From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit bbe2df3f6b6da7848398d55b1311d58a16ec21e4 upstream. Try and replace retpoline thunk calls with: LFENCE CALL *%\reg for spectre_v2=retpoline,amd. Specifically, the sequence above is 5 bytes for the low 8 registers, but 6 bytes for the high 8 registers. This means that unless the compilers prefix stuff the call with higher registers this replacement will fail. Luckily GCC strongly favours RAX for the indirect calls and most (95%+ for defconfig-x86_64) will be converted. OTOH clang strongly favours R11 and almost nothing gets converted. Note: it will also generate a correct replacement for the Jcc.d32 case, except unless the compilers start to prefix stuff that, it'll never fit. Specifically: Jncc.d8 1f LFENCE JMP *%\reg 1: is 7-8 bytes long, where the original instruction in unpadded form is only 6 bytes. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx> Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211026120310.359986601@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [cascardo: RETPOLINE_AMD was renamed to RETPOLINE_LFENCE] Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c | 16 ++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c @@ -389,6 +389,7 @@ static int emit_indirect(int op, int reg * * CALL *%\reg * + * It also tries to inline spectre_v2=retpoline,amd when size permits. */ static int patch_retpoline(void *addr, struct insn *insn, u8 *bytes) { @@ -405,7 +406,8 @@ static int patch_retpoline(void *addr, s /* If anyone ever does: CALL/JMP *%rsp, we're in deep trouble. */ BUG_ON(reg == 4); - if (cpu_feature_enabled(X86_FEATURE_RETPOLINE)) + if (cpu_feature_enabled(X86_FEATURE_RETPOLINE) && + !cpu_feature_enabled(X86_FEATURE_RETPOLINE_LFENCE)) return -1; op = insn->opcode.bytes[0]; @@ -418,8 +420,9 @@ static int patch_retpoline(void *addr, s * into: * * Jncc.d8 1f + * [ LFENCE ] * JMP *%\reg - * NOP + * [ NOP ] * 1: */ /* Jcc.d32 second opcode byte is in the range: 0x80-0x8f */ @@ -434,6 +437,15 @@ static int patch_retpoline(void *addr, s op = JMP32_INSN_OPCODE; } + /* + * For RETPOLINE_AMD: prepend the indirect CALL/JMP with an LFENCE. + */ + if (cpu_feature_enabled(X86_FEATURE_RETPOLINE_LFENCE)) { + bytes[i++] = 0x0f; + bytes[i++] = 0xae; + bytes[i++] = 0xe8; /* LFENCE */ + } + ret = emit_indirect(op, reg, bytes + i); if (ret < 0) return ret;
