From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> stable inclusion from stable-v5.10.105 commit 071e8b69d7808d96f388d7c5ed606e75fd3d518d category: bugfix bugzilla: 186453 https://gitee.com/src-openeuler/kernel/issues/I50WBM CVE: CVE-2022-0001 Reference: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?id=... -------------------------------- commit 5ad3eb1132453b9795ce5fd4572b1c18b292cca9 upstream. Update the doc with the new fun. [ bp: Massage commit message. ] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> [fllinden@amazon.com: backported to 5.10] Signed-off-by: Frank van der Linden <fllinden@amazon.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Chen Jiahao <chenjiahao16@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Liao Chang <liaochang1@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Zheng Zengkai <zhengzengkai@huawei.com> --- Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/spectre.rst | 42 +++++++++++++------ .../admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 8 +++- 2 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/spectre.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/spectre.rst index 985181dba0ba..dca6d3baf01d 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/spectre.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/spectre.rst @@ -131,6 +131,19 @@ steer its indirect branch speculations to gadget code, and measure the speculative execution's side effects left in level 1 cache to infer the victim's data. +Yet another variant 2 attack vector is for the attacker to poison the +Branch History Buffer (BHB) to speculatively steer an indirect branch +to a specific Branch Target Buffer (BTB) entry, even if the entry isn't +associated with the source address of the indirect branch. Specifically, +the BHB might be shared across privilege levels even in the presence of +Enhanced IBRS. + +Currently the only known real-world BHB attack vector is via +unprivileged eBPF. Therefore, it's highly recommended to not enable +unprivileged eBPF, especially when eIBRS is used (without retpolines). +For a full mitigation against BHB attacks, it's recommended to use +retpolines (or eIBRS combined with retpolines). + Attack scenarios ---------------- @@ -364,13 +377,15 @@ The possible values in this file are: - Kernel status: - ==================================== ================================= - 'Not affected' The processor is not vulnerable - 'Vulnerable' Vulnerable, no mitigation - 'Mitigation: Full generic retpoline' Software-focused mitigation - 'Mitigation: Full AMD retpoline' AMD-specific software mitigation - 'Mitigation: Enhanced IBRS' Hardware-focused mitigation - ==================================== ================================= + ======================================== ================================= + 'Not affected' The processor is not vulnerable + 'Mitigation: None' Vulnerable, no mitigation + 'Mitigation: Retpolines' Use Retpoline thunks + 'Mitigation: LFENCE' Use LFENCE instructions + 'Mitigation: Enhanced IBRS' Hardware-focused mitigation + 'Mitigation: Enhanced IBRS + Retpolines' Hardware-focused + Retpolines + 'Mitigation: Enhanced IBRS + LFENCE' Hardware-focused + LFENCE + ======================================== ================================= - Firmware status: Show if Indirect Branch Restricted Speculation (IBRS) is used to protect against Spectre variant 2 attacks when calling firmware (x86 only). @@ -584,12 +599,13 @@ kernel command line. Specific mitigations can also be selected manually: - retpoline - replace indirect branches - retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline - retpoline,amd - AMD-specific minimal thunk + retpoline auto pick between generic,lfence + retpoline,generic Retpolines + retpoline,lfence LFENCE; indirect branch + retpoline,amd alias for retpoline,lfence + eibrs enhanced IBRS + eibrs,retpoline enhanced IBRS + Retpolines + eibrs,lfence enhanced IBRS + LFENCE Not specifying this option is equivalent to spectre_v2=auto. diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index 74c25228aec4..4c9edd6b4729 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -5116,8 +5116,12 @@ Specific mitigations can also be selected manually: retpoline - replace indirect branches - retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline - retpoline,amd - AMD-specific minimal thunk + retpoline,generic - Retpolines + retpoline,lfence - LFENCE; indirect branch + retpoline,amd - alias for retpoline,lfence + eibrs - enhanced IBRS + eibrs,retpoline - enhanced IBRS + Retpolines + eibrs,lfence - enhanced IBRS + LFENCE Not specifying this option is equivalent to spectre_v2=auto. -- 2.20.1