This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
arm64: Turn on KPTI only on CPUs that need it
to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...
The filename of the patch is: arm64-turn-on-kpti-only-on-cpus-that-need-it.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.
From foo@baz Thu Apr 5 21:39:28 CEST 2018
From: Mark Rutland mark.rutland@arm.com Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2018 12:09:18 +0100 Subject: arm64: Turn on KPTI only on CPUs that need it To: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: mark.brown@linaro.org, ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org, marc.zyngier@arm.com, will.deacon@arm.com Message-ID: 20180403110923.43575-23-mark.rutland@arm.com
From: Jayachandran C jnair@caviumnetworks.com
commit 0ba2e29c7fc1 upstream.
Whitelist Broadcom Vulcan/Cavium ThunderX2 processors in unmap_kernel_at_el0(). These CPUs are not vulnerable to CVE-2017-5754 and do not need KPTI when KASLR is off.
Acked-by: Will Deacon will.deacon@arm.com Signed-off-by: Jayachandran C jnair@caviumnetworks.com Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas@arm.com Signed-off-by: Will Deacon will.deacon@arm.com Signed-off-by: Alex Shi alex.shi@linaro.org [v4.9 backport] Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland mark.rutland@arm.com [v4.9 backport] Tested-by: Will Deacon will.deacon@arm.com Tested-by: Greg Hackmann ghackmann@google.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c @@ -766,6 +766,13 @@ static bool unmap_kernel_at_el0(const st if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE)) return true;
+ /* Don't force KPTI for CPUs that are not vulnerable */ + switch (read_cpuid_id() & MIDR_CPU_MODEL_MASK) { + case MIDR_CAVIUM_THUNDERX2: + case MIDR_BRCM_VULCAN: + return false; + } + /* Defer to CPU feature registers */ return !cpuid_feature_extract_unsigned_field(pfr0, ID_AA64PFR0_CSV3_SHIFT);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mark.rutland@arm.com are
queue-4.9/arm64-mm-add-arm64_kernel_unmapped_at_el0-helper.patch queue-4.9/arm64-entry-reword-comment-about-post_ttbr_update_workaround.patch queue-4.9/arm64-kaslr-put-kernel-vectors-address-in-separate-data-page.patch queue-4.9/arm64-turn-on-kpti-only-on-cpus-that-need-it.patch queue-4.9/arm64-force-kpti-to-be-disabled-on-cavium-thunderx.patch queue-4.9/arm64-mm-allocate-asids-in-pairs.patch queue-4.9/arm64-tls-avoid-unconditional-zeroing-of-tpidrro_el0-for-native-tasks.patch queue-4.9/arm64-use-ret-instruction-for-exiting-the-trampoline.patch queue-4.9/arm64-entry-explicitly-pass-exception-level-to-kernel_ventry-macro.patch queue-4.9/arm64-kpti-make-use-of-ng-dependent-on-arm64_kernel_unmapped_at_el0.patch queue-4.9/arm64-mm-use-non-global-mappings-for-kernel-space.patch queue-4.9/arm64-capabilities-handle-duplicate-entries-for-a-capability.patch queue-4.9/arm64-entry-hook-up-entry-trampoline-to-exception-vectors.patch queue-4.9/arm64-mm-invalidate-both-kernel-and-user-asids-when-performing-tlbi.patch queue-4.9/arm64-mm-map-entry-trampoline-into-trampoline-and-kernel-page-tables.patch queue-4.9/module-extend-rodata-off-boot-cmdline-parameter-to-module-mappings.patch queue-4.9/arm64-kconfig-reword-unmap_kernel_at_el0-kconfig-entry.patch queue-4.9/arm64-mm-move-asid-from-ttbr0-to-ttbr1.patch queue-4.9/arm64-allow-checking-of-a-cpu-local-erratum.patch queue-4.9/arm64-take-into-account-id_aa64pfr0_el1.csv3.patch queue-4.9/arm64-kconfig-add-config_unmap_kernel_at_el0.patch queue-4.9/arm64-idmap-use-awx-flags-for-.idmap.text-.pushsection-directives.patch queue-4.9/arm64-factor-out-entry-stack-manipulation.patch queue-4.9/arm64-entry-add-exception-trampoline-page-for-exceptions-from-el0.patch queue-4.9/arm64-kpti-add-enable-callback-to-remap-swapper-using-ng-mappings.patch queue-4.9/arm64-entry-add-fake-cpu-feature-for-unmapping-the-kernel-at-el0.patch queue-4.9/arm64-cputype-add-midr-values-for-cavium-thunderx2-cpus.patch