linux-kernel - Re: [RFC 04/10] x86/mm: Only flush indirect branches when switching into non dumpable process

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Date:   Sat, 20 Jan 2018 21:06:04 +0000
From:   "Woodhouse, David" <dwmw@...zon.co.uk>
To:     KarimAllah Ahmed <karahmed@...zon.de>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
CC:     Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
        Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>,
        Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@...el.com>,
        Asit Mallick <asit.k.mallick@...el.com>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        "Dave Hansen" <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Janakarajan Natarajan <Janakarajan.Natarajan@....com>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>,
        Jun Nakajima <jun.nakajima@...el.com>,
        Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com>,
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        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC 04/10] x86/mm: Only flush indirect branches when
 switching into non dumpable process

On Sat, 2018-01-20 at 20:22 +0100, KarimAllah Ahmed wrote:
> From: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com>

I think this is probably From: Andi now rather than From: Tim?

We do need the series this far in order to have a full retpoline-based
mitigation, and I'd like to see that go in sooner rather than later.
There's a little more discussion to be had about the IBRS parts which
come later in the series (and the final one or two which weren't posted
yet).

I think this is the one patch of the "we want this now" IBPB set that
we expect serious debate on, which is why it's still a separate
"optimisation" patch on top of the previous one which just does IBPB
unconditionally.


> Flush indirect branches when switching into a process that marked
> itself non dumpable.  This protects high value processes like gpg
> better, without having too high performance overhead.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@...zon.co.uk>
> Signed-off-by: KarimAllah Ahmed <karahmed@...zon.de>
> ---
>  arch/x86/mm/tlb.c | 13 ++++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c b/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
> index 304de7d..f64e80c 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
> @@ -225,8 +225,19 @@ void switch_mm_irqs_off(struct mm_struct *prev, struct mm_struct *next,
>  		 * Avoid user/user BTB poisoning by flushing the branch predictor
>  		 * when switching between processes. This stops one process from
>  		 * doing Spectre-v2 attacks on another.
> +		 *
> +		 * As an optimization: Flush indirect branches only when
> +		 * switching into processes that disable dumping.
> +		 *
> +		 * This will not flush when switching into kernel threads.
> +		 * But it would flush when switching into idle and back
> +		 *
> +		 * It might be useful to have a one-off cache here
> +		 * to also not flush the idle case, but we would need some
> +		 * kind of stable sequence number to remember the previous mm.
>  		 */
> -		indirect_branch_prediction_barrier();
> +		if (tsk && tsk->mm && get_dumpable(tsk->mm) != SUID_DUMP_USER)
> +			indirect_branch_prediction_barrier();
>  
>  		if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_VMAP_STACK)) {
>  			/*
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