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x86: Introduce barrier_nospec
authorDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Tue, 30 Jan 2018 01:02:33 +0000 (17:02 -0800)
committerSeth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
Thu, 8 Feb 2018 03:08:35 +0000 (21:08 -0600)
commit07767336efd6301813806a4e45dd4a4b3ead120a
tree93cfea350b68bbdb1bdb7458d0d940883908332f
parentc933d8c703a662b8968a35112c788834bda60ff8
x86: Introduce barrier_nospec

BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1748072
commit b3d7ad85b80bbc404635dca80f5b129f6242bc7a

Rename the open coded form of this instruction sequence from
rdtsc_ordered() into a generic barrier primitive, barrier_nospec().

One of the mitigations for Spectre variant1 vulnerabilities is to fence
speculative execution after successfully validating a bounds check. I.e.
force the result of a bounds check to resolve in the instruction pipeline
to ensure speculative execution honors that result before potentially
operating on out-of-bounds data.

No functional changes.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Suggested-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com
Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: alan@linux.intel.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/151727415361.33451.9049453007262764675.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
arch/x86/include/asm/barrier.h
arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h