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[disco,1/3] powerpc/64s: support nospectre_v2 cmdline option

Message ID 20191128150536.31557-2-benjamin.romer@canonical.com
State New
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Series Patch for CVE-2019-18660 | expand

Commit Message

Benjamin M Romer Nov. 28, 2019, 3:05 p.m. UTC 
From: "Christopher M. Riedl" <cmr@informatik.wtf>

BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1853142

commit d8f0e0b073e1ec52a05f0c2a56318b47387d2f10 upstream.

Add support for disabling the kernel implemented spectre v2 mitigation
(count cache flush on context switch) via the nospectre_v2 and
mitigations=off cmdline options.

Suggested-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Christopher M. Riedl <cmr@informatik.wtf>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Donnellan <ajd@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190524024647.381-1-cmr@informatik.wtf
Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net>

CVE-2019-18660
Signed-off-by: Benjamin M Romer <benjamin.romer@canonical.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/security.c | 19 ++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/security.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/security.c
index 70568ccbd9fd..8cc8b0de12d2 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/security.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/security.c
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@  static enum count_cache_flush_type count_cache_flush_type = COUNT_CACHE_FLUSH_NO
 bool barrier_nospec_enabled;
 static bool no_nospec;
 static bool btb_flush_enabled;
-#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_FSL_BOOK3E
+#if defined(CONFIG_PPC_FSL_BOOK3E) || defined(CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S_64)
 static bool no_spectrev2;
 #endif
 
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@  static __init int barrier_nospec_debugfs_init(void)
 device_initcall(barrier_nospec_debugfs_init);
 #endif /* CONFIG_DEBUG_FS */
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_FSL_BOOK3E
+#if defined(CONFIG_PPC_FSL_BOOK3E) || defined(CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S_64)
 static int __init handle_nospectre_v2(char *p)
 {
 	no_spectrev2 = true;
@@ -114,6 +114,9 @@  static int __init handle_nospectre_v2(char *p)
 	return 0;
 }
 early_param("nospectre_v2", handle_nospectre_v2);
+#endif /* CONFIG_PPC_FSL_BOOK3E || CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S_64 */
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_FSL_BOOK3E
 void setup_spectre_v2(void)
 {
 	if (no_spectrev2 || cpu_mitigations_off())
@@ -391,7 +394,17 @@  static void toggle_count_cache_flush(bool enable)
 
 void setup_count_cache_flush(void)
 {
-	toggle_count_cache_flush(true);
+	bool enable = true;
+
+	if (no_spectrev2 || cpu_mitigations_off()) {
+		if (security_ftr_enabled(SEC_FTR_BCCTRL_SERIALISED) ||
+		    security_ftr_enabled(SEC_FTR_COUNT_CACHE_DISABLED))
+			pr_warn("Spectre v2 mitigations not under software control, can't disable\n");
+
+		enable = false;
+	}
+
+	toggle_count_cache_flush(enable);
 }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_FS