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Commit 3aff47c0 authored by James Hogan's avatar James Hogan Committed by Ralf Baechle
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MIPS: Flush RPS on kernel entry with EVA



When EVA is enabled, flush the Return Prediction Stack (RPS) present on
some MIPS cores on entry to the kernel from user mode.

This is important specifically for interAptiv with EVA enabled,
otherwise kernel mode RPS mispredicts may trigger speculative fetches of
user return addresses, which may be sensitive in the kernel address
space due to EVA's overlapping user/kernel address spaces.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJames Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Markos Chandras <markos.chandras@imgtec.com>
Cc: Leonid Yegoshin <leonid.yegoshin@imgtec.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.15.x-
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/10812/


Signed-off-by: default avatarRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
parent 247bfb65
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