x86/speculation: Protect against userspace-userspace spectreRSB
The article "Spectre Returns! Speculation Attacks using the Return Stack Buffer" [1] describes two new (sub-)variants of spectrev2-like attacks, making use solely of the RSB contents even on CPUs that don't fallback to BTB on RSB underflow (Skylake+). Mitigate userspace-userspace attacks by always unconditionally filling RSB on context switch when the generic spectrev2 mitigation has been enabled. [1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1807.07940.pdfSigned-off-by:Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Signed-off-by:
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by:
Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Acked-by:
Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/nycvar.YFH.7.76.1807261308190.997@cbobk.fhfr.pm CVE-2018-15572 (backported from commit fdf82a78) Signed-off-by:
Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com> Acked-by:
Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com> Acked-by:
Kleber Sacilotto de Souza <kleber.souza@canonical.com> [ kleber: fixed CVE reference ] Signed-off-by:
Kleber Sacilotto de Souza <kleber.souza@canonical.com>
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