x86/syscall: Don't force use of indirect calls for system calls

Make <asm/syscall.h> build a switch statement instead, and the compiler can
either decide to generate an indirect jump, or - more likely these days due
to mitigations - just a series of conditional branches.

Yes, the conditional branches also have branch prediction, but the branch
prediction is much more controlled, in that it just causes speculatively
running the wrong system call (harmless), rather than speculatively running
possibly wrong random less controlled code gadgets.

This doesn't mitigate other indirect calls, but the system call indirection
is the first and most easily triggered case.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Sneddon <daniel.sneddon@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/syscall.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/syscall.h
index f44e2f9ab65d..3c28f26bfe22 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/syscall.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/syscall.h
@@ -16,19 +16,17 @@
 #include <asm/thread_info.h>	/* for TS_COMPAT */
 #include <asm/unistd.h>
 
+/* This is used purely for kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c */
 typedef long (*sys_call_ptr_t)(const struct pt_regs *);
 extern const sys_call_ptr_t sys_call_table[];
 
-#if defined(CONFIG_X86_32)
-#define ia32_sys_call_table sys_call_table
-#else
 /*
  * These may not exist, but still put the prototypes in so we
  * can use IS_ENABLED().
  */
-extern const sys_call_ptr_t ia32_sys_call_table[];
-extern const sys_call_ptr_t x32_sys_call_table[];
-#endif
+extern long ia32_sys_call(const struct pt_regs *, unsigned int nr);
+extern long x32_sys_call(const struct pt_regs *, unsigned int nr);
+extern long x64_sys_call(const struct pt_regs *, unsigned int nr);
 
 /*
  * Only the low 32 bits of orig_ax are meaningful, so we return int.