x86/entry/64: Clear extra registers beyond syscall arguments, to reduce speculation...
authorDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Tue, 6 Feb 2018 01:18:05 +0000 (17:18 -0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 22 Feb 2018 14:42:19 +0000 (15:42 +0100)
commit2bc19b518cb25150572ae4fe34ea6d623d733e2e
tree0580cc0c27c6ce43a149f780ede15a714e039dd8
parent43d38b079ca7466a9eebf2936584e091f8c20349
x86/entry/64: Clear extra registers beyond syscall arguments, to reduce speculation attack surface

commit 8e1eb3fa009aa7c0b944b3c8b26b07de0efb3200 upstream.

At entry userspace may have (maliciously) populated the extra registers
outside the syscall calling convention with arbitrary values that could
be useful in a speculative execution (Spectre style) attack.

Clear these registers to minimize the kernel's attack surface.

Note, this only clears the extra registers and not the unused
registers for syscalls less than 6 arguments, since those registers are
likely to be clobbered well before their values could be put to use
under speculation.

Note, Linus found that the XOR instructions can be executed with
minimized cost if interleaved with the PUSH instructions, and Ingo's
analysis found that R10 and R11 should be included in the register
clearing beyond the typical 'extra' syscall calling convention
registers.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Reported-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/151787988577.7847.16733592218894189003.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
[ Made small improvements to the changelog and the code comments. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S