4.15-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Dan Williams [email protected]

commit b3d7ad85b80bbc404635dca80f5b129f6242bc7a

Rename the open coded form of this instruction sequence from
rdtsc_ordered() into a generic barrier primitive, barrier_nospec().

One of the mitigations for Spectre variant1 vulnerabilities is to fence
speculative execution after successfully validating a bounds check. I.e.
force the result of a bounds check to resolve in the instruction pipeline
to ensure speculative execution honors that result before potentially
operating on out-of-bounds data.

No functional changes.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Suggested-by: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Tom Lendacky <[email protected]>
Cc: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Link: 
https://lkml.kernel.org/r/151727415361.33451.9049453007262764675.st...@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>


---
 arch/x86/include/asm/barrier.h |    4 ++++
 arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h     |    3 +--
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/barrier.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/barrier.h
@@ -48,6 +48,10 @@ static inline unsigned long array_index_
 /* Override the default implementation from linux/nospec.h. */
 #define array_index_mask_nospec array_index_mask_nospec
 
+/* Prevent speculative execution past this barrier. */
+#define barrier_nospec() alternative_2("", "mfence", X86_FEATURE_MFENCE_RDTSC, 
\
+                                          "lfence", X86_FEATURE_LFENCE_RDTSC)
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_PPRO_FENCE
 #define dma_rmb()      rmb()
 #else
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h
@@ -214,8 +214,7 @@ static __always_inline unsigned long lon
         * that some other imaginary CPU is updating continuously with a
         * time stamp.
         */
-       alternative_2("", "mfence", X86_FEATURE_MFENCE_RDTSC,
-                         "lfence", X86_FEATURE_LFENCE_RDTSC);
+       barrier_nospec();
        return rdtsc();
 }
 


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