[SRU Impish 5/5] x86/speculation: Warn about eIBRS + LFENCE + Unprivileged eBPF + SMT

Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo cascardo at canonical.com
Mon Apr 4 20:16:43 UTC 2022


From: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe at redhat.com>

commit 0de05d056afdb00eca8c7bbb0c79a3438daf700c upstream.

The commit

   44a3918c8245 ("x86/speculation: Include unprivileged eBPF status in Spectre v2 mitigation reporting")

added a warning for the "eIBRS + unprivileged eBPF" combination, which
has been shown to be vulnerable against Spectre v2 BHB-based attacks.

However, there's no warning about the "eIBRS + LFENCE retpoline +
unprivileged eBPF" combo. The LFENCE adds more protection by shortening
the speculation window after a mispredicted branch. That makes an attack
significantly more difficult, even with unprivileged eBPF. So at least
for now the logic doesn't warn about that combination.

But if you then add SMT into the mix, the SMT attack angle weakens the
effectiveness of the LFENCE considerably.

So extend the "eIBRS + unprivileged eBPF" warning to also include the
"eIBRS + LFENCE + unprivileged eBPF + SMT" case.

  [ bp: Massage commit message. ]

Suggested-by: Alyssa Milburn <alyssa.milburn at linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe at redhat.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 | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
index bade6afeb169..78b9514a3844 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
@@ -616,12 +616,27 @@ static inline const char *spectre_v2_module_string(void) { return ""; }
 
 #define SPECTRE_V2_LFENCE_MSG "WARNING: LFENCE mitigation is not recommended for this CPU, data leaks possible!\n"
 #define SPECTRE_V2_EIBRS_EBPF_MSG "WARNING: Unprivileged eBPF is enabled with eIBRS on, data leaks possible via Spectre v2 BHB attacks!\n"
+#define SPECTRE_V2_EIBRS_LFENCE_EBPF_SMT_MSG "WARNING: Unprivileged eBPF is enabled with eIBRS+LFENCE mitigation and SMT, data leaks possible via Spectre v2 BHB attacks!\n"
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL
 void unpriv_ebpf_notify(int new_state)
 {
-	if (spectre_v2_enabled == SPECTRE_V2_EIBRS && !new_state)
+	if (new_state)
+		return;
+
+	/* Unprivileged eBPF is enabled */
+
+	switch (spectre_v2_enabled) {
+	case SPECTRE_V2_EIBRS:
 		pr_err(SPECTRE_V2_EIBRS_EBPF_MSG);
+		break;
+	case SPECTRE_V2_EIBRS_LFENCE:
+		if (sched_smt_active())
+			pr_err(SPECTRE_V2_EIBRS_LFENCE_EBPF_SMT_MSG);
+		break;
+	default:
+		break;
+	}
 }
 #endif
 
@@ -1081,6 +1096,10 @@ void cpu_bugs_smt_update(void)
 {
 	mutex_lock(&spec_ctrl_mutex);
 
+	if (sched_smt_active() && unprivileged_ebpf_enabled() &&
+	    spectre_v2_enabled == SPECTRE_V2_EIBRS_LFENCE)
+		pr_warn_once(SPECTRE_V2_EIBRS_LFENCE_EBPF_SMT_MSG);
+
 	switch (spectre_v2_user_stibp) {
 	case SPECTRE_V2_USER_NONE:
 		break;
@@ -1723,7 +1742,11 @@ static ssize_t spectre_v2_show_state(char *buf)
 		return sprintf(buf, "Vulnerable: LFENCE\n");
 
 	if (spectre_v2_enabled == SPECTRE_V2_EIBRS && unprivileged_ebpf_enabled())
-		return sprintf(buf, "Vulnerable: Unprivileged eBPF enabled\n");
+		return sprintf(buf, "Vulnerable: eIBRS with unprivileged eBPF\n");
+
+	if (sched_smt_active() && unprivileged_ebpf_enabled() &&
+	    spectre_v2_enabled == SPECTRE_V2_EIBRS_LFENCE)
+		return sprintf(buf, "Vulnerable: eIBRS+LFENCE with unprivileged eBPF and SMT\n");
 
 	return sprintf(buf, "%s%s%s%s%s%s\n",
 		       spectre_v2_strings[spectre_v2_enabled],
-- 
2.32.0




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