[SRU Impish 2/5] x86/speculation: Use generic retpoline by default on AMD
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
cascardo at canonical.com
Mon Apr 4 20:16:40 UTC 2022
From: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips at amd.com>
commit 244d00b5dd4755f8df892c86cab35fb2cfd4f14b upstream.
AMD retpoline may be susceptible to speculation. The speculation
execution window for an incorrect indirect branch prediction using
LFENCE/JMP sequence may potentially be large enough to allow
exploitation using Spectre V2.
By default, don't use retpoline,lfence on AMD. Instead, use the
generic retpoline.
Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips at amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp at suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
CVE-2021-26401
Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo at canonical.com>
---
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c | 9 ---------
1 file changed, 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
index e97ab5ca9358..935a4812a442 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
@@ -904,15 +904,6 @@ static enum spectre_v2_mitigation __init spectre_v2_select_retpoline(void)
return SPECTRE_V2_NONE;
}
- if (boot_cpu_data.x86_vendor == X86_VENDOR_AMD ||
- boot_cpu_data.x86_vendor == X86_VENDOR_HYGON) {
- if (!boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_LFENCE_RDTSC)) {
- pr_err("LFENCE not serializing, switching to generic retpoline\n");
- return SPECTRE_V2_RETPOLINE;
- }
- return SPECTRE_V2_LFENCE;
- }
-
return SPECTRE_V2_RETPOLINE;
}
--
2.32.0
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