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x86/speculation/mds: Add mitigation mode VMWERV
authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Wed, 20 Feb 2019 08:40:40 +0000 (09:40 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 14 May 2019 17:17:57 +0000 (19:17 +0200)
commitc50e81fe8a1350f3fb8f355683ed1e6abf368b92
tree196e636899acafbb7da9d83ea23cff58f59f7537
parent8230c2028dce0aa3618524fd69e89bb6084789e6
x86/speculation/mds: Add mitigation mode VMWERV

commit 22dd8365088b6403630b82423cf906491859b65e upstream

In virtualized environments it can happen that the host has the microcode
update which utilizes the VERW instruction to clear CPU buffers, but the
hypervisor is not yet updated to expose the X86_FEATURE_MD_CLEAR CPUID bit
to guests.

Introduce an internal mitigation mode VMWERV which enables the invocation
of the CPU buffer clearing even if X86_FEATURE_MD_CLEAR is not set. If the
system has no updated microcode this results in a pointless execution of
the VERW instruction wasting a few CPU cycles. If the microcode is updated,
but not exposed to a guest then the CPU buffers will be cleared.

That said: Virtual Machines Will Eventually Receive Vaccine

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Documentation/x86/mds.rst
arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c