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| author | Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> | 2018-01-29 17:02:33 -0800 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2018-02-07 11:12:22 -0800 |
| commit | 437ac7b6868da05620764c143c0e4f7aa91e8fc7 (patch) | |
| tree | 89ff6e116820ed0a4dbec2a2fa4054b229695df4 /arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h | |
| parent | 4820d42835b2741fc18b8f6135c90dc1128974bc (diff) | |
x86: Introduce barrier_nospec
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h | 3 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h index 07962f5f6fba..30df295f6d94 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h @@ -214,8 +214,7 @@ static __always_inline unsigned long long rdtsc_ordered(void) * that some other imaginary CPU is updating continuously with a * time stamp. */ - alternative_2("", "mfence", X86_FEATURE_MFENCE_RDTSC, - "lfence", X86_FEATURE_LFENCE_RDTSC); + barrier_nospec(); return rdtsc(); } |