From: Anand K Mistry <amistry@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 33fc379df76b4991e5ae312f07bcd6820811971e upstream. When spectre_v2_user={seccomp,prctl},ibpb is specified on the command line, IBPB is force-enabled and STIPB is conditionally-enabled (or not available). However, since 21998a351512 ("x86/speculation: Avoid force-disabling IBPB based on STIBP and enhanced IBRS.") the spectre_v2_user_ibpb variable is set to SPECTRE_V2_USER_{PRCTL,SECCOMP} instead of SPECTRE_V2_USER_STRICT, which is the actual behaviour. Because the issuing of IBPB relies on the switch_mm_*_ibpb static branches, the mitigations behave as expected. Since 1978b3a53a74 ("x86/speculation: Allow IBPB to be conditionally enabled on CPUs with always-on STIBP") this discrepency caused the misreporting of IB speculation via prctl(). On CPUs with STIBP always-on and spectre_v2_user=seccomp,ibpb, prctl(PR_GET_SPECULATION_CTRL) would return PR_SPEC_PRCTL | PR_SPEC_ENABLE instead of PR_SPEC_DISABLE since both IBPB and STIPB are always on. It also allowed prctl(PR_SET_SPECULATION_CTRL) to set the IB speculation mode, even though the flag is ignored. Similarly, for CPUs without SMT, prctl(PR_GET_SPECULATION_CTRL) should also return PR_SPEC_DISABLE since IBPB is always on and STIBP is not available. [ bp: Massage commit message. ] Fixes: 21998a351512 ("x86/speculation: Avoid force-disabling IBPB based on STIBP and enhanced IBRS.") Fixes: 1978b3a53a74 ("x86/speculation: Allow IBPB to be conditionally enabled on CPUs with always-on STIBP") Signed-off-by: Anand K Mistry <amistry@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201110123349.1.Id0cbf996d2151f4c143c90f9028651a5b49a5908@changeid Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c @@ -707,11 +707,13 @@ spectre_v2_user_select_mitigation(enum s if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_IBPB)) { setup_force_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_USE_IBPB); + spectre_v2_user_ibpb = mode; switch (cmd) { case SPECTRE_V2_USER_CMD_FORCE: case SPECTRE_V2_USER_CMD_PRCTL_IBPB: case SPECTRE_V2_USER_CMD_SECCOMP_IBPB: static_branch_enable(&switch_mm_always_ibpb); + spectre_v2_user_ibpb = SPECTRE_V2_USER_STRICT; break; case SPECTRE_V2_USER_CMD_PRCTL: case SPECTRE_V2_USER_CMD_AUTO: @@ -725,8 +727,6 @@ spectre_v2_user_select_mitigation(enum s pr_info("mitigation: Enabling %s Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier\n", static_key_enabled(&switch_mm_always_ibpb) ? "always-on" : "conditional"); - - spectre_v2_user_ibpb = mode; } /*