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Commit f5fe12b1eaee220ce62ff9afb8b90929c396595f upstream. In order to prevent aliasing attacks on the branch predictor, invalidate the BTB or instruction cache on CPUs that are known to be affected when taking an abort on a address that is outside of a user task limit: Cortex A8, A9, A12, A17, A73, A75: flush BTB. Cortex A15, Brahma B15: invalidate icache. If the IBE bit is not set, then there is little point to enabling the workaround. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk> Boot-tested-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> Reviewed-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> Signed-off-by: David A. Long <dave.long@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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