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KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Flush link stack on guest exit to host kernel

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On some systems that are vulnerable to Spectre v2, it is up to
software to flush the link stack (return address stack), in order to
protect against Spectre-RSB.

When exiting from a guest we do some house keeping and then
potentially exit to C code which is several stack frames deep in the
host kernel. We will then execute a series of returns without
preceeding calls, opening up the possiblity that the guest could have
poisoned the link stack, and direct speculative execution of the host
to a gadget of some sort.

To prevent this we add a flush of the link stack on exit from a guest.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Michael Ellerman 2019-11-13 21:05:44 +11:00
parent 39e72bf96f
commit af2e8c68b9
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arch/powerpc/kernel/security.c
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@ -400,6 +400,9 @@ static void toggle_count_cache_flush(bool enable)
if (!enable) {
patch_instruction_site(&patch__call_flush_count_cache, PPC_INST_NOP);
#ifdef CONFIG_KVM_BOOK3S_HV_POSSIBLE
patch_instruction_site(&patch__call_kvm_flush_link_stack, PPC_INST_NOP);
#endif
pr_info("link-stack-flush: software flush disabled.\n");
link_stack_flush_enabled = false;
no_count_cache_flush();
@ -410,6 +413,12 @@ static void toggle_count_cache_flush(bool enable)
patch_branch_site(&patch__call_flush_count_cache,
(u64)&flush_count_cache, BRANCH_SET_LINK);
#ifdef CONFIG_KVM_BOOK3S_HV_POSSIBLE
// This enables the branch from guest_exit_cont to kvm_flush_link_stack
patch_branch_site(&patch__call_kvm_flush_link_stack,
(u64)&kvm_flush_link_stack, BRANCH_SET_LINK);
#endif
pr_info("link-stack-flush: software flush enabled.\n");
link_stack_flush_enabled = true;