From: Kim Phillips Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2022 14:32:33 +0000 (-0500) Subject: x86/bugs: Enable STIBP for IBPB mitigated RETBleed X-Git-Tag: v6.6.17~6785^2 X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e6cfcdda8cbe81eaf821c897369a65fec987b404;p=platform%2Fkernel%2Flinux-rpi.git x86/bugs: Enable STIBP for IBPB mitigated RETBleed AMD's "Technical Guidance for Mitigating Branch Type Confusion, Rev. 1.0 2022-07-12" whitepaper, under section 6.1.2 "IBPB On Privileged Mode Entry / SMT Safety" says: Similar to the Jmp2Ret mitigation, if the code on the sibling thread cannot be trusted, software should set STIBP to 1 or disable SMT to ensure SMT safety when using this mitigation. So, like already being done for retbleed=unret, and now also for retbleed=ibpb, force STIBP on machines that have it, and report its SMT vulnerability status accordingly. [ bp: Remove the "we" and remove "[AMD]" applicability parameter which doesn't work here. ] Fixes: 3ebc17006888 ("x86/bugs: Add retbleed=ibpb") Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.10, 5.15, 5.19 Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206537 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220804192201.439596-1-kim.phillips@amd.com --- diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index 5e9147f..523b196 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -5209,20 +5209,33 @@ Speculative Code Execution with Return Instructions) vulnerability. + AMD-based UNRET and IBPB mitigations alone do not stop + sibling threads from influencing the predictions of other + sibling threads. For that reason, STIBP is used on pro- + cessors that support it, and mitigate SMT on processors + that don't. + off - no mitigation auto - automatically select a migitation auto,nosmt - automatically select a mitigation, disabling SMT if necessary for the full mitigation (only on Zen1 and older without STIBP). - ibpb - mitigate short speculation windows on - basic block boundaries too. Safe, highest - perf impact. - unret - force enable untrained return thunks, - only effective on AMD f15h-f17h - based systems. - unret,nosmt - like unret, will disable SMT when STIBP - is not available. + ibpb - On AMD, mitigate short speculation + windows on basic block boundaries too. + Safe, highest perf impact. It also + enables STIBP if present. Not suitable + on Intel. + ibpb,nosmt - Like "ibpb" above but will disable SMT + when STIBP is not available. This is + the alternative for systems which do not + have STIBP. + unret - Force enable untrained return thunks, + only effective on AMD f15h-f17h based + systems. + unret,nosmt - Like unret, but will disable SMT when STIBP + is not available. This is the alternative for + systems which do not have STIBP. Selecting 'auto' will choose a mitigation method at run time according to the CPU. diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c index 6761668..d50686c 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c @@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ void __init check_bugs(void) /* * spectre_v2_user_select_mitigation() relies on the state set by * retbleed_select_mitigation(); specifically the STIBP selection is - * forced for UNRET. + * forced for UNRET or IBPB. */ spectre_v2_user_select_mitigation(); ssb_select_mitigation(); @@ -1179,7 +1179,8 @@ spectre_v2_user_select_mitigation(void) boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_AMD_STIBP_ALWAYS_ON)) mode = SPECTRE_V2_USER_STRICT_PREFERRED; - if (retbleed_mitigation == RETBLEED_MITIGATION_UNRET) { + if (retbleed_mitigation == RETBLEED_MITIGATION_UNRET || + retbleed_mitigation == RETBLEED_MITIGATION_IBPB) { if (mode != SPECTRE_V2_USER_STRICT && mode != SPECTRE_V2_USER_STRICT_PREFERRED) pr_info("Selecting STIBP always-on mode to complement retbleed mitigation\n"); @@ -2320,10 +2321,11 @@ static ssize_t srbds_show_state(char *buf) static ssize_t retbleed_show_state(char *buf) { - if (retbleed_mitigation == RETBLEED_MITIGATION_UNRET) { + if (retbleed_mitigation == RETBLEED_MITIGATION_UNRET || + retbleed_mitigation == RETBLEED_MITIGATION_IBPB) { if (boot_cpu_data.x86_vendor != X86_VENDOR_AMD && boot_cpu_data.x86_vendor != X86_VENDOR_HYGON) - return sprintf(buf, "Vulnerable: untrained return thunk on non-Zen uarch\n"); + return sprintf(buf, "Vulnerable: untrained return thunk / IBPB on non-AMD based uarch\n"); return sprintf(buf, "%s; SMT %s\n", retbleed_strings[retbleed_mitigation],