arm64: kaslr: Set TCR_EL1.NFD1 when CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE=y
TCR_EL1.NFD1 was allocated by SVE and ensures that fault-surpressing SVE memory accesses (e.g. speculative accesses from a first-fault gather load) which translate via TTBR1_EL1 result in a translation fault if they miss in the TLB when executed from EL0. This mitigates some timing attacks against KASLR, where the kernel address space could otherwise be probed efficiently using the FFR in conjunction with suppressed faults on SVE loads. Cc: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com> Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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