Re: [PATCH v4 7/7] x86/speculation: Add basic IBPB (Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier) support

[Borislav Petkov]

On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 09:23:09AM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> Expose indirect_branch_prediction_barrier() for use in subsequent patches.
> 
> [karahmed: remove the special-casing of skylake for using IBPB (wtf?),
>            switch to using ALTERNATIVES instead of static_cpu_has]
> [dwmw2:    set up ax/cx/dx in the asm too so it gets NOP'd out]
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: KarimAllah Ahmed <karahmed@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h   |  1 +
>  arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h | 13 +++++++++++++
>  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c           |  7 +++++++
>  3 files changed, 21 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h
> index ae3212f..6b988278 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h
> @@ -207,6 +207,7 @@
>  #define X86_FEATURE_RETPOLINE_AMD	( 7*32+13) /* AMD Retpoline mitigation for Spectre variant 2 */
>  #define X86_FEATURE_INTEL_PPIN		( 7*32+14) /* Intel Processor Inventory Number */
>  
> +#define X86_FEATURE_IBPB		( 7*32+16) /* Using Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier */
>  #define X86_FEATURE_MBA			( 7*32+18) /* Memory Bandwidth Allocation */
>  #define X86_FEATURE_RSB_CTXSW		( 7*32+19) /* Fill RSB on context switches */
>  
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h
> index 4ad4108..34e384c 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h
> @@ -218,5 +218,18 @@ static inline void vmexit_fill_RSB(void)
>  #endif
>  }
>  
> +static inline void indirect_branch_prediction_barrier(void)
> +{
> +	asm volatile(ALTERNATIVE("",
> +				 "movl %[msr], %%ecx\n\t"
> +				 "movl %[val], %%eax\n\t"
> +				 "movl $0, %%edx\n\t"
> +				 "wrmsr",
> +				 X86_FEATURE_IBPB)
> +		     : : [msr] "i" (MSR_IA32_PRED_CMD),
> +			 [val] "i" (PRED_CMD_IBPB)
> +		     : "eax", "ecx", "edx", "memory");

Lemme paste my simplification suggestion from the other day:

"Btw, we can simplify this a bit by dropping the inputs and marking the 3
GPRs as clobbered:

        alternative_input("",
                          "mov $0x49, %%ecx\n\t"
                          "mov $1, %%eax\n\t"
                          "xor %%edx, %%edx\n\t"
                          "wrmsr\n\t",
                          X86_FEATURE_IBPB,
                          ASM_NO_INPUT_CLOBBER("eax", "ecx", "edx", "memory"));

"

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

Good mailing practices for 400: avoid top-posting and trim the reply.