Re: [PATCH v3 3/6] x86/bugs: Fix RSB clearing in indirect_branch_prediction_barrier()

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On 2.04.25 г. 21:19 ч., Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
IBPB is expected to clear the RSB.  However, if X86_BUG_IBPB_NO_RET is
set, that doesn't happen.  Make indirect_branch_prediction_barrier()
take that into account by calling __write_ibpb() which already does the
right thing.

I find this changelog somewhat dubious. So zen < 4 basically have IBPB_NO_RET, your patch 2 in this series makes using SBPB for cores which have SRSO_NO or if the mitigation is disabled. So if you have a core which is zen <4 and doesn't use SBPB then what happens?


Fixes: 50e4b3b94090 ("x86/entry: Have entry_ibpb() invalidate return predictions")
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
  arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h | 6 +++---
  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c           | 1 -
  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h
index bbac79cad04c..f99b32f014ec 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h
@@ -514,11 +514,11 @@ void alternative_msr_write(unsigned int msr, u64 val, unsigned int feature)
  		: "memory");
  }
-extern u64 x86_pred_cmd;
-
  static inline void indirect_branch_prediction_barrier(void)
  {
-	alternative_msr_write(MSR_IA32_PRED_CMD, x86_pred_cmd, X86_FEATURE_IBPB);
+	asm_inline volatile(ALTERNATIVE("", "call __write_ibpb", X86_FEATURE_IBPB)
+			    : ASM_CALL_CONSTRAINT
+			    :: "rax", "rcx", "rdx", "memory");
  }
/* The Intel SPEC CTRL MSR base value cache */
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
index c8b8dc829046..9f9637cff7a3 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
@@ -59,7 +59,6 @@ DEFINE_PER_CPU(u64, x86_spec_ctrl_current);
  EXPORT_PER_CPU_SYMBOL_GPL(x86_spec_ctrl_current);
u32 x86_pred_cmd __ro_after_init = PRED_CMD_IBPB;
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(x86_pred_cmd);
static u64 __ro_after_init x86_arch_cap_msr;





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