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authorJayachandran C <jnair@caviumnetworks.com>2018-01-19 04:22:48 -0800
committerCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>2018-01-23 19:59:49 +0000
commit0ba2e29c7fc1d58a90fab614d41bf487e28e3840 (patch)
tree264d7397b3e7505f2f5c801c9d613242e0533227 /arch/arm64
parentf3d795d9b360523beca6d13ba64c2c532f601149 (diff)
downloadlinux-0ba2e29c7fc1d58a90fab614d41bf487e28e3840.tar.bz2
arm64: Turn on KPTI only on CPUs that need it
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.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Jayachandran C <jnair@caviumnetworks.com> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm64')
-rw-r--r--arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c7
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
index 5612d6f46331..4b6f9051cf0c 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
@@ -868,6 +868,13 @@ static bool unmap_kernel_at_el0(const struct arm64_cpu_capabilities *entry,
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);