From 4e722ae3141fc6aebadc722b3b10720e2ffd866f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Gleixner Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 22:04:08 +0100 Subject: x86/speculation/mds: Add mitigation control for MDS commit bc1241700acd82ec69fde98c5763ce51086269f8 upstream. Now that the mitigations are in place, add a command line parameter to control the mitigation, a mitigation selector function and a SMT update mechanism. This is the minimal straight forward initial implementation which just provides an always on/off mode. The command line parameter is: mds=[full|off] This is consistent with the existing mitigations for other speculative hardware vulnerabilities. The idle invocation is dynamically updated according to the SMT state of the system similar to the dynamic update of the STIBP mitigation. The idle mitigation is limited to CPUs which are only affected by MSBDS and not any other variant, because the other variants cannot be mitigated on SMT enabled systems. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov Reviewed-by: Jon Masters Tested-by: Jon Masters [bwh: Backported to 4.9: adjust filename] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 9e5560f52e9b..3dcc0af5e441 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -2325,6 +2325,28 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. Format: , Specifies range of consoles to be captured by the MDA. + mds= [X86,INTEL] + Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data + Sampling (MDS) vulnerability. + + Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against CPU + internal buffers which can forward information to a + disclosure gadget under certain conditions. + + In vulnerable processors, the speculatively + forwarded data can be used in a cache side channel + attack, to access data to which the attacker does + not have direct access. + + This parameter controls the MDS mitigation. The + options are: + + full - Enable MDS mitigation on vulnerable CPUs + off - Unconditionally disable MDS mitigation + + Not specifying this option is equivalent to + mds=full. + mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory or for test. -- cgit v1.2.3