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| author | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2022-09-15 13:11:27 +0200 |
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| committer | Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> | 2022-10-17 16:41:15 +0200 |
| commit | 5d8213864ade86b48fc492584ea86d65a62f892e (patch) | |
| tree | 0005924a00492b018072967b39e46c6f6b511ba6 /arch/x86/entry | |
| parent | 52354973573cc260ff2fc661cb28ff8eaa7b879b (diff) | |
| download | linux-5d8213864ade86b48fc492584ea86d65a62f892e.tar.bz2 | |
x86/retbleed: Add SKL return thunk
To address the Intel SKL RSB underflow issue in software it's required to
do call depth tracking.
Provide a return thunk for call depth tracking on Intel SKL CPUs.
The tracking does not use a counter. It uses uses arithmetic shift
right on call entry and logical shift left on return.
The depth tracking variable is initialized to 0x8000.... when the call
depth is zero. The arithmetic shift right sign extends the MSB and
saturates after the 12th call. The shift count is 5 so the tracking covers
12 nested calls. On return the variable is shifted left logically so it
becomes zero again.
CALL RET
0: 0x8000000000000000 0x0000000000000000
1: 0xfc00000000000000 0xf000000000000000
...
11: 0xfffffffffffffff8 0xfffffffffffffc00
12: 0xffffffffffffffff 0xffffffffffffffe0
After a return buffer fill the depth is credited 12 calls before the next
stuffing has to take place.
There is a inaccuracy for situations like this:
10 calls
5 returns
3 calls
4 returns
3 calls
....
The shift count might cause this to be off by one in either direction, but
there is still a cushion vs. the RSB depth. The algorithm does not claim to
be perfect, but it should obfuscate the problem enough to make exploitation
extremly difficult.
The theory behind this is:
RSB is a stack with depth 16 which is filled on every call. On the return
path speculation "pops" entries to speculate down the call chain. Once the
speculative RSB is empty it switches to other predictors, e.g. the Branch
History Buffer, which can be mistrained by user space and misguide the
speculation path to a gadget.
Call depth tracking is designed to break this speculation path by stuffing
speculation trap calls into the RSB which are never getting a corresponding
return executed. This stalls the prediction path until it gets resteered,
The assumption is that stuffing at the 12th return is sufficient to break
the speculation before it hits the underflow and the fallback to the other
predictors. Testing confirms that it works. Johannes, one of the retbleed
researchers. tried to attack this approach but failed.
There is obviously no scientific proof that this will withstand future
research progress, but all we can do right now is to speculate about it.
The SAR/SHL usage was suggested by Andi Kleen.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220915111147.890071690@infradead.org
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/entry')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S | 10 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S b/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S index 4cc0125fdfdc..15739a2c0983 100644 --- a/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S +++ b/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S @@ -288,6 +288,7 @@ SYM_FUNC_END(__switch_to_asm) SYM_CODE_START_NOALIGN(ret_from_fork) UNWIND_HINT_EMPTY ANNOTATE_NOENDBR // copy_thread + CALL_DEPTH_ACCOUNT movq %rax, %rdi call schedule_tail /* rdi: 'prev' task parameter */ @@ -332,7 +333,7 @@ SYM_CODE_START(xen_error_entry) UNWIND_HINT_FUNC PUSH_AND_CLEAR_REGS save_ret=1 ENCODE_FRAME_POINTER 8 - UNTRAIN_RET + UNTRAIN_RET_FROM_CALL RET SYM_CODE_END(xen_error_entry) @@ -977,7 +978,7 @@ SYM_CODE_START(paranoid_entry) * CR3 above, keep the old value in a callee saved register. */ IBRS_ENTER save_reg=%r15 - UNTRAIN_RET + UNTRAIN_RET_FROM_CALL RET SYM_CODE_END(paranoid_entry) @@ -1062,7 +1063,7 @@ SYM_CODE_START(error_entry) /* We have user CR3. Change to kernel CR3. */ SWITCH_TO_KERNEL_CR3 scratch_reg=%rax IBRS_ENTER - UNTRAIN_RET + UNTRAIN_RET_FROM_CALL leaq 8(%rsp), %rdi /* arg0 = pt_regs pointer */ /* Put us onto the real thread stack. */ @@ -1097,6 +1098,7 @@ SYM_CODE_START(error_entry) */ .Lerror_entry_done_lfence: FENCE_SWAPGS_KERNEL_ENTRY + CALL_DEPTH_ACCOUNT leaq 8(%rsp), %rax /* return pt_regs pointer */ ANNOTATE_UNRET_END RET @@ -1115,7 +1117,7 @@ SYM_CODE_START(error_entry) FENCE_SWAPGS_USER_ENTRY SWITCH_TO_KERNEL_CR3 scratch_reg=%rax IBRS_ENTER - UNTRAIN_RET + UNTRAIN_RET_FROM_CALL /* * Pretend that the exception came from user mode: set up pt_regs |