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Ashok Raj d395d69de6 KVM/x86: Add IBPB support 
commit 15d4507152

The Indirect Branch Predictor Barrier (IBPB) is an indirect branch
control mechanism. It keeps earlier branches from influencing
later ones.

Unlike IBRS and STIBP, IBPB does not define a new mode of operation.
It's a command that ensures predicted branch targets aren't used after
the barrier. Although IBRS and IBPB are enumerated by the same CPUID
enumeration, IBPB is very different.

IBPB helps mitigate against three potential attacks:

* Mitigate guests from being attacked by other guests.
  - This is addressed by issing IBPB when we do a guest switch.

* Mitigate attacks from guest/ring3->host/ring3.
  These would require a IBPB during context switch in host, or after
  VMEXIT. The host process has two ways to mitigate
  - Either it can be compiled with retpoline
  - If its going through context switch, and has set !dumpable then
    there is a IBPB in that path.
    (Tim's patch: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10192871)
  - The case where after a VMEXIT you return back to Qemu might make
    Qemu attackable from guest when Qemu isn't compiled with retpoline.
  There are issues reported when doing IBPB on every VMEXIT that resulted
  in some tsc calibration woes in guest.

* Mitigate guest/ring0->host/ring0 attacks.
  When host kernel is using retpoline it is safe against these attacks.
  If host kernel isn't using retpoline we might need to do a IBPB flush on
  every VMEXIT.

Even when using retpoline for indirect calls, in certain conditions 'ret'
can use the BTB on Skylake-era CPUs. There are other mitigations
available like RSB stuffing/clearing.

* IBPB is issued only for SVM during svm_free_vcpu().
  VMX has a vmclear and SVM doesn't.  Follow discussion here:
  https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/1/15/146

Please refer to the following spec for more details on the enumeration
and control.

Refer here to get documentation about mitigations.

https://software.intel.com/en-us/side-channel-security-support

[peterz: rebase and changelog rewrite]
[karahmed: - rebase
           - vmx: expose PRED_CMD if guest has it in CPUID
           - svm: only pass through IBPB if guest has it in CPUID
           - vmx: support !cpu_has_vmx_msr_bitmap()]
           - vmx: support nested]
[dwmw2: Expose CPUID bit too (AMD IBPB only for now as we lack IBRS)
        PRED_CMD is a write-only MSR]

Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: KarimAllah Ahmed <karahmed@amazon.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Asit Mallick <asit.k.mallick@intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Arjan Van De Ven <arjan.van.de.ven@intel.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Jun Nakajima <jun.nakajima@intel.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1515720739-43819-6-git-send-email-ashok.raj@intel.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1517522386-18410-3-git-send-email-karahmed@amazon.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
History 2018-02-07 11:12:25 -08:00
arch KVM/x86: Add IBPB support 2018-02-07 11:12:25 -08:00
block block: don't let passthrough IO go into .make_request_fn() 2018-01-02 20:31:05 +01:00
certs License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
crypto crypto: af_alg - whitelist mask and type 2018-02-03 17:38:51 +01:00
Documentation x86/paravirt: Remove 'noreplace-paravirt' cmdline option 2018-02-07 11:12:24 -08:00
drivers pinctrl: pxa: pxa2xx: add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION/AUTHOR/LICENSE 2018-02-07 11:12:20 -08:00
firmware License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
fs xfs: Properly retry failed dquot items in case of error during buffer writeback 2018-02-03 17:39:15 +01:00
include x86/retpoline: Avoid retpolines for built-in __init functions 2018-02-07 11:12:25 -08:00
init bpf: introduce BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON config 2018-01-31 14:03:49 +01:00
ipc License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
kernel module/retpoline: Warn about missing retpoline in module 2018-02-07 11:12:18 -08:00
lib test_firmware: fix missing unlock on error in config_num_requests_store() 2018-02-03 17:39:24 +01:00
mm kmemleak: add scheduling point to kmemleak_scan() 2018-02-03 17:39:12 +01:00
net nl80211: Sanitize array index in parse_txq_params 2018-02-07 11:12:23 -08:00
samples samples/bpf: adjust rlimit RLIMIT_MEMLOCK for xdp1 2017-12-20 10:10:31 +01:00
scripts module/retpoline: Warn about missing retpoline in module 2018-02-07 11:12:18 -08:00
security ima/policy: fix parsing of fsuuid 2018-02-03 17:38:53 +01:00
sound ASoC: pcm512x: add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION/AUTHOR/LICENSE 2018-02-07 11:12:20 -08:00
tools objtool: Warn on stripped section symbol 2018-02-07 11:12:21 -08:00
usr initramfs: fix initramfs rebuilds w/ compression after disabling 2017-11-03 07:39:19 -07:00
virt KVM: Let KVM_SET_SIGNAL_MASK work as advertised 2018-02-03 17:39:06 +01:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add hch to .get_maintainer.ignore 2015-08-21 14:30:10 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore kbuild: Add support to generate LLVM assembly files 2017-04-25 08:13:52 +09:00
.mailmap .mailmap: Add Maciej W. Rozycki's Imagination e-mail address 2017-11-10 12:16:15 -08:00
COPYING [PATCH] update FSF address in COPYING 2005-09-10 10:06:29 -07:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: update TPM driver infrastructure changes 2017-11-09 17:58:40 -08:00
Kbuild License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
Kconfig License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
MAINTAINERS Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2017-11-09 18:26:51 -08:00
Makefile Linux 4.14.17 2018-02-03 17:39:25 +01:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.