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author | Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net> | 2015-08-29 23:55:58 +0000 |
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committer | Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net> | 2015-08-29 23:55:58 +0000 |
commit | 650c919798c71fb34b77a6f2ba03a06907f06a76 (patch) | |
tree | d1c60012d4d86846d25f1d0b783b5122c26a2e31 /arch/mips/include/asm/stackframe.h | |
parent | 895fb3159280fe7695b35ec7c87ec19e13ca5b6e (diff) | |
parent | 64291f7db5bd8150a74ad2036f1037e6a0428df2 (diff) |
Merge tag 'v4.2' into for_next
Linux 4.2
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/mips/include/asm/stackframe.h')
-rw-r--r-- | arch/mips/include/asm/stackframe.h | 25 |
1 files changed, 25 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/mips/include/asm/stackframe.h b/arch/mips/include/asm/stackframe.h index 28d6d9364bd1..a71da576883c 100644 --- a/arch/mips/include/asm/stackframe.h +++ b/arch/mips/include/asm/stackframe.h @@ -152,6 +152,31 @@ .set noreorder bltz k0, 8f move k1, sp +#ifdef CONFIG_EVA + /* + * Flush interAptiv's Return Prediction Stack (RPS) by writing + * EntryHi. Toggling Config7.RPS is slower and less portable. + * + * The RPS isn't automatically flushed when exceptions are + * taken, which can result in kernel mode speculative accesses + * to user addresses if the RPS mispredicts. That's harmless + * when user and kernel share the same address space, but with + * EVA the same user segments may be unmapped to kernel mode, + * even containing sensitive MMIO regions or invalid memory. + * + * This can happen when the kernel sets the return address to + * ret_from_* and jr's to the exception handler, which looks + * more like a tail call than a function call. If nested calls + * don't evict the last user address in the RPS, it will + * mispredict the return and fetch from a user controlled + * address into the icache. + * + * More recent EVA-capable cores with MAAR to restrict + * speculative accesses aren't affected. + */ + MFC0 k0, CP0_ENTRYHI + MTC0 k0, CP0_ENTRYHI +#endif .set reorder /* Called from user mode, new stack. */ get_saved_sp |