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x86/fault: Skip the AMD erratum #91 workaround on unaffected CPUs
authorAndy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Wed, 10 Feb 2021 02:33:34 +0000 (18:33 -0800)
committerBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Wed, 10 Feb 2021 12:38:12 +0000 (13:38 +0100)
According to the Revision Guide for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™
Processors, only early revisions of family 0xF are affected. This will
avoid unnecessarily fetching instruction bytes before sending SIGSEGV to
user programs.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/477173b7784bc28afb3e53d76ae5ef143917e8dd.1612924255.git.luto@kernel.org
arch/x86/mm/fault.c

index 441c3e9..818902b 100644 (file)
@@ -106,6 +106,15 @@ check_prefetch_opcode(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned char *instr,
        }
 }
 
+static bool is_amd_k8_pre_npt(void)
+{
+       struct cpuinfo_x86 *c = &boot_cpu_data;
+
+       return unlikely(IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_CPU_SUP_AMD) &&
+                       c->x86_vendor == X86_VENDOR_AMD &&
+                       c->x86 == 0xf && c->x86_model < 0x40);
+}
+
 static int
 is_prefetch(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code, unsigned long addr)
 {
@@ -113,6 +122,10 @@ is_prefetch(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code, unsigned long addr)
        unsigned char *instr;
        int prefetch = 0;
 
+       /* Erratum #91 affects AMD K8, pre-NPT CPUs */
+       if (!is_amd_k8_pre_npt())
+               return 0;
+
        /*
         * If it was a exec (instruction fetch) fault on NX page, then
         * do not ignore the fault: