x86/speculation/mds: Add mitigation control for MDS
authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Mon, 18 Feb 2019 21:04:08 +0000 (22:04 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 14 May 2019 17:19:40 +0000 (19:19 +0200)
commit4e722ae3141fc6aebadc722b3b10720e2ffd866f
tree232e2950ce52c1889e512556a520510803c03569
parent2394f5912c223b767be0c4f8365570335110a8c0
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 <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com>
[bwh: Backported to 4.9: adjust filename]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c