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Pull vmescape mitigation fixes from Dave Hansen:
"Mitigate vmscape issue with indirect branch predictor flushes.
vmscape is a vulnerability that essentially takes Spectre-v2 and
attacks host userspace from a guest. It particularly affects
hypervisors like QEMU.
Even if a hypervisor may not have any sensitive data like disk
encryption keys, guest-userspace may be able to attack the
guest-kernel using the hypervisor as a confused deputy.
There are many ways to mitigate vmscape using the existing Spectre-v2
defenses like IBRS variants or the IBPB flushes. This series focuses
solely on IBPB because it works universally across vendors and all
vulnerable processors. Further work doing vendor and model-specific
optimizations can build on top of this if needed / wanted.
Do the normal issue mitigation dance:
- Add the CPU bug boilerplate
- Add a list of vulnerable CPUs
- Use IBPB to flush the branch predictors after running guests"
* tag 'vmscape-for-linus-20250904' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/vmscape: Add old Intel CPUs to affected list
x86/vmscape: Warn when STIBP is disabled with SMT
x86/bugs: Move cpu_bugs_smt_update() down
x86/vmscape: Enable the mitigation
x86/vmscape: Add conditional IBPB mitigation
x86/vmscape: Enumerate VMSCAPE bug
Documentation/hw-vuln: Add VMSCAPE documentation
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Attack vector controls for SSB were missed in the initial attack vector series.
The default mitigation for SSB requires user-space opt-in so it is only
relevant for user->user attacks. Check with attack vector controls when
the command is auto - i.e., no explicit user selection has been done.
Fixes: 2d31d2874663 ("x86/bugs: Define attack vectors relevant for each bug")
Signed-off-by: David Kaplan <david.kaplan@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250819192200.2003074-5-david.kaplan@amd.com
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The current GDS mitigation logic incorrectly returns early when the
attack vector mitigation is turned off, which leads to two problems:
1. CPUs without ARCH_CAP_GDS_CTRL support are incorrectly marked with
GDS_MITIGATION_OFF when they should be marked as
GDS_MITIGATION_UCODE_NEEDED.
2. The mitigation state checks and locking verification that follow are
skipped, which means:
- fail to detect if the mitigation was locked
- miss the warning when trying to disable a locked mitigation
Remove the early return to ensure proper mitigation state handling. This
allows:
- Proper mitigation classification for non-ARCH_CAP_GDS_CTRL CPUs
- Complete mitigation state verification
This also addresses the failed MSR 0x123 write attempt at boot on
non-ARCH_CAP_GDS_CTRL CPUs:
unchecked MSR access error: WRMSR to 0x123 (tried to write 0x0000000000000010) at rIP: ... (update_gds_msr)
Call Trace:
identify_secondary_cpu
start_secondary
common_startup_64
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 0 at arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c:1053 update_gds_msr
[ bp: Massage, zap superfluous braces. ]
Fixes: 8c7261abcb7ad ("x86/bugs: Add attack vector controls for GDS")
Suggested-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Li RongQing <lirongqing@baidu.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Reviewed-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250819023356.2012-1-lirongqing@baidu.com
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Cross-thread attacks are generally harder as they require the victim to be
co-located on a core. However, with VMSCAPE the adversary targets belong to
the same guest execution, that are more likely to get co-located. In
particular, a thread that is currently executing userspace hypervisor
(after the IBPB) may still be targeted by a guest execution from a sibling
thread.
Issue a warning about the potential risk, except when:
- SMT is disabled
- STIBP is enabled system-wide
- Intel eIBRS is enabled (which implies STIBP protection)
Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
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cpu_bugs_smt_update() uses global variables from different mitigations. For
SMT updates it can't currently use vmscape_mitigation that is defined after
it.
Since cpu_bugs_smt_update() depends on many other mitigations, move it
after all mitigations are defined. With that, it can use vmscape_mitigation
in a moment.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
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Enable the previously added mitigation for VMscape. Add the cmdline
vmscape={off|ibpb|force} and sysfs reporting.
Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
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VMSCAPE is a vulnerability that exploits insufficient branch predictor
isolation between a guest and a userspace hypervisor (like QEMU). Existing
mitigations already protect kernel/KVM from a malicious guest. Userspace
can additionally be protected by flushing the branch predictors after a
VMexit.
Since it is the userspace that consumes the poisoned branch predictors,
conditionally issue an IBPB after a VMexit and before returning to
userspace. Workloads that frequently switch between hypervisor and
userspace will incur the most overhead from the new IBPB.
This new IBPB is not integrated with the existing IBPB sites. For
instance, a task can use the existing speculation control prctl() to
get an IBPB at context switch time. With this implementation, the
IBPB is doubled up: one at context switch and another before running
userspace.
The intent is to integrate and optimize these cases post-embargo.
[ dhansen: elaborate on suboptimal IBPB solution ]
Suggested-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Acked-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
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The SRSO bug can theoretically be used to conduct user->user or guest->guest
attacks and requires a mitigation (namely IBPB instead of SBPB on context
switch) for these. So mark SRSO as being applicable to the user->user and
guest->guest attack vectors.
Additionally, SRSO supports multiple mitigations which mitigate different
potential attack vectors. Some CPUs are also immune to SRSO from
certain attack vectors (like user->kernel).
Use the specific attack vectors requiring mitigation to select the best
SRSO mitigation to avoid unnecessary performance hits.
Signed-off-by: David Kaplan <david.kaplan@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250721160310.1804203-1-david.kaplan@amd.com
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Print the status of enabled attack vectors and SMT mitigation status in the
boot log for easier reporting and debugging. This information will also be
available through sysfs.
Signed-off-by: David Kaplan <david.kaplan@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250707183316.1349127-21-david.kaplan@amd.com
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Use attack vector controls to determine which TSA mitigation to use.
[ bp: Simplify the condition in the select function for better
readability. ]
Signed-off-by: David Kaplan <david.kaplan@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250709155844.3279471-1-david.kaplan@amd.com
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Use attack vector controls to determine if ITS mitigation is required.
Signed-off-by: David Kaplan <david.kaplan@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250707183316.1349127-19-david.kaplan@amd.com
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Use attack vector controls to determine if SRSO mitigation is required.
Signed-off-by: David Kaplan <david.kaplan@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250707183316.1349127-18-david.kaplan@amd.com
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Use attack vector controls to determine if L1TF mitigation is required.
Disable SMT if cross-thread protection is desired.
Signed-off-by: David Kaplan <david.kaplan@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250707183316.1349127-17-david.kaplan@amd.com
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Use attack vector controls to determine if spectre_v2 mitigation is
required.
Signed-off-by: David Kaplan <david.kaplan@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250707183316.1349127-16-david.kaplan@amd.com
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Use attack vector controls to determine if BHI mitigation is required.
Signed-off-by: David Kaplan <david.kaplan@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250707183316.1349127-15-david.kaplan@amd.com
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Use attack vector controls to determine if spectre_v2_user mitigation is
required.
Signed-off-by: David Kaplan <david.kaplan@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250707183316.1349127-14-david.kaplan@amd.com
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Use attack vector controls to determine if retbleed mitigation is
required.
Disable SMT if cross-thread protection is desired and STIBP is not
available.
Signed-off-by: David Kaplan <david.kaplan@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250707183316.1349127-13-david.kaplan@amd.com
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Use attack vector controls to determine if spectre_v1 mitigation is
required.
Signed-off-by: David Kaplan <david.kaplan@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250707183316.1349127-12-david.kaplan@amd.com
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Use attack vector controls to determine if GDS mitigation is required.
Signed-off-by: David Kaplan <david.kaplan@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250707183316.1349127-11-david.kaplan@amd.com
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Use attack vector controls to determine if SRBDS mitigation is required.
Signed-off-by: David Kaplan <david.kaplan@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250707183316.1349127-10-david.kaplan@amd.com
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Use attack vector controls to determine if RFDS mitigation is required.
Signed-off-by: David Kaplan <david.kaplan@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250707183316.1349127-9-david.kaplan@amd.com
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Use attack vectors controls to determine if MMIO mitigation is required.
Signed-off-by: David Kaplan <david.kaplan@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250707183316.1349127-8-david.kaplan@amd.com
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Use attack vector controls to determine if TAA mitigation is required.
Signed-off-by: David Kaplan <david.kaplan@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250707183316.1349127-7-david.kaplan@amd.com
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Use attack vector controls to determine if MDS mitigation is required.
The global mitigations=off command now simply disables all attack vectors
so explicit checking of mitigations=off is no longer needed.
If cross-thread attack mitigations are required, disable SMT.
Signed-off-by: David Kaplan <david.kaplan@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250707183316.1349127-6-david.kaplan@amd.com
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Add a function which defines which vulnerabilities should be mitigated
based on the selected attack vector controls. The selections here are
based on the individual characteristics of each vulnerability.
Signed-off-by: David Kaplan <david.kaplan@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250707183316.1349127-5-david.kaplan@amd.com
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Pick up TSA changes from mainline so that attack vectors work can
continue ontop.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
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SRSO microcode only exists for Zen3/Zen4 CPUs. For those CPUs, the microcode
is required for any mitigation other than Safe-RET to be effective. Safe-RET
can still protect user->kernel and guest->host attacks without microcode.
Clarify this in the code and ensure that SRSO_MITIGATION_UCODE_NEEDED is
selected for any mitigation besides Safe-RET if the required microcode isn't
present.
Signed-off-by: David Kaplan <david.kaplan@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250625155805.600376-4-david.kaplan@amd.com
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If spec_rstack_overflow=ibpb then this mitigates retbleed as well. This
is relevant for AMD Zen1 and Zen2 CPUs which are vulnerable to both bugs.
Signed-off-by: David Kaplan <david.kaplan@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: H . Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Cc: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250625155805.600376-3-david.kaplan@amd.com
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AMD Zen1 and Zen2 CPUs with SMT disabled are not vulnerable to SRSO.
Instead of overloading the X86_FEATURE_SRSO_NO bit to indicate this,
define a separate mitigation to make the code cleaner.
Signed-off-by: David Kaplan <david.kaplan@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: H . Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Cc: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250625155805.600376-2-david.kaplan@amd.com
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After a recent restructuring of the ITS mitigation, RSB stuffing can no longer
be enabled in eIBRS+Retpoline mode. Before ITS, retbleed mitigation only
allowed stuffing when eIBRS was not enabled. This was perfectly fine since
eIBRS mitigates retbleed.
However, RSB stuffing mitigation for ITS is still needed with eIBRS. The
restructuring solely relies on retbleed to deploy stuffing, and does not allow
it when eIBRS is enabled. This behavior is different from what was before the
restructuring. Fix it by allowing stuffing in eIBRS+retpoline mode also.
Fixes: 61ab72c2c6bf ("x86/bugs: Restructure ITS mitigation")
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250519235101.2vm6sc5txyoykb2r@desk/
Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250611-eibrs-fix-v4-7-5ff86cac6c61@linux.intel.com
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Allow ITS to enable stuffing independent of retbleed. The dependency is only
on retpoline. It is a valid case for retbleed to be mitigated by eIBRS while
ITS deploys stuffing at the same time.
Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250611-eibrs-fix-v4-6-5ff86cac6c61@linux.intel.com
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In preparation to allow ITS to also enable stuffing aka Call Depth
Tracking (CDT) independently of retbleed, introduce a helper
cdt_possible().
Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250611-eibrs-fix-v4-5-5ff86cac6c61@linux.intel.com
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Prepare to apply stuffing mitigation in its_apply_mitigation(). This is
currently only done via retbleed mitigation. Also using switch/case
makes it evident that mitigation mode like VMEXIT_ONLY doesn't need any
special handling.
Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Borisov <nik.borisov@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250611-eibrs-fix-v4-4-5ff86cac6c61@linux.intel.com
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The purpose of the warning is to prevent an unexpected change to the return
thunk mitigation. However, there are legitimate cases where the return
thunk is intentionally set more than once. For example, ITS and SRSO both
can set the return thunk after retbleed has set it. In both the cases
retbleed is still mitigated.
Replace the warning with an info about the active return thunk.
Suggested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250611-eibrs-fix-v4-3-5ff86cac6c61@linux.intel.com
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Simplify the nested checks, remove redundant print and comment.
Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Borisov <nik.borisov@suse.com>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250611-eibrs-fix-v4-2-5ff86cac6c61@linux.intel.com
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The retbleed select function leaves the mitigation to AUTO in some cases.
Moreover, the update function can also set the mitigation to AUTO. This
is inconsistent with other mitigations and requires explicit handling of
AUTO at the end of update step.
Make sure a mitigation gets selected in the select step, and do not change
it to AUTO in the update step. When no mitigation can be selected leave it
to NONE, which is what AUTO was getting changed to in the end.
Suggested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250611-eibrs-fix-v4-1-5ff86cac6c61@linux.intel.com
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Add the required features detection glue to bugs.c et all in order to
support the TSA mitigation.
Co-developed-by: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Reviewed-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
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It will be used by other x86 mitigations.
No functional changes.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Reviewed-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
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Commit
480e803dacf8 ("x86/bugs: Restructure spectre_v2 mitigation")
inadvertently changed the spectre-v2 mitigation default from eIBRS to IBRS on
Intel. While splitting the spectre_v2 mitigation in select/update/apply
functions, eIBRS and IBRS selection logic was separated in select and update.
This caused IBRS selection to not consider that eIBRS mitigation is already
selected, fix it.
Fixes: 480e803dacf8 ("x86/bugs: Restructure spectre_v2 mitigation")
Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250520-eibrs-fix-v1-1-91bacd35ed09@linux.intel.com
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Restructure the ITS mitigation to use select/update/apply functions like
the other mitigations.
There is a particularly complex interaction between ITS and Retbleed as CDT
(Call Depth Tracking) is a mitigation for both, and either its=stuff or
retbleed=stuff will attempt to enable CDT.
retbleed_update_mitigation() runs first and will check the necessary
pre-conditions for CDT if either ITS or Retbleed stuffing is selected. If
checks pass and ITS stuffing is selected, it will select stuffing for
Retbleed as well.
its_update_mitigation() runs after and will either select stuffing if
retbleed stuffing was enabled, or fall back to the default (aligned thunks)
if stuffing could not be enabled.
Enablement of CDT is done exclusively in retbleed_apply_mitigation().
its_apply_mitigation() is only used to enable aligned thunks.
Signed-off-by: David Kaplan <david.kaplan@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250516193212.128782-1-david.kaplan@amd.com
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No functional changes.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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1f4bb068b498 ("x86/bugs: Restructure SRSO mitigation") does this:
if (boot_cpu_data.x86 < 0x19 && !cpu_smt_possible()) {
setup_force_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_SRSO_NO);
srso_mitigation = SRSO_MITIGATION_NONE;
return;
}
and, in particular, sets srso_mitigation to NONE. This leads to
reporting
Speculative Return Stack Overflow: Vulnerable
on Zen2 machines.
There's a far bigger confusion with what SRSO_NO means and how it is
used in the code but this will be a matter of future fixes and
restructuring to how the SRSO mitigation gets determined.
Fix the reporting issue for now.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Reviewed-by: David Kaplan <david.kaplan@amd.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250513110405.15872-1-bp@kernel.org
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Conflicts:
Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/index.rst
arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h
arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
drivers/base/cpu.c
include/linux/cpu.h
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Conflicts:
arch/x86/boot/startup/sme.c
arch/x86/coco/sev/core.c
arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c
arch/x86/kernel/fpu/xstate.c
Semantic conflict:
arch/x86/include/asm/sev-internal.h
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Prepare to resolve conflicts with an upstream series of fixes that conflict
with pending x86 changes:
6f5bf947bab0 Merge tag 'its-for-linus-20250509' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Conflicts:
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 ITS mitigation from Dave Hansen:
"Mitigate Indirect Target Selection (ITS) issue.
I'd describe this one as a good old CPU bug where the behavior is
_obviously_ wrong, but since it just results in bad predictions it
wasn't wrong enough to notice. Well, the researchers noticed and also
realized that thus bug undermined a bunch of existing indirect branch
mitigations.
Thus the unusually wide impact on this one. Details:
ITS is a bug in some Intel CPUs that affects indirect branches
including RETs in the first half of a cacheline. Due to ITS such
branches may get wrongly predicted to a target of (direct or indirect)
branch that is located in the second half of a cacheline. Researchers
at VUSec found this behavior and reported to Intel.
Affected processors:
- Cascade Lake, Cooper Lake, Whiskey Lake V, Coffee Lake R, Comet
Lake, Ice Lake, Tiger Lake and Rocket Lake.
Scope of impact:
- Guest/host isolation:
When eIBRS is used for guest/host isolation, the indirect branches
in the VMM may still be predicted with targets corresponding to
direct branches in the guest.
- Intra-mode using cBPF:
cBPF can be used to poison the branch history to exploit ITS.
Realigning the indirect branches and RETs mitigates this attack
vector.
- User/kernel:
With eIBRS enabled user/kernel isolation is *not* impacted by ITS.
- Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier (IBPB):
Due to this bug indirect branches may be predicted with targets
corresponding to direct branches which were executed prior to IBPB.
This will be fixed in the microcode.
Mitigation:
As indirect branches in the first half of cacheline are affected, the
mitigation is to replace those indirect branches with a call to thunk that
is aligned to the second half of the cacheline.
RETs that take prediction from RSB are not affected, but they may be
affected by RSB-underflow condition. So, RETs in the first half of
cacheline are also patched to a return thunk that executes the RET aligned
to second half of cacheline"
* tag 'its-for-linus-20250509' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
selftest/x86/bugs: Add selftests for ITS
x86/its: FineIBT-paranoid vs ITS
x86/its: Use dynamic thunks for indirect branches
x86/ibt: Keep IBT disabled during alternative patching
mm/execmem: Unify early execmem_cache behaviour
x86/its: Align RETs in BHB clear sequence to avoid thunking
x86/its: Add support for RSB stuffing mitigation
x86/its: Add "vmexit" option to skip mitigation on some CPUs
x86/its: Enable Indirect Target Selection mitigation
x86/its: Add support for ITS-safe return thunk
x86/its: Add support for ITS-safe indirect thunk
x86/its: Enumerate Indirect Target Selection (ITS) bug
Documentation: x86/bugs/its: Add ITS documentation
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When retpoline mitigation is enabled for spectre-v2, enabling
call-depth-tracking and RSB stuffing also mitigates ITS. Add cmdline option
indirect_target_selection=stuff to allow enabling RSB stuffing mitigation.
When retpoline mitigation is not enabled, =stuff option is ignored, and
default mitigation for ITS is deployed.
Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Alexandre Chartre <alexandre.chartre@oracle.com>
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Ice Lake generation CPUs are not affected by guest/host isolation part of
ITS. If a user is only concerned about KVM guests, they can now choose a
new cmdline option "vmexit" that will not deploy the ITS mitigation when
CPU is not affected by guest/host isolation. This saves the performance
overhead of ITS mitigation on Ice Lake gen CPUs.
When "vmexit" option selected, if the CPU is affected by ITS guest/host
isolation, the default ITS mitigation is deployed.
Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Alexandre Chartre <alexandre.chartre@oracle.com>
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Indirect Target Selection (ITS) is a bug in some pre-ADL Intel CPUs with
eIBRS. It affects prediction of indirect branch and RETs in the
lower half of cacheline. Due to ITS such branches may get wrongly predicted
to a target of (direct or indirect) branch that is located in the upper
half of the cacheline.
Scope of impact
===============
Guest/host isolation
--------------------
When eIBRS is used for guest/host isolation, the indirect branches in the
VMM may still be predicted with targets corresponding to branches in the
guest.
Intra-mode
----------
cBPF or other native gadgets can be used for intra-mode training and
disclosure using ITS.
User/kernel isolation
---------------------
When eIBRS is enabled user/kernel isolation is not impacted.
Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier (IBPB)
-----------------------------------------
After an IBPB, indirect branches may be predicted with targets
corresponding to direct branches which were executed prior to IBPB. This is
mitigated by a microcode update.
Add cmdline parameter indirect_target_selection=off|on|force to control the
mitigation to relocate the affected branches to an ITS-safe thunk i.e.
located in the upper half of cacheline. Also add the sysfs reporting.
When retpoline mitigation is deployed, ITS safe-thunks are not needed,
because retpoline sequence is already ITS-safe. Similarly, when call depth
tracking (CDT) mitigation is deployed (retbleed=stuff), ITS safe return
thunk is not used, as CDT prevents RSB-underflow.
To not overcomplicate things, ITS mitigation is not supported with
spectre-v2 lfence;jmp mitigation. Moreover, it is less practical to deploy
lfence;jmp mitigation on ITS affected parts anyways.
Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Alexandre Chartre <alexandre.chartre@oracle.com>
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