Commit 22b5557f authored by Dan Williams's avatar Dan Williams Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86/entry/64: Clear extra registers beyond syscall arguments, to reduce speculation attack surface

commit 8e1eb3fa upstream.

At entry userspace may have (maliciously) populated the extra registers
outside the syscall calling convention with arbitrary values that could
be useful in a speculative execution (Spectre style) attack.

Clear these registers to minimize the kernel's attack surface.

Note, this only clears the extra registers and not the unused
registers for syscalls less than 6 arguments, since those registers are
likely to be clobbered well before their values could be put to use
under speculation.

Note, Linus found that the XOR instructions can be executed with
minimized cost if interleaved with the PUSH instructions, and Ingo's
analysis found that R10 and R11 should be included in the register
clearing beyond the typical 'extra' syscall calling convention
registers.
Suggested-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Reported-by: default avatarAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/151787988577.7847.16733592218894189003.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
[ Made small improvements to the changelog and the code comments. ]
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 78b1cb3f
......@@ -176,13 +176,26 @@ GLOBAL(entry_SYSCALL_64_after_swapgs)
pushq %r8 /* pt_regs->r8 */
pushq %r9 /* pt_regs->r9 */
pushq %r10 /* pt_regs->r10 */
/*
* Clear extra registers that a speculation attack might
* otherwise want to exploit. Interleave XOR with PUSH
* for better uop scheduling:
*/
xorq %r10, %r10 /* nospec r10 */
pushq %r11 /* pt_regs->r11 */
xorq %r11, %r11 /* nospec r11 */
pushq %rbx /* pt_regs->rbx */
xorl %ebx, %ebx /* nospec rbx */
pushq %rbp /* pt_regs->rbp */
xorl %ebp, %ebp /* nospec rbp */
pushq %r12 /* pt_regs->r12 */
xorq %r12, %r12 /* nospec r12 */
pushq %r13 /* pt_regs->r13 */
xorq %r13, %r13 /* nospec r13 */
pushq %r14 /* pt_regs->r14 */
xorq %r14, %r14 /* nospec r14 */
pushq %r15 /* pt_regs->r15 */
xorq %r15, %r15 /* nospec r15 */
/* IRQs are off. */
movq %rsp, %rdi
......
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