x86/cpu, x86/pti: Do not enable PTI on AMD processors
authorTom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Wed, 27 Dec 2017 05:43:54 +0000 (23:43 -0600)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 5 Jan 2018 14:48:57 +0000 (15:48 +0100)
commit151d7039757b71ebd9d170af0944562f51149372
tree9ca3eb39c37cd941032bd872a1ad45f0d0e1cda8
parentdf4373c513b310d75aafeb8902917e7f8d0fe6a5
x86/cpu, x86/pti: Do not enable PTI on AMD processors

commit 694d99d40972f12e59a3696effee8a376b79d7c8 upstream.

AMD processors are not subject to the types of attacks that the kernel
page table isolation feature protects against.  The AMD microarchitecture
does not allow memory references, including speculative references, that
access higher privileged data when running in a lesser privileged mode
when that access would result in a page fault.

Disable page table isolation by default on AMD processors by not setting
the X86_BUG_CPU_INSECURE feature, which controls whether X86_FEATURE_PTI
is set.

Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171227054354.20369.94587.stgit@tlendack-t1.amdoffice.net
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c