lib/feature-fixups.c
arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/setup.c
arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/setup.c