Dan Williams eab6870fee x86/spectre_v1: Disable compiler optimizations over array_index_mask_nospec() ... Mark Rutland noticed that GCC optimization passes have the potential to elide necessary invocations of the array_index_mask_nospec() instruction sequence, so mark the asm() volatile. Mark explains: "The volatile will inhibit *some* cases where the compiler could lift the array_index_nospec() call out of a branch, e.g. where there are multiple invocations of array_index_nospec() with the same arguments: if (idx < foo) { idx1 = array_idx_nospec(idx, foo) do_something(idx1); } < some other code > if (idx < foo) { idx2 = array_idx_nospec(idx, foo); do_something_else(idx2); } ... since the compiler can determine that the two invocations yield the same result, and reuse the first result (likely the same register as idx was in originally) for the second branch, effectively re-writing the above as: if (idx < foo) { idx = array_idx_nospec(idx, foo); do_something(idx); } < some other code > if (idx < foo) { do_something_else(idx); } ... if we don't take the first branch, then speculatively take the second, we lose the nospec protection. There's more info on volatile asm in the GCC docs: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Extended-Asm.html#Volatile " Reported-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Fixes: babdde2698 ("x86: Implement array_index_mask_nospec") Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/lkml/152838798950.14521.4893346294059739135.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>		2018-06-21 16:00:21 +02:00
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asm	x86/spectre_v1: Disable compiler optimizations over array_index_mask_nospec()	2018-06-21 16:00:21 +02:00
uapi/asm	Merge branch 'linus' into timers/2038	2018-05-19 13:55:40 +02:00