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authorJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>2018-07-13 16:23:25 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2018-08-15 18:14:51 +0200
commit2decbf5264ea6175c6fca28ba2b5c0c683facf27 (patch)
tree3301ddf4e3dc765cff6efeb070019715a90a7794 /arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
parent929d3b2e9b130f238a8eb206bdc3f063ca68438f (diff)
x86/bugs, kvm: Introduce boot-time control of L1TF mitigations
commit d90a7a0ec83fb86622cd7dae23255d3c50a99ec8 upstream Introduce the 'l1tf=' kernel command line option to allow for boot-time switching of mitigation that is used on processors affected by L1TF. The possible values are: full Provides all available mitigations for the L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and enables all mitigations in the hypervisors. SMT control via /sys/devices/system/cpu/smt/control is still possible after boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning when the first VM is started in a potentially insecure configuration, i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. full,force Same as 'full', but disables SMT control. Implies the 'nosmt=force' command line option. sysfs control of SMT and the hypervisor flush control is disabled. flush Leaves SMT enabled and enables the conditional hypervisor mitigation. Hypervisors will issue a warning when the first VM is started in a potentially insecure configuration, i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. flush,nosmt Disables SMT and enables the conditional hypervisor mitigation. SMT control via /sys/devices/system/cpu/smt/control is still possible after boot. If SMT is reenabled or flushing disabled at runtime hypervisors will issue a warning. flush,nowarn Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not warn when a VM is started in a potentially insecure configuration. off Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't emit any warnings. Default is 'flush'. Let KVM adhere to these semantics, which means: - 'lt1f=full,force' : Performe L1D flushes. No runtime control possible. - 'l1tf=full' - 'l1tf-flush' - 'l1tf=flush,nosmt' : Perform L1D flushes and warn on VM start if SMT has been runtime enabled or L1D flushing has been run-time enabled - 'l1tf=flush,nowarn' : Perform L1D flushes and no warnings are emitted. - 'l1tf=off' : L1D flushes are not performed and no warnings are emitted. KVM can always override the L1D flushing behavior using its 'vmentry_l1d_flush' module parameter except when lt1f=full,force is set. This makes KVM's private 'nosmt' option redundant, and as it is a bit non-systematic anyway (this is something to control globally, not on hypervisor level), remove that option. Add the missing Documentation entry for the l1tf vulnerability sysfs file while at it. Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Tested-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180713142323.202758176@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
index 1b05055bbdc6..d5525a7e119e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
@@ -860,4 +860,16 @@ bool xen_set_default_idle(void);
void stop_this_cpu(void *dummy);
void df_debug(struct pt_regs *regs, long error_code);
+
+enum l1tf_mitigations {
+ L1TF_MITIGATION_OFF,
+ L1TF_MITIGATION_FLUSH_NOWARN,
+ L1TF_MITIGATION_FLUSH,
+ L1TF_MITIGATION_FLUSH_NOSMT,
+ L1TF_MITIGATION_FULL,
+ L1TF_MITIGATION_FULL_FORCE
+};
+
+extern enum l1tf_mitigations l1tf_mitigation;
+
#endif /* _ASM_X86_PROCESSOR_H */