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 4.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...
The filename of the patch is: x86speculation_Add_basic_IBPB_(Indirect_Branch_Prediction_Barrier)_support.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.
Subject: x86/speculation: Add basic IBPB (Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier) support From: David Woodhouse dwmw@amazon.co.uk Date: Thu Jan 25 16:14:15 2018 +0000
From: David Woodhouse dwmw@amazon.co.uk
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@amazon.de Signed-off-by: KarimAllah Ahmed karahmed@amazon.de Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse dwmw@amazon.co.uk Cc: gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk Cc: ak@linux.intel.com Cc: ashok.raj@intel.com Cc: dave.hansen@intel.com Cc: arjan@linux.intel.com Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: bp@alien8.de Cc: pbonzini@redhat.com Cc: tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com Cc: gregkh@linux-foundation.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1516896855-7642-8-git-send-email-dwmw@amazon.co.uk Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
--- 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 @@ -210,6 +210,8 @@ #define X86_FEATURE_MBA ( 7*32+18) /* Memory Bandwidth Allocation */ #define X86_FEATURE_RSB_CTXSW ( 7*32+19) /* Fill RSB on context switches */
+#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 @@ -263,6 +263,13 @@ 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 @@ -292,7 +299,8 @@ 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 karahmed@amazon.de are
queue-4.14/x86pti_Do_not_enable_PTI_on_CPUs_which_are_not_vulnerable_to_Meltdown.patch queue-4.14/x86cpufeature_Blacklist_SPEC_CTRLPRED_CMD_on_early_Spectre_v2_microcodes.patch queue-4.14/x86cpufeatures_Add_Intel_feature_bits_for_Speculation_Control.patch queue-4.14/x86msr_Add_definitions_for_new_speculation_control_MSRs.patch queue-4.14/x86cpufeatures_Add_CPUID_7_EDX_CPUID_leaf.patch queue-4.14/x86cpufeatures_Add_AMD_feature_bits_for_Speculation_Control.patch queue-4.14/x86speculation_Add_basic_IBPB_(Indirect_Branch_Prediction_Barrier)_support.patch queue-4.14/x86speculation_Simplify_indirect_branch_prediction_barrier().patch queue-4.14/x86retpoline_Simplify_vmexit_fill_RSB().patch queue-4.14/x86cpufeatures_Clean_up_Spectre_v2_related_CPUID_flags.patch