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Daniel Sneddon 92fc27c79b x86/speculation: Add force option to GDS mitigation 
commit 553a5c03e9 upstream

The Gather Data Sampling (GDS) vulnerability allows malicious software
to infer stale data previously stored in vector registers. This may
include sensitive data such as cryptographic keys. GDS is mitigated in
microcode, and systems with up-to-date microcode are protected by
default. However, any affected system that is running with older
microcode will still be vulnerable to GDS attacks.

Since the gather instructions used by the attacker are part of the
AVX2 and AVX512 extensions, disabling these extensions prevents gather
instructions from being executed, thereby mitigating the system from
GDS. Disabling AVX2 is sufficient, but we don't have the granularity
to do this. The XCR0[2] disables AVX, with no option to just disable
AVX2.

Add a kernel parameter gather_data_sampling=force that will enable the
microcode mitigation if available, otherwise it will disable AVX on
affected systems.

This option will be ignored if cmdline mitigations=off.

This is a *big* hammer.  It is known to break buggy userspace that
uses incomplete, buggy AVX enumeration.  Unfortunately, such userspace
does exist in the wild:

	https://www.mail-archive.com/bug-coreutils@gnu.org/msg33046.html

[ dhansen: add some more ominous warnings about disabling AVX ]

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>
History 2023-08-08 20:03:48 +02:00
arch x86/speculation: Add force option to GDS mitigation 2023-08-08 20:03:48 +02:00
block blk-mq: Fix stall due to recursive flush plug 2023-08-03 10:23:48 +02:00
certs certs: Fix build error when PKCS#11 URI contains semicolon 2023-02-09 11:28:11 +01:00
crypto crypto: jitter - correct health test during initialization 2023-07-19 16:21:42 +02:00
Documentation x86/speculation: Add force option to GDS mitigation 2023-08-08 20:03:48 +02:00
drivers x86/speculation: Add Gather Data Sampling mitigation 2023-08-08 20:03:48 +02:00
fs ceph: never send metrics if disable_send_metrics is set 2023-08-03 10:24:16 +02:00
include init: Remove check_bugs() leftovers 2023-08-08 20:03:47 +02:00
init init, x86: Move mem_encrypt_init() into arch_cpu_finalize_init() 2023-08-08 20:03:47 +02:00
io_uring io_uring: don't audit the capability check in io_uring_create() 2023-08-03 10:23:48 +02:00
ipc ipc: fix memory leak in init_mqueue_fs() 2022-12-31 13:32:01 +01:00
kernel tracing: Fix trace_event_raw_event_synth() if else statement 2023-08-03 10:24:17 +02:00
lib test_firmware: return ENOMEM instead of ENOSPC on failed memory allocation 2023-08-03 10:24:19 +02:00
LICENSES LICENSES/LGPL-2.1: Add LGPL-2.1-or-later as valid identifiers 2021-12-16 14:33:10 +01:00
mm kasan: add kasan_tag_mismatch prototype 2023-07-23 13:49:32 +02:00
net mptcp: ensure subflow is unhashed before cleaning the backlog 2023-08-03 10:24:18 +02:00
rust rust: kernel: Mark rust_fmt_argument as extern "C" 2023-04-26 14:28:38 +02:00
samples samples: ftrace: Save required argument registers in sample trampolines 2023-07-23 13:49:44 +02:00
scripts scripts/kallsyms: update the usage in the comment block 2023-07-27 08:50:50 +02:00
security security: keys: Modify mismatched function name 2023-07-27 08:50:43 +02:00
sound ASoC: wm8904: Fill the cache for WM8904_ADC_TEST_0 register 2023-08-03 10:24:16 +02:00
tools selftests: mptcp: sockopt: use 'iptables-legacy' if available 2023-08-03 10:24:19 +02:00
usr usr/gen_init_cpio.c: remove unnecessary -1 values from int file 2022-10-03 14:21:44 -07:00
virt KVM: Grab a reference to KVM for VM and vCPU stats file descriptors 2023-08-03 10:24:08 +02:00
.clang-format inet: ping: use hlist_nulls rcu iterator during lookup 2022-12-01 12:42:46 +01:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore get_maintainer: add Alan to .get_maintainer.ignore 2022-08-20 15:17:44 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore Kbuild: add Rust support 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
.mailmap 9 hotfixes. 6 for MM, 3 for other areas. Four of these patches address 2022-12-10 17:10:52 -08:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Remove Michal Marek from Kbuild maintainers 2022-11-16 14:53:00 +09:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS smb: move client and server files to common directory fs/smb 2023-06-28 11:12:40 +02:00
Makefile Linux 6.1.43 2023-08-03 10:24:19 +02:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.