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authorJohannes Wikner <kwikner@ethz.ch>2024-10-08 13:58:03 +0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2024-10-22 16:51:23 +0300
commit7179783271aff7174fbeb2474da60e05c359cbc7 (patch)
treefe5c19969477e4c184362512118573747d573853 /arch
parent265656806098992269f8a9d3add77b409821b063 (diff)
downloadlinux-7179783271aff7174fbeb2474da60e05c359cbc7.tar.xz
x86/bugs: Do not use UNTRAIN_RET with IBPB on entry
commit c62fa117c32bd1abed9304c58e0da6940f8c7fc2 upstream. Since X86_FEATURE_ENTRY_IBPB will invalidate all harmful predictions with IBPB, no software-based untraining of returns is needed anymore. Currently, this change affects retbleed and SRSO mitigations so if either of the mitigations is doing IBPB and the other one does the software sequence, the latter is not needed anymore. [ bp: Massage commit message. ] Suggested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Signed-off-by: Johannes Wikner <kwikner@ethz.ch> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c17
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
index 242beda6dbf2..2ef649ec32ce 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
@@ -1113,6 +1113,15 @@ do_cmd_auto:
case RETBLEED_MITIGATION_IBPB:
setup_force_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_ENTRY_IBPB);
+
+ /*
+ * IBPB on entry already obviates the need for
+ * software-based untraining so clear those in case some
+ * other mitigation like SRSO has selected them.
+ */
+ setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_UNRET);
+ setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_RETHUNK);
+
setup_force_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_IBPB_ON_VMEXIT);
mitigate_smt = true;
@@ -2629,6 +2638,14 @@ static void __init srso_select_mitigation(void)
if (has_microcode) {
setup_force_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_ENTRY_IBPB);
srso_mitigation = SRSO_MITIGATION_IBPB;
+
+ /*
+ * IBPB on entry already obviates the need for
+ * software-based untraining so clear those in case some
+ * other mitigation like Retbleed has selected them.
+ */
+ setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_UNRET);
+ setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_RETHUNK);
}
} else {
pr_err("WARNING: kernel not compiled with MITIGATION_IBPB_ENTRY.\n");