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authorMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>2019-04-22 00:20:14 +1000
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2019-05-16 19:44:48 +0200
commit2a90ebba2fccef2853063fe7412c20dacc5af7e7 (patch)
treecf6c5d227710e36624d6937f06f700a89cc58aeb
parent990ce72a3babcf376e1132f157b1a19f7c43681e (diff)
powerpc/64: Use barrier_nospec in syscall entry
commit 51973a815c6b46d7b23b68d6af371ad1c9d503ca upstream. Our syscall entry is done in assembly so patch in an explicit barrier_nospec. Based on a patch by Michal Suchanek. Signed-off-by: Michal Suchanek <msuchanek@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S10
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S
index 59be96917369..9c2e58e0e55e 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@
#include <asm/hw_irq.h>
#include <asm/context_tracking.h>
#include <asm/tm.h>
+#include <asm/barrier.h>
#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S
#include <asm/exception-64s.h>
#else
@@ -177,6 +178,15 @@ system_call: /* label this so stack traces look sane */
clrldi r8,r8,32
15:
slwi r0,r0,4
+
+ barrier_nospec_asm
+ /*
+ * Prevent the load of the handler below (based on the user-passed
+ * system call number) being speculatively executed until the test
+ * against NR_syscalls and branch to .Lsyscall_enosys above has
+ * committed.
+ */
+
ldx r12,r11,r0 /* Fetch system call handler [ptr] */
mtctr r12
bctrl /* Call handler */