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| author |  Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
| 2024-02-13 18:21:35 -0800 |
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| committer |  Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
| 2024-02-19 16:31:33 -0800 |
| commit | baf8361e54550a48a7087b603313ad013cc13386 (patch) | |
| tree | 195fcd0083ac4e7624b03e332cef2ab9775411c6 /arch/x86/entry | |
| parent | Linux 6.8-rc5 (diff) | |
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x86/bugs: Add asm helpers for executing VERW
MDS mitigation requires clearing the CPU buffers before returning to
user. This needs to be done late in the exit-to-user path. Current
location of VERW leaves a possibility of kernel data ending up in CPU
buffers for memory accesses done after VERW such as:
1. Kernel data accessed by an NMI between VERW and return-to-user can
remain in CPU buffers since NMI returning to kernel does not
execute VERW to clear CPU buffers.
2. Alyssa reported that after VERW is executed,
CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STACKLEAK=y scrubs the stack used by a system
call. Memory accesses during stack scrubbing can move kernel stack
contents into CPU buffers.
3. When caller saved registers are restored after a return from
function executing VERW, the kernel stack accesses can remain in
CPU buffers(since they occur after VERW).
To fix this VERW needs to be moved very late in exit-to-user path.
In preparation for moving VERW to entry/exit asm code, create macros
that can be used in asm. Also make VERW patching depend on a new feature
flag X86_FEATURE_CLEAR_CPU_BUF.
Reported-by: Alyssa Milburn <alyssa.milburn@intel.com>
Suggested-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240213-delay-verw-v8-1-a6216d83edb7%40linux.intel.com
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/entry')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/entry/entry.S | 23 |
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/entry.S b/arch/x86/entry/entry.S index 8c8d38f0cb1d..003379049924 100644 --- a/arch/x86/entry/entry.S +++ b/arch/x86/entry/entry.S @@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ #include <linux/export.h> #include <linux/linkage.h> #include <asm/msr-index.h> +#include <asm/unwind_hints.h> +#include <asm/segment.h> +#include <asm/cache.h> .pushsection .noinstr.text, "ax" @@ -20,3 +23,23 @@ SYM_FUNC_END(entry_ibpb) EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(entry_ibpb); .popsection + +/* + * Define the VERW operand that is disguised as entry code so that + * it can be referenced with KPTI enabled. This ensure VERW can be + * used late in exit-to-user path after page tables are switched. + */ +.pushsection .entry.text, "ax" + +.align L1_CACHE_BYTES, 0xcc +SYM_CODE_START_NOALIGN(mds_verw_sel) + UNWIND_HINT_UNDEFINED + ANNOTATE_NOENDBR + .word __KERNEL_DS +.align L1_CACHE_BYTES, 0xcc +SYM_CODE_END(mds_verw_sel); +/* For KVM */ +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mds_verw_sel); + +.popsection + |