3.16.68-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Tim Chen tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com
commit 34bce7c9690b1d897686aac89604ba7adc365556 upstream.
If enhanced IBRS is active, STIBP is redundant for mitigating Spectre v2 user space exploits from hyperthread sibling.
Disable STIBP when enhanced IBRS is used.
Signed-off-by: Tim Chen tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar mingo@kernel.org Cc: Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org Cc: Andy Lutomirski luto@kernel.org Cc: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: Jiri Kosina jkosina@suse.cz Cc: Tom Lendacky thomas.lendacky@amd.com Cc: Josh Poimboeuf jpoimboe@redhat.com Cc: Andrea Arcangeli aarcange@redhat.com Cc: David Woodhouse dwmw@amazon.co.uk Cc: Andi Kleen ak@linux.intel.com Cc: Dave Hansen dave.hansen@intel.com Cc: Casey Schaufler casey.schaufler@intel.com Cc: Asit Mallick asit.k.mallick@intel.com Cc: Arjan van de Ven arjan@linux.intel.com Cc: Jon Masters jcm@redhat.com Cc: Waiman Long longman9394@gmail.com Cc: Greg KH gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Cc: Dave Stewart david.c.stewart@intel.com Cc: Kees Cook keescook@chromium.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181125185003.966801480@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings ben@decadent.org.uk --- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c @@ -380,6 +380,10 @@ static bool stibp_needed(void) if (spectre_v2_enabled == SPECTRE_V2_NONE) return false;
+ /* Enhanced IBRS makes using STIBP unnecessary. */ + if (spectre_v2_enabled == SPECTRE_V2_IBRS_ENHANCED) + return false; + if (!boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_STIBP)) return false;
@@ -823,6 +827,9 @@ static void __init l1tf_select_mitigatio
static char *stibp_state(void) { + if (spectre_v2_enabled == SPECTRE_V2_IBRS_ENHANCED) + return ""; + if (x86_spec_ctrl_base & SPEC_CTRL_STIBP) return ", STIBP"; else