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authorPawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>2022-07-08 13:36:09 -0700
committerBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>2022-07-09 13:12:45 +0200
commit4ad3278df6fe2b0852b00d5757fc2ccd8e92c26e (patch)
treec0cb01cfa5e763370ef4a8a682dc7a636a8763a0 /tools/arch
parent697977d8415d61f3acbc4ee6d564c9dcf0309507 (diff)
x86/speculation: Disable RRSBA behavior
Some Intel processors may use alternate predictors for RETs on RSB-underflow. This condition may be vulnerable to Branch History Injection (BHI) and intramode-BTI. Kernel earlier added spectre_v2 mitigation modes (eIBRS+Retpolines, eIBRS+LFENCE, Retpolines) which protect indirect CALLs and JMPs against such attacks. However, on RSB-underflow, RET target prediction may fallback to alternate predictors. As a result, RET's predicted target may get influenced by branch history. A new MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL bit (RRSBA_DIS_S) controls this fallback behavior when in kernel mode. When set, RETs will not take predictions from alternate predictors, hence mitigating RETs as well. Support for this is enumerated by CPUID.7.2.EDX[RRSBA_CTRL] (bit2). For spectre v2 mitigation, when a user selects a mitigation that protects indirect CALLs and JMPs against BHI and intramode-BTI, set RRSBA_DIS_S also to protect RETs for RSB-underflow case. Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/arch')
-rw-r--r--tools/arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h9
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h b/tools/arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h
index d27e0581b777..2eab6a3a8a8c 100644
--- a/tools/arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h
+++ b/tools/arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h
@@ -51,6 +51,8 @@
#define SPEC_CTRL_STIBP BIT(SPEC_CTRL_STIBP_SHIFT) /* STIBP mask */
#define SPEC_CTRL_SSBD_SHIFT 2 /* Speculative Store Bypass Disable bit */
#define SPEC_CTRL_SSBD BIT(SPEC_CTRL_SSBD_SHIFT) /* Speculative Store Bypass Disable */
+#define SPEC_CTRL_RRSBA_DIS_S_SHIFT 6 /* Disable RRSBA behavior */
+#define SPEC_CTRL_RRSBA_DIS_S BIT(SPEC_CTRL_RRSBA_DIS_S_SHIFT)
#define MSR_IA32_PRED_CMD 0x00000049 /* Prediction Command */
#define PRED_CMD_IBPB BIT(0) /* Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier */
@@ -140,6 +142,13 @@
* bit available to control VERW
* behavior.
*/
+#define ARCH_CAP_RRSBA BIT(19) /*
+ * Indicates RET may use predictors
+ * other than the RSB. With eIBRS
+ * enabled predictions in kernel mode
+ * are restricted to targets in
+ * kernel.
+ */
#define MSR_IA32_FLUSH_CMD 0x0000010b
#define L1D_FLUSH BIT(0) /*