This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled x86/speculation: Add basic IBPB (Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier) support to the 4.9-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-speculation-add-basic-ibpb-indirect-branch-prediction-barrier-support.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Thu Feb 8 03:30:27 CET 2018 From: David Woodhouse <dwmw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2018 16:14:15 +0000 Subject: x86/speculation: Add basic IBPB (Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier) support From: David Woodhouse <dwmw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> (cherry picked from commit 20ffa1caecca4db8f79fe665acdeaa5af815a24d) Expose indirect_branch_prediction_barrier() for use in subsequent patches. [ tglx: Add IBPB status to spectre_v2 sysfs file ] Co-developed-by: KarimAllah Ahmed <karahmed@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: KarimAllah Ahmed <karahmed@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: gnomes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: ashok.raj@xxxxxxxxx Cc: dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxx Cc: arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: bp@xxxxxxxxx Cc: pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx Cc: tim.c.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1516896855-7642-8-git-send-email-dwmw@xxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h | 2 ++ arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h | 13 +++++++++++++ arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c | 10 +++++++++- 3 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h @@ -202,6 +202,8 @@ /* Because the ALTERNATIVE scheme is for members of the X86_FEATURE club... */ #define X86_FEATURE_KAISER ( 7*32+31) /* CONFIG_PAGE_TABLE_ISOLATION w/o nokaiser */ +#define X86_FEATURE_IBPB ( 7*32+21) /* Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier enabled*/ + /* Virtualization flags: Linux defined, word 8 */ #define X86_FEATURE_TPR_SHADOW ( 8*32+ 0) /* Intel TPR Shadow */ #define X86_FEATURE_VNMI ( 8*32+ 1) /* Intel Virtual NMI */ --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h @@ -218,5 +218,18 @@ static inline void vmexit_fill_RSB(void) #endif } +static inline void indirect_branch_prediction_barrier(void) +{ + asm volatile(ALTERNATIVE("", + "movl %[msr], %%ecx\n\t" + "movl %[val], %%eax\n\t" + "movl $0, %%edx\n\t" + "wrmsr", + X86_FEATURE_IBPB) + : : [msr] "i" (MSR_IA32_PRED_CMD), + [val] "i" (PRED_CMD_IBPB) + : "eax", "ecx", "edx", "memory"); +} + #endif /* __ASSEMBLY__ */ #endif /* __NOSPEC_BRANCH_H__ */ --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c @@ -262,6 +262,13 @@ retpoline_auto: setup_force_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_RSB_CTXSW); pr_info("Filling RSB on context switch\n"); } + + /* Initialize Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier if supported */ + if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_SPEC_CTRL) || + boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_AMD_PRED_CMD)) { + setup_force_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_IBPB); + pr_info("Enabling Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier\n"); + } } #undef pr_fmt @@ -291,7 +298,8 @@ ssize_t cpu_show_spectre_v2(struct devic if (!boot_cpu_has_bug(X86_BUG_SPECTRE_V2)) return sprintf(buf, "Not affected\n"); - return sprintf(buf, "%s%s\n", spectre_v2_strings[spectre_v2_enabled], + return sprintf(buf, "%s%s%s\n", spectre_v2_strings[spectre_v2_enabled], + boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_IBPB) ? ", IPBP" : "", spectre_v2_bad_module ? " - vulnerable module loaded" : ""); } #endif Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dwmw@xxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/x86-entry-64-push-extra-regs-right-away.patch queue-4.9/kvm-vmx-introduce-alloc_loaded_vmcs.patch queue-4.9/kvm-nvmx-eliminate-vmcs02-pool.patch queue-4.9/kvm-vmx-allow-direct-access-to-msr_ia32_spec_ctrl.patch queue-4.9/kvm-x86-add-ibpb-support.patch queue-4.9/kvm-svm-allow-direct-access-to-msr_ia32_spec_ctrl.patch queue-4.9/x86-cpufeatures-add-intel-feature-bits-for-speculation-control.patch queue-4.9/x86-retpoline-simplify-vmexit_fill_rsb.patch queue-4.9/x86-paravirt-remove-noreplace-paravirt-cmdline-option.patch queue-4.9/x86-cpufeatures-clean-up-spectre-v2-related-cpuid-flags.patch queue-4.9/documentation-document-array_index_nospec.patch queue-4.9/x86-usercopy-replace-open-coded-stac-clac-with-__uaccess_-begin-end.patch queue-4.9/x86-asm-move-status-from-thread_struct-to-thread_info.patch queue-4.9/x86-cpufeatures-add-cpuid_7_edx-cpuid-leaf.patch queue-4.9/kvm-x86-make-indirect-calls-in-emulator-speculation-safe.patch queue-4.9/x86-entry-64-remove-the-syscall64-fast-path.patch queue-4.9/x86-cpufeature-blacklist-spec_ctrl-pred_cmd-on-early-spectre-v2-microcodes.patch queue-4.9/x86-nospec-fix-header-guards-names.patch queue-4.9/x86-retpoline-avoid-retpolines-for-built-in-__init-functions.patch queue-4.9/vfs-fdtable-prevent-bounds-check-bypass-via-speculative-execution.patch queue-4.9/x86-uaccess-use-__uaccess_begin_nospec-and-uaccess_try_nospec.patch queue-4.9/x86-cpu-bugs-make-retpoline-module-warning-conditional.patch queue-4.9/x86-spectre-check-config_retpoline-in-command-line-parser.patch queue-4.9/x86-implement-array_index_mask_nospec.patch queue-4.9/x86-alternative-print-unadorned-pointers.patch queue-4.9/x86-cpuid-fix-up-virtual-ibrs-ibpb-stibp-feature-bits-on-intel.patch queue-4.9/array_index_nospec-sanitize-speculative-array-de-references.patch queue-4.9/kvm-vmx-make-indirect-call-speculation-safe.patch queue-4.9/x86-cpufeatures-add-amd-feature-bits-for-speculation-control.patch queue-4.9/x86-spectre-fix-spelling-mistake-vunerable-vulnerable.patch queue-4.9/module-retpoline-warn-about-missing-retpoline-in-module.patch queue-4.9/x86-kvm-update-spectre-v1-mitigation.patch queue-4.9/x86-get_user-use-pointer-masking-to-limit-speculation.patch queue-4.9/x86-syscall-sanitize-syscall-table-de-references-under-speculation.patch queue-4.9/kvm-nvmx-vmx_complete_nested_posted_interrupt-can-t-fail.patch queue-4.9/x86-spectre-simplify-spectre_v2-command-line-parsing.patch queue-4.9/x86-msr-add-definitions-for-new-speculation-control-msrs.patch queue-4.9/x86-pti-make-unpoison-of-pgd-for-trusted-boot-work-for-real.patch queue-4.9/kvm-vmx-make-msr-bitmaps-per-vcpu.patch queue-4.9/x86-speculation-add-basic-ibpb-indirect-branch-prediction-barrier-support.patch queue-4.9/kvm-nvmx-mark-vmcs12-pages-dirty-on-l2-exit.patch queue-4.9/x86-pti-mark-constant-arrays-as-__initconst.patch queue-4.9/x86-speculation-fix-typo-ibrs_att-which-should-be-ibrs_all.patch queue-4.9/x86-spectre-report-get_user-mitigation-for-spectre_v1.patch queue-4.9/x86-introduce-barrier_nospec.patch queue-4.9/kvm-vmx-emulate-msr_ia32_arch_capabilities.patch queue-4.9/x86-bugs-drop-one-mitigation-from-dmesg.patch queue-4.9/x86-retpoline-remove-the-esp-rsp-thunk.patch queue-4.9/x86-pti-do-not-enable-pti-on-cpus-which-are-not-vulnerable-to-meltdown.patch queue-4.9/x86-introduce-__uaccess_begin_nospec-and-uaccess_try_nospec.patch queue-4.9/nl80211-sanitize-array-index-in-parse_txq_params.patch