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[PATCH 05/11] powerpc/fsl: Add nospectre_v2 command line argument

From: Diana Craciun <hidden>
Date: 2018-12-12 14:05:57
Subsystem: linux for powerpc (32-bit and 64-bit), the rest · Maintainers: Madhavan Srinivasan, Linus Torvalds

When the command line argument is present, the Spectre variant 2
mitigations are disabled.

Signed-off-by: Diana Craciun <redacted>
---
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/setup.h |  5 +++++
 arch/powerpc/kernel/security.c   | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 26 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/setup.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/setup.h
index c941c8c..65676e2 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/setup.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/setup.h
@@ -67,6 +67,11 @@ void do_barrier_nospec_fixups_range(bool enable, void *start, void *end);
 static inline void do_barrier_nospec_fixups_range(bool enable, void *start, void *end) { };
 #endif
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_FSL_BOOK3E
+void setup_spectre_v2(void);
+#else
+static inline void setup_spectre_v2(void) {};
+#endif
 void do_btb_flush_fixups(void);
 
 #endif /* !__ASSEMBLY__ */
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/security.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/security.c
index 1b395b8..4393a38 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/security.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/security.c
@@ -26,6 +26,10 @@ static enum count_cache_flush_type count_cache_flush_type = COUNT_CACHE_FLUSH_NO
 
 bool barrier_nospec_enabled;
 static bool no_nospec;
+static bool btb_flush_enabled;
+#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_FSL_BOOK3E
+static bool no_spectrev2;
+#endif
 
 static void enable_barrier_nospec(bool enable)
 {
@@ -101,6 +105,23 @@ static __init int barrier_nospec_debugfs_init(void)
 device_initcall(barrier_nospec_debugfs_init);
 #endif /* CONFIG_DEBUG_FS */
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_FSL_BOOK3E
+static int __init handle_nospectre_v2(char *p)
+{
+	no_spectrev2 = true;
+
+	return 0;
+}
+early_param("nospectre_v2", handle_nospectre_v2);
+void setup_spectre_v2(void)
+{
+	if (no_spectrev2)
+		do_btb_flush_fixups();
+	else
+		btb_flush_enabled = true;
+}
+#endif /* CONFIG_PPC_FSL_BOOK3E */
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S_64
 ssize_t cpu_show_meltdown(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
 {
-- 
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