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| author | Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> | 2018-07-26 13:14:55 +0200 |
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| committer | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2018-07-31 00:45:15 +0200 |
| commit | fdf82a7856b32d905c39afc85e34364491e46346 (patch) | |
| tree | 9aaead977f0e8179b929ee98ca2b2914fc119b7d /arch/x86/kernel | |
| parent | ca38dc8f2724d101038b1205122c93a1c7f38f11 (diff) | |
x86/speculation: Protect against userspace-userspace spectreRSB
The article "Spectre Returns! Speculation Attacks using the Return Stack
Buffer" [1] describes two new (sub-)variants of spectrev2-like attacks,
making use solely of the RSB contents even on CPUs that don't fallback to
BTB on RSB underflow (Skylake+).
Mitigate userspace-userspace attacks by always unconditionally filling RSB on
context switch when the generic spectrev2 mitigation has been enabled.
[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1807.07940.pdf
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/nycvar.YFH.7.76.1807261308190.997@cbobk.fhfr.pm
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c | 38 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 31 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c index 5c0ea39311fe..bc8c43b22460 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c @@ -313,23 +313,6 @@ static enum spectre_v2_mitigation_cmd __init spectre_v2_parse_cmdline(void) return cmd; } -/* Check for Skylake-like CPUs (for RSB handling) */ -static bool __init is_skylake_era(void) -{ - if (boot_cpu_data.x86_vendor == X86_VENDOR_INTEL && - boot_cpu_data.x86 == 6) { - switch (boot_cpu_data.x86_model) { - case INTEL_FAM6_SKYLAKE_MOBILE: - case INTEL_FAM6_SKYLAKE_DESKTOP: - case INTEL_FAM6_SKYLAKE_X: - case INTEL_FAM6_KABYLAKE_MOBILE: - case INTEL_FAM6_KABYLAKE_DESKTOP: - return true; - } - } - return false; -} - static void __init spectre_v2_select_mitigation(void) { enum spectre_v2_mitigation_cmd cmd = spectre_v2_parse_cmdline(); @@ -390,22 +373,15 @@ retpoline_auto: pr_info("%s\n", spectre_v2_strings[mode]); /* - * If neither SMEP nor PTI are available, there is a risk of - * hitting userspace addresses in the RSB after a context switch - * from a shallow call stack to a deeper one. To prevent this fill - * the entire RSB, even when using IBRS. + * If spectre v2 protection has been enabled, unconditionally fill + * RSB during a context switch; this protects against two independent + * issues: * - * Skylake era CPUs have a separate issue with *underflow* of the - * RSB, when they will predict 'ret' targets from the generic BTB. - * The proper mitigation for this is IBRS. If IBRS is not supported - * or deactivated in favour of retpolines the RSB fill on context - * switch is required. + * - RSB underflow (and switch to BTB) on Skylake+ + * - SpectreRSB variant of spectre v2 on X86_BUG_SPECTRE_V2 CPUs */ - if ((!boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_PTI) && - !boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_SMEP)) || is_skylake_era()) { - setup_force_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_RSB_CTXSW); - pr_info("Spectre v2 mitigation: Filling RSB on context switch\n"); - } + setup_force_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_RSB_CTXSW); + pr_info("Spectre v2 / SpectreRSB mitigation: Filling RSB on context switch\n"); /* Initialize Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier if supported */ if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_IBPB)) { |