bpf: Inherit system settings for CPU security mitigations

Currently, there exists a system-wide setting related to CPU security
mitigations, denoted as 'mitigations='. When set to 'mitigations=off', it
deactivates all optional CPU mitigations. Therefore, if we implement a
system-wide 'mitigations=off' setting, it should inherently bypass Spectre
v1 and Spectre v4 in the BPF subsystem.

Please note that there is also a more specific 'nospectre_v1' setting on
x86 and ppc architectures, though it is not currently exported. For the
time being, let's disregard more fine-grained options.

This idea emerged during our discussion about potential Spectre v1 attacks
with Luis [0].

  [0] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/b4fc15f7-b204-767e-ebb9-fdb4233961fb@iogearbox.net

Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com>
Acked-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Acked-by: KP Singh <kpsingh@kernel.org>
Cc: Luis Gerhorst <gerhorst@cs.fau.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20231005084123.1338-1-laoar.shao@gmail.com

diff --git a/include/linux/bpf.h b/include/linux/bpf.h
index a82efd34b7414bdc87aa2b4016c0836d55fc893e..61bde4520f5cf0e2dd690a37f0741f40d581d5f2 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/bpf.h
+++ b/include/linux/bpf.h
@@ -2164,12 +2164,12 @@ static inline bool bpf_allow_uninit_stack(void)
 
 static inline bool bpf_bypass_spec_v1(void)
 {
-       return perfmon_capable();
+       return perfmon_capable() || cpu_mitigations_off();
 }
 
 static inline bool bpf_bypass_spec_v4(void)
 {
-       return perfmon_capable();
+       return perfmon_capable() || cpu_mitigations_off();
 }
 
 int bpf_map_new_fd(struct bpf_map *map, int flags);