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/[e-mail]

Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao <[e-mail]>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <[e-mail]>
Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <[e-mail]>
Acked-by: Song Liu <[e-mail]>
Acked-by: KP Singh <[e-mail]>
Cc: Luis Gerhorst <[e-mail]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/[e-mail]

include/linux/bpf.h

···
 
 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);