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x86/speculation: Add Kconfig option for GDS
authorDaniel Sneddon <daniel.sneddon@linux.intel.com>
Tue, 1 Aug 2023 14:36:26 +0000 (16:36 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 8 Aug 2023 18:03:48 +0000 (20:03 +0200)
commit 53cf5797f114ba2bd86d23a862302119848eff19 upstream

Gather Data Sampling (GDS) is mitigated in microcode. However, on
systems that haven't received the updated microcode, disabling AVX
can act as a mitigation. Add a Kconfig option that uses the microcode
mitigation if available and disables AVX otherwise. Setting this
option has no effect on systems not affected by GDS. This is the
equivalent of setting gather_data_sampling=force.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Sneddon <daniel.sneddon@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Sneddon <daniel.sneddon@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/x86/Kconfig
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c

index 3867f102cde13642e0b26674f1e82f98587fd39a..884fd1bd82c901b8fb6362a12cce319fc149b9ee 100644 (file)
@@ -2522,6 +2522,25 @@ 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
index 9de9b61cbb7176f3b6758ef993cda59e677960a7..0774805063125571e9c603ec7774b8e87b3f8656 100644 (file)
@@ -658,7 +658,11 @@ 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",