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* x86/clearregs: Register sanitizing at kernel entry for speculation hygiene
@ 2018-01-10  1:03 Andi Kleen
  2018-01-10  1:03 ` [PATCH v1 1/8] x86/entry/clearregs: Remove partial stack frame in fast system call Andi Kleen
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From: Andi Kleen @ 2018-01-10  1:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: tglx
  Cc: x86, linux-kernel, torvalds, dwmw, pjt, luto, peterz,
	thomas.lendacky, tim.c.chen, gregkh, dave.hansen, jikos

This patch kit implements clearing of all unused registers on kernel entries,
including system calls and all exceptions and interrupt.

This doesn't fix any known issue, but will make it harder in general
to exploit the kernel with speculation because it will be harder
to get user controlled values into kernel code.

The patchkit is a bit more complicated because it attempts to clear
unused argument registers, which requires on 64bit to know how
many arguments each system call has. I used some scripting
to derive the number of system calls from the SYSCALL_DEFINE*s
and add it to the x86 system call tables.

Everything else is relatively simple and straight forward,
and could be used independently.

I assume this mostly isn't 4.15 material, but should be considered for 4.16
Possibly some of the simpler patches could be considered for 4.15

Original patches were from Tim Chen, but changed significantly
by AK.

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-misc.git spec/clearregs-1

v1: Initial post

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2018-01-10  1:03 x86/clearregs: Register sanitizing at kernel entry for speculation hygiene Andi Kleen
2018-01-10  1:03 ` [PATCH v1 1/8] x86/entry/clearregs: Remove partial stack frame in fast system call Andi Kleen
2018-01-10  2:46   ` Brian Gerst
2018-01-11  0:16     ` Andi Kleen
2018-01-11  0:54       ` Brian Gerst
2018-01-11  1:02         ` Andi Kleen
2018-01-11  0:55       ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-01-11  1:01         ` Andi Kleen
2018-01-11  1:01         ` Brian Gerst
2018-01-11  1:22           ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-01-11  1:47             ` Andi Kleen
2018-01-11 18:44               ` Andi Kleen
2018-01-11  2:09   ` Josh Poimboeuf
2018-01-12  3:22   ` Josh Poimboeuf
2018-01-10  1:03 ` [PATCH v1 2/8] x86/entry/clearregs: Add infrastructure to clear registers Andi Kleen
2018-01-11 19:58   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2018-01-11 20:10     ` Andi Kleen
2018-01-10  1:03 ` [PATCH v1 3/8] x86/entry/clearregs: Clear registers for 64bit SYSCALL Andi Kleen
2018-01-11  3:35   ` Brian Gerst
2018-01-11 18:47     ` Andi Kleen
2018-01-12  3:45   ` Josh Poimboeuf
2018-01-10  1:03 ` [PATCH v1 4/8] x86/entry/retpoline: Clear extra registers for compat syscalls Andi Kleen
2018-01-10  1:03 ` [PATCH v1 5/8] x86/entry/clearregs: Clear registers for 64bit exceptions/interrupts Andi Kleen
2018-01-10  1:23   ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-01-10  1:03 ` [PATCH v1 6/8] x86/entry/clearregs: Add number of arguments to syscall tables Andi Kleen
2018-01-10  1:26   ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-01-10  4:37     ` Andi Kleen
2018-01-10 20:05       ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-01-10  1:03 ` [PATCH v1 7/8] x86/entry/clearregs: Add 64bit stubs to clear unused arguments regs Andi Kleen
2018-01-10  1:03 ` [PATCH v1 8/8] x86/entry/clearregs: Clear registers for 32bit kernel Andi Kleen
2018-01-10  1:24   ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-01-10  1:16 ` x86/clearregs: Register sanitizing at kernel entry for speculation hygiene Andy Lutomirski
2018-01-10  1:34   ` Andi Kleen
2018-01-10  1:39     ` Andy Lutomirski

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