arm64: Implement branch predictor hardening for affected Cortex-A CPUs
Commit aa6acde6 upstream. Cortex-A57, A72, A73 and A75 are susceptible to branch predictor aliasing and can theoretically be attacked by malicious code. This patch implements a PSCI-based mitigation for these CPUs when available. The call into firmware will invalidate the branch predictor state, preventing any malicious entries from affecting other victim contexts. 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> Signed-off-by:
Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Signed-off-by:
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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