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author | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2015-08-10 10:01:33 -0700 |
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committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2015-08-10 10:01:33 -0700 |
commit | e6bbe1d05353a29628a4ca72d88bac0bdcec5f38 (patch) | |
tree | d662a065cfa9f0e32145887e46947d29a89d9f9d /arch/mips/include/asm/stackframe.h | |
parent | 7e34d70a7163b236f520ef4fc0d7c50093dd3746 (diff) | |
parent | f7644cbfcdf03528f0f450f3940c4985b2291f49 (diff) | |
download | linux-e6bbe1d05353a29628a4ca72d88bac0bdcec5f38.tar.bz2 |
Merge 4.2-rc6 into usb-next
We want the USB fixes in here as well.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/mips/include/asm/stackframe.h')
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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 |