On Wed 2020-05-13 11:45:03, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> From: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoim...@redhat.com>
> 
> commit 06a9750edcffa808494d56da939085c35904e618 upstream.
> 
> The PUSH_AND_CLEAR_REGS macro zeroes each register immediately after
> pushing it.  If an NMI or exception hits after a register is cleared,
> but before the UNWIND_HINT_REGS annotation, the ORC unwinder will
> wrongly think the previous value of the register was zero.  This can
> confuse the unwinding process and cause it to exit early.
> 
> Because ORC is simpler than DWARF, there are a limited number of unwind
> annotation states, so it's not possible to add an individual unwind hint
> after each push/clear combination.  Instead, the register clearing
> instructions need to be consolidated and moved to after the
> UNWIND_HINT_REGS annotation.

This actually makes kernel entry/exit slower, due to poor instruction
scheduling. And that is a bit of hot path... Is it strictly
neccessary? Not everyone needs ORC scheduler. Should it be somehow
optional?

Best regards,
                                                                Pavel

> -      * Interleave XOR with PUSH for better uop scheduling:
> -      */
>       .if \save_ret
>       pushq   %rsi            /* pt_regs->si */
>       movq    8(%rsp), %rsi   /* temporarily store the return address in %rsi 
> */
> @@ -114,34 +107,43 @@ For 32-bit we have the following convent
>       pushq   %rsi            /* pt_regs->si */
>       .endif
>       pushq   \rdx            /* pt_regs->dx */
> -     xorl    %edx, %edx      /* nospec   dx */
>       pushq   %rcx            /* pt_regs->cx */
> -     xorl    %ecx, %ecx      /* nospec   cx */
>       pushq   \rax            /* pt_regs->ax */
>       pushq   %r8             /* pt_regs->r8 */
> -     xorl    %r8d, %r8d      /* nospec   r8 */
>       pushq   %r9             /* pt_regs->r9 */
> -     xorl    %r9d, %r9d      /* nospec   r9 */
>       pushq   %r10            /* pt_regs->r10 */
> -     xorl    %r10d, %r10d    /* nospec   r10 */
>       pushq   %r11            /* pt_regs->r11 */
> -     xorl    %r11d, %r11d    /* nospec   r11*/
>       pushq   %rbx            /* pt_regs->rbx */
> -     xorl    %ebx, %ebx      /* nospec   rbx*/
>       pushq   %rbp            /* pt_regs->rbp */
> -     xorl    %ebp, %ebp      /* nospec   rbp*/
>       pushq   %r12            /* pt_regs->r12 */
> -     xorl    %r12d, %r12d    /* nospec   r12*/
>       pushq   %r13            /* pt_regs->r13 */
> -     xorl    %r13d, %r13d    /* nospec   r13*/
>       pushq   %r14            /* pt_regs->r14 */
> -     xorl    %r14d, %r14d    /* nospec   r14*/
>       pushq   %r15            /* pt_regs->r15 */
> -     xorl    %r15d, %r15d    /* nospec   r15*/
>       UNWIND_HINT_REGS
> +
>       .if \save_ret
>       pushq   %rsi            /* return address on top of stack */
>       .endif
> +
> +     /*
> +      * Sanitize registers of values that a speculation attack might
> +      * otherwise want to exploit. The lower registers are likely clobbered
> +      * well before they could be put to use in a speculative execution
> +      * gadget.
> +      */
> +     xorl    %edx,  %edx     /* nospec dx  */
> +     xorl    %ecx,  %ecx     /* nospec cx  */
> +     xorl    %r8d,  %r8d     /* nospec r8  */
> +     xorl    %r9d,  %r9d     /* nospec r9  */
> +     xorl    %r10d, %r10d    /* nospec r10 */
> +     xorl    %r11d, %r11d    /* nospec r11 */
> +     xorl    %ebx,  %ebx     /* nospec rbx */
> +     xorl    %ebp,  %ebp     /* nospec rbp */
> +     xorl    %r12d, %r12d    /* nospec r12 */
> +     xorl    %r13d, %r13d    /* nospec r13 */
> +     xorl    %r14d, %r14d    /* nospec r14 */
> +     xorl    %r15d, %r15d    /* nospec r15 */
> +
>  .endm
>  
>  .macro POP_REGS pop_rdi=1 skip_r11rcx=0
> 

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