[PATCH v3 2/2] arm64: Turn on KPTI only on CPUs that need it

[Jayachandran C]

Whitelist Broadcom Vulcan/Cavium ThunderX2 processors in
unmap_kernel_at_el0(). These CPUs are not vulnerable to
CVE-2017-5754 and do not need KPTI when KASLR is off.

Signed-off-by: Jayachandran C <jn...@caviumnetworks.com>
---
 arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
index 647d44b..fb698ca 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
@@ -866,6 +866,13 @@ static bool unmap_kernel_at_el0(const struct 
arm64_cpu_capabilities *entry,
        if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE))
                return true;
 
+       /* Don't force KPTI for CPUs that are not vulnerable */
+       switch (read_cpuid_id() & MIDR_CPU_MODEL_MASK) {
+       case MIDR_CAVIUM_THUNDERX2:
+       case MIDR_BRCM_VULCAN:
+               return false;
+       }
+
        /* Defer to CPU feature registers */
        return !cpuid_feature_extract_unsigned_field(pfr0,
                                                     ID_AA64PFR0_CSV3_SHIFT);
-- 
2.7.4