4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Jayachandran C <jn...@caviumnetworks.com>
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.dea...@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jayachandran C <jn...@caviumnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.mari...@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.dea...@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex....@linaro.org> [v4.9 backport]
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutl...@arm.com> [v4.9 backport]
Tested-by: Will Deacon <will.dea...@arm.com>
Tested-by: Greg Hackmann <ghackm...@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
---
arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
@@ -766,6 +766,13 @@ static bool unmap_kernel_at_el0(const st
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);
