Re: [patch 22/24] x86/speculation: Create PRCTL interface to restrict indirect branch speculation

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Thu Nov 22 2018 - 07:26:49 EST


On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 09:14:52PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> From: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Add the PR_SPEC_INDIR_BRANCH option for the PR_GET_SPECULATION_CTRL and
> PR_SET_SPECULATION_CTRL prctls to allow fine grained per task control of
> indirect branch speculation via STIBP.
>
> Invocations:
> Check indirect branch speculation status with
> - prctl(PR_GET_SPECULATION_CTRL, PR_SPEC_INDIR_BRANCH, 0, 0, 0);
>
> Enable indirect branch speculation with
> - prctl(PR_SET_SPECULATION_CTRL, PR_SPEC_INDIR_BRANCH, PR_SPEC_ENABLE, 0, 0);
>
> Disable indirect branch speculation with
> - prctl(PR_SET_SPECULATION_CTRL, PR_SPEC_INDIR_BRANCH, PR_SPEC_DISABLE, 0, 0);
>
> Force disable indirect branch speculation with
> - prctl(PR_SET_SPECULATION_CTRL, PR_SPEC_INDIR_BRANCH, PR_SPEC_FORCE_DISABLE, 0, 0);
>
> See Documentation/userspace-api/spec_ctrl.rst.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> ---
> Documentation/userspace-api/spec_ctrl.rst | 9 +++
> arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h | 1
> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c | 71 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> include/linux/sched.h | 9 +++
> include/uapi/linux/prctl.h | 1
> tools/include/uapi/linux/prctl.h | 1
> 6 files changed, 92 insertions(+)

> @@ -753,12 +755,56 @@ static int ssb_prctl_set(struct task_str
> return 0;
> }
>
> +static int indir_branch_prctl_set(struct task_struct *task, unsigned long ctrl)
> +{
> + switch (ctrl) {
> + case PR_SPEC_ENABLE:
> + if (spectre_v2_app2app == SPECTRE_V2_APP2APP_NONE)
> + return 0;
> + /*
> + * Indirect branch speculation is always disabled in strict
> + * mode.
> + */
> + if (spectre_v2_app2app == SPECTRE_V2_APP2APP_STRICT)
> + return -EPERM;
> + task_clear_spec_indir_branch_disable(task);
> + task_update_spec_tif(task, TIF_SPEC_IB, false);
> + break;
> + case PR_SPEC_DISABLE:
> + /*
> + * Indirect branch speculation is always allowed when
> + * mitigation is force disabled.
> + */
> + if (spectre_v2_app2app == SPECTRE_V2_APP2APP_NONE)
> + return -EPERM;
> + if (spectre_v2_app2app == SPECTRE_V2_APP2APP_STRICT)
> + return 0;
> + task_set_spec_indir_branch_disable(task);
> + task_update_spec_tif(task, TIF_SPEC_IB, true);
> + break;
> + case PR_SPEC_FORCE_DISABLE:
> + if (spectre_v2_app2app == SPECTRE_V2_APP2APP_NONE)
> + return -EPERM;
> + if (spectre_v2_app2app == SPECTRE_V2_APP2APP_STRICT)
> + return 0;
> + task_set_spec_indir_branch_disable(task);
> + task_set_spec_indir_branch_force_disable(task);
> + task_update_spec_tif(task, TIF_SPEC_IB, true);
> + break;
> + default:
> + return -ERANGE;
> + }
> + return 0;
> +}

Perhaps merge the two DISABLE branches to make it obvious what the
difference between them is:

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
index 6eac074e3935..28cece3a067b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
@@ -769,7 +769,9 @@ static int indir_branch_prctl_set(struct task_struct *task, unsigned long ctrl)
task_clear_spec_indir_branch_disable(task);
task_update_spec_tif(task, TIF_SPEC_IB, false);
break;
+
case PR_SPEC_DISABLE:
+ case PR_SPEC_FORCE_DISABLE:
/*
* Indirect branch speculation is always allowed when
* mitigation is force disabled.
@@ -780,16 +782,11 @@ static int indir_branch_prctl_set(struct task_struct *task, unsigned long ctrl)
return 0;
task_set_spec_indir_branch_disable(task);
task_update_spec_tif(task, TIF_SPEC_IB, true);
+
+ if (ctrl == PR_SPEC_FORCE_DISABLE)
+ task_set_spec_indir_branch_force_disable(task);
break;
- case PR_SPEC_FORCE_DISABLE:
- if (spectre_v2_app2app == SPECTRE_V2_APP2APP_NONE)
- return -EPERM;
- if (spectre_v2_app2app == SPECTRE_V2_APP2APP_STRICT)
- return 0;
- task_set_spec_indir_branch_disable(task);
- task_set_spec_indir_branch_force_disable(task);
- task_update_spec_tif(task, TIF_SPEC_IB, true);
- break;
+
default:
return -ERANGE;
}

> @@ -1453,6 +1453,8 @@ static inline bool is_percpu_thread(void
> #define PFA_SPREAD_SLAB 2 /* Spread some slab caches over cpuset */
> #define PFA_SPEC_SSB_DISABLE 3 /* Speculative Store Bypass disabled */
> #define PFA_SPEC_SSB_FORCE_DISABLE 4 /* Speculative Store Bypass force disabled*/
> +#define PFA_SPEC_INDIR_BRANCH_DISABLE 5 /* Indirect branch speculation restricted */
> +#define PFA_SPEC_INDIR_BRANCH_FORCE_DISABLE 6 /* Indirect branch speculation permanentely restricted */

permanently

--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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