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x86/speculation: Allow enabling STIBP with legacy IBRS
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When plain IBRS is enabled (not enhanced IBRS), the logic in
spectre_v2_user_select_mitigation() determines that STIBP is not needed.

The IBRS bit implicitly protects against cross-thread branch target
injection. However, with legacy IBRS, the IBRS bit is cleared on
returning to userspace for performance reasons which leaves userspace
threads vulnerable to cross-thread branch target injection against which
STIBP protects.

Exclude IBRS from the spectre_v2_in_ibrs_mode() check to allow for
enabling STIBP (through seccomp/prctl() by default or always-on, if
selected by spectre_v2_user kernel cmdline parameter).

  [ bp: Massage. ]

Fixes: 7c693f5 ("x86/speculation: Add spectre_v2=ibrs option to support Kernel IBRS")
Reported-by: José Oliveira <joseloliveira11@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Rodrigo Branco <rodrigo@kernelhacking.com>
Signed-off-by: KP Singh <kpsingh@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230220120127.1975241-1-kpsingh@kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230221184908.2349578-1-kpsingh@kernel.org
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KP Singh authored and bp3tk0v committed Feb 27, 2023
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25 changes: 18 additions & 7 deletions arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
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Expand Up @@ -1133,14 +1133,18 @@ spectre_v2_parse_user_cmdline(void)
return SPECTRE_V2_USER_CMD_AUTO;
}

static inline bool spectre_v2_in_ibrs_mode(enum spectre_v2_mitigation mode)
static inline bool spectre_v2_in_eibrs_mode(enum spectre_v2_mitigation mode)
{
return mode == SPECTRE_V2_IBRS ||
mode == SPECTRE_V2_EIBRS ||
return mode == SPECTRE_V2_EIBRS ||
mode == SPECTRE_V2_EIBRS_RETPOLINE ||
mode == SPECTRE_V2_EIBRS_LFENCE;
}

static inline bool spectre_v2_in_ibrs_mode(enum spectre_v2_mitigation mode)
{
return spectre_v2_in_eibrs_mode(mode) || mode == SPECTRE_V2_IBRS;
}

static void __init
spectre_v2_user_select_mitigation(void)
{
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}

/*
* If no STIBP, IBRS or enhanced IBRS is enabled, or SMT impossible,
* STIBP is not required.
* If no STIBP, enhanced IBRS is enabled, or SMT impossible, STIBP
* is not required.
*
* Enhanced IBRS also protects against cross-thread branch target
* injection in user-mode as the IBRS bit remains always set which
* implicitly enables cross-thread protections. However, in legacy IBRS
* mode, the IBRS bit is set only on kernel entry and cleared on return
* to userspace. This disables the implicit cross-thread protection,
* so allow for STIBP to be selected in that case.
*/
if (!boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_STIBP) ||
!smt_possible ||
spectre_v2_in_ibrs_mode(spectre_v2_enabled))
spectre_v2_in_eibrs_mode(spectre_v2_enabled))
return;

/*
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -2340,7 +2351,7 @@ static ssize_t mmio_stale_data_show_state(char *buf)

static char *stibp_state(void)
{
if (spectre_v2_in_ibrs_mode(spectre_v2_enabled))
if (spectre_v2_in_eibrs_mode(spectre_v2_enabled))
return "";

switch (spectre_v2_user_stibp) {
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