linux-kernel - Re: [RFC 09/10] x86/enter: Create macros to restrict/unrestrict Indirect Branch Speculation

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Date:   Fri, 26 Jan 2018 17:29:38 +0000
From:   David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
        Liran Alon <liran.alon@...cle.com>,
        Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC 09/10] x86/enter: Create macros to restrict/unrestrict
 Indirect Branch Speculation

On Fri, 2018-01-26 at 09:19 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 1:11 AM, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Do we need to look again at the fact that we've disabled the RSB-
> > stuffing for SMEP?
> Absolutely. SMEP helps make people a lot less worried about things,
> but it doesn't fix the "BTB only contains partial addresses" case.
> 
> But did we do that "disable stuffing with SMEP"? I'm not seeing it. In
> my tree, it's only conditional on X86_FEATURE_RETPOLINE.

That's the vmexit one. The one on context switch is in
commit c995efd5a7 and has its own X86_FEATURE_RSB_CTXSW which in
kernel/cpu/bugs.c is turned on for (!SMEP || Skylake).

The "low bits of the BTB" issue probably means that wants to be
X86_FEATURE_RETPOLINE too. Despite Intel's doc saying otherwise.

(Intel's doc also says to do it on kernel entry, but we elected to do
it on context switch instead since *that's* when the imbalances show up
in the RSB.)
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