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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org,
	"Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Frank van der Linden <fllinden@amazon.com>,
	Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Subject: [PATCH 4.9 11/38] Documentation/hw-vuln: Update spectre doc
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2022 15:13:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220310140808.466551509@linuxfoundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220310140808.136149678@linuxfoundation.org>

From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>

commit 5ad3eb1132453b9795ce5fd4572b1c18b292cca9 upstream.

Update the doc with the new fun.

  [ bp: Massage commit message. ]

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
[fllinden@amazon.com: backported to 4.19]
Signed-off-by: Frank van der Linden <fllinden@amazon.com>
[bwh: Backported to 4.9: adjust filenames]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 Documentation/hw-vuln/spectre.rst   |   42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
 Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt |    8 +++++-
 2 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

--- a/Documentation/hw-vuln/spectre.rst
+++ b/Documentation/hw-vuln/spectre.rst
@@ -131,6 +131,19 @@ steer its indirect branch speculations t
 speculative execution's side effects left in level 1 cache to infer the
 victim's data.
 
+Yet another variant 2 attack vector is for the attacker to poison the
+Branch History Buffer (BHB) to speculatively steer an indirect branch
+to a specific Branch Target Buffer (BTB) entry, even if the entry isn't
+associated with the source address of the indirect branch. Specifically,
+the BHB might be shared across privilege levels even in the presence of
+Enhanced IBRS.
+
+Currently the only known real-world BHB attack vector is via
+unprivileged eBPF. Therefore, it's highly recommended to not enable
+unprivileged eBPF, especially when eIBRS is used (without retpolines).
+For a full mitigation against BHB attacks, it's recommended to use
+retpolines (or eIBRS combined with retpolines).
+
 Attack scenarios
 ----------------
 
@@ -364,13 +377,15 @@ The possible values in this file are:
 
   - Kernel status:
 
-  ====================================  =================================
-  'Not affected'                        The processor is not vulnerable
-  'Vulnerable'                          Vulnerable, no mitigation
-  'Mitigation: Full generic retpoline'  Software-focused mitigation
-  'Mitigation: Full AMD retpoline'      AMD-specific software mitigation
-  'Mitigation: Enhanced IBRS'           Hardware-focused mitigation
-  ====================================  =================================
+  ========================================  =================================
+  'Not affected'                            The processor is not vulnerable
+  'Mitigation: None'                        Vulnerable, no mitigation
+  'Mitigation: Retpolines'                  Use Retpoline thunks
+  'Mitigation: LFENCE'                      Use LFENCE instructions
+  'Mitigation: Enhanced IBRS'               Hardware-focused mitigation
+  'Mitigation: Enhanced IBRS + Retpolines'  Hardware-focused + Retpolines
+  'Mitigation: Enhanced IBRS + LFENCE'      Hardware-focused + LFENCE
+  ========================================  =================================
 
   - Firmware status: Show if Indirect Branch Restricted Speculation (IBRS) is
     used to protect against Spectre variant 2 attacks when calling firmware (x86 only).
@@ -584,12 +599,13 @@ kernel command line.
 
 		Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
 
-		retpoline
-					replace indirect branches
-		retpoline,generic
-					google's original retpoline
-		retpoline,amd
-					AMD-specific minimal thunk
+                retpoline               auto pick between generic,lfence
+                retpoline,generic       Retpolines
+                retpoline,lfence        LFENCE; indirect branch
+                retpoline,amd           alias for retpoline,lfence
+                eibrs                   enhanced IBRS
+                eibrs,retpoline         enhanced IBRS + Retpolines
+                eibrs,lfence            enhanced IBRS + LFENCE
 
 		Not specifying this option is equivalent to
 		spectre_v2=auto.
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -4174,8 +4174,12 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes
 			Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
 
 			retpoline	  - replace indirect branches
-			retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline
-			retpoline,amd     - AMD-specific minimal thunk
+			retpoline,generic - Retpolines
+			retpoline,lfence  - LFENCE; indirect branch
+			retpoline,amd     - alias for retpoline,lfence
+			eibrs		  - enhanced IBRS
+			eibrs,retpoline   - enhanced IBRS + Retpolines
+			eibrs,lfence      - enhanced IBRS + LFENCE
 
 			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
 			spectre_v2=auto.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-03-10 14:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-03-10 14:13 [PATCH 4.9 00/38] 4.9.306-rc2 review Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-03-10 14:13 ` [PATCH 4.9 01/38] x86/speculation: Add RETPOLINE_AMD support to the inline asm CALL_NOSPEC variant Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-03-10 14:13 ` [PATCH 4.9 02/38] x86/retpoline: Make CONFIG_RETPOLINE depend on compiler support Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-03-10 14:13 ` [PATCH 4.9 03/38] x86/retpoline: Remove minimal retpoline support Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-03-10 14:13 ` [PATCH 4.9 04/38] Documentation: Add section about CPU vulnerabilities for Spectre Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-03-10 14:13 ` [PATCH 4.9 05/38] Documentation: Add swapgs description to the Spectre v1 documentation Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-03-10 14:13 ` [PATCH 4.9 06/38] Documentation: refer to config RANDOMIZE_BASE for kernel address-space randomization Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-03-10 14:13 ` [PATCH 4.9 07/38] x86/speculation: Merge one test in spectre_v2_user_select_mitigation() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-03-10 14:13 ` [PATCH 4.9 08/38] x86,bugs: Unconditionally allow spectre_v2=retpoline,amd Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-03-10 14:13 ` [PATCH 4.9 09/38] x86/speculation: Rename RETPOLINE_AMD to RETPOLINE_LFENCE Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-03-10 14:13 ` [PATCH 4.9 10/38] x86/speculation: Add eIBRS + Retpoline options Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-03-10 14:13 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2022-03-10 14:13 ` [PATCH 4.9 12/38] x86/speculation: Include unprivileged eBPF status in Spectre v2 mitigation reporting Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-03-10 14:13 ` [PATCH 4.9 13/38] x86/speculation: Use generic retpoline by default on AMD Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-03-10 14:13 ` [PATCH 4.9 14/38] x86/speculation: Update link to AMD speculation whitepaper Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-03-10 14:13 ` [PATCH 4.9 15/38] x86/speculation: Warn about Spectre v2 LFENCE mitigation Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-03-10 14:13 ` [PATCH 4.9 16/38] x86/speculation: Warn about eIBRS + LFENCE + Unprivileged eBPF + SMT Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-03-10 14:13 ` [PATCH 4.9 17/38] arm/arm64: Provide a wrapper for SMCCC 1.1 calls Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-03-10 14:13 ` [PATCH 4.9 18/38] arm/arm64: smccc/psci: add arm_smccc_1_1_get_conduit() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-03-10 14:13 ` [PATCH 4.9 19/38] ARM: report Spectre v2 status through sysfs Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-03-10 14:13 ` [PATCH 4.9 20/38] ARM: early traps initialisation Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-03-10 14:13 ` [PATCH 4.9 21/38] ARM: use LOADADDR() to get load address of sections Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-03-10 14:13 ` [PATCH 4.9 22/38] ARM: Spectre-BHB workaround Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-03-10 14:13 ` [PATCH 4.9 23/38] ARM: include unprivileged BPF status in Spectre V2 reporting Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-03-10 14:13 ` [PATCH 4.9 24/38] ARM: fix build error when BPF_SYSCALL is disabled Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-03-10 14:13 ` [PATCH 4.9 25/38] ARM: fix co-processor register typo Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-03-10 14:13 ` [PATCH 4.9 26/38] ARM: Do not use NOCROSSREFS directive with ld.lld Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-03-10 14:13 ` [PATCH 4.9 27/38] x86/build: Fix compiler support check for CONFIG_RETPOLINE Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-03-10 14:13 ` [PATCH 4.9 28/38] x86, modpost: Replace last remnants of RETPOLINE with CONFIG_RETPOLINE Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-03-10 14:13 ` [PATCH 4.9 29/38] ARM: fix build warning in proc-v7-bugs.c Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-03-10 14:13 ` [PATCH 4.9 30/38] xen/xenbus: dont let xenbus_grant_ring() remove grants in error case Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-03-10 14:13 ` [PATCH 4.9 31/38] xen/grant-table: add gnttab_try_end_foreign_access() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-03-10 14:13 ` [PATCH 4.9 32/38] xen/blkfront: dont use gnttab_query_foreign_access() for mapped status Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-03-10 14:13 ` [PATCH 4.9 33/38] xen/netfront: " Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-03-10 14:13 ` [PATCH 4.9 34/38] xen/scsifront: " Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-03-10 14:13 ` [PATCH 4.9 35/38] xen/gntalloc: dont use gnttab_query_foreign_access() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-03-10 14:13 ` [PATCH 4.9 36/38] xen: remove gnttab_query_foreign_access() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-03-10 14:13 ` [PATCH 4.9 37/38] xen/gnttab: fix gnttab_end_foreign_access() without page specified Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-03-10 14:13 ` [PATCH 4.9 38/38] xen/netfront: react properly to failing gnttab_end_foreign_access_ref() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-03-10 18:00 ` [PATCH 4.9 00/38] 4.9.306-rc2 review Pavel Machek
2022-03-10 18:48 ` Jon Hunter
2022-03-10 19:35 ` Shuah Khan
2022-03-10 20:14 ` Florian Fainelli
2022-03-11  1:13 ` Guenter Roeck
2022-03-11 13:35 ` Naresh Kamboju

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