From: Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org
commit 5ad3eb1132453b9795ce5fd4572b1c18b292cca9 upstream.
Update the doc with the new fun.
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Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) peterz@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov bp@suse.de Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de [fllinden@amazon.com: backported to 4.14] Signed-off-by: Frank van der Linden fllinden@amazon.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/spectre.rst | 42 ++++++++++++++++-------- Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 8 +++- 2 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/spectre.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/spectre.rst @@ -131,6 +131,19 @@ steer its indirect branch speculations t speculative execution's side effects left in level 1 cache to infer the victim's data.
+Yet another variant 2 attack vector is for the attacker to poison the +Branch History Buffer (BHB) to speculatively steer an indirect branch +to a specific Branch Target Buffer (BTB) entry, even if the entry isn't +associated with the source address of the indirect branch. Specifically, +the BHB might be shared across privilege levels even in the presence of +Enhanced IBRS. + +Currently the only known real-world BHB attack vector is via +unprivileged eBPF. Therefore, it's highly recommended to not enable +unprivileged eBPF, especially when eIBRS is used (without retpolines). +For a full mitigation against BHB attacks, it's recommended to use +retpolines (or eIBRS combined with retpolines). + Attack scenarios ----------------
@@ -364,13 +377,15 @@ The possible values in this file are:
- Kernel status:
- ==================================== ================================= - 'Not affected' The processor is not vulnerable - 'Vulnerable' Vulnerable, no mitigation - 'Mitigation: Full generic retpoline' Software-focused mitigation - 'Mitigation: Full AMD retpoline' AMD-specific software mitigation - 'Mitigation: Enhanced IBRS' Hardware-focused mitigation - ==================================== ================================= + ======================================== ================================= + 'Not affected' The processor is not vulnerable + 'Mitigation: None' Vulnerable, no mitigation + 'Mitigation: Retpolines' Use Retpoline thunks + 'Mitigation: LFENCE' Use LFENCE instructions + 'Mitigation: Enhanced IBRS' Hardware-focused mitigation + 'Mitigation: Enhanced IBRS + Retpolines' Hardware-focused + Retpolines + 'Mitigation: Enhanced IBRS + LFENCE' Hardware-focused + LFENCE + ======================================== =================================
- Firmware status: Show if Indirect Branch Restricted Speculation (IBRS) is used to protect against Spectre variant 2 attacks when calling firmware (x86 only). @@ -584,12 +599,13 @@ kernel command line.
Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
- retpoline - replace indirect branches - retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline - retpoline,amd - AMD-specific minimal thunk + retpoline auto pick between generic,lfence + retpoline,generic Retpolines + retpoline,lfence LFENCE; indirect branch + retpoline,amd alias for retpoline,lfence + eibrs enhanced IBRS + eibrs,retpoline enhanced IBRS + Retpolines + eibrs,lfence enhanced IBRS + LFENCE
Not specifying this option is equivalent to spectre_v2=auto. --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -4150,8 +4150,12 @@ Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
retpoline - replace indirect branches - retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline - retpoline,amd - AMD-specific minimal thunk + retpoline,generic - Retpolines + retpoline,lfence - LFENCE; indirect branch + retpoline,amd - alias for retpoline,lfence + eibrs - enhanced IBRS + eibrs,retpoline - enhanced IBRS + Retpolines + eibrs,lfence - enhanced IBRS + LFENCE
Not specifying this option is equivalent to spectre_v2=auto.