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powerpc/fsl: Add infrastructure to fixup branch predictor flush
authorDiana Craciun <diana.craciun@nxp.com>
Thu, 11 Apr 2019 11:46:18 +0000 (21:46 +1000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 17 Apr 2019 06:36:42 +0000 (08:36 +0200)
commitd91460f2d0efc0fe6a197fc739e30edab6070456
treef8b159803a00736195ee0541c23a523df01188b4
parentae361096d6857727275631d1d64bcd8fec2d8f25
powerpc/fsl: Add infrastructure to fixup branch predictor flush

commit 76a5eaa38b15dda92cd6964248c39b5a6f3a4e9d upstream.

In order to protect against speculation attacks (Spectre
variant 2) on NXP PowerPC platforms, the branch predictor
should be flushed when the privillege level is changed.
This patch is adding the infrastructure to fixup at runtime
the code sections that are performing the branch predictor flush
depending on a boot arg parameter which is added later in a
separate patch.

Signed-off-by: Diana Craciun <diana.craciun@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
arch/powerpc/include/asm/feature-fixups.h
arch/powerpc/include/asm/setup.h
arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
arch/powerpc/lib/feature-fixups.c