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    arm64: kpti: ensure patched kernel text is fetched from PoU · eb2485e3
    Mark Rutland authored
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    While the MMUs is disabled, I-cache speculation can result in
    instructions being fetched from the PoC. During boot we may patch
    instructions (e.g. for alternatives and jump labels), and these may be
    dirty at the PoU (and stale at the PoC).
    
    Thus, while the MMU is disabled in the KPTI pagetable fixup code we may
    load stale instructions into the I-cache, potentially leading to
    subsequent crashes when executing regions of code which have been
    modified at runtime.
    
    Similarly to commit:
    
      8ec41987 ("arm64: mm: ensure patched kernel text is fetched from PoU")
    
    ... we can invalidate the I-cache after enabling the MMU to prevent such
    issues.
    
    The KPTI pagetable fixup code itself should be clean to the PoC per the
    boot protocol, so no maintenance is required for this code.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
    Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarJames Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will@kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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