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arm64: use RET instruction for exiting the trampoline
authorWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Tue, 14 Nov 2017 16:15:59 +0000 (16:15 +0000)
committerSeth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
Thu, 22 Feb 2018 14:15:46 +0000 (08:15 -0600)
commit9fd39c5f17ddb49dce847f659fb73dfe7f5a7bcb
tree42c26790cf43900e3e02d23ed0ed3bab4ae347c9
parent4a159cc4a284cf509cf0c5abc9fe7162ab4ad3dd
arm64: use RET instruction for exiting the trampoline

BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1751064
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>
Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S