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authorBorislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>2026-06-02 21:26:44 -0700
committerBorislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>2026-07-26 07:21:37 -0700
commit7e7f81cf6f5ca3311e526308f55d7c54d3ba71f9 (patch)
treebdef8bcc4a6e4a54ff379e969d1c2147cc2c8a44 /arch/x86/kernel
parent1590cf0329716306e948a8fc29f1d3ee87d3989f (diff)
x86/bugs: Make Safe-RET robust against interrupt injection
An attacker injecting interrupts while the Safe-RET mitigation executes on machines affected by SRSO can neutralize the safe return sequence, potentially leading to data leakage through speculative execution. Fixup register state as if the Safe-RET sequence executed successfully by "emulating" it, in a manner of speaking, and avoid executing a RET instruction after returning from the interrupt. Co-developed-by: David Kaplan <David.Kaplan@amd.com> Signed-off-by: David Kaplan <David.Kaplan@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c39
1 files changed, 39 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
index d9af230c0512..82436b3534fa 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
@@ -3775,3 +3775,42 @@ void __warn_thunk(void)
{
WARN_ONCE(1, "Unpatched return thunk in use. This should not happen!\n");
}
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_MITIGATION_SRSO
+/*
+ * Called during exception/interrupt entry if interrupted during the
+ * safe-RET sequence. The safe-RET sequence consists of 3 instructions:
+ *
+ * CALL
+ * LEA 8(%RSP), %RSP
+ * RET
+ *
+ * An interrupt after the CALL or after the LEA could potentially lead
+ * to branch predictor poisoning and results in the sequence not being
+ * able to be safely resumed.
+ *
+ * Therefore, modify the regs state as if the remaining part of the
+ * safe-RET sequence executed so the interrupt returns back to the
+ * desired return target, instead of the to the safe-RET sequence.
+ */
+void noinstr handle_interrupted_saferet(struct pt_regs *regs)
+{
+ unsigned long rip = regs->ip;
+
+ if (rip == (unsigned long) srso_safe_ret ||
+ rip == (unsigned long) srso_alias_safe_ret) {
+ /* Modify stack pointer as if LEA executed: */
+ regs->sp += 8;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * Adjust registers as if RET executed:
+ *
+ * 1. Read the return address off the stack and into rIP:
+ */
+ regs->ip = *(unsigned long *)(regs->sp);
+
+ /* 2. Pop rIP off the stack: */
+ regs->sp += 8;
+}
+#endif /* CONFIG_MITIGATION_SRSO */