This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

[Variant 3/Meltdown] arm64: use RET instruction for exiting the trampoline

to the 4.15-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-use-ret-instruction-for-exiting-the-trampoline.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.15 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 Tue Feb 13 17:25:10 CET 2018

From: Will Deacon will.deacon@arm.com Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 16:15:59 +0000 Subject: [Variant 3/Meltdown] arm64: use RET instruction for exiting the trampoline

From: Will Deacon will.deacon@arm.com

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 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/entry.S | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S @@ -1029,6 +1029,14 @@ alternative_else_nop_endif .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 @@ -1041,7 +1049,7 @@ alternative_insn isb, nop, ARM64_WORKARO msr vbar_el1, x30 add x30, x30, #(1b - tramp_vectors) isb - br x30 + ret .endm

.macro tramp_exit, regsize = 64

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from will.deacon@arm.com are

queue-4.15/arm64-make-user_ds-an-inclusive-limit.patch queue-4.15/arm64-mm-remove-pre_ttbr0_update_workaround-for-falkor-erratum-e1003.patch queue-4.15/arm64-uaccess-don-t-bother-eliding-access_ok-checks-in-__-get-put-_user.patch queue-4.15/arm64-cpufeature-pass-capability-structure-to-enable-callback.patch queue-4.15/arm64-uaccess-mask-__user-pointers-for-__arch_-clear-copy_-_user.patch queue-4.15/arm64-mm-add-arm64_kernel_unmapped_at_el0-helper.patch queue-4.15/arm64-entry-reword-comment-about-post_ttbr_update_workaround.patch queue-4.15/arm64-kaslr-put-kernel-vectors-address-in-separate-data-page.patch queue-4.15/arm-arm64-smccc-make-function-identifiers-an-unsigned-quantity.patch queue-4.15/arm64-move-bp-hardening-to-check_and_switch_context.patch queue-4.15/arm-arm64-kvm-advertise-smccc-v1.1.patch queue-4.15/arm64-move-post_ttbr_update_workaround-to-c-code.patch queue-4.15/arm64-turn-on-kpti-only-on-cpus-that-need-it.patch queue-4.15/firmware-psci-expose-psci-conduit.patch queue-4.15/arm64-force-kpti-to-be-disabled-on-cavium-thunderx.patch queue-4.15/arm64-entry-apply-bp-hardening-for-high-priority-synchronous-exceptions.patch queue-4.15/arm64-kpti-fix-the-interaction-between-asid-switching-and-software-pan.patch queue-4.15/firmware-psci-expose-smccc-version-through-psci_ops.patch queue-4.15/arm64-mm-permit-transitioning-from-global-to-non-global-without-bbm.patch queue-4.15/arm64-mm-allocate-asids-in-pairs.patch queue-4.15/arm64-tls-avoid-unconditional-zeroing-of-tpidrro_el0-for-native-tasks.patch queue-4.15/arm64-use-ret-instruction-for-exiting-the-trampoline.patch queue-4.15/arm64-futex-mask-__user-pointers-prior-to-dereference.patch queue-4.15/arm64-entry-explicitly-pass-exception-level-to-kernel_ventry-macro.patch queue-4.15/arm64-implement-branch-predictor-hardening-for-affected-cortex-a-cpus.patch queue-4.15/arm64-kpti-make-use-of-ng-dependent-on-arm64_kernel_unmapped_at_el0.patch queue-4.15/arm-arm64-kvm-add-psci_version-helper.patch 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