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[5.4,36/37] x86/bugs: Warn when "ibrs" mitigation is selected on Enhanced IBRS parts

Message ID 20221003131038.12645-37-cascardo@canonical.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series IBRS support // Retbleed mitigations | expand

Commit Message

Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Oct. 3, 2022, 1:10 p.m. UTC 
From: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>

commit eb23b5ef9131e6d65011de349a4d25ef1b3d4314 upstream.

IBRS mitigation for spectre_v2 forces write to MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL at
every kernel entry/exit. On Enhanced IBRS parts setting
MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL[IBRS] only once at boot is sufficient. MSR writes at
every kernel entry/exit incur unnecessary performance loss.

When Enhanced IBRS feature is present, print a warning about this
unnecessary performance loss.

Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@canonical.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/2a5eaf54583c2bfe0edc4fea64006656256cca17.1657814857.git.pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@canonical.com>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
index 56feba04d1f5..07afdc82b5c8 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
@@ -851,6 +851,7 @@  static inline const char *spectre_v2_module_string(void) { return ""; }
 #define SPECTRE_V2_LFENCE_MSG "WARNING: LFENCE mitigation is not recommended for this CPU, data leaks possible!\n"
 #define SPECTRE_V2_EIBRS_EBPF_MSG "WARNING: Unprivileged eBPF is enabled with eIBRS on, data leaks possible via Spectre v2 BHB attacks!\n"
 #define SPECTRE_V2_EIBRS_LFENCE_EBPF_SMT_MSG "WARNING: Unprivileged eBPF is enabled with eIBRS+LFENCE mitigation and SMT, data leaks possible via Spectre v2 BHB attacks!\n"
+#define SPECTRE_V2_IBRS_PERF_MSG "WARNING: IBRS mitigation selected on Enhanced IBRS CPU, this may cause unnecessary performance loss\n"
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL
 void unpriv_ebpf_notify(int new_state)
@@ -1277,6 +1278,8 @@  static void __init spectre_v2_select_mitigation(void)
 
 	case SPECTRE_V2_IBRS:
 		setup_force_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_KERNEL_IBRS);
+		if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_IBRS_ENHANCED))
+			pr_warn(SPECTRE_V2_IBRS_PERF_MSG);
 		break;
 
 	case SPECTRE_V2_LFENCE: