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Message-ID: <20230821060416.GBZOL+YJeVj4tbkT78@fat_crate.local>
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2023 08:04:16 +0200
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...nel.org>
Cc: x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
Babu Moger <babu.moger@....com>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>, David.Kaplan@....com,
Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@...rix.com>,
Nikolay Borisov <nik.borisov@...e.com>,
gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/22] x86/srso: Fix srso_show_state() side effect
On Sun, Aug 20, 2023 at 06:18:58PM -0700, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> Reading the 'spec_rstack_overflow' sysfs file can trigger an unnecessary
> MSR write, and possibly even a (handled) exception if the microcode
> hasn't been updated.
>
> Avoid all that by just checking X86_FEATURE_IBPB_BRTYPE instead, which
> gets set by srso_select_mitigation() if the updated microcode exists.
>
> Fixes: fb3bd914b3ec ("x86/srso: Add a Speculative RAS Overflow mitigation")
> Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...nel.org>
> ---
> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
> index f081d26616ac..bdd3e296f72b 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
> @@ -2717,7 +2717,7 @@ static ssize_t srso_show_state(char *buf)
>
Please put here a comment - something along the lines of:
"X86_FEATURE_IBPB_BRTYPE gets set as a result of the presence of the
needed microcode so checking that is equivalent."
so that it is clear why it is ok to check this feature bit.
> return sysfs_emit(buf, "%s%s\n",
> srso_strings[srso_mitigation],
> - (cpu_has_ibpb_brtype_microcode() ? "" : ", no microcode"));
> + boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_IBPB_BRTYPE) ? "" : ", no microcode");
> }
>
> static ssize_t gds_show_state(char *buf)
> --
Thx.
--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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