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authorWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>2017-11-14 16:15:59 +0000
committerJonathan Solnit <jsolnit@google.com>2018-01-12 09:11:59 -0800
commit0d09a6d27ec35f4e0237192c4110b40a2dc67216 (patch)
tree2f08cf6ec10d2f408b9ebb7d9da6c03ec6dda510 /lib/mpi/mpiutil.c
parentf50392b6f895d2ad847df5f1b213aa382ea89d04 (diff)
arm64: use RET instruction for exiting the trampoline
Speculation attacks against the entry trampoline can potentially resteer the speculative instruction stream through the indirect branch and into arbitrary gadgets within the kernel. This patch defends against these attacks by forcing a misprediction through the return stack: a dummy BL instruction loads an entry into the stack, so that the predicted program flow of the subsequent RET instruction is to a branch-to-self instruction which is finally resolved as a branch to the kernel vectors with speculation suppressed. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@google.com> Bug: 69856074 Change-Id: I08c24d7508f3759dbdd87a0549f8ccddb3e4c38b
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