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authorDaniel Sneddon <daniel.sneddon@linux.intel.com>2023-07-13 04:43:13 +0200
committerDave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>2023-07-21 22:02:35 +0200
commit53cf5797f114ba2bd86d23a862302119848eff19 (patch)
tree11cf22869eabd05aaeccd71feb7cb0fd9a6719a7
parentx86/speculation: Add force option to GDS mitigation (diff)
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x86/speculation: Add Kconfig option for GDS
Gather Data Sampling (GDS) is mitigated in microcode. However, on systems that haven't received the updated microcode, disabling AVX can act as a mitigation. Add a Kconfig option that uses the microcode mitigation if available and disables AVX otherwise. Setting this option has no effect on systems not affected by GDS. This is the equivalent of setting gather_data_sampling=force. Signed-off-by: Daniel Sneddon <daniel.sneddon@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/Kconfig19
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c4
2 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index 7422db409770..36d3f61c4ed9 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -2603,6 +2603,25 @@ config SLS
against straight line speculation. The kernel image might be slightly
larger.
+config GDS_FORCE_MITIGATION
+ bool "Force GDS Mitigation"
+ depends on CPU_SUP_INTEL
+ default n
+ help
+ Gather Data Sampling (GDS) is a hardware vulnerability which allows
+ unprivileged speculative access to data which was previously stored in
+ vector registers.
+
+ This option is equivalent to setting gather_data_sampling=force on the
+ command line. The microcode mitigation is used if present, otherwise
+ AVX is disabled as a mitigation. On affected systems that are missing
+ the microcode any userspace code that unconditionally uses AVX will
+ break with this option set.
+
+ Setting this option on systems not vulnerable to GDS has no effect.
+
+ If in doubt, say N.
+
endif
config ARCH_HAS_ADD_PAGES
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
index 155e8d1c325e..41821a4551a2 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
@@ -659,7 +659,11 @@ enum gds_mitigations {
GDS_MITIGATION_HYPERVISOR,
};
+#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_GDS_FORCE_MITIGATION)
+static enum gds_mitigations gds_mitigation __ro_after_init = GDS_MITIGATION_FORCE;
+#else
static enum gds_mitigations gds_mitigation __ro_after_init = GDS_MITIGATION_FULL;
+#endif
static const char * const gds_strings[] = {
[GDS_MITIGATION_OFF] = "Vulnerable",