Will Deacon
9ef2b48be9
Patching the EL2 exception vectors is integral to the Spectre-v2
workaround, where it can be necessary to execute CPU-specific sequences
to nobble the branch predictor before running the hypervisor text proper.
Remove the dependency on CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE and allow the EL2 vectors
to be patched even when KASLR is not enabled.
Fixes: 7a132017e7a5 ("KVM: arm64: Replace CONFIG_KVM_INDIRECT_VECTORS with CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE")
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/202009221053.Jv1XsQUZ%lkp@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.