From e5ce5e7267ddcbe13ab9ead2542524e1b7993e5a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeremy Linton Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2019 16:21:20 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] arm64: Provide a command line to disable spectre_v2 mitigation There are various reasons, such as benchmarking, to disable spectrev2 mitigation on a machine. Provide a command-line option to do so. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Linton Reviewed-by: Suzuki K Poulose Reviewed-by: Andre Przywara Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas Tested-by: Stefan Wahren Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Will Deacon --- Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 8 ++++---- arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c | 13 +++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index cf82bac..6a929258fa 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -2905,10 +2905,10 @@ check bypass). With this option data leaks are possible in the system. - nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E] Disable all mitigations for the Spectre variant 2 - (indirect branch prediction) vulnerability. System may - allow data leaks with this option, which is equivalent - to spectre_v2=off. + nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for + the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction) + vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this + option. nospec_store_bypass_disable [HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c index 9950bb0..d2b2c69 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c @@ -220,6 +220,14 @@ static void qcom_link_stack_sanitization(void) : "=&r" (tmp)); } +static bool __nospectre_v2; +static int __init parse_nospectre_v2(char *str) +{ + __nospectre_v2 = true; + return 0; +} +early_param("nospectre_v2", parse_nospectre_v2); + static void enable_smccc_arch_workaround_1(const struct arm64_cpu_capabilities *entry) { @@ -231,6 +239,11 @@ enable_smccc_arch_workaround_1(const struct arm64_cpu_capabilities *entry) if (!entry->matches(entry, SCOPE_LOCAL_CPU)) return; + if (__nospectre_v2) { + pr_info_once("spectrev2 mitigation disabled by command line option\n"); + return; + } + if (psci_ops.smccc_version == SMCCC_VERSION_1_0) return; -- 2.7.4