From f4818881c47fd91fcb6d62373c57c7844e3de1c0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pawan Gupta Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2024 20:23:23 -0700 Subject: x86/its: Enable Indirect Target Selection mitigation Indirect Target Selection (ITS) is a bug in some pre-ADL Intel CPUs with eIBRS. It affects prediction of indirect branch and RETs in the lower half of cacheline. Due to ITS such branches may get wrongly predicted to a target of (direct or indirect) branch that is located in the upper half of the cacheline. Scope of impact =============== Guest/host isolation -------------------- When eIBRS is used for guest/host isolation, the indirect branches in the VMM may still be predicted with targets corresponding to branches in the guest. Intra-mode ---------- cBPF or other native gadgets can be used for intra-mode training and disclosure using ITS. User/kernel isolation --------------------- When eIBRS is enabled user/kernel isolation is not impacted. Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier (IBPB) ----------------------------------------- After an IBPB, indirect branches may be predicted with targets corresponding to direct branches which were executed prior to IBPB. This is mitigated by a microcode update. Add cmdline parameter indirect_target_selection=off|on|force to control the mitigation to relocate the affected branches to an ITS-safe thunk i.e. located in the upper half of cacheline. Also add the sysfs reporting. When retpoline mitigation is deployed, ITS safe-thunks are not needed, because retpoline sequence is already ITS-safe. Similarly, when call depth tracking (CDT) mitigation is deployed (retbleed=stuff), ITS safe return thunk is not used, as CDT prevents RSB-underflow. To not overcomplicate things, ITS mitigation is not supported with spectre-v2 lfence;jmp mitigation. Moreover, it is less practical to deploy lfence;jmp mitigation on ITS affected parts anyways. Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf Reviewed-by: Alexandre Chartre --- include/linux/cpu.h | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux/cpu.h') diff --git a/include/linux/cpu.h b/include/linux/cpu.h index e3049543008b..3aa955102b34 100644 --- a/include/linux/cpu.h +++ b/include/linux/cpu.h @@ -78,6 +78,8 @@ extern ssize_t cpu_show_gds(struct device *dev, extern ssize_t cpu_show_reg_file_data_sampling(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf); extern ssize_t cpu_show_ghostwrite(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf); +extern ssize_t cpu_show_indirect_target_selection(struct device *dev, + struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf); extern __printf(4, 5) struct device *cpu_device_create(struct device *parent, void *drvdata, -- cgit v1.2.3