x86/speculation: Add seccomp Spectre v2 user space protection mode

If 'prctl' mode of user space protection from spectre v2 is selected
on the kernel command-line, STIBP and IBPB are applied on tasks which
restrict their indirect branch speculation via prctl.

SECCOMP enables the SSBD mitigation for sandboxed tasks already, so it
makes sense to prevent spectre v2 user space to user space attacks as
well.

The Intel mitigation guide documents how STIPB works:
    
   Setting bit 1 (STIBP) of the IA32_SPEC_CTRL MSR on a logical processor
   prevents the predicted targets of indirect branches on any logical
   processor of that core from being controlled by software that executes
   (or executed previously) on another logical processor of the same core.

Ergo setting STIBP protects the task itself from being attacked from a task
running on a different hyper-thread and protects the tasks running on
different hyper-threads from being attacked.

While the document suggests that the branch predictors are shielded between
the logical processors, the observed performance regressions suggest that
STIBP simply disables the branch predictor more or less completely. Of
course the document wording is vague, but the fact that there is also no
requirement for issuing IBPB when STIBP is used points clearly in that
direction. The kernel still issues IBPB even when STIBP is used until Intel
clarifies the whole mechanism.

IBPB is issued when the task switches out, so malicious sandbox code cannot
mistrain the branch predictor for the next user space task on the same
logical processor.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Lendacky <[email protected]>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <[email protected]>
Cc: David Woodhouse <[email protected]>
Cc: Tim Chen <[email protected]>
Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
Cc: Casey Schaufler <[email protected]>
Cc: Asit Mallick <[email protected]>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <[email protected]>
Cc: Jon Masters <[email protected]>
Cc: Waiman Long <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg KH <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Stewart <[email protected]>
Cc: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]

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