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| author | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2019-02-27 12:48:14 +0100 |
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| committer | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2019-03-06 21:52:13 +0100 |
| commit | 650b68a0622f933444a6d66936abb3103029413b (patch) | |
| tree | 04546d2bf324a808655a05e15cad21aacf779391 /arch/x86/kernel | |
| parent | x86/speculation/mds: Clear CPU buffers on exit to user (diff) | |
| download | linux-650b68a0622f933444a6d66936abb3103029413b.tar.xz linux-650b68a0622f933444a6d66936abb3103029413b.zip | |
x86/kvm/vmx: Add MDS protection when L1D Flush is not active
CPUs which are affected by L1TF and MDS mitigate MDS with the L1D Flush on
VMENTER when updated microcode is installed.
If a CPU is not affected by L1TF or if the L1D Flush is not in use, then
MDS mitigation needs to be invoked explicitly.
For these cases, follow the host mitigation state and invoke the MDS
mitigation before VMENTER.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c index dbb45014de1b..29ed8e8dfee2 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c @@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE(switch_mm_always_ibpb); /* Control MDS CPU buffer clear before returning to user space */ DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE(mds_user_clear); +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mds_user_clear); void __init check_bugs(void) { |