Thread (13 messages) 13 messages, 4 authors, 2025-06-10

Re: [PATCH bpf-next v4 0/9] bpf: Mitigate Spectre v1 using barriers

From: patchwork-bot+netdevbpf@kernel.org
Date: 2025-06-10 05:30:08
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Hello:

This series was applied to bpf/bpf-next.git (master)
by Alexei Starovoitov [off-list ref]:

On Tue,  3 Jun 2025 22:57:51 +0200 you wrote:
This improves the expressiveness of unprivileged BPF by inserting
speculation barriers instead of rejecting the programs.

The approach was previously presented at LPC'24 [1] and RAID'24 [2].

To mitigate the Spectre v1 (PHT) vulnerability, the kernel rejects
potentially-dangerous unprivileged BPF programs as of
commit 9183671af6db ("bpf: Fix leakage under speculation on mispredicted
branches"). In [2], we have analyzed 364 object files from open source
projects (Linux Samples and Selftests, BCC, Loxilb, Cilium, libbpf
Examples, Parca, and Prevail) and found that this affects 31% to 54% of
programs.

[...]
Here is the summary with links:
  - [bpf-next,v4,1/9] bpf: Move insn if/else into do_check_insn()
    https://git.kernel.org/bpf/bpf-next/c/8b7df50fd40d
  - [bpf-next,v4,2/9] bpf: Return -EFAULT on misconfigurations
    https://git.kernel.org/bpf/bpf-next/c/fd508bde5d64
  - [bpf-next,v4,3/9] bpf: Return -EFAULT on internal errors
    https://git.kernel.org/bpf/bpf-next/c/6b84d7895d78
  - [bpf-next,v4,4/9] bpf, arm64, powerpc: Add bpf_jit_bypass_spec_v1/v4()
    https://git.kernel.org/bpf/bpf-next/c/03c68a0f8c68
  - [bpf-next,v4,5/9] bpf, arm64, powerpc: Change nospec to include v1 barrier
    https://git.kernel.org/bpf/bpf-next/c/dff883d9e93a
  - [bpf-next,v4,6/9] bpf: Rename sanitize_stack_spill to nospec_result
    https://git.kernel.org/bpf/bpf-next/c/9124a4508007
  - [bpf-next,v4,7/9] bpf: Fall back to nospec for Spectre v1
    https://git.kernel.org/bpf/bpf-next/c/d6f1c85f2253
  - [bpf-next,v4,8/9] selftests/bpf: Add test for Spectre v1 mitigation
    https://git.kernel.org/bpf/bpf-next/c/4a8765d9a527
  - [bpf-next,v4,9/9] bpf: Fall back to nospec for sanitization-failures
    (no matching commit)

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