stable.vger.kernel.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: tip-bot for Dan Williams <tipbot@zytor.com>
To: linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org
Cc: mark.rutland@arm.com, stable@vger.kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de,
	mingo@kernel.org, peterz@infradead.org,
	torvalds@linux-foundation.org, hpa@zytor.com,
	dan.j.williams@intel.com
Subject: [tip:x86/pti] x86/spectre_v1: Disable compiler optimizations over array_index_mask_nospec()
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2018 10:09:55 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <tip-eab6870fee877258122a042bfd99ee7908c40280@git.kernel.org> (raw)

Commit-ID:  eab6870fee877258122a042bfd99ee7908c40280
Gitweb:     https://git.kernel.org/tip/eab6870fee877258122a042bfd99ee7908c40280
Author:     Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
AuthorDate: Thu, 7 Jun 2018 09:13:48 -0700
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
CommitDate: Thu, 21 Jun 2018 16:00:21 +0200

x86/spectre_v1: Disable compiler optimizations over array_index_mask_nospec()

Mark Rutland noticed that GCC optimization passes have the potential to elide
necessary invocations of the array_index_mask_nospec() instruction sequence,
so mark the asm() volatile.

Mark explains:

"The volatile will inhibit *some* cases where the compiler could lift the
 array_index_nospec() call out of a branch, e.g. where there are multiple
 invocations of array_index_nospec() with the same arguments:

        if (idx < foo) {
                idx1 = array_idx_nospec(idx, foo)
                do_something(idx1);
        }

        < some other code >

        if (idx < foo) {
                idx2 = array_idx_nospec(idx, foo);
                do_something_else(idx2);
        }

 ... since the compiler can determine that the two invocations yield the same
 result, and reuse the first result (likely the same register as idx was in
 originally) for the second branch, effectively re-writing the above as:

        if (idx < foo) {
                idx = array_idx_nospec(idx, foo);
                do_something(idx);
        }

        < some other code >

        if (idx < foo) {
                do_something_else(idx);
        }

 ... if we don't take the first branch, then speculatively take the second, we
 lose the nospec protection.

 There's more info on volatile asm in the GCC docs:

   https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Extended-Asm.html#Volatile
 "

Reported-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Fixes: babdde2698d4 ("x86: Implement array_index_mask_nospec")
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/lkml/152838798950.14521.4893346294059739135.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/barrier.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/barrier.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/barrier.h
index 042b5e892ed1..14de0432d288 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/barrier.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/barrier.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ static inline unsigned long array_index_mask_nospec(unsigned long index,
 {
 	unsigned long mask;
 
-	asm ("cmp %1,%2; sbb %0,%0;"
+	asm volatile ("cmp %1,%2; sbb %0,%0;"
 			:"=r" (mask)
 			:"g"(size),"r" (index)
 			:"cc");

                 reply	other threads:[~2018-06-21 17:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: [no followups] expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=tip-eab6870fee877258122a042bfd99ee7908c40280@git.kernel.org \
    --to=tipbot@zytor.com \
    --cc=dan.j.williams@intel.com \
    --cc=hpa@zytor.com \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=mark.rutland@arm.com \
    --cc=mingo@kernel.org \
    --cc=peterz@infradead.org \
    --cc=stable@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=tglx@linutronix.de \
    --cc=torvalds@linux-foundation.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).