Pawan Gupta 48985d64c4 x86/bugs: Add asm helpers for executing VERW ... commit baf8361e54550a48a7087b603313ad013cc13386 upstream. MDS mitigation requires clearing the CPU buffers before returning to user. This needs to be done late in the exit-to-user path. Current location of VERW leaves a possibility of kernel data ending up in CPU buffers for memory accesses done after VERW such as: 1. Kernel data accessed by an NMI between VERW and return-to-user can remain in CPU buffers since NMI returning to kernel does not execute VERW to clear CPU buffers. 2. Alyssa reported that after VERW is executed, CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STACKLEAK=y scrubs the stack used by a system call. Memory accesses during stack scrubbing can move kernel stack contents into CPU buffers. 3. When caller saved registers are restored after a return from function executing VERW, the kernel stack accesses can remain in CPU buffers(since they occur after VERW). To fix this VERW needs to be moved very late in exit-to-user path. In preparation for moving VERW to entry/exit asm code, create macros that can be used in asm. Also make VERW patching depend on a new feature flag X86_FEATURE_CLEAR_CPU_BUF. Reported-by: Alyssa Milburn <alyssa.milburn@intel.com> Suggested-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com> Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240213-delay-verw-v8-1-a6216d83edb7%40linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>		2024-03-01 13:34:58 +01:00
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asm	x86/bugs: Add asm helpers for executing VERW	2024-03-01 13:34:58 +01:00
uapi/asm	x86: Remove the arch_calc_vm_prot_bits() macro from the UAPI	2023-09-06 23:50:46 +02:00