4.4-stable patches

[thirdparty/kernel/stable-queue.git] / queue-4.4 / powerpc-powernv-support-firmware-disable-of-rfi-flush.patch

From foo@baz Mon 29 Apr 2019 11:38:37 AM CEST
From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2019 00:19:49 +1000
Subject: powerpc/powernv: Support firmware disable of RFI flush
To: stable@vger.kernel.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, diana.craciun@nxp.com, msuchanek@suse.de, npiggin@gmail.com, christophe.leroy@c-s.fr
Message-ID: <20190421142037.21881-5-mpe@ellerman.id.au>

From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>

commit eb0a2d2620ae431c543963c8c7f08f597366fc60 upstream.

Some versions of firmware will have a setting that can be configured
to disable the RFI flush, add support for it.

Fixes: 6e032b350cd1 ("powerpc/powernv: Check device-tree for RFI flush settings")
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/setup.c |    4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/setup.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/setup.c
@@ -79,6 +79,10 @@ static void pnv_setup_rfi_flush(void)
 		if (np && of_property_read_bool(np, "disabled"))
 			enable--;
 
+		np = of_get_child_by_name(fw_features, "speculation-policy-favor-security");
+		if (np && of_property_read_bool(np, "disabled"))
+			enable = 0;
+
 		of_node_put(np);
 		of_node_put(fw_features);
 	}