Re: General protection fault in `switch_mm_irqs_off()`

[Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>]

On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 02:57:40PM +0100, Paul Menzel wrote:
> Thank you very much. Indeed, the machine does not crash. I used Linus’
> master branch for testing, and applied your patch on top. Please find
> the full log attached.

> 80.649: [    3.197107] Spectre V2 : spectre_v2_user_select_mitigation: set X86_FEATURE_USE_IBPB

This is amazing.

Ok, next diff, same exercise. Thx.

---
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h
index dad12b767ba0..528ef8336f5f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h
@@ -284,6 +284,12 @@ static inline void indirect_branch_prediction_barrier(void)
 {
 	u64 val = PRED_CMD_IBPB;
 
+	if (WARN_ON(boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_USE_IBPB))) {
+		pr_info("%s: c: %px, array: 0x%x\n",
+			__func__, &boot_cpu_data, boot_cpu_data.x86_capability[7]);
+		return;
+	}
+
 	alternative_msr_write(MSR_IA32_PRED_CMD, val, X86_FEATURE_USE_IBPB);
 }
 
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
index 8654b8b0c848..e818e5abe611 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
@@ -371,6 +371,9 @@ spectre_v2_user_select_mitigation(enum spectre_v2_mitigation_cmd v2_cmd)
 	if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_IBPB)) {
 		setup_force_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_USE_IBPB);
 
+		pr_err("%s: set X86_FEATURE_USE_IBPB, c: %px, array: 0x%x\n",
+			__func__, &boot_cpu_data, boot_cpu_data.x86_capability[7]);
+
 		switch (cmd) {
 		case SPECTRE_V2_USER_CMD_FORCE:
 		case SPECTRE_V2_USER_CMD_PRCTL_IBPB:
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
index cb28e98a0659..8566737fa500 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
@@ -765,6 +765,9 @@ static void apply_forced_caps(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
 		c->x86_capability[i] &= ~cpu_caps_cleared[i];
 		c->x86_capability[i] |= cpu_caps_set[i];
 	}
+
+	if (c == &boot_cpu_data)
+		pr_info("%s: c: %px, array: 0x%x\n", __func__, c, c->x86_capability[7]);
 }
 
 static void init_speculation_control(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
@@ -778,6 +781,10 @@ static void init_speculation_control(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
 	if (cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_SPEC_CTRL)) {
 		set_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_IBRS);
 		set_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_IBPB);
+
+		pr_info("%s: X86_FEATURE_SPEC_CTRL: c: %px, array: 0x%x, CPUID: 0x%x\n",
+			__func__, c, c->x86_capability[7], cpuid_edx(7));
+
 		set_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_MSR_SPEC_CTRL);
 	}
 
@@ -793,9 +800,13 @@ static void init_speculation_control(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
 		set_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_MSR_SPEC_CTRL);
 	}
 
-	if (cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_AMD_IBPB))
+	if (cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_AMD_IBPB)) {
 		set_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_IBPB);
 
+		pr_info("%s: X86_FEATURE_AMD_IBPB: c: %px, array: 0x%x, CPUID: 0x%x\n",
+			__func__, c, c->x86_capability[7], cpuid_ebx(0x80000008));
+	}
+
 	if (cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_AMD_STIBP)) {
 		set_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_STIBP);
 		set_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_MSR_SPEC_CTRL);

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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