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File xsa407-7.patch of Package xen.27500

From: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Subject: x86/spec-ctrl: Enable Zen2 chickenbit

... as instructed in the Branch Type Confusion whitepaper.

This is part of XSA-407.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>

--- a/xen/arch/x86/cpu/amd.c
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/cpu/amd.c
@@ -583,6 +583,31 @@ static void amd_init_ssbd(const struct c
 	}
 }
 
+/*
+ * On Zen2 we offer this chicken (bit) on the altar of Speculation.
+ *
+ * Refer to the AMD Branch Type Confusion whitepaper:
+ * https://XXX
+ *
+ * Setting this unnamed bit supposedly causes prediction information on
+ * non-branch instructions to be ignored.  It is to be set unilaterally in
+ * newer microcode.
+ *
+ * This chickenbit is something unrelated on Zen1, and Zen1 vs Zen2 isn't a
+ * simple model number comparison, so use STIBP as a heuristic to separate the
+ * two uarches in Fam17h(AMD)/18h(Hygon).
+ */
+static void amd_init_spectral_chicken(void)
+{
+	uint64_t val, chickenbit = 1 << 1;
+
+	if (cpu_has_hypervisor || !boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_AMD_STIBP))
+		return;
+
+	if (rdmsr_safe(MSR_AMD64_DE_CFG2, val) == 0 && !(val & chickenbit))
+		wrmsr_safe(MSR_AMD64_DE_CFG2, val | chickenbit);
+}
+
 static void init_amd(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
 {
 	u32 l, h;
@@ -654,6 +679,9 @@ static void init_amd(struct cpuinfo_x86
 
 	amd_init_ssbd(c);
 
+	if (c->x86 == 0x17)
+		amd_init_spectral_chicken();
+
 	/* MFENCE stops RDTSC speculation */
 	if (!cpu_has_lfence_dispatch)
 		__set_bit(X86_FEATURE_MFENCE_RDTSC, c->x86_capability);
--- a/xen/include/asm-x86/msr-index.h
+++ b/xen/include/asm-x86/msr-index.h
@@ -295,6 +295,7 @@
 #define MSR_AMD64_DC_CFG		0xc0011022
 #define MSR_AMD64_DE_CFG		0xc0011029
 #define AMD64_DE_CFG_LFENCE_SERIALISE	(_AC(1, ULL) << 1)
+#define MSR_AMD64_DE_CFG2		0xc00110e3
 
 #define MSR_AMD64_DR0_ADDRESS_MASK	0xc0011027
 #define MSR_AMD64_DR1_ADDRESS_MASK	0xc0011019

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