Recently I realized that a device with some Qualcomm Kryo 4xx cores
reported in `lscpu` that it was _not_ vulnerable to Spectre BHB. This
seemed unlikely to me.
I wrote up a patch series to attempt (with a lot of guesswork) to add
Qualcomm cores to the tables governing how the Spectre BHB mitigation
worked.
In response to that patch, Will suggested that I flip the mitigation
on its head and assume things are vulnerable until we find that
they're not [1]. This patch series _attempts_ to accomplish that.
In case it's not obvious, v2 of this patch series was pretty different
than v1 because it flips the logic on its head. Some of the patches
carried over, though.
v3 is yet more different, avoiding the guesses (and thus dropping
some patches) and also incorporating feedback from Julius in response
to v2.
v4 addresses minor feedback plus re-adds Qualcomm cores since I
managed to find a contact at Qualcomm to provide confirmation.
As a last caveat, I'll note that I am certainly no expert on
Spectre. Mostly I ended up here running `lscpu` on a device and
noticing that it thought that it wasn't affected by Spectre v2 when I
thought it was.
Link to prev versions:
v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241209174430.2904353-1-dianders@chromium.org/
v2: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241214005248.198803-1-dianders@chromium.org
v3: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241219205426.2275508-1-dianders@chromium.org
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241211213410.GB17486@willie-the-truck
Changes in v4:
- Re-added QCOM_KRYO_4XX_GOLD k24 patch after Qualcomm confirmed.
- Add MIDR_BRAHMA_B53 as safe.
- Get rid of `spectre_bhb_firmware_mitigated_list`.
- Re-added KRYO 2XX/3XX/4XX silver patch after Qualcomm confirmed.
Changes in v3:
- Removed QCOM_KRYO_4XX_GOLD k24 patch.
- Don't guess the mitigation; just report unknown cores as vulnerable.
- Restructure the code since is_spectre_bhb_affected() defaults to true
- Removed KRYO 2XX/3XX/4XX silver patch.
- arm64: cputype: Add MIDR_CORTEX_A76AE
- arm64: errata: Add newer ARM cores to the spectre_bhb_loop_affected() lists
Changes in v2:
- Slight change to wording and notes of KRYO_4XX_GOLD patch
- arm64: errata: Assume that unknown CPUs _are_ vulnerable to Spectre BHB
- arm64: errata: Add KRYO 2XX/3XX/4XX silver cores to Spectre BHB safe list
Douglas Anderson (5):
arm64: errata: Add QCOM_KRYO_4XX_GOLD to the spectre_bhb_k24_list
arm64: errata: Assume that unknown CPUs _are_ vulnerable to Spectre
BHB
arm64: errata: Add KRYO 2XX/3XX/4XX silver cores to Spectre BHB safe
list
arm64: cputype: Add MIDR_CORTEX_A76AE
arm64: errata: Add newer ARM cores to the spectre_bhb_loop_affected()
lists
arch/arm64/include/asm/cputype.h | 2 +
arch/arm64/include/asm/spectre.h | 1 -
arch/arm64/kernel/proton-pack.c | 218 +++++++++++++++++--------------
3 files changed, 120 insertions(+), 101 deletions(-)
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