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-rw-r--r--arch/x86/Kconfig1
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/include/asm/sync_core.h28
2 files changed, 29 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index 423e4b64e683..31030ade4690 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ config X86
select ARCH_HAS_SG_CHAIN
select ARCH_HAS_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX
select ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX
+ select ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE
select ARCH_HAS_UBSAN_SANITIZE_ALL
select ARCH_HAS_ZONE_DEVICE if X86_64
select ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/sync_core.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/sync_core.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..c67caafd3381
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/sync_core.h
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
+#ifndef _ASM_X86_SYNC_CORE_H
+#define _ASM_X86_SYNC_CORE_H
+
+#include <linux/preempt.h>
+#include <asm/processor.h>
+#include <asm/cpufeature.h>
+
+/*
+ * Ensure that a core serializing instruction is issued before returning
+ * to user-mode. x86 implements return to user-space through sysexit,
+ * sysrel, and sysretq, which are not core serializing.
+ */
+static inline void sync_core_before_usermode(void)
+{
+ /* With PTI, we unconditionally serialize before running user code. */
+ if (static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_PTI))
+ return;
+ /*
+ * Return from interrupt and NMI is done through iret, which is core
+ * serializing.
+ */
+ if (in_irq() || in_nmi())
+ return;
+ sync_core();
+}
+
+#endif /* _ASM_X86_SYNC_CORE_H */