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author | Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com> | 2025-08-14 10:20:43 -0700 |
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committer | Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> | 2025-08-14 10:38:18 -0700 |
commit | b7cc9887231526ca4fa89f3fa4119e47c2dc7b1e (patch) | |
tree | 515fb05671f3c725228463ae988c790aa43e1982 | |
parent | 6449f5baf9c78a7a442d64f4a61378a21c5db113 (diff) |
x86/vmscape: Warn when STIBP is disabled with SMT
Cross-thread attacks are generally harder as they require the victim to be
co-located on a core. However, with VMSCAPE the adversary targets belong to
the same guest execution, that are more likely to get co-located. In
particular, a thread that is currently executing userspace hypervisor
(after the IBPB) may still be targeted by a guest execution from a sibling
thread.
Issue a warning about the potential risk, except when:
- SMT is disabled
- STIBP is enabled system-wide
- Intel eIBRS is enabled (which implies STIBP protection)
Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
-rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c | 22 |
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c index 1f8c1c51d057..fa32615db71d 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c @@ -3400,6 +3400,28 @@ void cpu_bugs_smt_update(void) break; } + switch (vmscape_mitigation) { + case VMSCAPE_MITIGATION_NONE: + case VMSCAPE_MITIGATION_AUTO: + break; + case VMSCAPE_MITIGATION_IBPB_ON_VMEXIT: + case VMSCAPE_MITIGATION_IBPB_EXIT_TO_USER: + /* + * Hypervisors can be attacked across-threads, warn for SMT when + * STIBP is not already enabled system-wide. + * + * Intel eIBRS (!AUTOIBRS) implies STIBP on. + */ + if (!sched_smt_active() || + spectre_v2_user_stibp == SPECTRE_V2_USER_STRICT || + spectre_v2_user_stibp == SPECTRE_V2_USER_STRICT_PREFERRED || + (spectre_v2_in_eibrs_mode(spectre_v2_enabled) && + !boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_AUTOIBRS))) + break; + pr_warn_once(VMSCAPE_MSG_SMT); + break; + } + mutex_unlock(&spec_ctrl_mutex); } |