4.15-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Marc Zyngier marc.zyngier@arm.com
Commit 6dc52b15c4a4 upstream.
Cavium ThunderX's erratum 27456 results in a corruption of icache entries that are loaded from memory that is mapped as non-global (i.e. ASID-tagged).
As KPTI is based on memory being mapped non-global, let's prevent it from kicking in if this erratum is detected.
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier marc.zyngier@arm.com [will: Update comment] Signed-off-by: Will Deacon will.deacon@arm.com Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas@arm.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c | 17 ++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c @@ -853,12 +853,23 @@ static int __kpti_forced; /* 0: not forc static bool unmap_kernel_at_el0(const struct arm64_cpu_capabilities *entry, int __unused) { + char const *str = "command line option"; u64 pfr0 = read_sanitised_ftr_reg(SYS_ID_AA64PFR0_EL1);
- /* Forced on command line? */ + /* + * For reasons that aren't entirely clear, enabling KPTI on Cavium + * ThunderX leads to apparent I-cache corruption of kernel text, which + * ends as well as you might imagine. Don't even try. + */ + if (cpus_have_const_cap(ARM64_WORKAROUND_CAVIUM_27456)) { + str = "ARM64_WORKAROUND_CAVIUM_27456"; + __kpti_forced = -1; + } + + /* Forced? */ if (__kpti_forced) { - pr_info_once("kernel page table isolation forced %s by command line option\n", - __kpti_forced > 0 ? "ON" : "OFF"); + pr_info_once("kernel page table isolation forced %s by %s\n", + __kpti_forced > 0 ? "ON" : "OFF", str); return __kpti_forced > 0; }