Re: [PATCH] x86/speculation: Avoid LFENCE in FILL_RETURN_BUFFER on CPUs that lack it

[Martin-Éric Racine]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 3:00 PM Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 02:42:04PM +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 3:15 PM Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 01:38:27PM +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > >
> > > > So that puts the whole __FILL_RETURN_BUFFER inside an alternative, and
> > > > we can't have nested alternatives.  That's unfortunate.
> > >
> > > Well, both alternatives end with the LFENCE instruction, so I could pull
> > > it out and do two consequtive ALTs, but unrolling the loop for i386 is
> > > a better solution in that the sequence, while larger, removes the need
> > > for the LFENCE.
> >
> > Have we reached a definitive conclusion on to how to fix this?
>
> https://git.kernel.org/tip/332924973725e8cdcc783c175f68cf7e162cb9e5

Thanks.

Ben: When can we expect an updated kernel to security-updates at Debian?

Martin-Éric