3.16.56-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> commit b3d7ad85b80bbc404635dca80f5b129f6242bc7a upstream. Rename the open coded form of this instruction sequence from rdtsc_ordered() into a generic barrier primitive, barrier_nospec(). One of the mitigations for Spectre variant1 vulnerabilities is to fence speculative execution after successfully validating a bounds check. I.e. force the result of a bounds check to resolve in the instruction pipeline to ensure speculative execution honors that result before potentially operating on out-of-bounds data. No functional changes. Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Suggested-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: linux-arch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@xxxxxxx> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: kernel-hardening@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/151727415361.33451.9049453007262764675.stgit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [bwh: Backported to 3.16: update rdtsc_barrier() instead of rdtsc_ordered()] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/barrier.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/barrier.h @@ -48,6 +48,10 @@ static inline unsigned long array_index_ /* Override the default implementation from linux/nospec.h. */ #define array_index_mask_nospec array_index_mask_nospec +/* Prevent speculative execution past this barrier. */ +#define barrier_nospec() alternative_2("", "mfence", X86_FEATURE_MFENCE_RDTSC, \ + "lfence", X86_FEATURE_LFENCE_RDTSC) + /** * read_barrier_depends - Flush all pending reads that subsequents reads * depend on. @@ -174,8 +178,7 @@ do { \ */ static __always_inline void rdtsc_barrier(void) { - alternative(ASM_NOP3, "mfence", X86_FEATURE_MFENCE_RDTSC); - alternative(ASM_NOP3, "lfence", X86_FEATURE_LFENCE_RDTSC); + barrier_nospec(); } #endif /* _ASM_X86_BARRIER_H */