Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] x86/speculation: Enable cross-hyperthread spectre v2 STIBP mitigation

[Josh Poimboeuf]

On Thu, Sep 06, 2018 at 10:33:39AM +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> +/*
> + * The read-modify-write of the MSR doesn't need any race protection here,
> + * as we're running in atomic context.
> + */
> +static void enable_stibp(void *info)
> +{
> +	u64 mask;
> +	rdmsrl(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL, mask);
> +	mask |= SPEC_CTRL_STIBP;
> +	wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL, mask);
> +}
> +
> +static void disable_stibp(void *info)
> +{
> +	u64 mask;
> +	rdmsrl(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL, mask);
> +	mask &= ~SPEC_CTRL_STIBP;
> +	wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL, mask);
> +}
> +
> +void arch_smt_enable_errata(void)
> +{
> +	if (stibp_needed()) {
> +		pr_info("Spectre v2 cross-process SMT mitigation: Enabling STIBP\n");
> +		on_each_cpu(enable_stibp, NULL, 1);
> +	}
> +}

Shouldn't this add the STIBP bit to 'x86_spec_ctrl_base'?  Otherwise
won't it get overwritten in places like vmexit,
firmware_restrict_branch_speculation_end(), intel_set_ssb_state(), etc?

-- 
Josh