Re: [PATCH bpf] bpf, x64: implement retpoline for tail call

[Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 2018-02-22 at 01:05 +0100, Daniel Borkmann wrote:

...

> +/* Instead of plain jmp %rax, we emit a retpoline to control
> + * speculative execution for the indirect branch.
> + */
> +static void emit_retpoline_rax_trampoline(u8 **pprog)
> +{
> +	u8 *prog = *pprog;
> +	int cnt = 0;
> +
> +	EMIT1_off32(0xE8, 7);	 /* callq <set_up_target> */
> +	/* capture_spec: */
> +	EMIT2(0xF3, 0x90);	 /* pause */
> +	EMIT3(0x0F, 0xAE, 0xE8); /* lfence */
> +	EMIT2(0xEB, 0xF9);	 /* jmp <capture_spec> */
> +	/* set_up_target: */
> +	EMIT4(0x48, 0x89, 0x04, 0x24); /* mov %rax,(%rsp) */
> +	EMIT1(0xC3);		 /* retq */
> +
> +	BUILD_BUG_ON(cnt != RETPOLINE_SIZE);
> +	*pprog = prog;

You might define the actual code sequence (and length) in 
arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h

If we need to adjust code sequences for RETPOLINE, then we wont
forget/miss that arch/x86/net/bpf_jit_comp.c had it hard-coded.

Thanks Daniel.