From f6af5324fbda14e56247c60f1fd7d6a50abe32cf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Will Deacon Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2018 12:09:11 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas Signed-off-by: Alex Shi [v4.9 backport] Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland [v4.9 backport] Tested-by: Will Deacon Tested-by: Greg Hackmann Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S index 805dc76..f35ca1e 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S @@ -880,6 +880,14 @@ __ni_sys_trace: .if \regsize == 64 msr tpidrro_el0, x30 // Restored in kernel_ventry .endif + /* + * Defend against branch aliasing attacks by pushing a dummy + * entry onto the return stack and using a RET instruction to + * enter the full-fat kernel vectors. + */ + bl 2f + b . +2: tramp_map_kernel x30 #ifdef CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE adr x30, tramp_vectors + PAGE_SIZE @@ -892,7 +900,7 @@ __ni_sys_trace: msr vbar_el1, x30 add x30, x30, #(1b - tramp_vectors) isb - br x30 + ret .endm .macro tramp_exit, regsize = 64 -- 2.7.4