arm64: Add skeleton to harden the branch predictor against aliasing attacks
Aliasing attacks against CPU branch predictors can allow an attacker to
redirect speculative control flow on some CPUs and potentially divulge
information from one context to another.
This patch adds initial skeleton code behind a new Kconfig option to
enable implementation-specific mitigations against these attacks for
CPUs that are affected.
Co-developed-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
index 80b5398..07a7d4d 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
@@ -721,12 +721,15 @@
* Instruction abort handling
*/
mrs x26, far_el1
- enable_daif
+ enable_da_f
+#ifdef CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS
+ bl trace_hardirqs_off
+#endif
ct_user_exit
mov x0, x26
mov x1, x25
mov x2, sp
- bl do_mem_abort
+ bl do_el0_ia_bp_hardening
b ret_to_user
el0_fpsimd_acc:
/*