Even though ERET always causes a jump to another address, aarch64 CPUs
speculatively execute following instructions as if the ERET
instruction was not a jump instruction.
The speculative execution does not cross privilege-levels (to the jump
target as one would expect), but it continues on the kernel privilege
level as if the ERET instruction did not change the control flow -
thus execution anything that is accidentally linked after the ERET
instruction. Later, the results of this speculative execution are
always architecturally discarded, however they can leak data using
microarchitectural side channels. This speculative execution is very
reliable (seems to be unconditional) and it manages to complete even
relatively performance-heavy operations (e.g. multiple dependent
fetches from uncached memory).
This was fixed in Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Optee OS:
679db7080129fb48ace43a08873eceabfd092aa1
It is demonstrated in a SafeSide example:
https://github.com/google/safeside/blob/master/demos/eret_hvc_smc_wrapper.cchttps://github.com/google/safeside/blob/master/kernel_modules/kmod_eret_hvc_smc/eret_hvc_smc_module.c
Signed-off-by: Anthony Steinhauser <asteinhauser@google.com>
Change-Id: Iead39b0b9fb4b8d8b5609daaa8be81497ba63a0f
The contents of this header have been merged into the spm_mm_svc.h
header file.
Change-Id: I01530b2e4ec1b4c091ce339758025e2216e740a4
Signed-off-by: Paul Beesley <paul.beesley@arm.com>
Before adding any new SPM-related components we should first do
some cleanup around the existing SPM-MM implementation. The aim
is to make sure that any SPM-MM components have names that clearly
indicate that they are MM-related. Otherwise, when adding new SPM
code, it could quickly become confusing as it would be unclear to
which component the code belongs.
The secure_partition.h header is a clear example of this, as the
name is generic so it could easily apply to any SPM-related code,
when it is in fact SPM-MM specific.
This patch renames the file and the two structures defined within
it, and then modifies any references in files that use the header.
Change-Id: I44bd95fab774c358178b3e81262a16da500fda26
Signed-off-by: Paul Beesley <paul.beesley@arm.com>
Variable shadowing is, according to the C standard, permitted and valid
behaviour. However, allowing a local variable to take the same name as a
global one can cause confusion and can make refactoring and bug hunting
more difficult.
This patch moves -Wshadow from WARNING2 into the general warning group
so it is always used. It also fixes all warnings that this introduces
by simply renaming the local variable to a new name
Change-Id: I6b71bdce6580c6e58b5e0b41e4704ab0aa38576e
Signed-off-by: Justin Chadwell <justin.chadwell@arm.com>
NOTE: __ASSEMBLY__ macro is now deprecated in favor of __ASSEMBLER__.
All common C compilers predefine a macro called __ASSEMBLER__ when
preprocessing a .S file. There is no reason for TF-A to define it's own
__ASSEMBLY__ macro for this purpose instead. To unify code with the
export headers (which use __ASSEMBLER__ to avoid one extra dependency),
let's deprecate __ASSEMBLY__ and switch the code base over to the
predefined standard.
Change-Id: Id7d0ec8cf330195da80499c68562b65cb5ab7417
Signed-off-by: Julius Werner <jwerner@chromium.org>
This implementation is no longer deprecated.
Change-Id: I68552d0fd5ba9f08fad4345e4657e8e3c5362a36
Signed-off-by: Antonio Nino Diaz <antonio.ninodiaz@arm.com>
Anthony Steinhauser
Paul Beesley
Justin Chadwell
Julius Werner
Antonio Nino Diaz