From 872df34d7c51a79523820ea6a14860398c639b87 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2024 10:05:48 -0700 Subject: x86/its: Use dynamic thunks for indirect branches ITS mitigation moves the unsafe indirect branches to a safe thunk. This could degrade the prediction accuracy as the source address of indirect branches becomes same for different execution paths. To improve the predictions, and hence the performance, assign a separate thunk for each indirect callsite. This is also a defense-in-depth measure to avoid indirect branches aliasing with each other. As an example, 5000 dynamic thunks would utilize around 16 bits of the address space, thereby gaining entropy. For a BTB that uses 32 bits for indexing, dynamic thunks could provide better prediction accuracy over fixed thunks. Have ITS thunks be variable sized and use EXECMEM_MODULE_TEXT such that they are both more flexible (got to extend them later) and live in 2M TLBs, just like kernel code, avoiding undue TLB pressure. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen Reviewed-by: Alexandre Chartre --- arch/x86/kernel/module.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/module.c') diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/module.c b/arch/x86/kernel/module.c index a7998f351701..ff07558b7ebc 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/module.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/module.c @@ -266,6 +266,8 @@ int module_finalize(const Elf_Ehdr *hdr, ibt_endbr = s; } + its_init_mod(me); + if (retpolines || cfi) { void *rseg = NULL, *cseg = NULL; unsigned int rsize = 0, csize = 0; @@ -286,6 +288,9 @@ int module_finalize(const Elf_Ehdr *hdr, void *rseg = (void *)retpolines->sh_addr; apply_retpolines(rseg, rseg + retpolines->sh_size); } + + its_fini_mod(me); + if (returns) { void *rseg = (void *)returns->sh_addr; apply_returns(rseg, rseg + returns->sh_size); @@ -326,4 +331,5 @@ int module_finalize(const Elf_Ehdr *hdr, void module_arch_cleanup(struct module *mod) { alternatives_smp_module_del(mod); + its_free_mod(mod); } -- cgit v1.2.3