[U-Boot] [RFC PATCH 0/2] ARM: v7: Enable basic framework for supporting bits for CVE-2017-5715

[Fabio Estevam]

On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 7:45 PM, Nishanth Menon <nm at ti.com> wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> This is a follow through on the discussion we have had in [1].
> This itself is'nt a complete solution and is based on recommendation
> This from Arm[2] for variant 2 CVE-2017-5715
>
> The Linux kernel discussions are spread out in [3], ATF and OPTEE
> status are available in [4].
>
> This is just an RFC series (build tested at this point) to check if
> the direction is fine and should follow the final solution once kernel
> patches get to upstream, IMHO.
>
> NOTE: As per ARM recommendations[2], and discussions in list[1] ARM
> Cortex-A9/12/17 do not need additional steps in u-boot to enable the
> OS level workarounds.
>
> Nishanth Menon (2):
>   ARM: Introduce ability to enable ACR::IBE on Cortex-A8 for
>     CVE-2017-5715
>   ARM: Introduce ability to enable invalidate of BTB on Cortex-A15 for
>     CVE-2017-5715

Do we have any feedback on this series, please?