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# Commit d297b56682e730d598e2529cc6998151d3b6f6f8
# Date 2018-01-26 14:10:21 +0000
# Author Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
# Committer Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
x86/cpuid: Handling of IBRS/IBPB, STIBP and IBRS for guests

Intel specifies IBRS/IBPB (combined, in a single bit) and STIBP as a separate
bit.  AMD specifies IBPB alone in a 3rd bit.

AMD's IBPB is a subset of Intel's combined IBRS/IBPB.  For performance
reasons, administrators might wish to express "IBPB only" even on Intel
hardware, so we allow the AMD bit to be used for this purpose.

The behaviour of STIBP is more complicated.

It is our current understanding that STIBP will be advertised on HT-capable
hardware irrespective of whether HT is enabled, but not advertised on
HT-incapable hardware.  However, for ease of virtualisation, STIBP's
functionality is ignored rather than reserved by microcode/hardware on
HT-incapable hardware.

For guest safety, we treat STIBP as special, always override the toolstack
choice, and always advertise STIBP if IBRS is available.  This removes the
corner case where STIBP is not advertised, but the guest is running on
HT-capable hardware where it does matter.

Finally as a bugfix, update the libxc CPUID logic to understand the e8b
feature leaf, which has the side effect of also offering CLZERO to guests on
applicable hardware.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>

--- a/tools/libxc/xc_cpuid_x86.c
+++ b/tools/libxc/xc_cpuid_x86.c
@@ -465,7 +465,9 @@ static void xc_cpuid_hvm_policy(xc_inter
 
     case 0x80000008:
         regs[0] &= 0x0000ffffu;
-        regs[1] = regs[3] = 0;
+        regs[1] = info->featureset[featureword_of(X86_FEATURE_CLZERO)];
+        /* regs[2] handled in the per-vendor logic. */
+        regs[3] = 0;
         break;
 
     case 0x00000002: /* Intel cache info (dumped by AMD policy) */
--- a/xen/arch/x86/cpuid.c
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/cpuid.c
@@ -383,6 +383,16 @@ static void __init calculate_pv_max_poli
     /* Unconditionally claim to be able to set the hypervisor bit. */
     __set_bit(X86_FEATURE_HYPERVISOR, pv_featureset);
 
+    /* On hardware with IBRS/IBPB support, there are further adjustments. */
+    if ( test_bit(X86_FEATURE_IBRSB, pv_featureset) )
+    {
+        /* Offer STIBP unconditionally.  It is a nop on non-HT hardware. */
+        __set_bit(X86_FEATURE_STIBP, pv_featureset);
+
+        /* AMD's IBPB is a subset of IBRS/IBPB. */
+        __set_bit(X86_FEATURE_IBPB, pv_featureset);
+    }
+
     sanitise_featureset(pv_featureset);
     cpuid_featureset_to_policy(pv_featureset, p);
     recalculate_xstate(p);
@@ -440,6 +450,16 @@ static void __init calculate_hvm_max_pol
             __clear_bit(X86_FEATURE_XSAVES, hvm_featureset);
     }
 
+    /* On hardware with IBRS/IBPB support, there are further adjustments. */
+    if ( test_bit(X86_FEATURE_IBRSB, hvm_featureset) )
+    {
+        /* Offer STIBP unconditionally.  It is a nop on non-HT hardware. */
+        __set_bit(X86_FEATURE_STIBP, hvm_featureset);
+
+        /* AMD's IBPB is a subset of IBRS/IBPB. */
+        __set_bit(X86_FEATURE_IBPB, hvm_featureset);
+    }
+
     sanitise_featureset(hvm_featureset);
     cpuid_featureset_to_policy(hvm_featureset, p);
     recalculate_xstate(p);
@@ -581,6 +601,14 @@ void recalculate_cpuid_policy(struct dom
     recalculate_xstate(p);
     recalculate_misc(p);
 
+    /*
+     * Override STIBP to match IBRS.  Guests can safely use STIBP
+     * functionality on non-HT hardware, but can't necesserily protect
+     * themselves from SP2/Spectre/Branch Target Injection if STIBP is hidden
+     * on HT-capable hardware.
+     */
+    p->feat.stibp = p->feat.ibrsb;
+
     for ( i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(p->cache.raw); ++i )
     {
         if ( p->cache.subleaf[i].type >= 1 &&
--- a/xen/include/public/arch-x86/cpufeatureset.h
+++ b/xen/include/public/arch-x86/cpufeatureset.h
@@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ XEN_CPUFEATURE(IBPB,          8*32+12) /
 XEN_CPUFEATURE(AVX512_4VNNIW, 9*32+ 2) /*A  AVX512 Neural Network Instructions */
 XEN_CPUFEATURE(AVX512_4FMAPS, 9*32+ 3) /*A  AVX512 Multiply Accumulation Single Precision */
 XEN_CPUFEATURE(IBRSB,         9*32+26) /*   IBRS and IBPB support (used by Intel) */
-XEN_CPUFEATURE(STIBP,         9*32+27) /*   STIBP */
+XEN_CPUFEATURE(STIBP,         9*32+27) /*!  STIBP */
 
 #endif /* XEN_CPUFEATURE */

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