This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled x86/bugs: Reset speculation control settings on init to the 5.10-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: x86-bugs-reset-speculation-control-settings-on-init.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit ff9760006999ab25365b96690bcd7875df9d2345 Author: Breno Leitao <leitao@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Nov 28 07:31:48 2022 -0800 x86/bugs: Reset speculation control settings on init [ Upstream commit 0125acda7d76b943ca55811df40ed6ec0ecf670f ] Currently, x86_spec_ctrl_base is read at boot time and speculative bits are set if Kconfig items are enabled. For example, IBRS is enabled if CONFIG_CPU_IBRS_ENTRY is configured, etc. These MSR bits are not cleared if the mitigations are disabled. This is a problem when kexec-ing a kernel that has the mitigation disabled from a kernel that has the mitigation enabled. In this case, the MSR bits are not cleared during the new kernel boot. As a result, this might have some performance degradation that is hard to pinpoint. This problem does not happen if the machine is (hard) rebooted because the bit will be cleared by default. [ bp: Massage. ] Suggested-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@xxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221128153148.1129350-1-leitao@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h index 5a8ee3b83af2a..f71a177b6b185 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h @@ -54,6 +54,10 @@ #define SPEC_CTRL_RRSBA_DIS_S_SHIFT 6 /* Disable RRSBA behavior */ #define SPEC_CTRL_RRSBA_DIS_S BIT(SPEC_CTRL_RRSBA_DIS_S_SHIFT) +/* A mask for bits which the kernel toggles when controlling mitigations */ +#define SPEC_CTRL_MITIGATIONS_MASK (SPEC_CTRL_IBRS | SPEC_CTRL_STIBP | SPEC_CTRL_SSBD \ + | SPEC_CTRL_RRSBA_DIS_S) + #define MSR_IA32_PRED_CMD 0x00000049 /* Prediction Command */ #define PRED_CMD_IBPB BIT(0) /* Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier */ diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c index a2a087a797ae5..c5034986ea444 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c @@ -136,9 +136,17 @@ void __init check_bugs(void) * have unknown values. AMD64_LS_CFG MSR is cached in the early AMD * init code as it is not enumerated and depends on the family. */ - if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_MSR_SPEC_CTRL)) + if (cpu_feature_enabled(X86_FEATURE_MSR_SPEC_CTRL)) { rdmsrl(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL, x86_spec_ctrl_base); + /* + * Previously running kernel (kexec), may have some controls + * turned ON. Clear them and let the mitigations setup below + * rediscover them based on configuration. + */ + x86_spec_ctrl_base &= ~SPEC_CTRL_MITIGATIONS_MASK; + } + /* Select the proper CPU mitigations before patching alternatives: */ spectre_v1_select_mitigation(); spectre_v2_select_mitigation();