3.16.56-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Dan Williams <dan.j.willi...@intel.com> commit b3d7ad85b80bbc404635dca80f5b129f6242bc7a upstream. Rename the open coded form of this instruction sequence from rdtsc_ordered() into a generic barrier primitive, barrier_nospec(). One of the mitigations for Spectre variant1 vulnerabilities is to fence speculative execution after successfully validating a bounds check. I.e. force the result of a bounds check to resolve in the instruction pipeline to ensure speculative execution honors that result before potentially operating on out-of-bounds data. No functional changes. Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org> Suggested-by: Andi Kleen <a...@linux.intel.com> Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mi...@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.willi...@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-a...@vger.kernel.org Cc: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lenda...@amd.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org> Cc: kernel-harden...@lists.openwall.com Cc: gre...@linuxfoundation.org Cc: Al Viro <v...@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: a...@linux.intel.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/151727415361.33451.9049453007262764675.st...@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com [bwh: Backported to 3.16: update rdtsc_barrier() instead of rdtsc_ordered()] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> --- --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/barrier.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/barrier.h @@ -48,6 +48,10 @@ static inline unsigned long array_index_ /* Override the default implementation from linux/nospec.h. */ #define array_index_mask_nospec array_index_mask_nospec +/* Prevent speculative execution past this barrier. */ +#define barrier_nospec() alternative_2("", "mfence", X86_FEATURE_MFENCE_RDTSC, \ + "lfence", X86_FEATURE_LFENCE_RDTSC) + /** * read_barrier_depends - Flush all pending reads that subsequents reads * depend on. @@ -174,8 +178,7 @@ do { \ */ static __always_inline void rdtsc_barrier(void) { - alternative(ASM_NOP3, "mfence", X86_FEATURE_MFENCE_RDTSC); - alternative(ASM_NOP3, "lfence", X86_FEATURE_LFENCE_RDTSC); + barrier_nospec(); } #endif /* _ASM_X86_BARRIER_H */
