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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/spectre.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/spectre.rst index a2b22d5640ec..79051f4dac45 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/spectre.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/spectre.rst @@ -131,6 +131,19 @@ steer its indirect branch speculations to gadget code, and measure the speculative execution's side effects left in level 1 cache to infer the victim's data. +Yet another variant 2 attack vector is for the attacker to poison the +Branch History Buffer (BHB) to speculatively steer an indirect branch +to a specific Branch Target Buffer (BTB) entry, even if the entry isn't +associated with the source address of the indirect branch. Specifically, +the BHB might be shared across privilege levels even in the presence of +Enhanced IBRS. + +Currently the only known real-world BHB attack vector is via +unprivileged eBPF. Therefore, it's highly recommended to not enable +unprivileged eBPF, especially when eIBRS is used (without retpolines). +For a full mitigation against BHB attacks, it's recommended to use +retpolines (or eIBRS combined with retpolines). + Attack scenarios ---------------- @@ -364,13 +377,15 @@ The possible values in this file are: - Kernel status: - ==================================== ================================= - 'Not affected' The processor is not vulnerable - 'Vulnerable' Vulnerable, no mitigation - 'Mitigation: Full generic retpoline' Software-focused mitigation - 'Mitigation: Full AMD retpoline' AMD-specific software mitigation - 'Mitigation: Enhanced IBRS' Hardware-focused mitigation - ==================================== ================================= + ======================================== ================================= + 'Not affected' The processor is not vulnerable + 'Mitigation: None' Vulnerable, no mitigation + 'Mitigation: Retpolines' Use Retpoline thunks + 'Mitigation: LFENCE' Use LFENCE instructions + 'Mitigation: Enhanced IBRS' Hardware-focused mitigation + 'Mitigation: Enhanced IBRS + Retpolines' Hardware-focused + Retpolines + 'Mitigation: Enhanced IBRS + LFENCE' Hardware-focused + LFENCE + ======================================== ================================= - Firmware status: Show if Indirect Branch Restricted Speculation (IBRS) is used to protect against Spectre variant 2 attacks when calling firmware (x86 only). @@ -583,12 +598,13 @@ kernel command line. Specific mitigations can also be selected manually: - retpoline - replace indirect branches - retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline - retpoline,amd - AMD-specific minimal thunk + retpoline auto pick between generic,lfence + retpoline,generic Retpolines + retpoline,lfence LFENCE; indirect branch + retpoline,amd alias for retpoline,lfence + eibrs enhanced IBRS + eibrs,retpoline enhanced IBRS + Retpolines + eibrs,lfence enhanced IBRS + LFENCE Not specifying this option is equivalent to spectre_v2=auto. @@ -599,7 +615,7 @@ kernel command line. spectre_v2=off. Spectre variant 1 mitigations cannot be disabled. -For spectre_v2_user see :doc:`/admin-guide/kernel-parameters`. +For spectre_v2_user see Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt Mitigation selection guide -------------------------- |