x86/speculation: Use IBRS if available before calling into firmware
commit dd84441a upstream. Retpoline means the kernel is safe because it has no indirect branches. But firmware isn't, so use IBRS for firmware calls if it's available. Block preemption while IBRS is set, although in practice the call sites already had to be doing that. Ignore hpwdt.c for now. It's taking spinlocks and calling into firmware code, from an NMI handler. I don't want to touch that with a bargepole. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: arjan.van.de.ven@intel.com Cc: bp@alien8.de Cc: dave.hansen@intel.com Cc: jmattson@google.com Cc: karahmed@amazon.de Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org Cc: pbonzini@redhat.com Cc: rkrcmar@redhat.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1519037457-7643-2-git-send-email-dwmw@amazon.co.ukSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> [ Srivatsa: Backported to 4.4.y, patching the efi_call_virt() family of functions, which are the 4.4.y-equivalents of arch_efi_call_virt_setup()/teardown() ] Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa@csail.mit.edu> Reviewed-by: Matt Helsley (VMware) <matt.helsley@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Alexey Makhalov <amakhalov@vmware.com> Reviewed-by: Bo Gan <ganb@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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