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SubjectRe: [PATCH] ARM: mm: harden branch predictor before opening interrupts during fault
On 2021-01-26 10:59:32 [+0000], Russell King - ARM Linux admin wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 05:17:08PM +0800, Lecopzer Chen wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I don't see any fix for this issue now(maybe I missed it..?),
> > could we fix this if there is better solution?
> > This issue exists almost two years.
>
> I don't think anyone provided an acceptable patch.
>
> The first patch moved the hardening out of the translation/section
> fault handling. Since the kernel is mapped with sections, these
> are above TASK_SIZE, and the whole point of the branch prediction
> hardening is to prevent the prediction in the kernel being exploited,
> missing the hardening effectively makes the mitigation useless.
>
> The discussion in February 2019 never concluded from what I can see.

My memory is that I never got a reply which I understood.
Let me try again this week with the information above.

Sebastian

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