x86/spec_ctrl: Explicitly set Xen's default MSR_SPEC_CTRL value

With the impending ability to disable MSR_SPEC_CTRL handling on a
per-guest-type basis, the first exit-from-guest may not have the side effect
of loading Xen's choice of value.  Explicitly set Xen's default during the BSP
and AP boot paths.

For the BSP however, delay setting a non-zero MSR_SPEC_CTRL default until
after dom0 has been constructed when safe to do so.  Oracle report that this
speeds up boots of some hardware by 50s.

"when safe to do so" is based on whether we are virtualised.  A native boot
won't have any other code running in a position to mount an attack.

Reported-by: Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Release-acked-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
(cherry picked from commit cb8c12020307b39a89273d7699e89000451987ab)

Gbp-Pq: Name x86spec_ctrl-explicitly-set-xens-default.patch

diff --git a/xen/arch/x86/setup.c b/xen/arch/x86/setup.c
index cbdc041d09a0602f50be39b0e0041e530d47916f..651d14e4a1bce151d4590ba7ddfcb8adf8045982 100644 (file)
--- a/xen/arch/x86/setup.c
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/setup.c
@@ -1676,6 +1676,13 @@ void __init noreturn __start_xen(unsigned long mbi_p)
 
     setup_io_bitmap(dom0);
 
+    if ( bsp_delay_spec_ctrl )
+    {
+        get_cpu_info()->spec_ctrl_flags &= ~SCF_use_shadow;
+        barrier();
+        wrmsrl(MSR_SPEC_CTRL, default_xen_spec_ctrl);
+    }
+
     /* Jump to the 1:1 virtual mappings of cpu0_stack. */
     asm volatile ("mov %[stk], %%rsp; jmp %c[fn]" ::
                   [stk] "g" (__va(__pa(get_stack_bottom()))),

diff --git a/xen/arch/x86/smpboot.c b/xen/arch/x86/smpboot.c
index c9f39b1289c76336ee21897361f1938098753344..88b0c4481f625bc1fe2e2095b0216cacc905d3cb 100644 (file)
--- a/xen/arch/x86/smpboot.c
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/smpboot.c
@@ -342,6 +342,14 @@ void start_secondary(void *unused)
     else
         microcode_resume_cpu(cpu);
 
+    /*
+     * If MSR_SPEC_CTRL is available, apply Xen's default setting and discard
+     * any firmware settings.  Note: MSR_SPEC_CTRL may only become available
+     * after loading microcode.
+     */
+    if ( boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_IBRSB) )
+        wrmsrl(MSR_SPEC_CTRL, default_xen_spec_ctrl);
+
     smp_callin();
 
     init_percpu_time();

diff --git a/xen/arch/x86/spec_ctrl.c b/xen/arch/x86/spec_ctrl.c
index a940308142a4f2beb4429e747015fd0a73545f11..3adec1a2844496effd5beb71024b4b18daec9742 100644 (file)
--- a/xen/arch/x86/spec_ctrl.c
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/spec_ctrl.c
@@ -38,6 +38,8 @@ static int8_t __initdata opt_ibrs = -1;
 static bool __initdata opt_rsb_pv = true;
 static bool __initdata opt_rsb_hvm = true;
 bool __read_mostly opt_ibpb = true;
+
+bool __initdata bsp_delay_spec_ctrl;
 uint8_t __read_mostly default_xen_spec_ctrl;
 uint8_t __read_mostly default_spec_ctrl_flags;
 
@@ -334,6 +336,36 @@ void __init init_speculation_mitigations(void)
         setup_force_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_SC_MSR_IDLE);
 
     print_details(thunk, caps);
+
+    /*
+     * If MSR_SPEC_CTRL is available, apply Xen's default setting and discard
+     * any firmware settings.  For performance reasons, when safe to do so, we
+     * delay applying non-zero settings until after dom0 has been constructed.
+     *
+     * "when safe to do so" is based on whether we are virtualised.  A native
+     * boot won't have any other code running in a position to mount an
+     * attack.
+     */
+    if ( boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_IBRSB) )
+    {
+        bsp_delay_spec_ctrl = !cpu_has_hypervisor && default_xen_spec_ctrl;
+
+        /*
+         * If delaying MSR_SPEC_CTRL setup, use the same mechanism as
+         * spec_ctrl_enter_idle(), by using a shadow value of zero.
+         */
+        if ( bsp_delay_spec_ctrl )
+        {
+            struct cpu_info *info = get_cpu_info();
+
+            info->shadow_spec_ctrl = 0;
+            barrier();
+            info->spec_ctrl_flags |= SCF_use_shadow;
+            barrier();
+        }
+
+        wrmsrl(MSR_SPEC_CTRL, bsp_delay_spec_ctrl ? 0 : default_xen_spec_ctrl);
+    }
 }
 
 static void __init __maybe_unused build_assertions(void)

diff --git a/xen/include/asm-x86/spec_ctrl.h b/xen/include/asm-x86/spec_ctrl.h
index 77f92ba586a88241a904c694714592a1fe7d03c5..c6a38f495db20ad0b050aefe7d0adf105682153b 100644 (file)
--- a/xen/include/asm-x86/spec_ctrl.h
+++ b/xen/include/asm-x86/spec_ctrl.h
@@ -27,6 +27,8 @@
 void init_speculation_mitigations(void);
 
 extern bool opt_ibpb;
+
+extern bool bsp_delay_spec_ctrl;
 extern uint8_t default_xen_spec_ctrl;
 extern uint8_t default_spec_ctrl_flags;