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Commit 2dbb887e authored by Peter Zijlstra's avatar Peter Zijlstra Committed by Borislav Petkov
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x86/entry: Add kernel IBRS implementation



Implement Kernel IBRS - currently the only known option to mitigate RSB
underflow speculation issues on Skylake hardware.

Note: since IBRS_ENTER requires fuller context established than
UNTRAIN_RET, it must be placed after it. However, since UNTRAIN_RET
itself implies a RET, it must come after IBRS_ENTER. This means
IBRS_ENTER needs to also move UNTRAIN_RET.

Note 2: KERNEL_IBRS is sub-optimal for XenPV.

Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
parent caa0ff24
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