From 510603f504796c3535f67f55fb0b124a303b44c8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pawan Gupta Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2025 10:20:42 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] x86/vmscape: Add conditional IBPB mitigation Commit 2f8f173413f1cbf52660d04df92d0069c4306d25 upstream. VMSCAPE is a vulnerability that exploits insufficient branch predictor isolation between a guest and a userspace hypervisor (like QEMU). Existing mitigations already protect kernel/KVM from a malicious guest. Userspace can additionally be protected by flushing the branch predictors after a VMexit. Since it is the userspace that consumes the poisoned branch predictors, conditionally issue an IBPB after a VMexit and before returning to userspace. Workloads that frequently switch between hypervisor and userspace will incur the most overhead from the new IBPB. This new IBPB is not integrated with the existing IBPB sites. For instance, a task can use the existing speculation control prctl() to get an IBPB at context switch time. With this implementation, the IBPB is doubled up: one at context switch and another before running userspace. The intent is to integrate and optimize these cases post-embargo. [ dhansen: elaborate on suboptimal IBPB solution ] Suggested-by: Dave Hansen Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) Reviewed-by: Dave Hansen Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) Acked-by: Sean Christopherson Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h | 1 + arch/x86/include/asm/entry-common.h | 7 +++++++ arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h | 2 ++ arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c | 8 ++++++++ arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 9 +++++++++ 5 files changed, 27 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h index 29a53b97a3d85..48ffdbab91454 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h @@ -492,6 +492,7 @@ #define X86_FEATURE_TSA_SQ_NO (21*32+11) /* AMD CPU not vulnerable to TSA-SQ */ #define X86_FEATURE_TSA_L1_NO (21*32+12) /* AMD CPU not vulnerable to TSA-L1 */ #define X86_FEATURE_CLEAR_CPU_BUF_VM (21*32+13) /* Clear CPU buffers using VERW before VMRUN */ +#define X86_FEATURE_IBPB_EXIT_TO_USER (21*32+14) /* Use IBPB on exit-to-userspace, see VMSCAPE bug */ /* * BUG word(s) diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/entry-common.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/entry-common.h index d535a97c72842..ce3eb6d5fdf9f 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/entry-common.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/entry-common.h @@ -93,6 +93,13 @@ static inline void arch_exit_to_user_mode_prepare(struct pt_regs *regs, * 8 (ia32) bits. */ choose_random_kstack_offset(rdtsc()); + + /* Avoid unnecessary reads of 'x86_ibpb_exit_to_user' */ + if (cpu_feature_enabled(X86_FEATURE_IBPB_EXIT_TO_USER) && + this_cpu_read(x86_ibpb_exit_to_user)) { + indirect_branch_prediction_barrier(); + this_cpu_write(x86_ibpb_exit_to_user, false); + } } #define arch_exit_to_user_mode_prepare arch_exit_to_user_mode_prepare diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h index 10f261678749a..e29f82466f432 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h @@ -530,6 +530,8 @@ void alternative_msr_write(unsigned int msr, u64 val, unsigned int feature) : "memory"); } +DECLARE_PER_CPU(bool, x86_ibpb_exit_to_user); + static inline void indirect_branch_prediction_barrier(void) { asm_inline volatile(ALTERNATIVE("", "call write_ibpb", X86_FEATURE_IBPB) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c index d19972d5d7295..fdf18bf61490f 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c @@ -105,6 +105,14 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(x86_spec_ctrl_base); DEFINE_PER_CPU(u64, x86_spec_ctrl_current); EXPORT_PER_CPU_SYMBOL_GPL(x86_spec_ctrl_current); +/* + * Set when the CPU has run a potentially malicious guest. An IBPB will + * be needed to before running userspace. That IBPB will flush the branch + * predictor content. + */ +DEFINE_PER_CPU(bool, x86_ibpb_exit_to_user); +EXPORT_PER_CPU_SYMBOL_GPL(x86_ibpb_exit_to_user); + u64 x86_pred_cmd __ro_after_init = PRED_CMD_IBPB; static u64 __ro_after_init x86_arch_cap_msr; diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c index 7d4cb1cbd629d..6b3a64e73f21a 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c @@ -11145,6 +11145,15 @@ static int vcpu_enter_guest(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu) if (vcpu->arch.guest_fpu.xfd_err) wrmsrq(MSR_IA32_XFD_ERR, 0); + /* + * Mark this CPU as needing a branch predictor flush before running + * userspace. Must be done before enabling preemption to ensure it gets + * set for the CPU that actually ran the guest, and not the CPU that it + * may migrate to. + */ + if (cpu_feature_enabled(X86_FEATURE_IBPB_EXIT_TO_USER)) + this_cpu_write(x86_ibpb_exit_to_user, true); + /* * Consume any pending interrupts, including the possible source of * VM-Exit on SVM and any ticks that occur between VM-Exit and now.