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<title>linux-stable.git/arch/arm64/kernel, branch v4.6.2</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<title>arm64: cpuinfo: Missing NULL terminator in compat_hwcap_str</title>
<updated>2016-06-01T19:17:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Julien Grall</name>
<email>julien.grall@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-10T14:40:31+00:00</published>
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commit f228b494e56d949be8d8ea09d4f973d1979201bf upstream.

The loop that browses the array compat_hwcap_str will stop when a NULL
is encountered, however NULL is missing at the end of array. This will
lead to overrun until a NULL is found somewhere in the following memory.
In reality, this works out because the compat_hwcap2_str array tends to
follow immediately in memory, and that *is* terminated correctly.
Furthermore, the unsigned int compat_elf_hwcap is checked before
printing each capability, so we end up doing the right thing because
the size of the two arrays is less than 32. Still, this is an obvious
mistake and should be fixed.

Note for backporting: commit 12d11817eaafa414 ("arm64: Move
/proc/cpuinfo handling code") moved this code in v4.4. Prior to that
commit, the same change should be made in arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c.

Fixes: 44b82b7700d0 "arm64: Fix up /proc/cpuinfo"
Signed-off-by: Julien Grall &lt;julien.grall@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit f228b494e56d949be8d8ea09d4f973d1979201bf upstream.

The loop that browses the array compat_hwcap_str will stop when a NULL
is encountered, however NULL is missing at the end of array. This will
lead to overrun until a NULL is found somewhere in the following memory.
In reality, this works out because the compat_hwcap2_str array tends to
follow immediately in memory, and that *is* terminated correctly.
Furthermore, the unsigned int compat_elf_hwcap is checked before
printing each capability, so we end up doing the right thing because
the size of the two arrays is less than 32. Still, this is an obvious
mistake and should be fixed.

Note for backporting: commit 12d11817eaafa414 ("arm64: Move
/proc/cpuinfo handling code") moved this code in v4.4. Prior to that
commit, the same change should be made in arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c.

Fixes: 44b82b7700d0 "arm64: Fix up /proc/cpuinfo"
Signed-off-by: Julien Grall &lt;julien.grall@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: Fix EL1/EL2 early init inconsistencies with VHE</title>
<updated>2016-04-21T17:34:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dave Martin</name>
<email>Dave.Martin@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-04-18T17:57:26+00:00</published>
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When using the Virtualisation Host Extensions, EL1 is not used in
the host and requires no separate configuration.

In addition, with VHE enabled, non-hyp-specific EL2 configuration
that does not need to be done early will be done anyway in
__cpu_setup via the _EL1 system register aliases.  In particular,
the layout and definition of CPTR_EL2 are changed by enabling VHE
so that they resemble CPACR_EL1, so existing code to initialise
CPTR_EL2 becomes architecturally wrong in this case.

This patch simply skips the affected initialisation code in the
non-VHE case.

Signed-off-by: Dave Martin &lt;Dave.Martin@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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When using the Virtualisation Host Extensions, EL1 is not used in
the host and requires no separate configuration.

In addition, with VHE enabled, non-hyp-specific EL2 configuration
that does not need to be done early will be done anyway in
__cpu_setup via the _EL1 system register aliases.  In particular,
the layout and definition of CPTR_EL2 are changed by enabling VHE
so that they resemble CPACR_EL1, so existing code to initialise
CPTR_EL2 becomes architecturally wrong in this case.

This patch simply skips the affected initialisation code in the
non-VHE case.

Signed-off-by: Dave Martin &lt;Dave.Martin@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: spin-table: add missing of_node_put()</title>
<updated>2016-04-20T09:35:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>yamada.masahiro@socionext.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-04-20T01:23:31+00:00</published>
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Since of_get_cpu_node() increments refcount, the node should be put.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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Since of_get_cpu_node() increments refcount, the node should be put.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: fix invalidation of wrong __early_cpu_boot_status cacheline</title>
<updated>2016-04-18T15:23:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-04-15T10:11:21+00:00</published>
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In head.S, the str_l macro, which takes a source register, a symbol name
and a temp register, is used to store a status value to the variable
__early_cpu_boot_status. Subsequently, the value of the temp register is
reused to invalidate any cachelines covering this variable.

However, since str_l resolves to

      adrp    \tmp, \sym
      str     \src, [\tmp, :lo12:\sym]

the temp register never actually holds the address of the variable but
only of the 4 KB window that covers it, and reusing it leads to the
wrong cacheline being invalidated. So instead, take the address
explicitly before doing the store, and reuse that value to perform
the cache invalidation.

Fixes: bb9052744f4b ("arm64: Handle early CPU boot failures")
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Suzuki K Poulose &lt;Suzuki.Poulose@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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In head.S, the str_l macro, which takes a source register, a symbol name
and a temp register, is used to store a status value to the variable
__early_cpu_boot_status. Subsequently, the value of the temp register is
reused to invalidate any cachelines covering this variable.

However, since str_l resolves to

      adrp    \tmp, \sym
      str     \src, [\tmp, :lo12:\sym]

the temp register never actually holds the address of the variable but
only of the 4 KB window that covers it, and reusing it leads to the
wrong cacheline being invalidated. So instead, take the address
explicitly before doing the store, and reuse that value to perform
the cache invalidation.

Fixes: bb9052744f4b ("arm64: Handle early CPU boot failures")
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Suzuki K Poulose &lt;Suzuki.Poulose@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: perf: Move PMU register related defines to asm/perf_event.h</title>
<updated>2016-03-29T15:04:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Shannon Zhao</name>
<email>shannon.zhao@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-24T16:01:16+00:00</published>
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To use the ARMv8 PMU related register defines from the KVM code, we move
the relevant definitions to asm/perf_event.h header file and rename them
with prefix ARMV8_PMU_. This allows us to get rid of kvm_perf_event.h.

Signed-off-by: Anup Patel &lt;anup.patel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Shannon Zhao &lt;shannon.zhao@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones &lt;drjones@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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To use the ARMv8 PMU related register defines from the KVM code, we move
the relevant definitions to asm/perf_event.h header file and rename them
with prefix ARMV8_PMU_. This allows us to get rid of kvm_perf_event.h.

Signed-off-by: Anup Patel &lt;anup.patel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Shannon Zhao &lt;shannon.zhao@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones &lt;drjones@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arch, ftrace: for KASAN put hard/soft IRQ entries into separate sections</title>
<updated>2016-03-25T23:37:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Potapenko</name>
<email>glider@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-25T21:22:05+00:00</published>
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KASAN needs to know whether the allocation happens in an IRQ handler.
This lets us strip everything below the IRQ entry point to reduce the
number of unique stack traces needed to be stored.

Move the definition of __irq_entry to &lt;linux/interrupt.h&gt; so that the
users don't need to pull in &lt;linux/ftrace.h&gt;.  Also introduce the
__softirq_entry macro which is similar to __irq_entry, but puts the
corresponding functions to the .softirqentry.text section.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Konovalov &lt;adech.fo@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Konstantin Serebryany &lt;kcc@google.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Chernenkov &lt;dmitryc@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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KASAN needs to know whether the allocation happens in an IRQ handler.
This lets us strip everything below the IRQ entry point to reduce the
number of unique stack traces needed to be stored.

Move the definition of __irq_entry to &lt;linux/interrupt.h&gt; so that the
users don't need to pull in &lt;linux/ftrace.h&gt;.  Also introduce the
__softirq_entry macro which is similar to __irq_entry, but puts the
corresponding functions to the .softirqentry.text section.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Konovalov &lt;adech.fo@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Konstantin Serebryany &lt;kcc@google.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Chernenkov &lt;dmitryc@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux</title>
<updated>2016-03-25T02:13:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-25T02:13:59+00:00</published>
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Pull second set of arm64 updates from Catalin Marinas:

 - KASLR bug fixes: use callee-saved register, boot-time I-cache
   maintenance

 - inv_entry asm macro fix (EL0 check typo)

 - pr_notice("Virtual kernel memory layout...") splitting

 - Clean-ups: use p?d_set_huge consistently, allow preemption around
   copy_to_user_page, remove unused __local_flush_icache_all()

* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux:
  arm64: mm: allow preemption in copy_to_user_page
  arm64: consistently use p?d_set_huge
  arm64: kaslr: use callee saved register to preserve SCTLR across C call
  arm64: Split pr_notice("Virtual kernel memory layout...") into multiple pr_cont()
  arm64: drop unused __local_flush_icache_all()
  arm64: fix KASLR boot-time I-cache maintenance
  arm64/kernel: fix incorrect EL0 check in inv_entry macro
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Pull second set of arm64 updates from Catalin Marinas:

 - KASLR bug fixes: use callee-saved register, boot-time I-cache
   maintenance

 - inv_entry asm macro fix (EL0 check typo)

 - pr_notice("Virtual kernel memory layout...") splitting

 - Clean-ups: use p?d_set_huge consistently, allow preemption around
   copy_to_user_page, remove unused __local_flush_icache_all()

* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux:
  arm64: mm: allow preemption in copy_to_user_page
  arm64: consistently use p?d_set_huge
  arm64: kaslr: use callee saved register to preserve SCTLR across C call
  arm64: Split pr_notice("Virtual kernel memory layout...") into multiple pr_cont()
  arm64: drop unused __local_flush_icache_all()
  arm64: fix KASLR boot-time I-cache maintenance
  arm64/kernel: fix incorrect EL0 check in inv_entry macro
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: kaslr: use callee saved register to preserve SCTLR across C call</title>
<updated>2016-03-24T16:19:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-21T17:35:11+00:00</published>
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The KASLR code incorrectly expects the contents of x18 to be preserved
across a call into C code, and uses it to stash the contents of SCTLR_EL1
before enabling the MMU. If the MMU needs to be disabled again to create
the randomized kernel mapping, x18 is written back to SCTLR_EL1, which is
likely to crash the system if x18 has been clobbered by kasan_early_init()
or kaslr_early_init(). So use x22 instead, which is not in use so far in
head.S

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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The KASLR code incorrectly expects the contents of x18 to be preserved
across a call into C code, and uses it to stash the contents of SCTLR_EL1
before enabling the MMU. If the MMU needs to be disabled again to create
the randomized kernel mapping, x18 is written back to SCTLR_EL1, which is
likely to crash the system if x18 has been clobbered by kasan_early_init()
or kaslr_early_init(). So use x22 instead, which is not in use so far in
head.S

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'arm64-perf' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux</title>
<updated>2016-03-21T20:14:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-21T20:14:16+00:00</published>
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Pull arm[64] perf updates from Will Deacon:
 "I have another mixed bag of ARM-related perf patches here.

  It's about 25% CPU and 75% interconnect, but with drivers/bus/
  languishing without an obvious maintainer or tree, Olof and I agreed
  to keep all of these PMU patches together.  I suspect a whole load of
  code from drivers/bus/arm-* can be moved under drivers/perf/, so
  that's on the radar for the future.

  Summary:

   - Initial support for ARMv8.1 CPU PMUs

   - Support for the CPU PMU in Cavium ThunderX

   - CPU PMU support for systems running 32-bit Linux in secure mode

   - Support for the system PMU in ARM CCI-550 (Cache Coherent Interconnect)"

* tag 'arm64-perf' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (26 commits)
  drivers/perf: arm_pmu: avoid NULL dereference when not using devicetree
  arm64: perf: Extend ARMV8_EVTYPE_MASK to include PMCR.LC
  arm-cci: remove unused variable
  arm-cci: don't return value from void function
  arm-cci: make private functions static
  arm-cci: CoreLink CCI-550 PMU driver
  arm-cci500: Rearrange PMU driver for code sharing with CCI-550 PMU
  arm-cci: CCI-500: Work around PMU counter writes
  arm-cci: Provide hook for writing to PMU counters
  arm-cci: Add helper to enable PMU without synchornising counters
  arm-cci: Add routines to save/restore all counters
  arm-cci: Get the status of a counter
  arm-cci: write_counter: Remove redundant check
  arm-cci: Delay PMU counter writes to pmu::pmu_enable
  arm-cci: Refactor CCI PMU enable/disable methods
  arm-cci: Group writes to counter
  arm-cci: fix handling cpumask_any_but return value
  arm-cci: simplify sysfs attr handling
  drivers/perf: arm_pmu: implement CPU_PM notifier
  arm64: dts: Add Cavium ThunderX specific PMU
  ...
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Pull arm[64] perf updates from Will Deacon:
 "I have another mixed bag of ARM-related perf patches here.

  It's about 25% CPU and 75% interconnect, but with drivers/bus/
  languishing without an obvious maintainer or tree, Olof and I agreed
  to keep all of these PMU patches together.  I suspect a whole load of
  code from drivers/bus/arm-* can be moved under drivers/perf/, so
  that's on the radar for the future.

  Summary:

   - Initial support for ARMv8.1 CPU PMUs

   - Support for the CPU PMU in Cavium ThunderX

   - CPU PMU support for systems running 32-bit Linux in secure mode

   - Support for the system PMU in ARM CCI-550 (Cache Coherent Interconnect)"

* tag 'arm64-perf' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (26 commits)
  drivers/perf: arm_pmu: avoid NULL dereference when not using devicetree
  arm64: perf: Extend ARMV8_EVTYPE_MASK to include PMCR.LC
  arm-cci: remove unused variable
  arm-cci: don't return value from void function
  arm-cci: make private functions static
  arm-cci: CoreLink CCI-550 PMU driver
  arm-cci500: Rearrange PMU driver for code sharing with CCI-550 PMU
  arm-cci: CCI-500: Work around PMU counter writes
  arm-cci: Provide hook for writing to PMU counters
  arm-cci: Add helper to enable PMU without synchornising counters
  arm-cci: Add routines to save/restore all counters
  arm-cci: Get the status of a counter
  arm-cci: write_counter: Remove redundant check
  arm-cci: Delay PMU counter writes to pmu::pmu_enable
  arm-cci: Refactor CCI PMU enable/disable methods
  arm-cci: Group writes to counter
  arm-cci: fix handling cpumask_any_but return value
  arm-cci: simplify sysfs attr handling
  drivers/perf: arm_pmu: implement CPU_PM notifier
  arm64: dts: Add Cavium ThunderX specific PMU
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: fix KASLR boot-time I-cache maintenance</title>
<updated>2016-03-21T12:08:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
<email>mark.rutland@arm.com</email>
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<published>2016-03-15T11:22:57+00:00</published>
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Commit f80fb3a3d50843a4 ("arm64: add support for kernel ASLR") missed a
DSB necessary to complete I-cache maintenance in the primary boot path,
and hence stale instructions may still be present in the I-cache and may
be executed until the I-cache maintenance naturally completes.

Since commit 8ec41987436d566f ("arm64: mm: ensure patched kernel text is
fetched from PoU"), all CPUs invalidate their I-caches after their MMU
is enabled. Prior a CPU's MMU having been enabled, arbitrary lines may
have been fetched from the PoC into I-caches. We never patch text
expected to be executed with the MMU off. Thus, it is unnecessary to
perform broadcast I-cache maintenance in the primary boot path.

This patch reduces the scope of the I-cache maintenance to the local
CPU, and adds the missing DSB with similar scope, matching prior
maintenance in the primary boot path.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ard Biesehvuel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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Commit f80fb3a3d50843a4 ("arm64: add support for kernel ASLR") missed a
DSB necessary to complete I-cache maintenance in the primary boot path,
and hence stale instructions may still be present in the I-cache and may
be executed until the I-cache maintenance naturally completes.

Since commit 8ec41987436d566f ("arm64: mm: ensure patched kernel text is
fetched from PoU"), all CPUs invalidate their I-caches after their MMU
is enabled. Prior a CPU's MMU having been enabled, arbitrary lines may
have been fetched from the PoC into I-caches. We never patch text
expected to be executed with the MMU off. Thus, it is unnecessary to
perform broadcast I-cache maintenance in the primary boot path.

This patch reduces the scope of the I-cache maintenance to the local
CPU, and adds the missing DSB with similar scope, matching prior
maintenance in the primary boot path.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ard Biesehvuel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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