x86/KVM/VMX: Add module argument for L1TF mitigation
authorKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Mon, 2 Jul 2018 10:29:30 +0000 (12:29 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 15 Aug 2018 16:14:47 +0000 (18:14 +0200)
commitaf6ce92977a25540e5d6e0cf90ca187178b0ff9f
treea76ebd24f3f8de2e4f4c41d8ef167a8aca24b995
parenta0695af3406ae2a08184bd47a9e948fe6f9858b9
x86/KVM/VMX: Add module argument for L1TF mitigation

commit a399477e52c17e148746d3ce9a483f681c2aa9a0 upstream

Add a mitigation mode parameter "vmentry_l1d_flush" for CVE-2018-3620, aka
L1 terminal fault. The valid arguments are:

 - "always"  L1D cache flush on every VMENTER.
 - "cond" Conditional L1D cache flush, explained below
 - "never" Disable the L1D cache flush mitigation

"cond" is trying to avoid L1D cache flushes on VMENTER if the code executed
between VMEXIT and VMENTER is considered safe, i.e. is not bringing any
interesting information into L1D which might exploited.

[ tglx: Split out from a larger patch ]

Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c