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File 5a5e3a4e-4-x86-AMD-set-lfence-as-Dispatch-Serialising.patch of Package xen

# Commit fe3ee5530a8d0d0b6a478167125d00c40f294a86
# Date 2018-01-16 17:45:50 +0000
# Author Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
# Committer Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
x86/amd: Try to set lfence as being Dispatch Serialising

This property is required for the AMD's recommended mitigation for Branch
Target Injection, but Xen needs to cope with being unable to detect or modify
the MSR.

This is part of XSA-254.

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

--- a/xen/arch/x86/cpu/amd.c
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/cpu/amd.c
@@ -456,8 +456,41 @@ static void __devinit init_amd(struct cp
 		}
 	}
 
+	/*
+	 * Attempt to set lfence to be Dispatch Serialising.  This MSR almost
+	 * certainly isn't virtualised (and Xen at least will leak the real
+	 * value in but silently discard writes), as well as being per-core
+	 * rather than per-thread, so do a full safe read/write/readback cycle
+	 * in the worst case.
+	 */
+	if (c->x86 == 0x0f || c->x86 == 0x11)
+		/* Always dispatch serialising on this hardare. */
+		__set_bit(X86_FEATURE_LFENCE_DISPATCH, c->x86_capability);
+	else /* Implicily "== 0x10 || >= 0x12" by being 64bit. */ {
+		if (rdmsr_safe(MSR_AMD64_DE_CFG, value))
+			/* Unable to read.  Assume the safer default. */
+			__clear_bit(X86_FEATURE_LFENCE_DISPATCH,
+				    c->x86_capability);
+		else if (value & AMD64_DE_CFG_LFENCE_SERIALISE)
+			/* Already dispatch serialising. */
+			__set_bit(X86_FEATURE_LFENCE_DISPATCH,
+				  c->x86_capability);
+		else if (wrmsr_safe(MSR_AMD64_DE_CFG,
+				    value | AMD64_DE_CFG_LFENCE_SERIALISE) ||
+			 rdmsr_safe(MSR_AMD64_DE_CFG, value) ||
+			 !(value & AMD64_DE_CFG_LFENCE_SERIALISE))
+			/* Attempt to set failed.  Assume the safer default. */
+			__clear_bit(X86_FEATURE_LFENCE_DISPATCH,
+				    c->x86_capability);
+		else
+			/* Successfully enabled! */
+			__set_bit(X86_FEATURE_LFENCE_DISPATCH,
+				  c->x86_capability);
+	}
+
 	/* MFENCE stops RDTSC speculation */
-	__set_bit(X86_FEATURE_MFENCE_RDTSC, c->x86_capability);
+	if (!cpu_has_lfence_dispatch)
+		__set_bit(X86_FEATURE_MFENCE_RDTSC, c->x86_capability);
 
 	switch(c->x86)
 	{
--- a/xen/include/asm-x86/cpufeature.h
+++ b/xen/include/asm-x86/cpufeature.h
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@
 
 /* Other features, Linux-defined mapping, word 3 */
 /* This range is used for feature bits which conflict or are synthesized */
+#define X86_FEATURE_LFENCE_DISPATCH (3*32+ 0) /* lfence set as Dispatch Serialising */
 #define X86_FEATURE_MFENCE_RDTSC (3*32+ 7) /* MFENCE synchronizes RDTSC */
 #define X86_FEATURE_CONSTANT_TSC (3*32+ 8) /* TSC ticks at a constant rate */
 #define X86_FEATURE_NONSTOP_TSC	(3*32+ 9) /* TSC does not stop in C states */
@@ -210,6 +211,7 @@
 #define cpu_has_vmx		boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_VMXE)
 
 #define cpu_has_cpuid_faulting	boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_CPUID_FAULTING)
+#define cpu_has_lfence_dispatch boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_LFENCE_DISPATCH)
 
 #endif /* __ASM_I386_CPUFEATURE_H */
 
--- a/xen/include/asm-x86/msr-index.h
+++ b/xen/include/asm-x86/msr-index.h
@@ -220,6 +220,7 @@
 #define MSR_AMD64_IC_CFG		0xc0011021
 #define MSR_AMD64_DC_CFG		0xc0011022
 #define MSR_AMD64_DE_CFG		0xc0011029
+#define AMD64_DE_CFG_LFENCE_SERIALISE	(_AC(1, ULL) << 1)
 
 /* AMD Family10h machine check MSRs */
 #define MSR_F10_MC4_MISC1		0xc0000408

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