Ada Couprie Diaz
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Currently all debug exceptions share common entry code and are routed to `do_debug_exception()`, which calls dynamically-registered handlers for each specific debug exception. This is unfortunate as different debug exceptions have different entry handling requirements, and it would be better to handle these distinct requirements earlier. Hardware breakpoints exceptions are generated by the hardware after user configuration. As such, they can be exploited when training branch predictors outside of the userspace VA range: they still need to call `arm64_apply_bp_hardening()` if needed to mitigate against this attack. However, they do not need to handle the Cortex-A76 erratum #1463225 as it only applies to single stepping exceptions. It does not set an address in FAR_EL1 either, only the hardware watchpoint does. As the hardware breakpoint handler only returns 0 and never triggers the call to `arm64_notify_die()`, we can call it directly from `entry-common.c`. Split the hardware breakpoint exception entry, adjust the function signature, and handling of the Cortex-A76 erratum to fit the behaviour of the exception. Move the call to `arm64_apply_bp_hardening()` to `entry-common.c` so that we can do it as early as possible, and only for the exceptions coming from EL0, where it is needed. This is safe to do as it is `noinstr`, as are all the functions it may call. `el0_ia()` and `el0_pc()` already call it this way. Signed-off-by: Ada Couprie Diaz <ada.coupriediaz@arm.com> Tested-by: Luis Claudio R. Goncalves <lgoncalv@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250707114109.35672-8-ada.coupriediaz@arm.com Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.