[PATCH 3.16 004/131] x86/bugs: Read SPEC_CTRL MSR during boot and re-use reserved bits

From: Ben Hutchings
Date: Sat Sep 29 2018 - 18:00:38 EST


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

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

commit 1b86883ccb8d5d9506529d42dbe1a5257cb30b18 upstream.

The 336996-Speculative-Execution-Side-Channel-Mitigations.pdf refers to all
the other bits as reserved. The Intel SDM glossary defines reserved as
implementation specific - aka unknown.

As such at bootup this must be taken it into account and proper masking for
the bits in use applied.

A copy of this document is available at
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199511

[ tglx: Made x86_spec_ctrl_base __ro_after_init ]

Suggested-by: Jon Masters <jcm@xxxxxxxxxx>
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>
[bwh: Backported to 3.16:
- We don't have __ro_after_init
- Adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++----
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 48 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h
@@ -172,6 +172,17 @@ enum spectre_v2_mitigation {
SPECTRE_V2_IBRS,
};

+/*
+ * The Intel specification for the SPEC_CTRL MSR requires that we
+ * preserve any already set reserved bits at boot time (e.g. for
+ * future additions that this kernel is not currently aware of).
+ * We then set any additional mitigation bits that we want
+ * ourselves and always use this as the base for SPEC_CTRL.
+ * We also use this when handling guest entry/exit as below.
+ */
+extern void x86_spec_ctrl_set(u64);
+extern u64 x86_spec_ctrl_get_default(void);
+
extern char __indirect_thunk_start[];
extern char __indirect_thunk_end[];

@@ -208,8 +219,9 @@ void alternative_msr_write(unsigned int

static inline void indirect_branch_prediction_barrier(void)
{
- alternative_msr_write(MSR_IA32_PRED_CMD, PRED_CMD_IBPB,
- X86_FEATURE_USE_IBPB);
+ u64 val = PRED_CMD_IBPB;
+
+ alternative_msr_write(MSR_IA32_PRED_CMD, val, X86_FEATURE_USE_IBPB);
}

/*
@@ -220,14 +232,18 @@ static inline void indirect_branch_predi
*/
#define firmware_restrict_branch_speculation_start() \
do { \
+ u64 val = x86_spec_ctrl_get_default() | SPEC_CTRL_IBRS; \
+ \
preempt_disable(); \
- alternative_msr_write(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL, SPEC_CTRL_IBRS, \
+ alternative_msr_write(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL, val, \
X86_FEATURE_USE_IBRS_FW); \
} while (0)

#define firmware_restrict_branch_speculation_end() \
do { \
- alternative_msr_write(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL, 0, \
+ u64 val = x86_spec_ctrl_get_default(); \
+ \
+ alternative_msr_write(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL, val, \
X86_FEATURE_USE_IBRS_FW); \
preempt_enable(); \
} while (0)
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
@@ -27,6 +27,12 @@

static void __init spectre_v2_select_mitigation(void);

+/*
+ * Our boot-time value of the SPEC_CTRL MSR. We read it once so that any
+ * writes to SPEC_CTRL contain whatever reserved bits have been set.
+ */
+static u64 x86_spec_ctrl_base;
+
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32

static double __initdata x = 4195835.0;
@@ -94,6 +100,13 @@ void __init check_bugs(void)
print_cpu_info(&boot_cpu_data);
}

+ /*
+ * Read the SPEC_CTRL MSR to account for reserved bits which may
+ * have unknown values.
+ */
+ if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_IBRS))
+ rdmsrl(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL, x86_spec_ctrl_base);
+
/* Select the proper spectre mitigation before patching alternatives */
spectre_v2_select_mitigation();

@@ -157,6 +170,21 @@ static const char *spectre_v2_strings[]

static enum spectre_v2_mitigation spectre_v2_enabled = SPECTRE_V2_NONE;

+void x86_spec_ctrl_set(u64 val)
+{
+ if (val & ~SPEC_CTRL_IBRS)
+ WARN_ONCE(1, "SPEC_CTRL MSR value 0x%16llx is unknown.\n", val);
+ else
+ wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL, x86_spec_ctrl_base | val);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(x86_spec_ctrl_set);
+
+u64 x86_spec_ctrl_get_default(void)
+{
+ return x86_spec_ctrl_base;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(x86_spec_ctrl_get_default);
+
#ifdef RETPOLINE
static bool spectre_v2_bad_module;