4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Dan Williams dan.j.williams@intel.com
(cherry picked from commit b3d7ad85b80bbc404635dca80f5b129f6242bc7a)
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@linux-foundation.org Suggested-by: Andi Kleen ak@linux.intel.com Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar mingo@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Dan Williams dan.j.williams@intel.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Cc: Tom Lendacky thomas.lendacky@amd.com Cc: Kees Cook keescook@chromium.org Cc: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Cc: Al Viro viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk Cc: alan@linux.intel.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/151727415361.33451.9049453007262764675.stgit@dwill... Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse dwmw@amazon.co.uk Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- arch/x86/include/asm/barrier.h | 4 ++++ arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h | 3 +-- 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/barrier.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/barrier.h @@ -47,6 +47,10 @@ 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) + #ifdef CONFIG_X86_PPRO_FENCE #define dma_rmb() rmb() #else --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h @@ -188,8 +188,7 @@ static __always_inline unsigned long lon * that some other imaginary CPU is updating continuously with a * time stamp. */ - alternative_2("", "mfence", X86_FEATURE_MFENCE_RDTSC, - "lfence", X86_FEATURE_LFENCE_RDTSC); + barrier_nospec(); return rdtsc(); }