arm64: Turn on KPTI only on CPUs that need it
authorJayachandran C <jnair@caviumnetworks.com>
Tue, 3 Apr 2018 11:09:18 +0000 (12:09 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sun, 8 Apr 2018 10:12:55 +0000 (12:12 +0200)
commit 0ba2e29c7fc1 upstream.

Whitelist Broadcom Vulcan/Cavium ThunderX2 processors in
unmap_kernel_at_el0(). These CPUs are not vulnerable to
CVE-2017-5754 and do not need KPTI when KASLR is off.

Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jayachandran C <jnair@caviumnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linaro.org> [v4.9 backport]
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> [v4.9 backport]
Tested-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Tested-by: Greg Hackmann <ghackmann@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c

index 2d7c7796cce17f0561fd09c53b12e48c26e3d9f9..6015a3cac93084c51ff58bcf8221df90781095f8 100644 (file)
@@ -766,6 +766,13 @@ static bool unmap_kernel_at_el0(const struct arm64_cpu_capabilities *entry,
        if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE))
                return true;
 
+       /* Don't force KPTI for CPUs that are not vulnerable */
+       switch (read_cpuid_id() & MIDR_CPU_MODEL_MASK) {
+       case MIDR_CAVIUM_THUNDERX2:
+       case MIDR_BRCM_VULCAN:
+               return false;
+       }
+
        /* Defer to CPU feature registers */
        return !cpuid_feature_extract_unsigned_field(pfr0,
                                                     ID_AA64PFR0_CSV3_SHIFT);