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SubjectRe: [PATCH 5.16 29/37] arm64: entry: Add vectors that have the bhb mitigation sequences
On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 12:27:29AM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > From: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
> >
> > commit ba2689234be92024e5635d30fe744f4853ad97db upstream.
> >
> > Some CPUs affected by Spectre-BHB need a sequence of branches, or a
> > firmware call to be run before any indirect branch. This needs to go
> > in the vectors. No CPU needs both.
> >
> > While this can be patched in, it would run on all CPUs as there is a
> > single set of vectors. If only one part of a big/little combination is
> > affected, the unaffected CPUs have to run the mitigation too.
>
> This adds build error. Same problem is in 5.10.
>
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/vectors.h
> > @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
> ...
> > +/*
> > + * Note: the order of this enum corresponds to two arrays in entry.S:
> > + * tramp_vecs and __bp_harden_el1_vectors. By default the canonical
> > + * 'full fat' vectors are used directly.
> > + */
> > +enum arm64_bp_harden_el1_vectors {
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_MITIGATE_SPECTRE_BRANCH_HISTORY
> > + /*
> > + * Perform the BHB loop mitigation, before branching to the canonical
> > + * vectors.
> > + */
> > + EL1_VECTOR_BHB_LOOP,
> > +
> > + /*
> > + * Make the SMC call for firmware mitigation, before branching to the
> > + * canonical vectors.
> > + */
> > + EL1_VECTOR_BHB_FW,
> > +#endif /* CONFIG_MITIGATE_SPECTRE_BRANCH_HISTORY */
> > +
> > + /*
> > + * Remap the kernel before branching to the canonical vectors.
> > + */
> > + EL1_VECTOR_KPTI,
> > ++};
> > +
>
>
> Note "++". Following patch fixes this up, but it is still a trap for
> people trying to bisect.

Ick, ok, will try to fix up, thanks for finding this.

greg k-h

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