linux-stable.git/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt, branch v3.16.69

x86/speculation/mds: Add 'mitigations=' support for MDS

2019-05-22T22:15:26+00:00

commit 5c14068f87d04adc73ba3f41c2a303d3c3d1fa12 upstream.

Add MDS to the new 'mitigations=' cmdline option.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
[bwh: Backported to 3.16:
 - Drop the auto,nosmt option, which we can't support
 - Adjust filenames, context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

x86/speculation: Support 'mitigations=' cmdline option

2019-05-22T22:15:26+00:00

commit d68be4c4d31295ff6ae34a8ddfaa4c1a8ff42812 upstream.

Configure x86 runtime CPU speculation bug mitigations in accordance with
the 'mitigations=' cmdline option.  This affects Meltdown, Spectre v2,
Speculative Store Bypass, and L1TF.

The default behavior is unchanged.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Tested-by: Jiri Kosina  (on x86)
Reviewed-by: Jiri Kosina 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: "H . Peter Anvin" 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Jiri Kosina 
Cc: Waiman Long 
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli 
Cc: Jon Masters 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Michael Ellerman 
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Catalin Marinas 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Cc: Tyler Hicks 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Randy Dunlap 
Cc: Steven Price 
Cc: Phil Auld 
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/6616d0ae169308516cfdf5216bedd169f8a8291b.1555085500.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
[bwh: Backported to 3.16:
 - Drop the auto,nosmt option and the l1tf mitigation selection, which we can't
   support
 - Adjust filenames, context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

cpu/speculation: Add 'mitigations=' cmdline option

2019-05-22T22:15:26+00:00

commit 98af8452945c55652de68536afdde3b520fec429 upstream.

Keeping track of the number of mitigations for all the CPU speculation
bugs has become overwhelming for many users.  It's getting more and more
complicated to decide which mitigations are needed for a given
architecture.  Complicating matters is the fact that each arch tends to
have its own custom way to mitigate the same vulnerability.

Most users fall into a few basic categories:

a) they want all mitigations off;

b) they want all reasonable mitigations on, with SMT enabled even if
   it's vulnerable; or

c) they want all reasonable mitigations on, with SMT disabled if
   vulnerable.

Define a set of curated, arch-independent options, each of which is an
aggregation of existing options:

- mitigations=off: Disable all mitigations.

- mitigations=auto: [default] Enable all the default mitigations, but
  leave SMT enabled, even if it's vulnerable.

- mitigations=auto,nosmt: Enable all the default mitigations, disabling
  SMT if needed by a mitigation.

Currently, these options are placeholders which don't actually do
anything.  They will be fleshed out in upcoming patches.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Tested-by: Jiri Kosina  (on x86)
Reviewed-by: Jiri Kosina 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: "H . Peter Anvin" 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Jiri Kosina 
Cc: Waiman Long 
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli 
Cc: Jon Masters 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Michael Ellerman 
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Catalin Marinas 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Cc: Tyler Hicks 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Randy Dunlap 
Cc: Steven Price 
Cc: Phil Auld 
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/b07a8ef9b7c5055c3a4637c87d07c296d5016fe0.1555085500.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
[bwh: Backported to 3.16:
 - Drop the auto,nosmt option which we can't support
 - Adjust filename]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

Documentation: Add MDS vulnerability documentation

2019-05-22T22:15:24+00:00

commit 5999bbe7a6ea3c62029532ec84dc06003a1fa258 upstream.

Add the initial MDS vulnerability documentation.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Reviewed-by: Jon Masters 
[bwh: Backported to 3.16:
 - Drop the index updates
 - Adjust filename]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

x86/speculation/mds: Add mitigation control for MDS

2019-05-22T22:15:22+00:00

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 
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov 
Reviewed-by: Jon Masters 
Tested-by: Jon Masters 
[bwh: Backported to 3.16:
 - Drop " __ro_after_init"
 - Adjust filename, context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

x86/speculation: Provide IBPB always command line options

2019-05-22T22:15:19+00:00

commit 55a974021ec952ee460dc31ca08722158639de72 upstream.

Provide the possibility to enable IBPB always in combination with 'prctl'
and 'seccomp'.

Add the extra command line options and rework the IBPB selection to
evaluate the command instead of the mode selected by the STIPB switch case.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Jiri Kosina 
Cc: Tom Lendacky 
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf 
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli 
Cc: David Woodhouse 
Cc: Tim Chen 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: Casey Schaufler 
Cc: Asit Mallick 
Cc: Arjan van de Ven 
Cc: Jon Masters 
Cc: Waiman Long 
Cc: Greg KH 
Cc: Dave Stewart 
Cc: Kees Cook 
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181125185006.144047038@linutronix.de
[bwh: Backported to 3.16: adjust filename]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

x86/speculation: Add seccomp Spectre v2 user space protection mode

2019-05-22T22:15:19+00:00

commit 6b3e64c237c072797a9ec918654a60e3a46488e2 upstream.

If 'prctl' mode of user space protection from spectre v2 is selected
on the kernel command-line, STIBP and IBPB are applied on tasks which
restrict their indirect branch speculation via prctl.

SECCOMP enables the SSBD mitigation for sandboxed tasks already, so it
makes sense to prevent spectre v2 user space to user space attacks as
well.

The Intel mitigation guide documents how STIPB works:

   Setting bit 1 (STIBP) of the IA32_SPEC_CTRL MSR on a logical processor
   prevents the predicted targets of indirect branches on any logical
   processor of that core from being controlled by software that executes
   (or executed previously) on another logical processor of the same core.

Ergo setting STIBP protects the task itself from being attacked from a task
running on a different hyper-thread and protects the tasks running on
different hyper-threads from being attacked.

While the document suggests that the branch predictors are shielded between
the logical processors, the observed performance regressions suggest that
STIBP simply disables the branch predictor more or less completely. Of
course the document wording is vague, but the fact that there is also no
requirement for issuing IBPB when STIBP is used points clearly in that
direction. The kernel still issues IBPB even when STIBP is used until Intel
clarifies the whole mechanism.

IBPB is issued when the task switches out, so malicious sandbox code cannot
mistrain the branch predictor for the next user space task on the same
logical processor.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Tom Lendacky 
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf 
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli 
Cc: David Woodhouse 
Cc: Tim Chen 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: Casey Schaufler 
Cc: Asit Mallick 
Cc: Arjan van de Ven 
Cc: Jon Masters 
Cc: Waiman Long 
Cc: Greg KH 
Cc: Dave Stewart 
Cc: Kees Cook 
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181125185006.051663132@linutronix.de
[bwh: Backported to 3.16: adjust filename]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

x86/speculation: Enable prctl mode for spectre_v2_user

2019-05-22T22:15:19+00:00

commit 7cc765a67d8e04ef7d772425ca5a2a1e2b894c15 upstream.

Now that all prerequisites are in place:

 - Add the prctl command line option

 - Default the 'auto' mode to 'prctl'

 - When SMT state changes, update the static key which controls the
   conditional STIBP evaluation on context switch.

 - At init update the static key which controls the conditional IBPB
   evaluation on context switch.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Jiri Kosina 
Cc: Tom Lendacky 
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf 
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli 
Cc: David Woodhouse 
Cc: Tim Chen 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: Casey Schaufler 
Cc: Asit Mallick 
Cc: Arjan van de Ven 
Cc: Jon Masters 
Cc: Waiman Long 
Cc: Greg KH 
Cc: Dave Stewart 
Cc: Kees Cook 
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181125185005.958421388@linutronix.de
[bwh: Backported to 3.16: adjust filename]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

x86/speculation: Add command line control for indirect branch speculation

2019-05-22T22:15:15+00:00

commit fa1202ef224391b6f5b26cdd44cc50495e8fab54 upstream.

Add command line control for user space indirect branch speculation
mitigations. The new option is: spectre_v2_user=

The initial options are:

    -  on:   Unconditionally enabled
    - off:   Unconditionally disabled
    -auto:   Kernel selects mitigation (default off for now)

When the spectre_v2= command line argument is either 'on' or 'off' this
implies that the application to application control follows that state even
if a contradicting spectre_v2_user= argument is supplied.

Originally-by: Tim Chen 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Jiri Kosina 
Cc: Tom Lendacky 
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf 
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli 
Cc: David Woodhouse 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: Casey Schaufler 
Cc: Asit Mallick 
Cc: Arjan van de Ven 
Cc: Jon Masters 
Cc: Waiman Long 
Cc: Greg KH 
Cc: Dave Stewart 
Cc: Kees Cook 
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181125185005.082720373@linutronix.de
[bwh: Backported to 3.16:
 - Don't use __ro_after_init or cpu_smt_control
 - Adjust filename]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

x86/cpufeature: Carve out X86_FEATURE_*

2019-05-22T22:15:08+00:00

commit cd4d09ec6f6c12a2cc3db5b7d8876a325a53545b upstream.

Move them to a separate header and have the following
dependency:

  x86/cpufeatures.h <- x86/processor.h <- x86/cpufeature.h

This makes it easier to use the header in asm code and not
include the whole cpufeature.h and add guards for asm.

Suggested-by: H. Peter Anvin 
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Brian Gerst 
Cc: Denys Vlasenko 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1453842730-28463-5-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
[bwh: Backported to 3.16 to avoid a dependency loop:
 - Drop some inapplicable changes
 - Move all the previously backported feature and bug flags across
 - Also change  and lib/retpoline.S to use
   
 - Also include  in , as the vdso fails to
   build without that
 - Adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings