[SRU][N][PATCH 7/8] x86/vmscape: Warn when STIBP is disabled with SMT

[Massimiliano Pellizzer]

From: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta at linux.intel.com>

 BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2124105

Commit b7cc9887231526ca4fa89f3fa4119e47c2dc7b1e upstream.

Cross-thread attacks are generally harder as they require the victim to be
co-located on a core. However, with VMSCAPE the adversary targets belong to
the same guest execution, that are more likely to get co-located. In
particular, a thread that is currently executing userspace hypervisor
(after the IBPB) may still be targeted by a guest execution from a sibling
thread.

Issue a warning about the potential risk, except when:

- SMT is disabled
- STIBP is enabled system-wide
- Intel eIBRS is enabled (which implies STIBP protection)

Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta at linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen at linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp at alien8.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
(backported from commit 1e1dc1f9edb92effe32751921778164ed8fb3056 linux-6.6.y)
[mpellizzer: context adjusted due to missing code required by other CPU
 vulnerability mitigations (TSA) that have not been backported yet]
CVE-2025-40300
Signed-off-by: Massimiliano Pellizzer <massimiliano.pellizzer at canonical.com>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
index a8a4ac0ca0ff9..3a31954dd084c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
@@ -2696,6 +2696,8 @@ static void __init vmscape_select_mitigation(void)
 #undef pr_fmt
 #define pr_fmt(fmt) fmt
 
+#define VMSCAPE_MSG_SMT "VMSCAPE: SMT on, STIBP is required for full protection. See https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/hw-vuln/vmscape.html for more details.\n"
+
 void cpu_bugs_smt_update(void)
 {
 	mutex_lock(&spec_ctrl_mutex);
@@ -2749,6 +2751,28 @@ void cpu_bugs_smt_update(void)
 		break;
 	}
 
+	switch (vmscape_mitigation) {
+	case VMSCAPE_MITIGATION_NONE:
+	case VMSCAPE_MITIGATION_AUTO:
+		break;
+	case VMSCAPE_MITIGATION_IBPB_ON_VMEXIT:
+	case VMSCAPE_MITIGATION_IBPB_EXIT_TO_USER:
+		/*
+		 * Hypervisors can be attacked across-threads, warn for SMT when
+		 * STIBP is not already enabled system-wide.
+		 *
+		 * Intel eIBRS (!AUTOIBRS) implies STIBP on.
+		 */
+		if (!sched_smt_active() ||
+		    spectre_v2_user_stibp == SPECTRE_V2_USER_STRICT ||
+		    spectre_v2_user_stibp == SPECTRE_V2_USER_STRICT_PREFERRED ||
+		    (spectre_v2_in_eibrs_mode(spectre_v2_enabled) &&
+		     !boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_AUTOIBRS)))
+			break;
+		pr_warn_once(VMSCAPE_MSG_SMT);
+		break;
+	}
+
 	mutex_unlock(&spec_ctrl_mutex);
 }
 
-- 
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