[PATCH 4.4 052/107] x86/bugs, KVM: Support the combination of guest and host IBRS

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Mon Jul 23 2018 - 08:53:38 EST


4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit 5cf687548705412da47c9cec342fd952d71ed3d5 upstream

A guest may modify the SPEC_CTRL MSR from the value used by the
kernel. Since the kernel doesn't use IBRS, this means a value of zero is
what is needed in the host.

But the 336996-Speculative-Execution-Side-Channel-Mitigations.pdf refers to
the other bits as reserved so the kernel should respect the boot time
SPEC_CTRL value and use that.

This allows to deal with future extensions to the SPEC_CTRL interface if
any at all.

Note: This uses wrmsrl() instead of native_wrmsl(). I does not make any
difference as paravirt will over-write the callq *0xfff.. with the wrmsrl
assembler code.

Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[ Srivatsa: Backported to 4.4.y, skipping the KVM changes in this patch. ]
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Matt Helsley (VMware) <matt.helsley@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Alexey Makhalov <amakhalov@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Bo Gan <ganb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h | 10 ++++++++++
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 28 insertions(+)

--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h
@@ -183,6 +183,16 @@ enum spectre_v2_mitigation {
extern void x86_spec_ctrl_set(u64);
extern u64 x86_spec_ctrl_get_default(void);

+/*
+ * On VMENTER we must preserve whatever view of the SPEC_CTRL MSR
+ * the guest has, while on VMEXIT we restore the host view. This
+ * would be easier if SPEC_CTRL were architecturally maskable or
+ * shadowable for guests but this is not (currently) the case.
+ * Takes the guest view of SPEC_CTRL MSR as a parameter.
+ */
+extern void x86_spec_ctrl_set_guest(u64);
+extern void x86_spec_ctrl_restore_host(u64);
+
extern char __indirect_thunk_start[];
extern char __indirect_thunk_end[];

--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
@@ -122,6 +122,24 @@ u64 x86_spec_ctrl_get_default(void)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(x86_spec_ctrl_get_default);

+void x86_spec_ctrl_set_guest(u64 guest_spec_ctrl)
+{
+ if (!boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_IBRS))
+ return;
+ if (x86_spec_ctrl_base != guest_spec_ctrl)
+ wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL, guest_spec_ctrl);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(x86_spec_ctrl_set_guest);
+
+void x86_spec_ctrl_restore_host(u64 guest_spec_ctrl)
+{
+ if (!boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_IBRS))
+ return;
+ if (x86_spec_ctrl_base != guest_spec_ctrl)
+ wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL, x86_spec_ctrl_base);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(x86_spec_ctrl_restore_host);
+
#ifdef RETPOLINE
static bool spectre_v2_bad_module;