This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

x86/entry/64: Clear registers for exceptions/interrupts, to reduce speculation attack surface

to the 4.15-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-entry-64-clear-registers-for-exceptions-interrupts-to-reduce-speculation-attack-surface.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.15 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 3ac6d8c787b835b997eb23e43e09aa0895ef7d58 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Dan Williams dan.j.williams@intel.com Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2018 17:18:11 -0800 Subject: x86/entry/64: Clear registers for exceptions/interrupts, to reduce speculation attack surface

From: Dan Williams dan.j.williams@intel.com

commit 3ac6d8c787b835b997eb23e43e09aa0895ef7d58 upstream.

Clear the 'extra' registers on entering the 64-bit kernel for exceptions and interrupts. The common registers are not cleared since they are likely clobbered well before they can be exploited in a speculative execution attack.

Originally-From: Andi Kleen ak@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Dan Williams dan.j.williams@intel.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Andy Lutomirski luto@kernel.org Cc: Borislav Petkov bp@alien8.de Cc: Brian Gerst brgerst@gmail.com Cc: Denys Vlasenko dvlasenk@redhat.com Cc: H. Peter Anvin hpa@zytor.com Cc: Josh Poimboeuf jpoimboe@redhat.com Cc: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org Cc: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/151787989146.7847.15749181712358213254.stgit@dwilli... [ Made small improvements to the changelog and the code comments. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar mingo@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org

--- arch/x86/entry/calling.h | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S | 6 +++++- 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/x86/entry/calling.h +++ b/arch/x86/entry/calling.h @@ -147,6 +147,25 @@ For 32-bit we have the following convent UNWIND_HINT_REGS offset=\offset .endm

+ /* + * Sanitize registers of values that a speculation attack + * might otherwise want to exploit. The lower registers are + * likely clobbered well before they could be put to use in + * a speculative execution gadget: + */ + .macro CLEAR_REGS_NOSPEC + xorl %ebp, %ebp + xorl %ebx, %ebx + xorq %r8, %r8 + xorq %r9, %r9 + xorq %r10, %r10 + xorq %r11, %r11 + xorq %r12, %r12 + xorq %r13, %r13 + xorq %r14, %r14 + xorq %r15, %r15 + .endm + .macro POP_EXTRA_REGS popq %r15 popq %r14 --- a/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S +++ b/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S @@ -575,6 +575,7 @@ END(irq_entries_start) ALLOC_PT_GPREGS_ON_STACK SAVE_C_REGS SAVE_EXTRA_REGS + CLEAR_REGS_NOSPEC ENCODE_FRAME_POINTER

testb $3, CS(%rsp) @@ -1133,6 +1134,7 @@ ENTRY(xen_failsafe_callback) ALLOC_PT_GPREGS_ON_STACK SAVE_C_REGS SAVE_EXTRA_REGS + CLEAR_REGS_NOSPEC ENCODE_FRAME_POINTER jmp error_exit END(xen_failsafe_callback) @@ -1178,6 +1180,7 @@ ENTRY(paranoid_entry) cld SAVE_C_REGS 8 SAVE_EXTRA_REGS 8 + CLEAR_REGS_NOSPEC ENCODE_FRAME_POINTER 8 movl $1, %ebx movl $MSR_GS_BASE, %ecx @@ -1230,8 +1233,8 @@ ENTRY(error_entry) cld SAVE_C_REGS 8 SAVE_EXTRA_REGS 8 + CLEAR_REGS_NOSPEC ENCODE_FRAME_POINTER 8 - xorl %ebx, %ebx testb $3, CS+8(%rsp) jz .Lerror_kernelspace

@@ -1428,6 +1431,7 @@ ENTRY(nmi) pushq %r14 /* pt_regs->r14 */ pushq %r15 /* pt_regs->r15 */ UNWIND_HINT_REGS + CLEAR_REGS_NOSPEC ENCODE_FRAME_POINTER

/*

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dan.j.williams@intel.com are

queue-4.15/x86-entry-64-interleave-xor-register-clearing-with-push-instructions.patch queue-4.15/nospec-move-array_index_nospec-parameter-checking-into-separate-macro.patch queue-4.15/x86-entry-64-merge-the-pop_c_regs-and-pop_extra_regs-macros-into-a-single-pop_regs-macro.patch queue-4.15/kvm-nvmx-set-the-cpu_based_use_msr_bitmaps-if-we-have-a-valid-l02-msr-bitmap.patch queue-4.15/x86-nvmx-properly-set-spec_ctrl-and-pred_cmd-before-merging-msrs.patch queue-4.15/x86-speculation-add-asm-msr-index.h-dependency.patch queue-4.15/x86-entry-64-use-push_and_clean_regs-in-more-cases.patch queue-4.15/x86-speculation-update-speculation-control-microcode-blacklist.patch queue-4.15/x86-entry-64-clear-registers-for-exceptions-interrupts-to-reduce-speculation-attack-surface.patch queue-4.15/x86-speculation-correct-speculation-control-microcode-blacklist-again.patch queue-4.15/x86-entry-64-merge-save_c_regs-and-save_extra_regs-remove-unused-extensions.patch queue-4.15/x86-entry-64-indent-push_and_clear_regs-and-pop_regs-properly.patch queue-4.15/x86-speculation-fix-up-array_index_nospec_mask-asm-constraint.patch queue-4.15/x86-entry-64-clear-extra-registers-beyond-syscall-arguments-to-reduce-speculation-attack-surface.patch queue-4.15/kvm-x86-reduce-retpoline-performance-impact-in-slot_handle_level_range-by-always-inlining-iterator-helper-methods.patch queue-4.15/x86-mm-pti-fix-pti-comment-in-entry_syscall_64.patch queue-4.15/x86-entry-64-get-rid-of-the-alloc_pt_gpregs_on_stack-and-save_and_clear_regs-macros.patch queue-4.15/x86-speculation-clean-up-various-spectre-related-details.patch queue-4.15/x86-entry-64-introduce-the-push_and_clean_regs-macro.patch queue-4.15/revert-x86-speculation-simplify-indirect_branch_prediction_barrier.patch queue-4.15/x86-entry-64-compat-clear-registers-for-compat-syscalls-to-reduce-speculation-attack-surface.patch queue-4.15/x86-entry-64-fix-cr3-restore-in-paranoid_exit.patch