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Message-ID: <52076088-a97e-d43e-7a75-40059fc394da@amd.com>
Date:   Fri, 21 Sep 2018 15:44:21 +0000
From:   "Lendacky, Thomas" <Thomas.Lendacky@....com>
To:     Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
CC:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>,
        Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
        David Woodhouse <dwmw@...zon.co.uk>,
        Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
        Casey Schaufler <casey.schaufler@...el.com>,
        Asit Mallick <asit.k.mallick@...el.com>,
        Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>,
        Jon Masters <jcm@...hat.com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "x86@...nel.org" <x86@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Provide options to enable spectre_v2
 userspace-userspace protection

On 09/20/2018 04:38 PM, Lendacky, Thomas wrote:
> On 09/19/2018 04:35 PM, Tim Chen wrote:
>> This patchset provides an option to apply IBPB and STIBP mitigation
>> to only non-dumpable processes.
>>
>> Jiri's patch to harden spectre_v2 makes IBPB and STIBP available for
>> general spectre v2 app to app mitigation.  IBPB will be issued for
>> switching to an app that's not ptraceable by the previous
>> app and STIBP will be always turned on.
>>
>> However, leaving STIBP on all the time is expensive for certain
>> applications that have frequent indirect branches. One such application
>> is perlbench in the SpecInt Rate 2006 test suite which shows a
>> 21% reduction in throughput.  Other application like bzip2 in
>> the same test suite with  minimal indirct branches have
>> only a 0.7% reduction in throughput. IBPB will also impose
>> overhead during context switches.
>>
>> App to app exploit is in general difficult
>> due to address space layout randomization in apps and
>> the need to know an app's address space layout ahead of time.
>> Users may not wish to incur app to app performance
>> overhead from IBPB and STIBP for general non security sensitive apps
>> and use these mitigations only for non-dumpable apps.
>>
>> The first patch provides a lite option for spectre_v2 app to app
>> mitigation where IBPB is only issued for security sensitive
>> non-dumpable app.  The second patch extends this option
>> where STIBP is only issued for non-dumpable app.
>>
>> The changes apply to intel cpus affected by spectre_v2. Tom,
>> can you update the STIBP changes for AMD cpus on  
>> __speculative_store_bypass_update and x86_virt_spec_ctrl
>> to update the SPEC_CTRL msr for AMD cpu?
> 
> Hi Tim,
> 
> Let me think about this a bit, since it can get a bit tricky if
> I want to avoid multiple MSR writes when only one may have been
> needed (assuming SSBD is not using the SPEC_CTRL MSR).

I think something along the lines of the following would work and
prevent any extra MSR writes for AMD when SSBD is not using the
SPEC_CTRL MSR. Let me know what you think (tglx, especially, since
he was heavily involved in this part):

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
index 878301d..d093d85 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
@@ -397,26 +397,59 @@ static __always_inline void amd_set_ssb_virt_state(unsigned long tifn)
 
 static __always_inline void intel_set_spec_ctrl_state(unsigned long tifn)
 {
-	u64 msr = x86_spec_ctrl_base | ssbd_tif_to_spec_ctrl(tifn)
-				     | stibp_tif_to_spec_ctrl(tifn);
+	u64 msr = x86_spec_ctrl_base;
+
+	/*
+	 * AMD we may have used a different method to update SSBD, so
+	 * we need to be sure we are using the SPEC_CTRL MSR for SSBD.
+	 */
+	if (static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_SSBD))
+		x86_spec_ctrl_base |= ssbd_tif_to_spec_ctrl(tifn);
+
+	x86_spec_ctrl_base |= stibp_tif_to_spec_ctrl(tifn);
 
 	wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL, msr);
 }
 
-static __always_inline void __speculative_store_bypass_update(unsigned long tifn)
+static __always_inline void __speculative_store_bypass_update(unsigned long tifp,
+							      unsigned long tifn)
 {
-	if (static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_VIRT_SSBD))
-		amd_set_ssb_virt_state(tifn);
-	else if (static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_LS_CFG_SSBD))
-		amd_set_core_ssb_state(tifn);
-	else
-		intel_set_spec_ctrl_state(tifn);
+	bool stibp = !!((tifp ^ tifn) & _TIF_STIBP);
+	bool ssbd = !!((tifp ^ tifn) & _TIF_SSBD);
+
+	if (!ssbd && !stibp)
+		return;
+
+	if (ssbd) {
+		/*
+		 * For AMD, try these methods first.  The ssbd variable will
+		 * reflect if the SPEC_CTRL MSR method is needed.
+		 */
+		ssbd = false;
+
+		if (static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_VIRT_SSBD))
+			amd_set_ssb_virt_state(tifn);
+		else if (static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_LS_CFG_SSBD))
+			amd_set_core_ssb_state(tifn);
+		else
+			ssbd = true;
+	}
+
+	/* Avoid a possible extra MSR write, recheck the flags */
+	if (!ssbd && !stibp)
+		return;
+
+	intel_set_spec_ctrl_state(tifn);
 }
 
 void speculative_store_bypass_update(unsigned long tif)
 {
+	/*
+	 * On this path we're forcing the update, so use ~tif as the
+	 * previous flags.
+	 */
 	preempt_disable();
-	__speculative_store_bypass_update(tif);
+	__speculative_store_bypass_update(~tif, tif);
 	preempt_enable();
 }
 
@@ -452,8 +485,7 @@ void __switch_to_xtra(struct task_struct *prev_p, struct task_struct *next_p,
 	if ((tifp ^ tifn) & _TIF_NOCPUID)
 		set_cpuid_faulting(!!(tifn & _TIF_NOCPUID));
 
-	if ((tifp ^ tifn) & (_TIF_SSBD | _TIF_STIBP))
-		__speculative_store_bypass_update(tifn);
+	__speculative_store_bypass_update(tifp, tifn);
 }
 
 /*

Thanks,
Tom

> 
> Thanks,
> Tom
> 
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Tim
>>
>> Tim Chen (2):
>>   x86/speculation: Option to select app to app mitigation for spectre_v2
>>   x86/speculation: Provide application property based STIBP protection
>>
>>  Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt |  11 +++
>>  arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h                |   3 +-
>>  arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h            |   9 ++
>>  arch/x86/include/asm/spec-ctrl.h                |  12 +++
>>  arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h              |   4 +-
>>  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c                      | 105 ++++++++++++++++++++++--
>>  arch/x86/kernel/process.c                       |   9 +-
>>  arch/x86/mm/tlb.c                               |  41 ++++++++-
>>  8 files changed, 179 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
>>

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