linux-kernel - Re: [RFC 10/10] x86/enter: Use IBRS on syscall and interrupts

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Message-ID: <83e4ab96-d511-2154-960d-06d8f4506b86@intel.com>
Date:   Sun, 21 Jan 2018 09:22:51 -0800
From:   Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
To:     Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
        KarimAllah Ahmed <karahmed@...zon.de>
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        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>,
        David Woodhouse <dwmw@...zon.co.uk>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
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        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC 10/10] x86/enter: Use IBRS on syscall and interrupts

On 01/21/2018 05:50 AM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 08:23:01PM +0100, KarimAllah Ahmed wrote:
>> From: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com>
>>
>> Stop Indirect Branch Speculation on every user space to kernel space
>> transition and reenable it when returning to user space./
> 
> How about interrupts?

This code covers all kernel entry/exit paths, including interrupts.
Despite its name, "error_entry" is used by the interrupt path.

> That is should .macro interrupt have the same treatment?

It already does.