Thread (10 messages) 10 messages, 4 authors, 2018-05-31
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[PATCH 2/3] ARM: spectre-v1: add array_index_mask_nospec() implementation

From: mark.rutland@arm.com (Mark Rutland)
Date: 2018-05-31 14:22:05

On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 02:31:17PM +0100, Russell King wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Add an implementation of the array_index_mask_nospec() function for
mitigating Spectre variant 1 throughout the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <redacted>
---
 arch/arm/include/asm/barrier.h | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/barrier.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/barrier.h
index 3d9c1d4b7e75..a89adcf53b99 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/barrier.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/barrier.h
@@ -76,6 +76,24 @@ extern void arm_heavy_mb(void);
 #define __smp_rmb()	__smp_mb()
 #define __smp_wmb()	dmb(ishst)
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_CPU_SPECTRE
+static inline unsigned long array_index_mask_nospec(unsigned long idx,
+						    unsigned long sz)
+{
+	unsigned long mask;
+
+	asm(	"cmp	%1, %2\n"
+	"	sbc	%0, %1, %1\n"
+	CSDB
+	: "=r" (mask)
+	: "r" (idx), "Ir" (sz)
+	: "cc");
+
+	return mask;
+}
+#define array_index_mask_nospec array_index_mask_nospec
+#endif
I believe that the asm should be volatile, otherwise there are cases
where the compiler could remove an invocation that's redundant under
architectural execution, but required under speculation [1].

With that made volatile:

Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>

Thanks,
Mark.

[1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180530060546.jnjoltsturoduohh at salmiak
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