Commit 48a2440d authored by Pawan Gupta's avatar Pawan Gupta Committed by Dave Hansen
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x86/entry_32: Clear CPU buffers after register restore in NMI return



CPU buffers are currently cleared after call to exc_nmi, but before
register state is restored. This may be okay for MDS mitigation but not for
RDFS. Because RDFS mitigation requires CPU buffers to be cleared when
registers don't have any sensitive data.

Move CLEAR_CPU_BUFFERS after RESTORE_ALL_NMI.

Fixes: a0e2dab4 ("x86/entry_32: Add VERW just before userspace transition")
Suggested-by: default avatarDave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc:stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240925-fix-dosemu-vm86-v7-2-1de0daca2d42%40linux.intel.com
parent 2e2e5143
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@@ -1145,7 +1145,6 @@ SYM_CODE_START(asm_exc_nmi)

	/* Not on SYSENTER stack. */
	call	exc_nmi
	CLEAR_CPU_BUFFERS
	jmp	.Lnmi_return

.Lnmi_from_sysenter_stack:
@@ -1166,6 +1165,7 @@ SYM_CODE_START(asm_exc_nmi)

	CHECK_AND_APPLY_ESPFIX
	RESTORE_ALL_NMI cr3_reg=%edi pop=4
	CLEAR_CPU_BUFFERS
	jmp	.Lirq_return

#ifdef CONFIG_X86_ESPFIX32
@@ -1207,6 +1207,7 @@ SYM_CODE_START(asm_exc_nmi)
	 *  1 - orig_ax
	 */
	lss	(1+5+6)*4(%esp), %esp			# back to espfix stack
	CLEAR_CPU_BUFFERS
	jmp	.Lirq_return
#endif
SYM_CODE_END(asm_exc_nmi)