x86: Introduce barrier_nospec
authorDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Tue, 30 Jan 2018 01:02:33 +0000 (17:02 -0800)
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tue, 30 Jan 2018 20:54:29 +0000 (21:54 +0100)
Rename the open coded form of this instruction sequence from
rdtsc_ordered() into a generic barrier primitive, barrier_nospec().

One of the mitigations for Spectre variant1 vulnerabilities is to fence
speculative execution after successfully validating a bounds check. I.e.
force the result of a bounds check to resolve in the instruction pipeline
to ensure speculative execution honors that result before potentially
operating on out-of-bounds data.

No functional changes.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Suggested-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com
Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: alan@linux.intel.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/151727415361.33451.9049453007262764675.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
arch/x86/include/asm/barrier.h
arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h

index 173b38f5fe88a5cb86276a509cf57a44ea477e58..30d40614601641b9fc2dbd5ce734ff86d0cdd731 100644 (file)
@@ -48,6 +48,10 @@ static inline unsigned long array_index_mask_nospec(unsigned long index,
 /* Override the default implementation from linux/nospec.h. */
 #define array_index_mask_nospec array_index_mask_nospec
 
+/* Prevent speculative execution past this barrier. */
+#define barrier_nospec() alternative_2("", "mfence", X86_FEATURE_MFENCE_RDTSC, \
+                                          "lfence", X86_FEATURE_LFENCE_RDTSC)
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_PPRO_FENCE
 #define dma_rmb()      rmb()
 #else
index 07962f5f6fba8df3ca3a8449fa273c8a66727524..30df295f6d94c8ac6d87613acae8a32c50436c6d 100644 (file)
@@ -214,8 +214,7 @@ static __always_inline unsigned long long rdtsc_ordered(void)
         * that some other imaginary CPU is updating continuously with a
         * time stamp.
         */
-       alternative_2("", "mfence", X86_FEATURE_MFENCE_RDTSC,
-                         "lfence", X86_FEATURE_LFENCE_RDTSC);
+       barrier_nospec();
        return rdtsc();
 }