Re: [v4.17-rcx] Lost IBPB, IBRS_FW support for spectre_v2 mitigation.

From: JÃrg Otte
Date: Wed May 02 2018 - 05:25:39 EST


2018-05-02 11:02 GMT+02:00 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Wed, 2 May 2018, JÃrg Otte wrote:
>> With revert:
>>
>> jojo@fichte:~$ dmesg | grep -i -e spec -e micro -e "Linux version"
>>
>> [ 0.000000] microcode: microcode updated early to revision 0x24,
>> date = 2018-01-21
>> [ 0.000000] Linux version 4.17.0-rc3-revert-00001-gcb1069f
>> (jojo@fichte) (gcc version 5.4.0 20160609 (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubu
>>
>> dmesg | grep -i -e spec -e micro -e "Linux version"
>>
>> [ 0.000000] microcode: microcode updated early to revision 0x24,
>> date = 2018-01-21
>> [ 0.000000] Linux version 4.17.0-rc3-patch-00001-gdc10603
>> (jojo@fichte) (gcc version 5.4.0 20160609 (Ubuntu
>> 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.9)) #20 SMP Wed May 2 09:08:07 CEST 2018
>> [ 0.028417] Spectre V2 : Mitigation: Full generic retpoline
>> [ 0.491803] microcode: sig=0x306c3, pf=0x10, revision=0x24
>> [ 0.491831] microcode: Microcode Update Driver: v2.2.ntu1~16.04.9))
>> #21 SMP Wed May 2 09:14:29 CEST 2018
>> [ 0.028414] Spectre V2 : Mitigation: Full generic retpoline
>> [ 0.028415] Spectre V2 : Spectre v2 mitigation: Enabling Indirect
>> Branch Prediction Barrier
>> [ 0.028415] Spectre V2 : Enabling Restricted Speculation for firmware calls
>> [ 0.500157] microcode: sig=0x306c3, pf=0x10, revision=0x24
>> [ 0.500183] microcode: Microcode Update Driver: v2.2.
>>
>>
>> With patch:
>>
>> dmesg | grep -i -e spec -e micro -e "Linux version"
>>
>> [ 0.000000] microcode: microcode updated early to revision 0x24,
>> date = 2018-01-21
>> [ 0.000000] Linux version 4.17.0-rc3-patch-00001-gdc10603
>> (jojo@fichte) (gcc version 5.4.0 20160609 (Ubuntu
>> 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.9)) #20 SMP Wed May 2 09:08:07 CEST 2018
>> [ 0.028417] Spectre V2 : Mitigation: Full generic retpoline
>> [ 0.491803] microcode: sig=0x306c3, pf=0x10, revision=0x24
>> [ 0.491831] microcode: Microcode Update Driver: v2.2.
>
> Ok, I think I know what's going wrong in that steaming pile of horrors of
> CPUID detection. I need to analyze it down to the roots, but if you have
> cycles, can you please test the patch below?
>
> It's a hack and even if it fixes the problem I'm going to do it differently.
>
> Thanks,
>
> tglx
>
> 8<-------------------
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
> @@ -848,6 +848,11 @@ void get_cpu_cap(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
> c->x86_power = edx;
> }
>
> + if (c->extended_cpuid_level >= 0x80000008) {
> + cpuid(0x80000008, &eax, &ebx, &ecx, &edx);
> + c->x86_capability[CPUID_8000_0008_EBX] = ebx;
> + }
> +
> if (c->extended_cpuid_level >= 0x8000000a)
> c->x86_capability[CPUID_8000_000A_EDX] = cpuid_edx(0x8000000a);
>
> @@ -871,7 +876,6 @@ static void get_cpu_address_sizes(struct
>
> c->x86_virt_bits = (eax >> 8) & 0xff;
> c->x86_phys_bits = eax & 0xff;
> - c->x86_capability[CPUID_8000_0008_EBX] = ebx;
> }
> #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
> else if (cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_PAE) || cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_PSE36))
>

OK, that patch works for me!

Thanks, JÃrg