x86/speculation/swapgs: Check FSGSBASE in enabling SWAPGS mitigation
authorTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Thu, 28 May 2020 20:13:54 +0000 (16:13 -0400)
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Thu, 18 Jun 2020 13:47:02 +0000 (15:47 +0200)
Before enabling FSGSBASE the kernel could safely assume that the content
of GS base was a user address. Thus any speculative access as the result
of a mispredicted branch controlling the execution of SWAPGS would be to
a user address. So systems with speculation-proof SMAP did not need to
add additional LFENCE instructions to mitigate.

With FSGSBASE enabled a hostile user can set GS base to a kernel address.
So they can make the kernel speculatively access data they wish to leak
via a side channel. This means that SMAP provides no protection.

Add FSGSBASE as an additional condition to enable the fence-based SWAPGS
mitigation.

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Chang S. Bae <chang.seok.bae@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200528201402.1708239-9-sashal@kernel.org
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c

index 0b71970d2d3d2a65848a6377d6026d9ea45929be..5ea5fbd76ad03840b594d929fbd7bc8c904f28ac 100644 (file)
@@ -543,14 +543,12 @@ static void __init spectre_v1_select_mitigation(void)
                 * If FSGSBASE is enabled, the user can put a kernel address in
                 * GS, in which case SMAP provides no protection.
                 *
-                * [ NOTE: Don't check for X86_FEATURE_FSGSBASE until the
-                *         FSGSBASE enablement patches have been merged. ]
-                *
                 * If FSGSBASE is disabled, the user can only put a user space
                 * address in GS.  That makes an attack harder, but still
                 * possible if there's no SMAP protection.
                 */
-               if (!smap_works_speculatively()) {
+               if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_FSGSBASE) ||
+                   !smap_works_speculatively()) {
                        /*
                         * Mitigation can be provided from SWAPGS itself or
                         * PTI as the CR3 write in the Meltdown mitigation