Pull misc x86 fixes from Ingo Molnar: - Fix SEV-SNP kdump bugs - Update the email address of Alexey Makhalov in MAINTAINERS - Add the CPU feature flag for the Zen6 microarchitecture - Fix typo in system message * tag 'x86-urgent-2025-05-17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86/mm: Remove duplicated word in warning message x86/CPU/AMD: Add X86_FEATURE_ZEN6 x86/sev: Make sure pages are not skipped during kdump x86/sev: Do not touch VMSA pages during SNP guest memory kdump MAINTAINERS: Update Alexey Makhalov's email address x86/sev: Fix operator precedence in GHCB_MSR_VMPL_REQ_LEVEL macro
Add a synthetic feature flag for Zen6.
[ bp: Move the feature flag to a free slot and avoid future merge
conflicts from incoming stuff. ]
Signed-off-by: Yazen Ghannam <yazen.ghannam@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250513204857.3376577-1-yazen.ghannam@amd.com
Pull x86 ITS mitigation from Dave Hansen:
"Mitigate Indirect Target Selection (ITS) issue.
I'd describe this one as a good old CPU bug where the behavior is
_obviously_ wrong, but since it just results in bad predictions it
wasn't wrong enough to notice. Well, the researchers noticed and also
realized that thus bug undermined a bunch of existing indirect branch
mitigations.
Thus the unusually wide impact on this one. Details:
ITS is a bug in some Intel CPUs that affects indirect branches
including RETs in the first half of a cacheline. Due to ITS such
branches may get wrongly predicted to a target of (direct or indirect)
branch that is located in the second half of a cacheline. Researchers
at VUSec found this behavior and reported to Intel.
Affected processors:
- Cascade Lake, Cooper Lake, Whiskey Lake V, Coffee Lake R, Comet
Lake, Ice Lake, Tiger Lake and Rocket Lake.
Scope of impact:
- Guest/host isolation:
When eIBRS is used for guest/host isolation, the indirect branches
in the VMM may still be predicted with targets corresponding to
direct branches in the guest.
- Intra-mode using cBPF:
cBPF can be used to poison the branch history to exploit ITS.
Realigning the indirect branches and RETs mitigates this attack
vector.
- User/kernel:
With eIBRS enabled user/kernel isolation is *not* impacted by ITS.
- Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier (IBPB):
Due to this bug indirect branches may be predicted with targets
corresponding to direct branches which were executed prior to IBPB.
This will be fixed in the microcode.
Mitigation:
As indirect branches in the first half of cacheline are affected, the
mitigation is to replace those indirect branches with a call to thunk that
is aligned to the second half of the cacheline.
RETs that take prediction from RSB are not affected, but they may be
affected by RSB-underflow condition. So, RETs in the first half of
cacheline are also patched to a return thunk that executes the RET aligned
to second half of cacheline"
* tag 'its-for-linus-20250509' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
selftest/x86/bugs: Add selftests for ITS
x86/its: FineIBT-paranoid vs ITS
x86/its: Use dynamic thunks for indirect branches
x86/ibt: Keep IBT disabled during alternative patching
mm/execmem: Unify early execmem_cache behaviour
x86/its: Align RETs in BHB clear sequence to avoid thunking
x86/its: Add support for RSB stuffing mitigation
x86/its: Add "vmexit" option to skip mitigation on some CPUs
x86/its: Enable Indirect Target Selection mitigation
x86/its: Add support for ITS-safe return thunk
x86/its: Add support for ITS-safe indirect thunk
x86/its: Enumerate Indirect Target Selection (ITS) bug
Documentation: x86/bugs/its: Add ITS documentation
The GHCB_MSR_VMPL_REQ_LEVEL macro lacked parentheses around the bitmask
expression, causing the shift operation to bind too early. As a result,
when requesting VMPL1 (e.g., GHCB_MSR_VMPL_REQ_LEVEL(1)), incorrect
values such as 0x000000016 were generated instead of the intended
0x100000016 (the requested VMPL level is specified in GHCBData[39:32]).
Fix the precedence issue by grouping the masked value before applying
the shift.
[ bp: Massage commit message. ]
Fixes: 34ff65901735 ("x86/sev: Use kernel provided SVSM Calling Areas")
Signed-off-by: Seongman Lee <augustus92@kaist.ac.kr>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250511092329.12680-1-cloudlee1719@gmail.com
FineIBT-paranoid was using the retpoline bytes for the paranoid check, disabling retpolines, because all parts that have IBT also have eIBRS and thus don't need no stinking retpolines. Except... ITS needs the retpolines for indirect calls must not be in the first half of a cacheline :-/ So what was the paranoid call sequence: <fineibt_paranoid_start>: 0: 41 ba 78 56 34 12 mov $0x12345678, %r10d 6: 45 3b 53 f7 cmp -0x9(%r11), %r10d a: 4d 8d 5b <f0> lea -0x10(%r11), %r11 e: 75 fd jne d <fineibt_paranoid_start+0xd> 10: 41 ff d3 call *%r11 13: 90 nop Now becomes: <fineibt_paranoid_start>: 0: 41 ba 78 56 34 12 mov $0x12345678, %r10d 6: 45 3b 53 f7 cmp -0x9(%r11), %r10d a: 4d 8d 5b f0 lea -0x10(%r11), %r11 e: 2e e8 XX XX XX XX cs call __x86_indirect_paranoid_thunk_r11 Where the paranoid_thunk looks like: 1d: <ea> (bad) __x86_indirect_paranoid_thunk_r11: 1e: 75 fd jne 1d __x86_indirect_its_thunk_r11: 20: 41 ff eb jmp *%r11 23: cc int3 [ dhansen: remove initialization to false ] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Alexandre Chartre <alexandre.chartre@oracle.com>
ITS mitigation moves the unsafe indirect branches to a safe thunk. This could degrade the prediction accuracy as the source address of indirect branches becomes same for different execution paths. To improve the predictions, and hence the performance, assign a separate thunk for each indirect callsite. This is also a defense-in-depth measure to avoid indirect branches aliasing with each other. As an example, 5000 dynamic thunks would utilize around 16 bits of the address space, thereby gaining entropy. For a BTB that uses 32 bits for indexing, dynamic thunks could provide better prediction accuracy over fixed thunks. Have ITS thunks be variable sized and use EXECMEM_MODULE_TEXT such that they are both more flexible (got to extend them later) and live in 2M TLBs, just like kernel code, avoiding undue TLB pressure. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Alexandre Chartre <alexandre.chartre@oracle.com>
Ice Lake generation CPUs are not affected by guest/host isolation part of ITS. If a user is only concerned about KVM guests, they can now choose a new cmdline option "vmexit" that will not deploy the ITS mitigation when CPU is not affected by guest/host isolation. This saves the performance overhead of ITS mitigation on Ice Lake gen CPUs. When "vmexit" option selected, if the CPU is affected by ITS guest/host isolation, the default ITS mitigation is deployed. Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Alexandre Chartre <alexandre.chartre@oracle.com>
RETs in the lower half of cacheline may be affected by ITS bug,
specifically when the RSB-underflows. Use ITS-safe return thunk for such
RETs.
RETs that are not patched:
- RET in retpoline sequence does not need to be patched, because the
sequence itself fills an RSB before RET.
- RET in Call Depth Tracking (CDT) thunks __x86_indirect_{call|jump}_thunk
and call_depth_return_thunk are not patched because CDT by design
prevents RSB-underflow.
- RETs in .init section are not reachable after init.
- RETs that are explicitly marked safe with ANNOTATE_UNRET_SAFE.
Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Alexandre Chartre <alexandre.chartre@oracle.com>
Due to ITS, indirect branches in the lower half of a cacheline may be vulnerable to branch target injection attack. Introduce ITS-safe thunks to patch indirect branches in the lower half of cacheline with the thunk. Also thunk any eBPF generated indirect branches in emit_indirect_jump(). Below category of indirect branches are not mitigated: - Indirect branches in the .init section are not mitigated because they are discarded after boot. - Indirect branches that are explicitly marked retpoline-safe. Note that retpoline also mitigates the indirect branches against ITS. This is because the retpoline sequence fills an RSB entry before RET, and it does not suffer from RSB-underflow part of the ITS. Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Alexandre Chartre <alexandre.chartre@oracle.com>
ITS bug in some pre-Alderlake Intel CPUs may allow indirect branches in the first half of a cache line get predicted to a target of a branch located in the second half of the cache line. Set X86_BUG_ITS on affected CPUs. Mitigation to follow in later commits. Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Alexandre Chartre <alexandre.chartre@oracle.com>