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Commit 17a9fc4a authored by Josh Poimboeuf's avatar Josh Poimboeuf Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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x86/speculation: Fill RSB on vmexit for IBRS



commit 9756bba2 upstream.

Prevent RSB underflow/poisoning attacks with RSB.  While at it, add a
bunch of comments to attempt to document the current state of tribal
knowledge about RSB attacks and what exactly is being mitigated.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 2242cf21
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