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The ARM architecture revision v8.4 introduces a data independent timing control (DIT) which can be set at any exception level, and instructs the CPU to avoid optimizations that may result in a correlation between the execution time of certain instructions and the value of the data they operate on. The DIT bit is part of PSTATE, and is therefore context switched as usual, given that it becomes part of the saved program state (SPSR) when taking an exception. We have also defined a hwcap for DIT, and so user space can discover already whether or nor DIT is available. This means that, as far as user space is concerned, DIT is wired up and fully functional. In the kernel, however, we never bothered with DIT: we disable at it boot (i.e., INIT_PSTATE_EL1 has DIT cleared) and ignore the fact that we might run with DIT enabled if user space happened to set it. Currently, we have no idea whether or not running privileged code with DIT disabled on a CPU that implements support for it may result in a side channel that exposes privileged data to unprivileged user space processes, so let's be cautious and just enable DIT while running in the kernel if supported by all CPUs. Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org> Cc: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com> Cc: Adam Langley <agl@google.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/YwgCrqutxmX0W72r@gmail.com/ Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221107172400.1851434-1-ardb@kernel.org [will: Removed cpu_has_dit() as per Mark's suggestion on the list] Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
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the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.