- Add the call depth tracking mitigation for Retbleed which has
been long in the making. It is a lighterweight software-only fix for
Skylake-based cores where enabling IBRS is a big hammer and causes a
significant performance impact.
What it basically does is, it aligns all kernel functions to 16 bytes
boundary and adds a 16-byte padding before the function, objtool
collects all functions' locations and when the mitigation gets applied,
it patches a call accounting thunk which is used to track the call depth
of the stack at any time.
When that call depth reaches a magical, microarchitecture-specific value
for the Return Stack Buffer, the code stuffs that RSB and avoids its
underflow which could otherwise lead to the Intel variant of Retbleed.
This software-only solution brings a lot of the lost performance back,
as benchmarks suggest:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220915111039.092790446@infradead.org/
That page above also contains a lot more detailed explanation of the
whole mechanism
- Implement a new control flow integrity scheme called FineIBT which is
based on the software kCFI implementation and uses hardware IBT support
where present to annotate and track indirect branches using a hash to
validate them
- Other misc fixes and cleanups
x86/paravirt: Use common macro for creating simple asm paravirt functions
There are some paravirt assembler functions which are sharing a common
pattern. Introduce a macro DEFINE_PARAVIRT_ASM() for creating them.
Note that this macro is including explicit alignment of the generated
functions, leading to __raw_callee_save___kvm_vcpu_is_preempted(),
_paravirt_nop() and paravirt_ret0() to be aligned at 4 byte boundaries
now.
The explicit _paravirt_nop() prototype in paravirt.c isn't needed, as
it is included in paravirt_types.h already.
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat (VMware) <srivatsa@csail.mit.edu>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221109134418.6516-1-jgross@suse.com
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