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author | Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com> | 2022-08-03 01:47:02 +0300 |
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committer | Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> | 2022-08-03 15:12:18 +0300 |
commit | ba6e31af2be96c4d0536f2152ed6f7b6c11bca47 (patch) | |
tree | 50fe01fb6f53af58083693c3d0a7eecf4703b45e /Documentation/admin-guide | |
parent | 2b1299322016731d56807aa49254a5ea3080b6b3 (diff) | |
download | linux-ba6e31af2be96c4d0536f2152ed6f7b6c11bca47.tar.xz |
x86/speculation: Add LFENCE to RSB fill sequence
RSB fill sequence does not have any protection for miss-prediction of
conditional branch at the end of the sequence. CPU can speculatively
execute code immediately after the sequence, while RSB filling hasn't
completed yet.
#define __FILL_RETURN_BUFFER(reg, nr, sp) \
mov $(nr/2), reg; \
771: \
ANNOTATE_INTRA_FUNCTION_CALL; \
call 772f; \
773: /* speculation trap */ \
UNWIND_HINT_EMPTY; \
pause; \
lfence; \
jmp 773b; \
772: \
ANNOTATE_INTRA_FUNCTION_CALL; \
call 774f; \
775: /* speculation trap */ \
UNWIND_HINT_EMPTY; \
pause; \
lfence; \
jmp 775b; \
774: \
add $(BITS_PER_LONG/8) * 2, sp; \
dec reg; \
jnz 771b; <----- CPU can miss-predict here.
Before RSB is filled, RETs that come in program order after this macro
can be executed speculatively, making them vulnerable to RSB-based
attacks.
Mitigate it by adding an LFENCE after the conditional branch to prevent
speculation while RSB is being filled.
Suggested-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
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