Cortex-A57 and A72 are vulnerable to the so-called "variant 3a" of
Meltdown, where an attacker can speculatively obtain the value
of a privileged system register.
By enabling ARM64_HARDEN_EL2_VECTORS on these CPUs, obtaining
VBAR_EL2 is not disclosing the hypervisor mappings anymore.
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
.enable = enable_smccc_arch_workaround_1,
},
#endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_HARDEN_EL2_VECTORS
+ {
+ .desc = "Cortex-A57 EL2 vector hardening",
+ .capability = ARM64_HARDEN_EL2_VECTORS,
+ MIDR_ALL_VERSIONS(MIDR_CORTEX_A57),
+ },
+ {
+ .desc = "Cortex-A72 EL2 vector hardening",
+ .capability = ARM64_HARDEN_EL2_VECTORS,
+ MIDR_ALL_VERSIONS(MIDR_CORTEX_A72),
+ },
+#endif
{
}
};