Patch "x86/entry/64/compat: Clear registers for compat syscalls, to reduce speculation attack surface" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    x86/entry/64/compat: Clear registers for compat syscalls, to reduce speculation attack surface

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     x86-entry-64-compat-clear-registers-for-compat-syscalls-to-reduce-speculation-attack-surface.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 6b8cf5cc9965673951f1ab3f0e3cf23d06e3e2ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2018 17:18:17 -0800
Subject: x86/entry/64/compat: Clear registers for compat syscalls, to reduce speculation attack surface

From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>

commit 6b8cf5cc9965673951f1ab3f0e3cf23d06e3e2ee upstream.

At entry userspace may have populated registers with values that could
otherwise be useful in a speculative execution attack. Clear them to
minimize the kernel's attack surface.

Originally-From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/151787989697.7847.4083702787288600552.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
[ Made small improvements to the changelog. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/x86/entry/entry_64_compat.S |   30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+)

--- a/arch/x86/entry/entry_64_compat.S
+++ b/arch/x86/entry/entry_64_compat.S
@@ -83,15 +83,25 @@ ENTRY(entry_SYSENTER_compat)
 	pushq	%rcx			/* pt_regs->cx */
 	pushq	$-ENOSYS		/* pt_regs->ax */
 	pushq   $0			/* pt_regs->r8  = 0 */
+	xorq	%r8, %r8		/* nospec   r8 */
 	pushq   $0			/* pt_regs->r9  = 0 */
+	xorq	%r9, %r9		/* nospec   r9 */
 	pushq   $0			/* pt_regs->r10 = 0 */
+	xorq	%r10, %r10		/* nospec   r10 */
 	pushq   $0			/* pt_regs->r11 = 0 */
+	xorq	%r11, %r11		/* nospec   r11 */
 	pushq   %rbx                    /* pt_regs->rbx */
+	xorl	%ebx, %ebx		/* nospec   rbx */
 	pushq   %rbp                    /* pt_regs->rbp (will be overwritten) */
+	xorl	%ebp, %ebp		/* nospec   rbp */
 	pushq   $0			/* pt_regs->r12 = 0 */
+	xorq	%r12, %r12		/* nospec   r12 */
 	pushq   $0			/* pt_regs->r13 = 0 */
+	xorq	%r13, %r13		/* nospec   r13 */
 	pushq   $0			/* pt_regs->r14 = 0 */
+	xorq	%r14, %r14		/* nospec   r14 */
 	pushq   $0			/* pt_regs->r15 = 0 */
+	xorq	%r15, %r15		/* nospec   r15 */
 	cld
 
 	/*
@@ -209,15 +219,25 @@ ENTRY(entry_SYSCALL_compat)
 	pushq	%rbp			/* pt_regs->cx (stashed in bp) */
 	pushq	$-ENOSYS		/* pt_regs->ax */
 	pushq   $0			/* pt_regs->r8  = 0 */
+	xorq	%r8, %r8		/* nospec   r8 */
 	pushq   $0			/* pt_regs->r9  = 0 */
+	xorq	%r9, %r9		/* nospec   r9 */
 	pushq   $0			/* pt_regs->r10 = 0 */
+	xorq	%r10, %r10		/* nospec   r10 */
 	pushq   $0			/* pt_regs->r11 = 0 */
+	xorq	%r11, %r11		/* nospec   r11 */
 	pushq   %rbx                    /* pt_regs->rbx */
+	xorl	%ebx, %ebx		/* nospec   rbx */
 	pushq   %rbp                    /* pt_regs->rbp (will be overwritten) */
+	xorl	%ebp, %ebp		/* nospec   rbp */
 	pushq   $0			/* pt_regs->r12 = 0 */
+	xorq	%r12, %r12		/* nospec   r12 */
 	pushq   $0			/* pt_regs->r13 = 0 */
+	xorq	%r13, %r13		/* nospec   r13 */
 	pushq   $0			/* pt_regs->r14 = 0 */
+	xorq	%r14, %r14		/* nospec   r14 */
 	pushq   $0			/* pt_regs->r15 = 0 */
+	xorq	%r15, %r15		/* nospec   r15 */
 
 	/*
 	 * User mode is traced as though IRQs are on, and SYSENTER
@@ -320,15 +340,25 @@ ENTRY(entry_INT80_compat)
 	pushq	%rcx			/* pt_regs->cx */
 	pushq	$-ENOSYS		/* pt_regs->ax */
 	pushq   $0			/* pt_regs->r8  = 0 */
+	xorq	%r8, %r8		/* nospec   r8 */
 	pushq   $0			/* pt_regs->r9  = 0 */
+	xorq	%r9, %r9		/* nospec   r9 */
 	pushq   $0			/* pt_regs->r10 = 0 */
+	xorq	%r10, %r10		/* nospec   r10 */
 	pushq   $0			/* pt_regs->r11 = 0 */
+	xorq	%r11, %r11		/* nospec   r11 */
 	pushq   %rbx                    /* pt_regs->rbx */
+	xorl	%ebx, %ebx		/* nospec   rbx */
 	pushq   %rbp                    /* pt_regs->rbp */
+	xorl	%ebp, %ebp		/* nospec   rbp */
 	pushq   %r12                    /* pt_regs->r12 */
+	xorq	%r12, %r12		/* nospec   r12 */
 	pushq   %r13                    /* pt_regs->r13 */
+	xorq	%r13, %r13		/* nospec   r13 */
 	pushq   %r14                    /* pt_regs->r14 */
+	xorq	%r14, %r14		/* nospec   r14 */
 	pushq   %r15                    /* pt_regs->r15 */
+	xorq	%r15, %r15		/* nospec   r15 */
 	cld
 
 	/*


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dan.j.williams@intel.com are

queue-4.9/x86-nvmx-properly-set-spec_ctrl-and-pred_cmd-before-merging-msrs.patch
queue-4.9/x86-speculation-update-speculation-control-microcode-blacklist.patch
queue-4.9/x86-speculation-correct-speculation-control-microcode-blacklist-again.patch
queue-4.9/kvm-x86-reduce-retpoline-performance-impact-in-slot_handle_level_range-by-always-inlining-iterator-helper-methods.patch
queue-4.9/x86-speculation-clean-up-various-spectre-related-details.patch
queue-4.9/x86-entry-64-compat-clear-registers-for-compat-syscalls-to-reduce-speculation-attack-surface.patch