[U-Boot] [PATCH] mx5: Select ARM_CORTEX_A8_CVE_2017_5715

Fabio Estevam festevam at gmail.com
Fri Jun 29 21:26:55 UTC 2018


Hi Tom and Stefano,

On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 3:08 PM, Fabio Estevam <festevam at gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam at nxp.com>
>
> On a 4.18-rc1 kernel the following warning is seen on i.MX51 and
> i.MX53:
>
> CPU0: Spectre v2: firmware did not set auxiliary control register IBE bit, system vulnerable
>
> Select the ARM_CORTEX_A8_CVE_2017_5715 workaround for i.MX51/i.MX53
> to fix the problem.
>
> With this patch applied the kernel reports:
>
> CPU0: Spectre v2: using BPIALL workaround
>
> Signed-off-by: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam at nxp.com>
> ---
> This depends on Nishanth Menon's series that introduces the
> ARM_CORTEX_A8_CVE_2017_5715 Spectre workaround.

I saw that Tom has just applied Nishanth Menon's series.

Can this one also be applied for 2018.07?

Thanks


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