Commit e916d539 authored by Pawan Gupta's avatar Pawan Gupta Committed by Yongqiang Liu
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x86/bugs: Warn when "ibrs" mitigation is selected on Enhanced IBRS parts

stable inclusion
from stable-v4.19.266
commit 7eb3e2a80fe6b41ead0eb08d6772f2604acc1899
category: bugfix
bugzilla: https://gitee.com/src-openeuler/kernel/issues/I5GZ2Z


CVE: CVE-2022-29901

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commit eb23b5ef upstream.

IBRS mitigation for spectre_v2 forces write to MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL at
every kernel entry/exit. On Enhanced IBRS parts setting
MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL[IBRS] only once at boot is sufficient. MSR writes at
every kernel entry/exit incur unnecessary performance loss.

When Enhanced IBRS feature is present, print a warning about this
unnecessary performance loss.

Signed-off-by: default avatarPawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@canonical.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/2a5eaf54583c2bfe0edc4fea64006656256cca17.1657814857.git.pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSuleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLin Yujun <linyujun809@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarZhang Jianhua <chris.zjh@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarLiao Chang <liaochang1@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarYongqiang Liu <liuyongqiang13@huawei.com>
parent a1394e52
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