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x86/speculation: Disable STIBP when enhanced IBRS is in use

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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>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181125185003.966801480@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Tim Chen 2018-11-25 19:33:33 +01:00 committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent 8588c7d4a4
commit aca2ddbc23
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@ -319,6 +319,10 @@ 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;
@ -843,6 +847,9 @@ static ssize_t l1tf_show_state(char *buf)
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