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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: x86@kernel.org, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>,
	Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>,
	Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>,
	Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
	Casey Schaufler <casey.schaufler@intel.com>,
	Asit Mallick <asit.k.mallick@intel.com>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>,
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	Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
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	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Subject: [patch V2 25/28] x86/speculation: Add prctl() control for indirect branch speculation
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2018 19:33:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181125185005.866780996@linutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20181125183328.318175777@linutronix.de

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Add the PR_SPEC_INDIRECT_BRANCH option for the PR_GET_SPECULATION_CTRL and
PR_SET_SPECULATION_CTRL prctls to allow fine grained per task control of
indirect branch speculation via STIBP and IBPB.

Invocations:
 Check indirect branch speculation status with
 - prctl(PR_GET_SPECULATION_CTRL, PR_SPEC_INDIRECT_BRANCH, 0, 0, 0);

 Enable indirect branch speculation with
 - prctl(PR_SET_SPECULATION_CTRL, PR_SPEC_INDIRECT_BRANCH, PR_SPEC_ENABLE, 0, 0);

 Disable indirect branch speculation with
 - prctl(PR_SET_SPECULATION_CTRL, PR_SPEC_INDIRECT_BRANCH, PR_SPEC_DISABLE, 0, 0);

 Force disable indirect branch speculation with
 - prctl(PR_SET_SPECULATION_CTRL, PR_SPEC_INDIRECT_BRANCH, PR_SPEC_FORCE_DISABLE, 0, 0);

See Documentation/userspace-api/spec_ctrl.rst.

Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
---

V1 -> V2: s/INDIR_/INDIRECT_/ in ABI
      	  s/INDIR_BRANCH/IB/ for internal functions and defines
	  s/app2app/user/
	  Merge the DISABLE cases
---
 Documentation/userspace-api/spec_ctrl.rst |    9 ++++
 arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h      |    1 
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c                |   67 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 include/linux/sched.h                     |    9 ++++
 include/uapi/linux/prctl.h                |    1 
 tools/include/uapi/linux/prctl.h          |    1 
 6 files changed, 88 insertions(+)

--- a/Documentation/userspace-api/spec_ctrl.rst
+++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/spec_ctrl.rst
@@ -92,3 +92,12 @@ Speculation misfeature controls
    * prctl(PR_SET_SPECULATION_CTRL, PR_SPEC_STORE_BYPASS, PR_SPEC_ENABLE, 0, 0);
    * prctl(PR_SET_SPECULATION_CTRL, PR_SPEC_STORE_BYPASS, PR_SPEC_DISABLE, 0, 0);
    * prctl(PR_SET_SPECULATION_CTRL, PR_SPEC_STORE_BYPASS, PR_SPEC_FORCE_DISABLE, 0, 0);
+
+- PR_SPEC_INDIR_BRANCH: Indirect Branch Speculation in User Processes
+                        (Mitigate Spectre V2 style attacks against user processes)
+
+  Invocations:
+   * prctl(PR_GET_SPECULATION_CTRL, PR_SPEC_INDIRECT_BRANCH, 0, 0, 0);
+   * prctl(PR_SET_SPECULATION_CTRL, PR_SPEC_INDIRECT_BRANCH, PR_SPEC_ENABLE, 0, 0);
+   * prctl(PR_SET_SPECULATION_CTRL, PR_SPEC_INDIRECT_BRANCH, PR_SPEC_DISABLE, 0, 0);
+   * prctl(PR_SET_SPECULATION_CTRL, PR_SPEC_INDIRECT_BRANCH, PR_SPEC_FORCE_DISABLE, 0, 0);
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h
@@ -232,6 +232,7 @@ enum spectre_v2_mitigation {
 enum spectre_v2_user_mitigation {
 	SPECTRE_V2_USER_NONE,
 	SPECTRE_V2_USER_STRICT,
+	SPECTRE_V2_USER_PRCTL,
 };
 
 /* The Speculative Store Bypass disable variants */
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
@@ -566,6 +566,8 @@ void arch_smt_update(void)
 	case SPECTRE_V2_USER_STRICT:
 		update_stibp_strict();
 		break;
+	case SPECTRE_V2_USER_PRCTL:
+		break;
 	}
 
 	mutex_unlock(&spec_ctrl_mutex);
@@ -756,12 +758,50 @@ static int ssb_prctl_set(struct task_str
 	return 0;
 }
 
+static int ib_prctl_set(struct task_struct *task, unsigned long ctrl)
+{
+	switch (ctrl) {
+	case PR_SPEC_ENABLE:
+		if (spectre_v2_user == SPECTRE_V2_USER_NONE)
+			return 0;
+		/*
+		 * Indirect branch speculation is always disabled in strict
+		 * mode.
+		 */
+		if (spectre_v2_user == SPECTRE_V2_USER_STRICT)
+			return -EPERM;
+		task_clear_spec_ib_disable(task);
+		task_update_spec_tif(task, TIF_SPEC_IB, false);
+		break;
+	case PR_SPEC_DISABLE:
+	case PR_SPEC_FORCE_DISABLE:
+		/*
+		 * Indirect branch speculation is always allowed when
+		 * mitigation is force disabled.
+		 */
+		if (spectre_v2_user == SPECTRE_V2_USER_NONE)
+			return -EPERM;
+		if (spectre_v2_user == SPECTRE_V2_USER_STRICT)
+			return 0;
+		task_set_spec_ib_disable(task);
+		if (ctrl == PR_SPEC_FORCE_DISABLE)
+			task_set_spec_ib_force_disable(task);
+		task_update_spec_tif(task, TIF_SPEC_IB, true);
+		break;
+	default:
+		return -ERANGE;
+	}
+	return 0;
+}
+
 int arch_prctl_spec_ctrl_set(struct task_struct *task, unsigned long which,
 			     unsigned long ctrl)
 {
 	switch (which) {
 	case PR_SPEC_STORE_BYPASS:
 		return ssb_prctl_set(task, ctrl);
+	case PR_SPEC_INDIRECT_BRANCH:
+		return ib_prctl_set(task, ctrl);
 	default:
 		return -ENODEV;
 	}
@@ -794,11 +834,34 @@ static int ssb_prctl_get(struct task_str
 	}
 }
 
+static int ib_prctl_get(struct task_struct *task)
+{
+	if (!boot_cpu_has_bug(X86_BUG_SPECTRE_V2))
+		return PR_SPEC_NOT_AFFECTED;
+
+	switch (spectre_v2_user) {
+	case SPECTRE_V2_USER_NONE:
+		return PR_SPEC_ENABLE;
+	case SPECTRE_V2_USER_PRCTL:
+		if (task_spec_ib_force_disable(task))
+			return PR_SPEC_PRCTL | PR_SPEC_FORCE_DISABLE;
+		if (test_tsk_thread_flag(task, TIF_SPEC_IB))
+			return PR_SPEC_PRCTL | PR_SPEC_DISABLE;
+		return PR_SPEC_PRCTL | PR_SPEC_ENABLE;
+	case SPECTRE_V2_USER_STRICT:
+		return PR_SPEC_DISABLE;
+	default:
+		return PR_SPEC_NOT_AFFECTED;
+	}
+}
+
 int arch_prctl_spec_ctrl_get(struct task_struct *task, unsigned long which)
 {
 	switch (which) {
 	case PR_SPEC_STORE_BYPASS:
 		return ssb_prctl_get(task);
+	case PR_SPEC_INDIRECT_BRANCH:
+		return ib_prctl_get(task);
 	default:
 		return -ENODEV;
 	}
@@ -978,6 +1041,8 @@ static char *stibp_state(void)
 		return ", STIBP: disabled";
 	case SPECTRE_V2_USER_STRICT:
 		return ", STIBP: forced";
+	case SPECTRE_V2_USER_PRCTL:
+		return "";
 	}
 	return "";
 }
@@ -990,6 +1055,8 @@ static char *ibpb_state(void)
 			return ", IBPB: disabled";
 		case SPECTRE_V2_USER_STRICT:
 			return ", IBPB: always-on";
+		case SPECTRE_V2_USER_PRCTL:
+			return "";
 		}
 	}
 	return "";
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -1453,6 +1453,8 @@ static inline bool is_percpu_thread(void
 #define PFA_SPREAD_SLAB			2	/* Spread some slab caches over cpuset */
 #define PFA_SPEC_SSB_DISABLE		3	/* Speculative Store Bypass disabled */
 #define PFA_SPEC_SSB_FORCE_DISABLE	4	/* Speculative Store Bypass force disabled*/
+#define PFA_SPEC_IB_DISABLE		5	/* Indirect branch speculation restricted */
+#define PFA_SPEC_IB_FORCE_DISABLE	6	/* Indirect branch speculation permanently restricted */
 
 #define TASK_PFA_TEST(name, func)					\
 	static inline bool task_##func(struct task_struct *p)		\
@@ -1484,6 +1486,13 @@ TASK_PFA_CLEAR(SPEC_SSB_DISABLE, spec_ss
 TASK_PFA_TEST(SPEC_SSB_FORCE_DISABLE, spec_ssb_force_disable)
 TASK_PFA_SET(SPEC_SSB_FORCE_DISABLE, spec_ssb_force_disable)
 
+TASK_PFA_TEST(SPEC_IB_DISABLE, spec_ib_disable)
+TASK_PFA_SET(SPEC_IB_DISABLE, spec_ib_disable)
+TASK_PFA_CLEAR(SPEC_IB_DISABLE, spec_ib_disable)
+
+TASK_PFA_TEST(SPEC_IB_FORCE_DISABLE, spec_ib_force_disable)
+TASK_PFA_SET(SPEC_IB_FORCE_DISABLE, spec_ib_force_disable)
+
 static inline void
 current_restore_flags(unsigned long orig_flags, unsigned long flags)
 {
--- a/include/uapi/linux/prctl.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/prctl.h
@@ -212,6 +212,7 @@ struct prctl_mm_map {
 #define PR_SET_SPECULATION_CTRL		53
 /* Speculation control variants */
 # define PR_SPEC_STORE_BYPASS		0
+# define PR_SPEC_INDIRECT_BRANCH	1
 /* Return and control values for PR_SET/GET_SPECULATION_CTRL */
 # define PR_SPEC_NOT_AFFECTED		0
 # define PR_SPEC_PRCTL			(1UL << 0)
--- a/tools/include/uapi/linux/prctl.h
+++ b/tools/include/uapi/linux/prctl.h
@@ -212,6 +212,7 @@ struct prctl_mm_map {
 #define PR_SET_SPECULATION_CTRL		53
 /* Speculation control variants */
 # define PR_SPEC_STORE_BYPASS		0
+# define PR_SPEC_INDIRECT_BRANCH	1
 /* Return and control values for PR_SET/GET_SPECULATION_CTRL */
 # define PR_SPEC_NOT_AFFECTED		0
 # define PR_SPEC_PRCTL			(1UL << 0)



  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-11-25 18:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 112+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-25 18:33 [patch V2 00/28] x86/speculation: Remedy the STIBP/IBPB overhead Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-25 18:33 ` [patch V2 01/28] x86/speculation: Update the TIF_SSBD comment Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-28 14:20   ` [tip:x86/pti] " tip-bot for Tim Chen
2018-11-29 14:27   ` [patch V2 01/28] " Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2018-11-25 18:33 ` [patch V2 02/28] x86/speculation: Clean up spectre_v2_parse_cmdline() Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-28 14:20   ` [tip:x86/pti] " tip-bot for Tim Chen
2018-11-29 14:28   ` [patch V2 02/28] " Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2018-11-25 18:33 ` [patch V2 03/28] x86/speculation: Remove unnecessary ret variable in cpu_show_common() Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-28 14:21   ` [tip:x86/pti] " tip-bot for Tim Chen
2018-11-29 14:28   ` [patch V2 03/28] " Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2018-11-25 18:33 ` [patch V2 04/28] x86/speculation: Reorganize cpu_show_common() Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-26 15:08   ` Borislav Petkov
2018-11-28 14:22   ` [tip:x86/pti] x86/speculation: Move STIPB/IBPB string conditionals out of cpu_show_common() tip-bot for Tim Chen
2018-11-29 14:29   ` [patch V2 04/28] x86/speculation: Reorganize cpu_show_common() Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2018-11-25 18:33 ` [patch V2 05/28] x86/speculation: Disable STIBP when enhanced IBRS is in use Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-28 14:22   ` [tip:x86/pti] " tip-bot for Tim Chen
2018-11-29 14:35   ` [patch V2 05/28] " Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2018-11-25 18:33 ` [patch V2 06/28] x86/speculation: Rename SSBD update functions Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-26 15:24   ` Borislav Petkov
2018-11-28 14:23   ` [tip:x86/pti] " tip-bot for Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-29 14:37   ` [patch V2 06/28] " Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2018-11-25 18:33 ` [patch V2 07/28] x86/speculation: Reorganize speculation control MSRs update Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-26 15:47   ` Borislav Petkov
2018-11-28 14:23   ` [tip:x86/pti] " tip-bot for Tim Chen
2018-11-29 14:41   ` [patch V2 07/28] " Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2018-11-25 18:33 ` [patch V2 08/28] sched/smt: Make sched_smt_present track topology Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-28 14:24   ` [tip:x86/pti] " tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra (Intel)
2018-11-29 14:42   ` [patch V2 08/28] " Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2018-11-29 14:50     ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2018-11-29 15:48       ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-11-25 18:33 ` [patch V2 09/28] x86/Kconfig: Select SCHED_SMT if SMP enabled Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-28 14:24   ` [tip:x86/pti] " tip-bot for Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-29 14:44   ` [patch V2 09/28] " Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2018-11-25 18:33 ` [patch V2 10/28] sched/smt: Expose sched_smt_present static key Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-28 14:25   ` [tip:x86/pti] " tip-bot for Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-29 14:44   ` [patch V2 10/28] " Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2018-11-25 18:33 ` [patch V2 11/28] x86/speculation: Rework SMT state change Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-28 14:26   ` [tip:x86/pti] " tip-bot for Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-25 18:33 ` [patch V2 12/28] x86/l1tf: Show actual SMT state Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-28 14:26   ` [tip:x86/pti] " tip-bot for Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-25 18:33 ` [patch V2 13/28] x86/speculation: Reorder the spec_v2 code Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-26 22:21   ` Borislav Petkov
2018-11-28 14:27   ` [tip:x86/pti] " tip-bot for Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-25 18:33 ` [patch V2 14/28] x86/speculation: Mark string arrays const correctly Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-28 14:27   ` [tip:x86/pti] " tip-bot for Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-25 18:33 ` [patch V2 15/28] x86/speculataion: Mark command line parser data __initdata Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-28 14:28   ` [tip:x86/pti] " tip-bot for Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-25 18:33 ` [patch V2 16/28] x86/speculation: Unify conditional spectre v2 print functions Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-28 14:29   ` [tip:x86/pti] " tip-bot for Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-25 18:33 ` [patch V2 17/28] x86/speculation: Add command line control for indirect branch speculation Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-28 14:29   ` [tip:x86/pti] " tip-bot for Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-25 18:33 ` [patch V2 18/28] x86/speculation: Prepare for per task indirect branch speculation control Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-27 17:25   ` Lendacky, Thomas
2018-11-27 19:51     ` Tim Chen
2018-11-28  9:39       ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-27 20:39     ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-27 20:42       ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-27 21:52         ` Lendacky, Thomas
2018-11-28 14:30   ` [tip:x86/pti] " tip-bot for Tim Chen
2018-11-25 18:33 ` [patch V2 19/28] x86/process: Consolidate and simplify switch_to_xtra() code Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-26 18:30   ` Borislav Petkov
2018-11-28 14:30   ` [tip:x86/pti] " tip-bot for Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-25 18:33 ` [patch V2 20/28] x86/speculation: Avoid __switch_to_xtra() calls Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-28 14:31   ` [tip:x86/pti] " tip-bot for Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-25 18:33 ` [patch V2 21/28] x86/speculation: Prepare for conditional IBPB in switch_mm() Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-25 19:11   ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-25 20:53   ` Andi Kleen
2018-11-25 22:20     ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-25 23:04       ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-11-26  7:10         ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-26 13:36           ` Ingo Molnar
2018-11-26  3:07       ` Andi Kleen
2018-11-26  6:50         ` Thomas Gleixner
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2018-11-25 18:33 ` [patch V2 22/28] ptrace: Remove unused ptrace_may_access_sched() and MODE_IBRS Thomas Gleixner
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2018-11-25 18:33 ` [patch V2 24/28] x86/speculation: Prepare arch_smt_update() for PRCTL mode Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-27 20:18   ` Lendacky, Thomas
2018-11-27 20:30     ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-27 21:20       ` Lendacky, Thomas
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2018-11-25 18:33 ` [patch V2 26/28] x86/speculation: Enable prctl mode for spectre_v2_user Thomas Gleixner
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2018-11-28 14:35   ` [tip:x86/pti] " tip-bot for Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-25 18:33 ` [patch V2 27/28] x86/speculation: Add seccomp Spectre v2 user space protection mode Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-25 19:35   ` Randy Dunlap
2018-11-25 20:40   ` Linus Torvalds
2018-11-25 20:52     ` Jiri Kosina
2018-11-25 22:28     ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-26 13:30       ` Ingo Molnar
2018-11-26 20:48       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2018-11-26 20:58         ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-26 21:52           ` Lendacky, Thomas
2018-11-27  0:37             ` Tim Chen
2018-12-04  1:38     ` Tim Chen
2018-12-04  8:39       ` Jiri Kosina
2018-12-04  9:43         ` Arjan van de Ven
2018-12-04  9:46         ` Arjan van de Ven
2018-12-04 17:20       ` Linus Torvalds
2018-12-04 18:58         ` Tim Chen
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2018-12-04 18:45   ` [patch V2 27/28] " Dave Hansen
2018-11-25 18:33 ` [patch V2 28/28] x86/speculation: Provide IBPB always command line options Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-28 14:36   ` [tip:x86/pti] " tip-bot for Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-26 13:37 ` [patch V2 00/28] x86/speculation: Remedy the STIBP/IBPB overhead Ingo Molnar
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