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Thomas Gleixner a17888154c x86/speculation: Prepare for conditional IBPB in switch_mm() 
commit 4c71a2b6fd upstream

The IBPB speculation barrier is issued from switch_mm() when the kernel
switches to a user space task with a different mm than the user space task
which ran last on the same CPU.

An additional optimization is to avoid IBPB when the incoming task can be
ptraced by the outgoing task. This optimization only works when switching
directly between two user space tasks. When switching from a kernel task to
a user space task the optimization fails because the previous task cannot
be accessed anymore. So for quite some scenarios the optimization is just
adding overhead.

The upcoming conditional IBPB support will issue IBPB only for user space
tasks which have the TIF_SPEC_IB bit set. This requires to handle the
following cases:

  1) Switch from a user space task (potential attacker) which has
     TIF_SPEC_IB set to a user space task (potential victim) which has
     TIF_SPEC_IB not set.

  2) Switch from a user space task (potential attacker) which has
     TIF_SPEC_IB not set to a user space task (potential victim) which has
     TIF_SPEC_IB set.

This needs to be optimized for the case where the IBPB can be avoided when
only kernel threads ran in between user space tasks which belong to the
same process.

The current check whether two tasks belong to the same context is using the
tasks context id. While correct, it's simpler to use the mm pointer because
it allows to mangle the TIF_SPEC_IB bit into it. The context id based
mechanism requires extra storage, which creates worse code.

When a task is scheduled out its TIF_SPEC_IB bit is mangled as bit 0 into
the per CPU storage which is used to track the last user space mm which was
running on a CPU. This bit can be used together with the TIF_SPEC_IB bit of
the incoming task to make the decision whether IBPB needs to be issued or
not to cover the two cases above.

As conditional IBPB is going to be the default, remove the dubious ptrace
check for the IBPB always case and simply issue IBPB always when the
process changes.

Move the storage to a different place in the struct as the original one
created a hole.

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: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
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/20181125185005.466447057@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-12-05 19:32:03 +01:00
arch x86/speculation: Prepare for conditional IBPB in switch_mm() 2018-12-05 19:32:03 +01:00
block block: copy ioprio in __bio_clone_fast() and bounce 2018-12-01 09:37:32 +01:00
certs export.h: remove VMLINUX_SYMBOL() and VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR() 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
crypto crypto: simd - correctly take reqsize of wrapped skcipher into account 2018-12-01 09:37:32 +01:00
Documentation x86/speculation: Add command line control for indirect branch speculation 2018-12-05 19:32:03 +01:00
drivers net: phy: add workaround for issue where PHY driver doesn't bind to the device 2018-12-05 19:32:00 +01:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs gfs2: Fix iomap buffer head reference counting bug 2018-12-01 09:37:34 +01:00
include x86/speculation: Rework SMT state change 2018-12-05 19:32:02 +01:00
init Kbuild updates for v4.19 (2nd) 2018-08-25 13:40:38 -07:00
ipc ipc/shm.c: use ERR_CAST() for shm_lock() error return 2018-10-05 16:32:04 -07:00
kernel x86/speculation: Rework SMT state change 2018-12-05 19:32:02 +01:00
lib lib/raid6: Fix arm64 test build 2018-11-27 16:13:05 +01:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Remove CC-BY-SA-4.0 license text 2018-10-18 11:28:50 +02:00
mm mm/khugepaged: collapse_shmem() do not crash on Compound 2018-12-05 19:31:57 +01:00
net tipc: fix lockdep warning during node delete 2018-12-05 19:32:00 +01:00
samples samples: disable CONFIG_SAMPLES for UML 2018-10-11 02:15:46 +09:00
scripts x86/retpoline: Make CONFIG_RETPOLINE depend on compiler support 2018-12-05 19:32:01 +01:00
security selinux: Add __GFP_NOWARN to allocation at str_read() 2018-12-01 09:37:27 +01:00
sound ALSA: oss: Use kvzalloc() for local buffer allocations 2018-12-01 09:37:25 +01:00
tools tools/testing/nvdimm: Fix the array size for dimm devices. 2018-12-01 09:37:31 +01:00
usr initramfs: move gen_initramfs_list.sh from scripts/ to usr/ 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
virt KVM: arm64: Fix caching of host MDCR_EL2 value 2018-11-13 11:08:47 -08:00
.clang-format clang-format: Set IndentWrappedFunctionNames false 2018-08-01 18:38:51 +02:00
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.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore Kbuild updates for v4.17 (2nd) 2018-04-15 17:21:30 -07:00
.mailmap libnvdimm-for-4.19_misc 2018-08-25 18:13:10 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS 9p: remove Ron Minnich from MAINTAINERS 2018-08-17 16:20:26 -07:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig kconfig: move the "Executable file formats" menu to fs/Kconfig.binfmt 2018-08-02 08:06:55 +09:00
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: Add Sasha as a stable branch maintainer 2018-12-01 09:37:25 +01:00
Makefile Linux 4.19.6 2018-12-01 09:37:35 +01:00
README Docs: Added a pointer to the formatted docs to README 2018-03-21 09:02:53 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

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.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

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.