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| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/Kconfig | 19 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c | 4 |
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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", |