From: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@xxxxxxx> commit 244d00b5dd4755f8df892c86cab35fb2cfd4f14b upstream. AMD retpoline may be susceptible to speculation. The speculation execution window for an incorrect indirect branch prediction using LFENCE/JMP sequence may potentially be large enough to allow exploitation using Spectre V2. By default, don't use retpoline,lfence on AMD. Instead, use the generic retpoline. Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c | 9 --------- 1 file changed, 9 deletions(-) --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c @@ -941,15 +941,6 @@ static enum spectre_v2_mitigation __init return SPECTRE_V2_NONE; } - if (boot_cpu_data.x86_vendor == X86_VENDOR_AMD || - boot_cpu_data.x86_vendor == X86_VENDOR_HYGON) { - if (!boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_LFENCE_RDTSC)) { - pr_err("LFENCE not serializing, switching to generic retpoline\n"); - return SPECTRE_V2_RETPOLINE; - } - return SPECTRE_V2_LFENCE; - } - return SPECTRE_V2_RETPOLINE; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from kim.phillips@xxxxxxx are queue-5.16/x86-speculation-use-generic-retpoline-by-default-on-amd.patch queue-5.16/x86-speculation-update-link-to-amd-speculation-whitepaper.patch