On Fri, Mar 5, 2021 at 12:23 AM Jian Cai [off-list ref] wrote:

On Wed, Mar 3, 2021 at 7:04 AM Linus Walleij [off-list ref] wrote:

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On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 3:36 AM Jian Cai [off-list ref] wrote:

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This patch adds CONFIG_HARDEN_SLS_ALL that can be used to turn on
-mharden-sls=all, which mitigates the straight-line speculation
vulnerability, speculative execution of the instruction following some
unconditional jumps. Notice -mharden-sls= has other options as below,
and this config turns on the strongest option.

all: enable all mitigations against Straight Line Speculation that are implemented.
none: disable all mitigations against Straight Line Speculation.
retbr: enable the mitigation against Straight Line Speculation for RET and BR instructions.
blr: enable the mitigation against Straight Line Speculation for BLR instructions.

I heard about compiler protection for this, so nice to see it happening!

Would you happen to know if there is any plan to do the same for GCC?
I know you folks at Google like LLVM, but if you know let us know.

I think gcc also has these options.
https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/AArch64-Options.html

And how does that work with this part of your patch:

+#define SLS_TEXT                                       \
+       ALIGN_FUNCTION();                              \
+       *(.text.__llvm_slsblr_thunk_*)

This does not look compiler agnostic?

Yours,
Linus Walleij