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In commitee13cb249f("powerpc/64s: Add support for software count cache flush"), I added support for software to flush the count cache (indirect branch cache) on context switch if firmware told us that was the required mitigation for Spectre v2. As part of that code we also added a software flush of the link stack (return address stack), which protects against Spectre-RSB between user processes. That is all correct for CPUs that activate that mitigation, which is currently Power9 Nimbus DD2.3. What I got wrong is that on older CPUs, where firmware has disabled the count cache, we also need to flush the link stack on context switch. To fix it we create a new feature bit which is not set by firmware, which tells us we need to flush the link stack. We set that when firmware tells us that either of the existing Spectre v2 mitigations are enabled. Then we adjust the patching code so that if we see that feature bit we enable the link stack flush. If we're also told to flush the count cache in software then we fall through and do that also. On the older CPUs we don't need to do do the software count cache flush, firmware has disabled it, so in that case we patch in an early return after the link stack flush. The naming of some of the functions is awkward after this patch, because they're called "count cache" but they also do link stack. But we'll fix that up in a later commit to ease backporting. This is the fix for CVE-2019-18660. Reported-by: Anthony Steinhauser <asteinhauser@google.com> Fixes:ee13cb249f("powerpc/64s: Add support for software count cache flush") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.4+ Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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