linux-cve-announce - CVE-2023-52481: arm64: errata: Add Cortex-A520 speculative unprivileged load workaround

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Date: Thu, 29 Feb 2024 06:43:24 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: gregkh@...nel.org
Subject: CVE-2023-52481: arm64: errata: Add Cortex-A520 speculative unprivileged load workaround

From: gregkh@...nel.org

Description
===========

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

arm64: errata: Add Cortex-A520 speculative unprivileged load workaround

Implement the workaround for ARM Cortex-A520 erratum 2966298. On an
affected Cortex-A520 core, a speculatively executed unprivileged load
might leak data from a privileged load via a cache side channel. The
issue only exists for loads within a translation regime with the same
translation (e.g. same ASID and VMID). Therefore, the issue only affects
the return to EL0.

The workaround is to execute a TLBI before returning to EL0 after all
loads of privileged data. A non-shareable TLBI to any address is
sufficient.

The workaround isn't necessary if page table isolation (KPTI) is
enabled, but for simplicity it will be. Page table isolation should
normally be disabled for Cortex-A520 as it supports the CSV3 feature
and the E0PD feature (used when KASLR is enabled).

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2023-52481 to this issue.

Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Fixed in 6.1.57 with commit 6e3ae2927b43
	Fixed in 6.5.7 with commit 32b0a4ffcaea
	Fixed in 6.6 with commit 471470bc7052

Please see https://www.kernel.org or a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2023-52481
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.

Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	Documentation/arch/arm64/silicon-errata.rst
	arch/arm64/Kconfig
	arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c
	arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
	arch/arm64/tools/cpucaps

Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6e3ae2927b432a3b7c8374f14dbc1bd9ebe4372c
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/32b0a4ffcaea44a00a61e40c0d1bcc50362aee25
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/471470bc7052d28ce125901877dd10e4c048e513