commit ab677c2addbb128f334c4906f27a0285a67d2180
author Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Thu May 03 14:56:12 2018 -0700
committer Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Tue May 22 16:58:01 2018 +0200
tree 011f4d9ebba6bf311693ea6c641d99d1c6d14323
parent c71def81cd07e1bd74da468ae6abe1ce62e3157b

seccomp: Add filter flag to opt-out of SSB mitigation

commit 00a02d0c502a06d15e07b857f8ff921e3e402675 upstream

If a seccomp user is not interested in Speculative Store Bypass mitigation
by default, it can set the new SECCOMP_FILTER_FLAG_SPEC_ALLOW flag when
adding filters.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

kernel/seccomp.c

diff --git a/kernel/seccomp.c b/kernel/seccomp.c
index a0bd6ea..62a60e7 100644
--- a/kernel/seccomp.c
+++ b/kernel/seccomp.c
@@ -230,7 +230,8 @@
 }
 
 static inline void seccomp_assign_mode(struct task_struct *task,
-				       unsigned long seccomp_mode)
+				       unsigned long seccomp_mode,
+				       unsigned long flags)
 {
 	assert_spin_locked(&task->sighand->siglock);
 
@@ -240,8 +241,9 @@
 	 * filter) is set.
 	 */
 	smp_mb__before_atomic();
-	/* Assume seccomp processes want speculation flaw mitigation. */
-	spec_mitigate(task, PR_SPEC_STORE_BYPASS);
+	/* Assume default seccomp processes want spec flaw mitigation. */
+	if ((flags & SECCOMP_FILTER_FLAG_SPEC_ALLOW) == 0)
+		spec_mitigate(task, PR_SPEC_STORE_BYPASS);
 	set_tsk_thread_flag(task, TIF_SECCOMP);
 }
 
@@ -309,7 +311,7 @@
  * without dropping the locks.
  *
  */
-static inline void seccomp_sync_threads(void)
+static inline void seccomp_sync_threads(unsigned long flags)
 {
 	struct task_struct *thread, *caller;
 
@@ -350,7 +352,8 @@
 		 * allow one thread to transition the other.
 		 */
 		if (thread->seccomp.mode == SECCOMP_MODE_DISABLED)
-			seccomp_assign_mode(thread, SECCOMP_MODE_FILTER);
+			seccomp_assign_mode(thread, SECCOMP_MODE_FILTER,
+					    flags);
 	}
 }
 
@@ -469,7 +472,7 @@
 
 	/* Now that the new filter is in place, synchronize to all threads. */
 	if (flags & SECCOMP_FILTER_FLAG_TSYNC)
-		seccomp_sync_threads();
+		seccomp_sync_threads(flags);
 
 	return 0;
 }
@@ -729,7 +732,7 @@
 #ifdef TIF_NOTSC
 	disable_TSC();
 #endif
-	seccomp_assign_mode(current, seccomp_mode);
+	seccomp_assign_mode(current, seccomp_mode, 0);
 	ret = 0;
 
 out:
@@ -787,7 +790,7 @@
 	/* Do not free the successfully attached filter. */
 	prepared = NULL;
 
-	seccomp_assign_mode(current, seccomp_mode);
+	seccomp_assign_mode(current, seccomp_mode, flags);
 out:
 	spin_unlock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);
 	if (flags & SECCOMP_FILTER_FLAG_TSYNC)