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| author | Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> | 2020-11-17 08:59:13 +0300 |
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| committer | Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> | 2020-11-19 15:47:18 +0300 |
| commit | 9a32a7e78bd0cd9a9b6332cbdc345ee5ffd0c5de (patch) | |
| tree | e9f7d6a2b72ddc59cb30cc87a36e635c2e0ab243 /arch/powerpc/include/asm/feature-fixups.h | |
| parent | f79643787e0a0762d2409b7b8334e83f22d85695 (diff) | |
| download | linux-9a32a7e78bd0cd9a9b6332cbdc345ee5ffd0c5de.tar.xz | |
powerpc/64s: flush L1D after user accesses
IBM Power9 processors can speculatively operate on data in the L1 cache
before it has been completely validated, via a way-prediction mechanism. It
is not possible for an attacker to determine the contents of impermissible
memory using this method, since these systems implement a combination of
hardware and software security measures to prevent scenarios where
protected data could be leaked.
However these measures don't address the scenario where an attacker induces
the operating system to speculatively execute instructions using data that
the attacker controls. This can be used for example to speculatively bypass
"kernel user access prevention" techniques, as discovered by Anthony
Steinhauser of Google's Safeside Project. This is not an attack by itself,
but there is a possibility it could be used in conjunction with
side-channels or other weaknesses in the privileged code to construct an
attack.
This issue can be mitigated by flushing the L1 cache between privilege
boundaries of concern. This patch flushes the L1 cache after user accesses.
This is part of the fix for CVE-2020-4788.
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/include/asm/feature-fixups.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/powerpc/include/asm/feature-fixups.h | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/feature-fixups.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/feature-fixups.h index 06a48219bbf2..fbd406cd6916 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/feature-fixups.h +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/feature-fixups.h @@ -205,6 +205,14 @@ label##3: \ FTR_ENTRY_OFFSET 955b-956b; \ .popsection; +#define UACCESS_FLUSH_FIXUP_SECTION \ +959: \ + .pushsection __uaccess_flush_fixup,"a"; \ + .align 2; \ +960: \ + FTR_ENTRY_OFFSET 959b-960b; \ + .popsection; + #define ENTRY_FLUSH_FIXUP_SECTION \ 957: \ .pushsection __entry_flush_fixup,"a"; \ @@ -248,6 +256,7 @@ extern long stf_barrier_fallback; extern long entry_flush_fallback; extern long __start___stf_entry_barrier_fixup, __stop___stf_entry_barrier_fixup; extern long __start___stf_exit_barrier_fixup, __stop___stf_exit_barrier_fixup; +extern long __start___uaccess_flush_fixup, __stop___uaccess_flush_fixup; extern long __start___entry_flush_fixup, __stop___entry_flush_fixup; extern long __start___rfi_flush_fixup, __stop___rfi_flush_fixup; extern long __start___barrier_nospec_fixup, __stop___barrier_nospec_fixup; |