[PATCH 3.2 085/104] x86: Introduce barrier_nospec

From: Ben Hutchings
Date: Sun Mar 11 2018 - 23:42:31 EST


3.2.101-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>

commit b3d7ad85b80bbc404635dca80f5b129f6242bc7a upstream.

Rename the open coded form of this instruction sequence from
rdtsc_ordered() into a generic barrier primitive, barrier_nospec().

One of the mitigations for Spectre variant1 vulnerabilities is to fence
speculative execution after successfully validating a bounds check. I.e.
force the result of a bounds check to resolve in the instruction pipeline
to ensure speculative execution honors that result before potentially
operating on out-of-bounds data.

No functional changes.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Suggested-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-arch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: kernel-hardening@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/151727415361.33451.9049453007262764675.stgit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: update rdtsc_barrier() instead of rdtsc_ordered()]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/system.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/system.h
@@ -478,6 +478,10 @@ static inline unsigned long array_index_
/* Override the default implementation from linux/nospec.h. */
#define array_index_mask_nospec array_index_mask_nospec

+/* Prevent speculative execution past this barrier. */
+#define barrier_nospec() alternative_2("", "mfence", X86_FEATURE_MFENCE_RDTSC, \
+ "lfence", X86_FEATURE_LFENCE_RDTSC)
+
/**
* read_barrier_depends - Flush all pending reads that subsequents reads
* depend on.
@@ -563,8 +567,7 @@ static inline unsigned long array_index_
*/
static __always_inline void rdtsc_barrier(void)
{
- alternative(ASM_NOP3, "mfence", X86_FEATURE_MFENCE_RDTSC);
- alternative(ASM_NOP3, "lfence", X86_FEATURE_LFENCE_RDTSC);
+ barrier_nospec();
}

/*