kernel.git/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c, branch linux-4.18.y

x86/speculation: Support Enhanced IBRS on future CPUs

2018-11-13T19:12:15Z

commit 706d51681d636a0c4a5ef53395ec3b803e45ed4d upstream. Future Intel processors will support "Enhanced IBRS" which is an "always on" mode i.e. IBRS bit in SPEC_CTRL MSR is enabled once and never disabled. From the specification [1]: "With enhanced IBRS, the predicted targets of indirect branches executed cannot be controlled by software that was executed in a less privileged predictor mode or on another logical processor. As a result, software operating on a processor with enhanced IBRS need not use WRMSR to set IA32_SPEC_CTRL.IBRS after every transition to a more privileged predictor mode. Software can isolate predictor modes effectively simply by setting the bit once. Software need not disable enhanced IBRS prior to entering a sleep state such as MWAIT or HLT." If Enhanced IBRS is supported by the processor then use it as the preferred spectre v2 mitigation mechanism instead of Retpoline. Intel's Retpoline white paper [2] states: "Retpoline is known to be an effective branch target injection (Spectre variant 2) mitigation on Intel processors belonging to family 6 (enumerated by the CPUID instruction) that do not have support for enhanced IBRS. On processors that support enhanced IBRS, it should be used for mitigation instead of retpoline." The reason why Enhanced IBRS is the recommended mitigation on processors which support it is that these processors also support CET which provides a defense against ROP attacks. Retpoline is very similar to ROP techniques and might trigger false positives in the CET defense. If Enhanced IBRS is selected as the mitigation technique for spectre v2, the IBRS bit in SPEC_CTRL MSR is set once at boot time and never cleared. Kernel also has to make sure that IBRS bit remains set after VMEXIT because the guest might have cleared the bit. This is already covered by the existing x86_spec_ctrl_set_guest() and x86_spec_ctrl_restore_host() speculation control functions. Enhanced IBRS still requires IBPB for full mitigation. [1] Speculative-Execution-Side-Channel-Mitigations.pdf [2] Retpoline-A-Branch-Target-Injection-Mitigation.pdf Both documents are available at: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199511 Originally-by: David Woodhouse Signed-off-by: Sai Praneeth Prakhya Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Tim C Chen Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Ravi Shankar Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1533148945-24095-1-git-send-email-sai.praneeth.prakhya@intel.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86/speculation: Enable cross-hyperthread spectre v2 STIBP mitigation

2018-11-13T19:12:15Z

commit 53c613fe6349994f023245519265999eed75957f upstream. STIBP is a feature provided by certain Intel ucodes / CPUs. This feature (once enabled) prevents cross-hyperthread control of decisions made by indirect branch predictors. Enable this feature if - the CPU is vulnerable to spectre v2 - the CPU supports SMT and has SMT siblings online - spectre_v2 mitigation autoselection is enabled (default) After some previous discussion, this leaves STIBP on all the time, as wrmsr on crossing kernel boundary is a no-no. This could perhaps later be a bit more optimized (like disabling it in NOHZ, experiment with disabling it in idle, etc) if needed. Note that the synchronization of the mask manipulation via newly added spec_ctrl_mutex is currently not strictly needed, as the only updater is already being serialized by cpu_add_remove_lock, but let's make this a little bit more future-proof. Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Josh Poimboeuf Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: "WoodhouseDavid" Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Tim Chen Cc: "SchauflerCasey" Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/nycvar.YFH.7.76.1809251438240.15880@cbobk.fhfr.pm Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86/speculation/l1tf: Increase l1tf memory limit for Nehalem+

2018-09-05T07:29:51Z

commit cc51e5428ea54f575d49cfcede1d4cb3a72b4ec4 upstream. On Nehalem and newer core CPUs the CPU cache internally uses 44 bits physical address space. The L1TF workaround is limited by this internal cache address width, and needs to have one bit free there for the mitigation to work. Older client systems report only 36bit physical address space so the range check decides that L1TF is not mitigated for a 36bit phys/32GB system with some memory holes. But since these actually have the larger internal cache width this warning is bogus because it would only really be needed if the system had more than 43bits of memory. Add a new internal x86_cache_bits field. Normally it is the same as the physical bits field reported by CPUID, but for Nehalem and newerforce it to be at least 44bits. Change the L1TF memory size warning to use the new cache_bits field to avoid bogus warnings and remove the bogus comment about memory size. Fixes: 17dbca119312 ("x86/speculation/l1tf: Add sysfs reporting for l1tf") Reported-by: George Anchev Reported-by: Christopher Snowhill Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: x86@kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Michael Hocko Cc: vbabka@suse.cz Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180824170351.34874-1-andi@firstfloor.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86/speculation/l1tf: Suggest what to do on systems with too much RAM

2018-09-05T07:29:48Z

commit 6a012288d6906fee1dbc244050ade1dafe4a9c8d upstream. Two users have reported [1] that they have an "extremely unlikely" system with more than MAX_PA/2 memory and L1TF mitigation is not effective. Make the warning more helpful by suggesting the proper mem=X kernel boot parameter to make it effective and a link to the L1TF document to help decide if the mitigation is worth the unusable RAM. [1] https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1105536 Suggested-by: Michal Hocko Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka Acked-by: Michal Hocko Cc: "H . Peter Anvin" Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/966571f0-9d7f-43dc-92c6-a10eec7a1254@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86/l1tf: Fix build error seen if CONFIG_KVM_INTEL is disabled

2018-08-17T19:03:47Z

commit 1eb46908b35dfbac0ec1848d4b1e39667e0187e9 upstream. allmodconfig+CONFIG_INTEL_KVM=n results in the following build error. ERROR: "l1tf_vmx_mitigation" [arch/x86/kvm/kvm.ko] undefined! Fixes: 5b76a3cff011 ("KVM: VMX: Tell the nested hypervisor to skip L1D flush on vmentry") Reported-by: Meelis Roos Cc: Meelis Roos Cc: Paolo Bonzini Cc: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

cpu/hotplug: Fix SMT supported evaluation

2018-08-15T15:37:33Z

commit bc2d8d262cba5736332cbc866acb11b1c5748aa9 upstream. Josh reported that the late SMT evaluation in cpu_smt_state_init() sets cpu_smt_control to CPU_SMT_NOT_SUPPORTED in case that 'nosmt' was supplied on the kernel command line as it cannot differentiate between SMT disabled by BIOS and SMT soft disable via 'nosmt'. That wreckages the state and makes the sysfs interface unusable. Rework this so that during bringup of the non boot CPUs the availability of SMT is determined in cpu_smt_allowed(). If a newly booted CPU is not a 'primary' thread then set the local cpu_smt_available marker and evaluate this explicitely right after the initial SMP bringup has finished. SMT evaulation on x86 is a trainwreck as the firmware has all the information _before_ booting the kernel, but there is no interface to query it. Fixes: 73d5e2b47264 ("cpu/hotplug: detect SMT disabled by BIOS") Reported-by: Josh Poimboeuf Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86/speculation: Use ARCH_CAPABILITIES to skip L1D flush on vmentry

2018-08-15T15:37:33Z

commit 8e0b2b916662e09dd4d09e5271cdf214c6b80e62 upstream. Bit 3 of ARCH_CAPABILITIES tells a hypervisor that L1D flush on vmentry is not needed. Add a new value to enum vmx_l1d_flush_state, which is used either if there is no L1TF bug at all, or if bit 3 is set in ARCH_CAPABILITIES. Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86/speculation: Simplify sysfs report of VMX L1TF vulnerability

2018-08-15T15:37:33Z

commit ea156d192f5257a5bf393d33910d3b481bf8a401 upstream. Three changes to the content of the sysfs file: - If EPT is disabled, L1TF cannot be exploited even across threads on the same core, and SMT is irrelevant. - If mitigation is completely disabled, and SMT is enabled, print "vulnerable" instead of "vulnerable, SMT vulnerable" - Reorder the two parts so that the main vulnerability state comes first and the detail on SMT is second. Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86/bugs, kvm: Introduce boot-time control of L1TF mitigations

2018-08-15T15:37:30Z

commit d90a7a0ec83fb86622cd7dae23255d3c50a99ec8 upstream. Introduce the 'l1tf=' kernel command line option to allow for boot-time switching of mitigation that is used on processors affected by L1TF. The possible values are: full Provides all available mitigations for the L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and enables all mitigations in the hypervisors. SMT control via /sys/devices/system/cpu/smt/control is still possible after boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning when the first VM is started in a potentially insecure configuration, i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. full,force Same as 'full', but disables SMT control. Implies the 'nosmt=force' command line option. sysfs control of SMT and the hypervisor flush control is disabled. flush Leaves SMT enabled and enables the conditional hypervisor mitigation. Hypervisors will issue a warning when the first VM is started in a potentially insecure configuration, i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. flush,nosmt Disables SMT and enables the conditional hypervisor mitigation. SMT control via /sys/devices/system/cpu/smt/control is still possible after boot. If SMT is reenabled or flushing disabled at runtime hypervisors will issue a warning. flush,nowarn Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not warn when a VM is started in a potentially insecure configuration. off Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't emit any warnings. Default is 'flush'. Let KVM adhere to these semantics, which means: - 'lt1f=full,force' : Performe L1D flushes. No runtime control possible. - 'l1tf=full' - 'l1tf-flush' - 'l1tf=flush,nosmt' : Perform L1D flushes and warn on VM start if SMT has been runtime enabled or L1D flushing has been run-time enabled - 'l1tf=flush,nowarn' : Perform L1D flushes and no warnings are emitted. - 'l1tf=off' : L1D flushes are not performed and no warnings are emitted. KVM can always override the L1D flushing behavior using its 'vmentry_l1d_flush' module parameter except when lt1f=full,force is set. This makes KVM's private 'nosmt' option redundant, and as it is a bit non-systematic anyway (this is something to control globally, not on hypervisor level), remove that option. Add the missing Documentation entry for the l1tf vulnerability sysfs file while at it. Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Tested-by: Jiri Kosina Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180713142323.202758176@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

cpu/hotplug: Set CPU_SMT_NOT_SUPPORTED early

2018-08-15T15:37:30Z

commit fee0aede6f4739c87179eca76136f83210953b86 upstream. The CPU_SMT_NOT_SUPPORTED state is set (if the processor does not support SMT) when the sysfs SMT control file is initialized. That was fine so far as this was only required to make the output of the control file correct and to prevent writes in that case. With the upcoming l1tf command line parameter, this needs to be set up before the L1TF mitigation selection and command line parsing happens. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Tested-by: Jiri Kosina Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180713142323.121795971@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman