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authorPawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>2022-08-03 01:47:02 +0300
committerBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>2022-08-03 15:12:18 +0300
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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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