From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Tim Chen , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , Peter Zijlstra , Andy Lutomirski , Linus Torvalds , Jiri Kosina , Tom Lendacky , Josh Poimboeuf , Andrea Arcangeli , David Woodhouse , Andi Kleen , Dave Hansen , Casey Schaufler , Asit Mallick , Arjan van de Ven , Jon Masters , Waiman Long , Dave Stewart , Kees Cook Subject: [PATCH 4.19 037/139] x86/speculation: Disable STIBP when enhanced IBRS is in use Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2018 11:48:38 +0100 Message-Id: <20181204103651.511586938@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20181204103649.950154335@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20181204103649.950154335@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 4.19-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Tim Chen tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com commit 34bce7c9690b1d897686aac89604ba7adc365556 upstream If enhanced IBRS is active, STIBP is redundant for mitigating Spectre v2 user space exploits from hyperthread sibling. Disable STIBP when enhanced IBRS is used. Signed-off-by: Tim Chen Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Jiri Kosina Cc: Tom Lendacky Cc: Josh Poimboeuf Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: David Woodhouse Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Casey Schaufler Cc: Asit Mallick Cc: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Jon Masters Cc: Waiman Long Cc: Greg KH Cc: Dave Stewart Cc: Kees Cook Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181125185003.966801480@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c @@ -320,6 +320,10 @@ static bool stibp_needed(void) if (spectre_v2_enabled == SPECTRE_V2_NONE) return false; + /* Enhanced IBRS makes using STIBP unnecessary. */ + if (spectre_v2_enabled == SPECTRE_V2_IBRS_ENHANCED) + return false; + if (!boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_STIBP)) return false; @@ -844,6 +848,9 @@ static ssize_t l1tf_show_state(char *buf static char *stibp_state(void) { + if (spectre_v2_enabled == SPECTRE_V2_IBRS_ENHANCED) + return ""; + if (x86_spec_ctrl_base & SPEC_CTRL_STIBP) return ", STIBP"; else