linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86/retpoline: Also fill return buffer after idle

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Date:   Tue, 09 Jan 2018 00:00:09 +0000
From:   David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:     Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc:     pjt@...gle.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, gregkh@...ux-foundation.org,
        tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com, dave.hansen@...el.com,
        tglx@...utronix.de, peterz@...radead.org, luto@...capital.net,
        Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/retpoline: Also fill return buffer after idle

On Mon, 2018-01-08 at 15:51 -0800, Andi Kleen wrote:
> From: Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
> 
> This is an extension of the earlier patch to fill the return buffer
> on context switch. It uses the assembler macros added earlier.
> 
> When we go into deeper idle states the return buffer could be cleared
> in MWAIT, but then another thread which wakes up earlier might
> be poisoning the indirect branch predictor. Then when the return
> buffer underflows there might an uncontrolled indirect branch.
> 
> To guard against this always fill the return buffer when exiting idle.
> 
> Needed on Skylake and some Broadwells.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S    |  8 ++++++++
>  arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S    |  8 ++++++++
>  arch/x86/include/asm/mwait.h | 11 ++++++++++-
>  3 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S b/arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S
> index 7dee84a3cf83..2687cce8a02e 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S
> +++ b/arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S
> @@ -1092,3 +1092,11 @@ ENTRY(rewind_stack_do_exit)
>  	call	do_exit
>  1:	jmp 1b
>  END(rewind_stack_do_exit)
> +
> +ENTRY(fill_return_buffer)
> +#ifdef CONFIG_RETPOLINE
> +	ALTERNATIVE "ret", "", X86_FEATURE_RETPOLINE
> +        FILL_RETURN_BUFFER
> +#endif
> +        ret
> +END(fill_return_buffer)
> diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S b/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S
> index a33033e2bfe0..92fbec1b0eb5 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S
> +++ b/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S
> @@ -1831,3 +1831,11 @@ ENTRY(rewind_stack_do_exit)
>  
>  	call	do_exit
>  END(rewind_stack_do_exit)
> +
> +ENTRY(fill_return_buffer)
> +#ifdef CONFIG_RETPOLINE
> +	ALTERNATIVE "ret", "", X86_FEATURE_RETPOLINE
> +	FILL_RETURN_BUFFER
> +#endif
> +	ret
> +END(fill_return_buffer)
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/mwait.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/mwait.h
> index 39a2fb29378a..1d9f9269b5e7 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/mwait.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/mwait.h
> @@ -87,6 +87,8 @@ static inline void __sti_mwait(unsigned long eax, unsigned long ecx)
>  		     :: "a" (eax), "c" (ecx));
>  }
>  
> +extern __visible void fill_return_buffer(void);
> +
>  /*
>   * This uses new MONITOR/MWAIT instructions on P4 processors with PNI,
>   * which can obviate IPI to trigger checking of need_resched.
> @@ -107,8 +109,15 @@ static inline void mwait_idle_with_hints(unsigned long eax, unsigned long ecx)
>  		}
>  
>  		__monitor((void *)¤t_thread_info()->flags, 0, 0);
> -		if (!need_resched())
> +		if (!need_resched()) {
>  			__mwait(eax, ecx);
> +			/*
> +			 * idle could have cleared the return buffer,
> +			 * so fill it to prevent uncontrolled
> +			 * speculation.
> +			 */
> +			fill_return_buffer();
> +		}
>  	}
>  	current_clr_polling();
>  }

Probably doesn't matter right there but it's going to end up being used
elsewhere with IBRS/IBPB, and the compiler is going to think it needs
to save all the call-clobbered registers for that. Do we want to make
it use inline asm instead?
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