Linus Torvalds 94a855111e - Add the call depth tracking mitigation for Retbleed which has ... been long in the making. It is a lighterweight software-only fix for Skylake-based cores where enabling IBRS is a big hammer and causes a significant performance impact. What it basically does is, it aligns all kernel functions to 16 bytes boundary and adds a 16-byte padding before the function, objtool collects all functions' locations and when the mitigation gets applied, it patches a call accounting thunk which is used to track the call depth of the stack at any time. When that call depth reaches a magical, microarchitecture-specific value for the Return Stack Buffer, the code stuffs that RSB and avoids its underflow which could otherwise lead to the Intel variant of Retbleed. This software-only solution brings a lot of the lost performance back, as benchmarks suggest: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220915111039.092790446@infradead.org/ That page above also contains a lot more detailed explanation of the whole mechanism - Implement a new control flow integrity scheme called FineIBT which is based on the software kCFI implementation and uses hardware IBT support where present to annotate and track indirect branches using a hash to validate them - Other misc fixes and cleanups -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAABCgAdFiEEzv7L6UO9uDPlPSfHEsHwGGHeVUoFAmOZp5EACgkQEsHwGGHe VUrZFxAAvi/+8L0IYSK4mKJvixGbTFjxN/Swo2JVOfs34LqGUT6JaBc+VUMwZxdb VMTFIZ3ttkKEodjhxGI7oGev6V8UfhI37SmO2lYKXpQVjXXnMlv/M+Vw3teE38CN gopi+xtGnT1IeWQ3tc/Tv18pleJ0mh5HKWiW+9KoqgXj0wgF9x4eRYDz1TDCDA/A iaBzs56j8m/FSykZHnrWZ/MvjKNPdGlfJASUCPeTM2dcrXQGJ93+X2hJctzDte0y Nuiw6Y0htfFBE7xoJn+sqm5Okr+McoUM18/CCprbgSKYk18iMYm3ZtAi6FUQZS1A ua4wQCf49loGp15PO61AS5d3OBf5D3q/WihQRbCaJvTVgPp9sWYnWwtcVUuhMllh ZQtBU9REcVJ/22bH09Q9CjBW0VpKpXHveqQdqRDViLJ6v/iI6EFGmD24SW/VxyRd 73k9MBGrL/dOf1SbEzdsnvcSB3LGzp0Om8o/KzJWOomrVKjBCJy16bwTEsCZEJmP i406m92GPXeaN1GhTko7vmF0GnkEdJs1GVCZPluCAxxbhHukyxHnrjlQjI4vC80n Ylc0B3Kvitw7LGJsPqu+/jfNHADC/zhx1qz/30wb5cFmFbN1aRdp3pm8JYUkn+l/ zri2Y6+O89gvE/9/xUhMohzHsWUO7xITiBavewKeTP9GSWybWUs= =cRy1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Merge tag 'x86_core_for_v6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 core updates from Borislav Petkov: - Add the call depth tracking mitigation for Retbleed which has been long in the making. It is a lighterweight software-only fix for Skylake-based cores where enabling IBRS is a big hammer and causes a significant performance impact. What it basically does is, it aligns all kernel functions to 16 bytes boundary and adds a 16-byte padding before the function, objtool collects all functions' locations and when the mitigation gets applied, it patches a call accounting thunk which is used to track the call depth of the stack at any time. When that call depth reaches a magical, microarchitecture-specific value for the Return Stack Buffer, the code stuffs that RSB and avoids its underflow which could otherwise lead to the Intel variant of Retbleed. This software-only solution brings a lot of the lost performance back, as benchmarks suggest: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220915111039.092790446@infradead.org/ That page above also contains a lot more detailed explanation of the whole mechanism - Implement a new control flow integrity scheme called FineIBT which is based on the software kCFI implementation and uses hardware IBT support where present to annotate and track indirect branches using a hash to validate them - Other misc fixes and cleanups * tag 'x86_core_for_v6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (80 commits) x86/paravirt: Use common macro for creating simple asm paravirt functions x86/paravirt: Remove clobber bitmask from .parainstructions x86/debug: Include percpu.h in debugreg.h to get DECLARE_PER_CPU() et al x86/cpufeatures: Move X86_FEATURE_CALL_DEPTH from bit 18 to bit 19 of word 11, to leave space for WIP X86_FEATURE_SGX_EDECCSSA bit x86/Kconfig: Enable kernel IBT by default x86,pm: Force out-of-line memcpy() objtool: Fix weak hole vs prefix symbol objtool: Optimize elf_dirty_reloc_sym() x86/cfi: Add boot time hash randomization x86/cfi: Boot time selection of CFI scheme x86/ibt: Implement FineIBT objtool: Add --cfi to generate the .cfi_sites section x86: Add prefix symbols for function padding objtool: Add option to generate prefix symbols objtool: Avoid O(bloody terrible) behaviour -- an ode to libelf objtool: Slice up elf_create_section_symbol() kallsyms: Revert "Take callthunks into account" x86: Unconfuse CONFIG_ and X86_FEATURE_ namespaces x86/retpoline: Fix crash printing warning x86/paravirt: Fix a !PARAVIRT build warning ...		2022-12-14 15:03:00 -08:00
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cpu.c	- Split MTRR and PAT init code to accomodate at least Xen PV and TDX	2022-12-13 14:56:56 -08:00
hibernate_32.c
hibernate_64.c
hibernate_asm_32.S
hibernate_asm_64.S
hibernate.c	x86,pm: Force out-of-line memcpy()	2022-11-05 11:28:02 +01:00
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