x86/retpoline: Add LFENCE to the retpoline/RSB filling RSB macros
authorTom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Sat, 13 Jan 2018 23:27:30 +0000 (17:27 -0600)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Mon, 19 Mar 2018 18:58:33 +0000 (18:58 +0000)
commit338c0fea76c5051df7462181c7353b7a1b2ea70d
treee04cb48832d8f36b826bceff478fc4520eebdc4e
parent575f5119a9d1381877d5de3b03a9b139ff0d0a1d
x86/retpoline: Add LFENCE to the retpoline/RSB filling RSB macros

commit 28d437d550e1e39f805d99f9f8ac399c778827b7 upstream.

The PAUSE instruction is currently used in the retpoline and RSB filling
macros as a speculation trap.  The use of PAUSE was originally suggested
because it showed a very, very small difference in the amount of
cycles/time used to execute the retpoline as compared to LFENCE.  On AMD,
the PAUSE instruction is not a serializing instruction, so the pause/jmp
loop will use excess power as it is speculated over waiting for return
to mispredict to the correct target.

The RSB filling macro is applicable to AMD, and, if software is unable to
verify that LFENCE is serializing on AMD (possible when running under a
hypervisor), the generic retpoline support will be used and, so, is also
applicable to AMD.  Keep the current usage of PAUSE for Intel, but add an
LFENCE instruction to the speculation trap for AMD.

The same sequence has been adopted by GCC for the GCC generated retpolines.

Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Acked-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@google.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180113232730.31060.36287.stgit@tlendack-t1.amdoffice.net
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h