arm64: proton-pack: Include unprivileged eBPF status in Spectre v2 mitigation reporting
authorJames Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Thu, 3 Mar 2022 16:53:56 +0000 (16:53 +0000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 11 Mar 2022 11:22:35 +0000 (12:22 +0100)
commit3317d21b84e91be72df14744040513a280b88946
tree16e45d4c1cca85b2a1e31c3f004dc7c3274b56b5
parent8979720ac64c70af1395ce78e5c6ffb546b43e0d
arm64: proton-pack: Include unprivileged eBPF status in Spectre v2 mitigation reporting

commit 58c9a5060cb7cd529d49c93954cdafe81c1d642a upstream.

The mitigations for Spectre-BHB are only applied when an exception is
taken from user-space. The mitigation status is reported via the spectre_v2
sysfs vulnerabilities file.

When unprivileged eBPF is enabled the mitigation in the exception vectors
can be avoided by an eBPF program.

When unprivileged eBPF is enabled, print a warning and report vulnerable
via the sysfs vulnerabilities file.

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/arm64/kernel/proton-pack.c