Patch "x86/speculation: Add basic IBPB (Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier) support" has been added to the 4.15-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

x86/speculation: Add basic IBPB (Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier) support

to the 4.15-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
x86speculation_Add_basic_IBPB_(Indirect_Branch_Prediction_Barrier)_support.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.15 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

Subject: x86/speculation: Add basic IBPB (Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier) support
From: David Woodhouse [email protected]
Date: Thu Jan 25 16:14:15 2018 +0000

From: David Woodhouse [email protected]

commit 20ffa1caecca4db8f79fe665acdeaa5af815a24d

Expose indirect_branch_prediction_barrier() for use in subsequent patches.

[ tglx: Add IBPB status to spectre_v2 sysfs file ]

---
 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h   |    2 ++
 arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h |   13 +++++++++++++
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c           |   10 +++++++++-
 3 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

@@ -210,6 +210,8 @@
 #define X86_FEATURE_MBA			( 7*32+18) /* Memory Bandwidth Allocation */
 #define X86_FEATURE_RSB_CTXSW		( 7*32+19) /* Fill RSB on context switches */
 
+#define X86_FEATURE_IBPB		( 7*32+21) /* Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier enabled*/
+
 /* Virtualization flags: Linux defined, word 8 */
 #define X86_FEATURE_TPR_SHADOW		( 8*32+ 0) /* Intel TPR Shadow */
 #define X86_FEATURE_VNMI		( 8*32+ 1) /* Intel Virtual NMI */

@@ -218,5 +218,18 @@ static inline void vmexit_fill_RSB(void)
 #endif
 }
 
+static inline void indirect_branch_prediction_barrier(void)
+{
+	asm volatile(ALTERNATIVE("",
+				 "movl %[msr], %%ecx\n\t"
+				 "movl %[val], %%eax\n\t"
+				 "movl $0, %%edx\n\t"
+				 "wrmsr",
+				 X86_FEATURE_IBPB)
+		     : : [msr] "i" (MSR_IA32_PRED_CMD),
+			 [val] "i" (PRED_CMD_IBPB)
+		     : "eax", "ecx", "edx", "memory");
+}
+
 #endif /* __ASSEMBLY__ */
 #endif /* __NOSPEC_BRANCH_H__ */

@@ -263,6 +263,13 @@ retpoline_auto:
 		setup_force_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_RSB_CTXSW);
 		pr_info("Filling RSB on context switch\n");
 	}
+
+	/* Initialize Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier if supported */
+	if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_SPEC_CTRL) ||
+	    boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_AMD_PRED_CMD)) {
+		setup_force_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_IBPB);
+		pr_info("Enabling Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier\n");
+	}
 }
 
 #undef pr_fmt

@@ -292,7 +299,8 @@ ssize_t cpu_show_spectre_v2(struct devic
 	if (!boot_cpu_has_bug(X86_BUG_SPECTRE_V2))
 		return sprintf(buf, "Not affected\n");
 
-	return sprintf(buf, "%s%s\n", spectre_v2_strings[spectre_v2_enabled],
+	return sprintf(buf, "%s%s%s\n", spectre_v2_strings[spectre_v2_enabled],
+		       boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_IBPB) ? ", IPBP" : "",
 		       spectre_v2_bad_module ? " - vulnerable module loaded" : "");
 }
 #endif

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.15/x86pti_Do_not_enable_PTI_on_CPUs_which_are_not_vulnerable_to_Meltdown.patch queue-4.15/x86cpufeature_Blacklist_SPEC_CTRLPRED_CMD_on_early_Spectre_v2_microcodes.patch queue-4.15/x86cpufeatures_Add_Intel_feature_bits_for_Speculation_Control.patch queue-4.15/x86msr_Add_definitions_for_new_speculation_control_MSRs.patch queue-4.15/x86cpufeatures_Add_CPUID_7_EDX_CPUID_leaf.patch queue-4.15/x86cpufeatures_Add_AMD_feature_bits_for_Speculation_Control.patch queue-4.15/x86speculation_Add_basic_IBPB_(Indirect_Branch_Prediction_Barrier)_support.patch queue-4.15/x86speculation_Simplify_indirect_branch_prediction_barrier().patch queue-4.15/x86retpoline_Simplify_vmexit_fill_RSB().patch queue-4.15/x86cpufeatures_Clean_up_Spectre_v2_related_CPUID_flags.patch