In [1] the meaning of the synthetic IBPB flags has been redefined for a
better separation of concerns:
- ENTRY_IBPB -- issue IBPB on entry only
- IBPB_ON_VMEXIT -- issue IBPB on VM-Exit only
and the Retbleed mitigations have been updated to match this new
semantics.
Commit [2] was merged shortly before [1], and their interaction was not
handled properly. This resulted in IBPB not being triggered on VM-Exit
in all SRSO mitigation configs requesting an IBPB there.
Specifically, an IBPB on VM-Exit is triggered only when
X86_FEATURE_IBPB_ON_VMEXIT is set. However:
- X86_FEATURE_IBPB_ON_VMEXIT is not set for "spec_rstack_overflow=ibpb",
because before [1] having X86_FEATURE_ENTRY_IBPB was enough. Hence,
an IBPB is triggered on entry but the expected IBPB on VM-exit is
not.
- X86_FEATURE_IBPB_ON_VMEXIT is not set also when
"spec_rstack_overflow=ibpb-vmexit" if X86_FEATURE_ENTRY_IBPB is
already set.
That's because before [1] this was effectively redundant. Hence, e.g.
a "retbleed=ibpb spec_rstack_overflow=bpb-vmexit" config mistakenly
reports the machine still vulnerable to SRSO, despite an IBPB being
triggered both on entry and VM-Exit, because of the Retbleed selected
mitigation config.
- UNTRAIN_RET_VM won't still actually do anything unless
CONFIG_MITIGATION_IBPB_ENTRY is set.
For "spec_rstack_overflow=ibpb", enable IBPB on both entry and VM-Exit
and clear X86_FEATURE_RSB_VMEXIT which is made superfluous by
X86_FEATURE_IBPB_ON_VMEXIT. This effectively makes this mitigation
option similar to the one for 'retbleed=ibpb', thus re-order the code
for the RETBLEED_MITIGATION_IBPB option to be less confusing by having
all features enabling before the disabling of the not needed ones.
For "spec_rstack_overflow=ibpb-vmexit", guard this mitigation setting
with CONFIG_MITIGATION_IBPB_ENTRY to ensure UNTRAIN_RET_VM sequence is
effectively compiled in. Drop instead the CONFIG_MITIGATION_SRSO guard,
since none of the SRSO compile cruft is required in this configuration.
Also, check only that the required microcode is present to effectively
enabled the IBPB on VM-Exit.
Finally, update the KConfig description for CONFIG_MITIGATION_IBPB_ENTRY
to list also all SRSO config settings enabled by this guard.
Fixes:
864bcaa38ee4 ("x86/cpu/kvm: Provide UNTRAIN_RET_VM") [1]
Fixes:
d893832d0e1e ("x86/srso: Add IBPB on VMEXIT") [2]
Reported-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick Bellasi <derkling@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
depends on CPU_SUP_AMD && X86_64
default y
help
- Compile the kernel with support for the retbleed=ibpb mitigation.
+ Compile the kernel with support for the retbleed=ibpb and
+ spec_rstack_overflow={ibpb,ibpb-vmexit} mitigations.
config MITIGATION_IBRS_ENTRY
bool "Enable IBRS on kernel entry"
case RETBLEED_MITIGATION_IBPB:
setup_force_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_ENTRY_IBPB);
+ setup_force_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_IBPB_ON_VMEXIT);
+ mitigate_smt = true;
/*
* IBPB on entry already obviates the need for
setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_UNRET);
setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_RETHUNK);
- setup_force_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_IBPB_ON_VMEXIT);
- mitigate_smt = true;
-
/*
* There is no need for RSB filling: entry_ibpb() ensures
* all predictions, including the RSB, are invalidated,
if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_MITIGATION_IBPB_ENTRY)) {
if (has_microcode) {
setup_force_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_ENTRY_IBPB);
+ setup_force_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_IBPB_ON_VMEXIT);
srso_mitigation = SRSO_MITIGATION_IBPB;
/*
*/
setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_UNRET);
setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_RETHUNK);
+
+ /*
+ * There is no need for RSB filling: entry_ibpb() ensures
+ * all predictions, including the RSB, are invalidated,
+ * regardless of IBPB implementation.
+ */
+ setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_RSB_VMEXIT);
}
} else {
pr_err("WARNING: kernel not compiled with MITIGATION_IBPB_ENTRY.\n");
ibpb_on_vmexit:
case SRSO_CMD_IBPB_ON_VMEXIT:
- if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_MITIGATION_SRSO)) {
- if (!boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_ENTRY_IBPB) && has_microcode) {
+ if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_MITIGATION_IBPB_ENTRY)) {
+ if (has_microcode) {
setup_force_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_IBPB_ON_VMEXIT);
srso_mitigation = SRSO_MITIGATION_IBPB_ON_VMEXIT;
setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_RSB_VMEXIT);
}
} else {
- pr_err("WARNING: kernel not compiled with MITIGATION_SRSO.\n");
- }
+ pr_err("WARNING: kernel not compiled with MITIGATION_IBPB_ENTRY.\n");
+ }
break;
default:
break;