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Zeroise user state in gprs (assign to zero) to reduce the influence of user registers on speculation within kernel syscall handlers. Clears occur at the very beginning of the sc and scv 0 interrupt handlers, with restores occurring following the execution of the syscall handler. Zeroise GPRS r0, r2-r11, r14-r31, on entry into the kernel for all other interrupt sources. The remaining gprs are overwritten by entry macros to interrupt handlers, irrespective of whether or not a given handler consumes these register values. If an interrupt does not select the IMSR_R12 IOption, zeroise r12. Prior to this commit, r14-r31 are restored on a per-interrupt basis at exit, but now they are always restored on 64bit Book3S. Remove explicit REST_NVGPRS invocations on 64-bit Book3S. 32-bit systems do not clear user registers on interrupt, and continue to depend on the return value of interrupt_exit_user_prepare to determine whether or not to restore non-volatiles. The mmap_bench benchmark in selftests should rapidly invoke pagefaults. See ~0.8% performance regression with this mitigation, but this indicates the worst-case performance due to heavier-weight interrupt handlers. This mitigation is able to be enabled/disabled through CONFIG_INTERRUPT_SANITIZE_REGISTERS. Reviewed-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Rohan McLure <rmclure@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221201071019.1953023-5-rmclure@linux.ibm.com
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
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.