linux/arch
Dan Williams eab6870fee x86/spectre_v1: Disable compiler optimizations over array_index_mask_nospec()
Mark Rutland noticed that GCC optimization passes have the potential to elide
necessary invocations of the array_index_mask_nospec() instruction sequence,
so mark the asm() volatile.

Mark explains:

"The volatile will inhibit *some* cases where the compiler could lift the
 array_index_nospec() call out of a branch, e.g. where there are multiple
 invocations of array_index_nospec() with the same arguments:

        if (idx < foo) {
                idx1 = array_idx_nospec(idx, foo)
                do_something(idx1);
        }

        < some other code >

        if (idx < foo) {
                idx2 = array_idx_nospec(idx, foo);
                do_something_else(idx2);
        }

 ... since the compiler can determine that the two invocations yield the same
 result, and reuse the first result (likely the same register as idx was in
 originally) for the second branch, effectively re-writing the above as:

        if (idx < foo) {
                idx = array_idx_nospec(idx, foo);
                do_something(idx);
        }

        < some other code >

        if (idx < foo) {
                do_something_else(idx);
        }

 ... if we don't take the first branch, then speculatively take the second, we
 lose the nospec protection.

 There's more info on volatile asm in the GCC docs:

   https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Extended-Asm.html#Volatile
 "

Reported-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Fixes: babdde2698 ("x86: Implement array_index_mask_nospec")
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/lkml/152838798950.14521.4893346294059739135.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-06-21 16:00:21 +02:00
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alpha Kbuild updates for v4.18 2018-06-06 11:00:15 -07:00
arc mm: introduce ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL 2018-06-07 17:34:35 -07:00
arm docs: Fix some broken references 2018-06-15 18:10:01 -03:00
arm64 docs: Fix some broken references 2018-06-15 18:10:01 -03:00
c6x Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-06-04 20:27:54 -07:00
h8300 Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-06-04 20:27:54 -07:00
hexagon hexagon: drop the unused variable zero_page_mask 2018-06-15 07:55:25 +09:00
ia64 - Error path bug fix for overflow tests (Dan) 2018-06-12 18:28:00 -07:00
m68k Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gerg/m68knommu 2018-06-05 10:51:30 -07:00
microblaze docs: Fix some broken references 2018-06-15 18:10:01 -03:00
mips Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2018-06-15 08:51:42 +09:00
nds32 Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-06-04 20:27:54 -07:00
nios2 Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-06-04 20:27:54 -07:00
openrisc Kbuild updates for v4.18 2018-06-06 11:00:15 -07:00
parisc arch/*: Kconfig: fix documentation for NMI watchdog 2018-06-15 12:48:59 -03:00
powerpc Mostly the PPC part of the release, but also switching to Arnd's fix 2018-06-16 06:37:04 +09:00
riscv RISC-V Updates for the 4.18 Merge Window 2018-06-16 06:42:43 +09:00
s390 - Error path bug fix for overflow tests (Dan) 2018-06-12 18:28:00 -07:00
sh arch/*: Kconfig: fix documentation for NMI watchdog 2018-06-15 12:48:59 -03:00
sparc arch/*: Kconfig: fix documentation for NMI watchdog 2018-06-15 12:48:59 -03:00
um Solve a series of broken links for files under Documentation: 2018-06-17 05:25:18 +09:00
unicore32 docs: Fix some broken references 2018-06-15 18:10:01 -03:00
x86 x86/spectre_v1: Disable compiler optimizations over array_index_mask_nospec() 2018-06-21 16:00:21 +02:00
xtensa docs: Fix some broken references 2018-06-15 18:10:01 -03:00
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Kconfig docs: Fix some broken references 2018-06-15 18:10:01 -03:00