From: Anthony Steinhauser asteinhauser@google.com
commit dbbe2ad02e9df26e372f38cc3e70dab9222c832e upstream.
On context switch the change of TIF_SSBD and TIF_SPEC_IB are evaluated to adjust the mitigations accordingly. This is optimized to avoid the expensive MSR write if not needed.
This optimization is buggy and allows an attacker to shutdown the SSBD protection of a victim process.
The update logic reads the cached base value for the speculation control MSR which has neither the SSBD nor the STIBP bit set. It then OR's the SSBD bit only when TIF_SSBD is different and requests the MSR update.
That means if TIF_SSBD of the previous and next task are the same, then the base value is not updated, even if TIF_SSBD is set. The MSR write is not requested.
Subsequently if the TIF_STIBP bit differs then the STIBP bit is updated in the base value and the MSR is written with a wrong SSBD value.
This was introduced when the per task/process conditional STIPB switching was added on top of the existing SSBD switching.
It is exploitable if the attacker creates a process which enforces SSBD and has the contrary value of STIBP than the victim process (i.e. if the victim process enforces STIBP, the attacker process must not enforce it; if the victim process does not enforce STIBP, the attacker process must enforce it) and schedule it on the same core as the victim process. If the victim runs after the attacker the victim becomes vulnerable to Spectre V4.
To fix this, update the MSR value independent of the TIF_SSBD difference and dependent on the SSBD mitigation method available. This ensures that a subsequent STIPB initiated MSR write has the correct state of SSBD.
[ tglx: Handle X86_FEATURE_VIRT_SSBD & X86_FEATURE_VIRT_SSBD correctly and massaged changelog ]
Fixes: 5bfbe3ad5840 ("x86/speculation: Prepare for per task indirect branch speculation control") Signed-off-by: Anthony Steinhauser asteinhauser@google.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
--- arch/x86/kernel/process.c | 28 ++++++++++------------------ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c @@ -546,28 +546,20 @@ static __always_inline void __speculatio
lockdep_assert_irqs_disabled();
- /* - * If TIF_SSBD is different, select the proper mitigation - * method. Note that if SSBD mitigation is disabled or permanentely - * enabled this branch can't be taken because nothing can set - * TIF_SSBD. - */ - if (tif_diff & _TIF_SSBD) { - if (static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_VIRT_SSBD)) { + /* Handle change of TIF_SSBD depending on the mitigation method. */ + if (static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_VIRT_SSBD)) { + if (tif_diff & _TIF_SSBD) amd_set_ssb_virt_state(tifn); - } else if (static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_LS_CFG_SSBD)) { + } else if (static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_LS_CFG_SSBD)) { + if (tif_diff & _TIF_SSBD) amd_set_core_ssb_state(tifn); - } else if (static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_SPEC_CTRL_SSBD) || - static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_AMD_SSBD)) { - msr |= ssbd_tif_to_spec_ctrl(tifn); - updmsr = true; - } + } else if (static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_SPEC_CTRL_SSBD) || + static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_AMD_SSBD)) { + updmsr |= !!(tif_diff & _TIF_SSBD); + msr |= ssbd_tif_to_spec_ctrl(tifn); }
- /* - * Only evaluate TIF_SPEC_IB if conditional STIBP is enabled, - * otherwise avoid the MSR write. - */ + /* Only evaluate TIF_SPEC_IB if conditional STIBP is enabled. */ if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SMP) && static_branch_unlikely(&switch_to_cond_stibp)) { updmsr |= !!(tif_diff & _TIF_SPEC_IB);