Commit 0125acda authored by Breno Leitao's avatar Breno Leitao Committed by Borislav Petkov (AMD)

x86/bugs: Reset speculation control settings on init

Currently, x86_spec_ctrl_base is read at boot time and speculative bits
are set if Kconfig items are enabled. For example, IBRS is enabled if
CONFIG_CPU_IBRS_ENTRY is configured, etc. These MSR bits are not cleared
if the mitigations are disabled.

This is a problem when kexec-ing a kernel that has the mitigation
disabled from a kernel that has the mitigation enabled. In this case,
the MSR bits are not cleared during the new kernel boot. As a result,
this might have some performance degradation that is hard to pinpoint.

This problem does not happen if the machine is (hard) rebooted because
the bit will be cleared by default.

  [ bp: Massage. ]
Suggested-by: default avatarPawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBreno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221128153148.1129350-1-leitao@debian.org
parent bb5525a5
......@@ -49,6 +49,10 @@
#define SPEC_CTRL_RRSBA_DIS_S_SHIFT 6 /* Disable RRSBA behavior */
#define SPEC_CTRL_RRSBA_DIS_S BIT(SPEC_CTRL_RRSBA_DIS_S_SHIFT)
/* A mask for bits which the kernel toggles when controlling mitigations */
#define SPEC_CTRL_MITIGATIONS_MASK (SPEC_CTRL_IBRS | SPEC_CTRL_STIBP | SPEC_CTRL_SSBD \
| SPEC_CTRL_RRSBA_DIS_S)
#define MSR_IA32_PRED_CMD 0x00000049 /* Prediction Command */
#define PRED_CMD_IBPB BIT(0) /* Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier */
......
......@@ -145,9 +145,17 @@ void __init check_bugs(void)
* have unknown values. AMD64_LS_CFG MSR is cached in the early AMD
* init code as it is not enumerated and depends on the family.
*/
if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_MSR_SPEC_CTRL))
if (cpu_feature_enabled(X86_FEATURE_MSR_SPEC_CTRL)) {
rdmsrl(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL, x86_spec_ctrl_base);
/*
* Previously running kernel (kexec), may have some controls
* turned ON. Clear them and let the mitigations setup below
* rediscover them based on configuration.
*/
x86_spec_ctrl_base &= ~SPEC_CTRL_MITIGATIONS_MASK;
}
/* Select the proper CPU mitigations before patching alternatives: */
spectre_v1_select_mitigation();
spectre_v2_select_mitigation();
......
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