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![]() commit f4818881c47fd91fcb6d62373c57c7844e3de1c0 upstream. Indirect Target Selection (ITS) is a bug in some pre-ADL Intel CPUs with eIBRS. It affects prediction of indirect branch and RETs in the lower half of cacheline. Due to ITS such branches may get wrongly predicted to a target of (direct or indirect) branch that is located in the upper half of the cacheline. Scope of impact =============== Guest/host isolation -------------------- When eIBRS is used for guest/host isolation, the indirect branches in the VMM may still be predicted with targets corresponding to branches in the guest. Intra-mode ---------- cBPF or other native gadgets can be used for intra-mode training and disclosure using ITS. User/kernel isolation --------------------- When eIBRS is enabled user/kernel isolation is not impacted. Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier (IBPB) ----------------------------------------- After an IBPB, indirect branches may be predicted with targets corresponding to direct branches which were executed prior to IBPB. This is mitigated by a microcode update. Add cmdline parameter indirect_target_selection=off|on|force to control the mitigation to relocate the affected branches to an ITS-safe thunk i.e. located in the upper half of cacheline. Also add the sysfs reporting. When retpoline mitigation is deployed, ITS safe-thunks are not needed, because retpoline sequence is already ITS-safe. Similarly, when call depth tracking (CDT) mitigation is deployed (retbleed=stuff), ITS safe return thunk is not used, as CDT prevents RSB-underflow. To not overcomplicate things, ITS mitigation is not supported with spectre-v2 lfence;jmp mitigation. Moreover, it is less practical to deploy lfence;jmp mitigation on ITS affected parts anyways. Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Alexandre Chartre <alexandre.chartre@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> |
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regmap | ||
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arch_numa.c | ||
arch_topology.c | ||
attribute_container.c | ||
auxiliary_sysfs.c | ||
auxiliary.c | ||
base.h | ||
bus.c | ||
cacheinfo.c | ||
class.c | ||
component.c | ||
container.c | ||
core.c | ||
cpu.c | ||
dd.c | ||
devcoredump.c | ||
devres.c | ||
devtmpfs.c | ||
driver.c | ||
firmware.c | ||
hypervisor.c | ||
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isa.c | ||
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memory.c | ||
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node.c | ||
physical_location.c | ||
physical_location.h | ||
pinctrl.c | ||
platform-msi.c | ||
platform.c | ||
property.c | ||
soc.c | ||
swnode.c | ||
syscore.c | ||
topology.c | ||
trace.c | ||
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transport_class.c |