This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
x86/speculation: Use Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier in context switch
to the 4.9-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: x86-speculation-use-indirect-branch-prediction-barrier-in-context-switch.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 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.
From 18bf3c3ea8ece8f03b6fc58508f2dfd23c7711c7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tim Chen tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2018 22:04:47 +0000 Subject: x86/speculation: Use Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier in context switch MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
From: Tim Chen tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com
commit 18bf3c3ea8ece8f03b6fc58508f2dfd23c7711c7 upstream.
Flush indirect branches when switching into a process that marked itself non dumpable. This protects high value processes like gpg better, without having too high performance overhead.
If done naïvely, we could switch to a kernel idle thread and then back to the original process, such as:
process A -> idle -> process A
In such scenario, we do not have to do IBPB here even though the process is non-dumpable, as we are switching back to the same process after a hiatus.
To avoid the redundant IBPB, which is expensive, we track the last mm user context ID. The cost is to have an extra u64 mm context id to track the last mm we were using before switching to the init_mm used by idle. Avoiding the extra IBPB is probably worth the extra memory for this common scenario.
For those cases where tlb_defer_switch_to_init_mm() returns true (non PCID), lazy tlb will defer switch to init_mm, so we will not be changing the mm for the process A -> idle -> process A switch. So IBPB will be skipped for this case.
Thanks to the reviewers and Andy Lutomirski for the suggestion of using ctx_id which got rid of the problem of mm pointer recycling.
Signed-off-by: Tim Chen tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse dwmw@amazon.co.uk Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Cc: ak@linux.intel.com Cc: karahmed@amazon.de Cc: arjan@linux.intel.com Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: linux@dominikbrodowski.net Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: bp@alien8.de Cc: luto@kernel.org Cc: pbonzini@redhat.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1517263487-3708-1-git-send-email-dwmw@amazon.co.uk Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
--- arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h | 2 ++ arch/x86/mm/tlb.c | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 33 insertions(+)
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h @@ -68,6 +68,8 @@ static inline void invpcid_flush_all_non struct tlb_state { struct mm_struct *active_mm; int state; + /* last user mm's ctx id */ + u64 last_ctx_id;
/* * Access to this CR4 shadow and to H/W CR4 is protected by --- a/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
#include <asm/tlbflush.h> #include <asm/mmu_context.h> +#include <asm/nospec-branch.h> #include <asm/cache.h> #include <asm/apic.h> #include <asm/uv/uv.h> @@ -106,6 +107,28 @@ void switch_mm_irqs_off(struct mm_struct unsigned cpu = smp_processor_id();
if (likely(prev != next)) { + u64 last_ctx_id = this_cpu_read(cpu_tlbstate.last_ctx_id); + + /* + * Avoid user/user BTB poisoning by flushing the branch + * predictor when switching between processes. This stops + * one process from doing Spectre-v2 attacks on another. + * + * As an optimization, flush indirect branches only when + * switching into processes that disable dumping. This + * protects high value processes like gpg, without having + * too high performance overhead. IBPB is *expensive*! + * + * This will not flush branches when switching into kernel + * threads. It will also not flush if we switch to idle + * thread and back to the same process. It will flush if we + * switch to a different non-dumpable process. + */ + if (tsk && tsk->mm && + tsk->mm->context.ctx_id != last_ctx_id && + get_dumpable(tsk->mm) != SUID_DUMP_USER) + indirect_branch_prediction_barrier(); + if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_VMAP_STACK)) { /* * If our current stack is in vmalloc space and isn't @@ -120,6 +143,14 @@ void switch_mm_irqs_off(struct mm_struct set_pgd(pgd, init_mm.pgd[stack_pgd_index]); }
+ /* + * Record last user mm's context id, so we can avoid + * flushing branch buffer with IBPB if we switch back + * to the same user. + */ + if (next != &init_mm) + this_cpu_write(cpu_tlbstate.last_ctx_id, next->context.ctx_id); + this_cpu_write(cpu_tlbstate.state, TLBSTATE_OK); this_cpu_write(cpu_tlbstate.active_mm, next);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com are
queue-4.9/x86-speculation-use-indirect-branch-prediction-barrier-in-context-switch.patch queue-4.9/x86-mm-give-each-mm-tlb-flush-generation-a-unique-id.patch