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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/entry')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S | 20 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S b/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S index f40bdf97d390..ed04a968cc7d 100644 --- a/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S +++ b/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S @@ -1525,7 +1525,9 @@ SYM_CODE_END(rewind_stack_and_make_dead) * ORC to unwind properly. * * The alignment is for performance and not for safety, and may be safely - * refactored in the future if needed. + * refactored in the future if needed. The .skips are for safety, to ensure + * that all RETs are in the second half of a cacheline to mitigate Indirect + * Target Selection, rather than taking the slowpath via its_return_thunk. */ SYM_FUNC_START(clear_bhb_loop) ANNOTATE_NOENDBR @@ -1536,10 +1538,22 @@ SYM_FUNC_START(clear_bhb_loop) call 1f jmp 5f .align 64, 0xcc + /* + * Shift instructions so that the RET is in the upper half of the + * cacheline and don't take the slowpath to its_return_thunk. + */ + .skip 32 - (.Lret1 - 1f), 0xcc ANNOTATE_INTRA_FUNCTION_CALL 1: call 2f - RET +.Lret1: RET .align 64, 0xcc + /* + * As above shift instructions for RET at .Lret2 as well. + * + * This should be ideally be: .skip 32 - (.Lret2 - 2f), 0xcc + * but some Clang versions (e.g. 18) don't like this. + */ + .skip 32 - 18, 0xcc 2: movl $5, %eax 3: jmp 4f nop @@ -1547,7 +1561,7 @@ SYM_FUNC_START(clear_bhb_loop) jnz 3b sub $1, %ecx jnz 1b - RET +.Lret2: RET 5: lfence pop %rbp RET |