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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2018-12-01 12:35:48 -0800 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2018-12-01 12:35:48 -0800 |
commit | 4b78317679c4f3782a3cff0ddb269c1fcfde7621 (patch) | |
tree | fd3d202ef58da346528625067bc139bc19b28726 /Documentation/admin-guide | |
parent | 880584176ed7875117a5ba76cf316cb60f7ad30b (diff) | |
parent | 55a974021ec952ee460dc31ca08722158639de72 (diff) | |
download | linux-4b78317679c4f3782a3cff0ddb269c1fcfde7621.tar.bz2 |
Merge branch 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull STIBP fallout fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
"The performance destruction department finally got it's act together
and came up with a cure for the STIPB regression:
- Provide a command line option to control the spectre v2 user space
mitigations. Default is either seccomp or prctl (if seccomp is
disabled in Kconfig). prctl allows mitigation opt-in, seccomp
enables the migitation for sandboxed processes.
- Rework the code to handle the conditional STIBP/IBPB control and
remove the now unused ptrace_may_access_sched() optimization
attempt
- Disable STIBP automatically when SMT is disabled
- Optimize the switch_to() logic to avoid MSR writes and invocations
of __switch_to_xtra().
- Make the asynchronous speculation TIF updates synchronous to
prevent stale mitigation state.
As a general cleanup this also makes retpoline directly depend on
compiler support and removes the 'minimal retpoline' option which just
pretended to provide some form of security while providing none"
* 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (31 commits)
x86/speculation: Provide IBPB always command line options
x86/speculation: Add seccomp Spectre v2 user space protection mode
x86/speculation: Enable prctl mode for spectre_v2_user
x86/speculation: Add prctl() control for indirect branch speculation
x86/speculation: Prepare arch_smt_update() for PRCTL mode
x86/speculation: Prevent stale SPEC_CTRL msr content
x86/speculation: Split out TIF update
ptrace: Remove unused ptrace_may_access_sched() and MODE_IBRS
x86/speculation: Prepare for conditional IBPB in switch_mm()
x86/speculation: Avoid __switch_to_xtra() calls
x86/process: Consolidate and simplify switch_to_xtra() code
x86/speculation: Prepare for per task indirect branch speculation control
x86/speculation: Add command line control for indirect branch speculation
x86/speculation: Unify conditional spectre v2 print functions
x86/speculataion: Mark command line parser data __initdata
x86/speculation: Mark string arrays const correctly
x86/speculation: Reorder the spec_v2 code
x86/l1tf: Show actual SMT state
x86/speculation: Rework SMT state change
sched/smt: Expose sched_smt_present static key
...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/admin-guide')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 56 |
1 files changed, 54 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index 5d6ba930d4f4..aefd358a5ca3 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -4199,9 +4199,13 @@ spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability. + The default operation protects the kernel from + user space attacks. - on - unconditionally enable - off - unconditionally disable + on - unconditionally enable, implies + spectre_v2_user=on + off - unconditionally disable, implies + spectre_v2_user=off auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is vulnerable @@ -4211,6 +4215,12 @@ CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the compiler with which the kernel was built. + Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation + against user space to user space task attacks. + + Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and + the user space protections. + Specific mitigations can also be selected manually: retpoline - replace indirect branches @@ -4220,6 +4230,48 @@ Not specifying this option is equivalent to spectre_v2=auto. + spectre_v2_user= + [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 + (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability between + user space tasks + + on - Unconditionally enable mitigations. Is + enforced by spectre_v2=on + + off - Unconditionally disable mitigations. Is + enforced by spectre_v2=off + + prctl - Indirect branch speculation is enabled, + but mitigation can be enabled via prctl + per thread. The mitigation control state + is inherited on fork. + + prctl,ibpb + - Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is + controlled per thread. IBPB is issued + always when switching between different user + space processes. + + seccomp + - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp + threads will enable the mitigation unless + they explicitly opt out. + + seccomp,ibpb + - Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is + controlled per thread. IBPB is issued + always when switching between different + user space processes. + + auto - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on + the available CPU features and vulnerability. + + Default mitigation: + If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y then "seccomp", otherwise "prctl" + + Not specifying this option is equivalent to + spectre_v2_user=auto. + spec_store_bypass_disable= [HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability) |