Commit-ID:  b3d7ad85b80bbc404635dca80f5b129f6242bc7a
Gitweb:     https://git.kernel.org/tip/b3d7ad85b80bbc404635dca80f5b129f6242bc7a
Author:     Dan Williams <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Mon, 29 Jan 2018 17:02:33 -0800
Committer:  Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
CommitDate: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 21:54:29 +0100

x86: Introduce barrier_nospec

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 <[email protected]>
Suggested-by: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Tom Lendacky <[email protected]>
Cc: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Link: 
https://lkml.kernel.org/r/151727415361.33451.9049453007262764675.st...@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com

---
 arch/x86/include/asm/barrier.h | 4 ++++
 arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h     | 3 +--
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/barrier.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/barrier.h
index 173b38f..30d4061 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/barrier.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/barrier.h
@@ -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
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h
index 07962f5..30df295 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h
@@ -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();
 }
 

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