AMD's "Technical Guidance for Mitigating Branch Type Confusion, Rev. 1.0 2022-07-12" whitepaper, under section 6.1.2 "IBPB On Privileged Mode Entry / SMT Safety" says:
"Similar to the Jmp2Ret mitigation, if the code on the sibling thread cannot be trusted, software should set STIBP to 1 or disable SMT to ensure SMT safety when using this mitigation."
So, like already being done for retbleed=unret, the also for retbleed=ibpb, force STIBP on machines that have it, and report its SMT vulnerability status accordingly.
Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206537 Fixes: 3ebc17006888 ("x86/bugs: Add retbleed=ibpb") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.10, 5.15, 5.19 Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips kim.phillips@amd.com --- v4: Cc: stable (Greg K-H) v3: "unret and ibpb mitigations" -> "UNRET and IBPB mitigations" (Mingo) v2: Justify and explain STIBP's role with IBPB (Boris)
.../admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 20 ++++++++++++++----- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c | 10 ++++++---- 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index bab2b0bf5988..ed6a19ae0dd6 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -5260,20 +5260,30 @@ Speculative Code Execution with Return Instructions) vulnerability.
+ AMD-based UNRET and IBPB mitigations alone do not stop + sibling threads influencing the predictions of other sibling + threads. For that reason, we use STIBP on processors + that support it, and mitigate SMT on processors that don't. + off - no mitigation auto - automatically select a migitation auto,nosmt - automatically select a mitigation, disabling SMT if necessary for the full mitigation (only on Zen1 and older without STIBP). - ibpb - mitigate short speculation windows on + ibpb - [AMD] Mitigate short speculation windows on basic block boundaries too. Safe, highest - perf impact. - unret - force enable untrained return thunks, + perf impact. It also enables STIBP if + present. + ibpb,nosmt - [AMD] Like ibpb, but will disable SMT when STIBP + is not available. This is the alternative for + systems which do not have STIBP. + unret - [AMD] Force enable untrained return thunks, only effective on AMD f15h-f17h based systems. - unret,nosmt - like unret, will disable SMT when STIBP - is not available. + unret,nosmt - [AMD] Like unret, but will disable SMT when STIBP + is not available. This is the alternative for + systems which do not have STIBP.
Selecting 'auto' will choose a mitigation method at run time according to the CPU. diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c index 6761668100b9..d50686ca5870 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c @@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ void __init check_bugs(void) /* * spectre_v2_user_select_mitigation() relies on the state set by * retbleed_select_mitigation(); specifically the STIBP selection is - * forced for UNRET. + * forced for UNRET or IBPB. */ spectre_v2_user_select_mitigation(); ssb_select_mitigation(); @@ -1179,7 +1179,8 @@ spectre_v2_user_select_mitigation(void) boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_AMD_STIBP_ALWAYS_ON)) mode = SPECTRE_V2_USER_STRICT_PREFERRED;
- if (retbleed_mitigation == RETBLEED_MITIGATION_UNRET) { + if (retbleed_mitigation == RETBLEED_MITIGATION_UNRET || + retbleed_mitigation == RETBLEED_MITIGATION_IBPB) { if (mode != SPECTRE_V2_USER_STRICT && mode != SPECTRE_V2_USER_STRICT_PREFERRED) pr_info("Selecting STIBP always-on mode to complement retbleed mitigation\n"); @@ -2320,10 +2321,11 @@ static ssize_t srbds_show_state(char *buf)
static ssize_t retbleed_show_state(char *buf) { - if (retbleed_mitigation == RETBLEED_MITIGATION_UNRET) { + if (retbleed_mitigation == RETBLEED_MITIGATION_UNRET || + retbleed_mitigation == RETBLEED_MITIGATION_IBPB) { if (boot_cpu_data.x86_vendor != X86_VENDOR_AMD && boot_cpu_data.x86_vendor != X86_VENDOR_HYGON) - return sprintf(buf, "Vulnerable: untrained return thunk on non-Zen uarch\n"); + return sprintf(buf, "Vulnerable: untrained return thunk / IBPB on non-AMD based uarch\n");
return sprintf(buf, "%s; SMT %s\n", retbleed_strings[retbleed_mitigation],