x86: Introduce barrier_nospec
authorDan Williams <[email protected]>
Tue, 30 Jan 2018 01:02:33 +0000 (17:02 -0800)
committerThomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Tue, 30 Jan 2018 20:54:29 +0000 (21:54 +0100)
commitb3d7ad85b80bbc404635dca80f5b129f6242bc7a
treef3d1c6f5676006e25bcd8cf420bd3198657149ee
parentbabdde2698d482b6c0de1eab4f697cf5856c5859
x86: Introduce barrier_nospec

Rename the open coded form of this instruction sequence from
rdtsc_ordered() into a generic barrier primitive, barrier_nospec().

One of the mitigations for Spectre variant1 vulnerabilities is to fence
speculative execution after successfully validating a bounds check. I.e.
force the result of a bounds check to resolve in the instruction pipeline
to ensure speculative execution honors that result before potentially
operating on out-of-bounds data.

No functional changes.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Suggested-by: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Tom Lendacky <[email protected]>
Cc: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/151727415361.33451.9049453007262764675.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
arch/x86/include/asm/barrier.h
arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h