Merging upstream version 6.10.3.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/proton-pack.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/proton-pack.c
index 6268a13a1d..baca47bd44 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/proton-pack.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/proton-pack.c
@@ -558,6 +558,18 @@ static enum mitigation_state spectre_v4_enable_hw_mitigation(void)
 
 	/* SCTLR_EL1.DSSBS was initialised to 0 during boot */
 	set_pstate_ssbs(0);
+
+	/*
+	 * SSBS is self-synchronizing and is intended to affect subsequent
+	 * speculative instructions, but some CPUs can speculate with a stale
+	 * value of SSBS.
+	 *
+	 * Mitigate this with an unconditional speculation barrier, as CPUs
+	 * could mis-speculate branches and bypass a conditional barrier.
+	 */
+	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARM64_WORKAROUND_SPECULATIVE_SSBS))
+		spec_bar();
+
 	return SPECTRE_MITIGATED;
 }