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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-05-21 11:23:26 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-05-21 11:23:26 -0700
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Merge branch 'speck-v20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Merge speculative store buffer bypass fixes from Thomas Gleixner: - rework of the SPEC_CTRL MSR management to accomodate the new fancy SSBD (Speculative Store Bypass Disable) bit handling. - the CPU bug and sysfs infrastructure for the exciting new Speculative Store Bypass 'feature'. - support for disabling SSB via LS_CFG MSR on AMD CPUs including Hyperthread synchronization on ZEN. - PRCTL support for dynamic runtime control of SSB - SECCOMP integration to automatically disable SSB for sandboxed processes with a filter flag for opt-out. - KVM integration to allow guests fiddling with SSBD including the new software MSR VIRT_SPEC_CTRL to handle the LS_CFG based oddities on AMD. - BPF protection against SSB .. this is just the core and x86 side, other architecture support will come separately. * 'speck-v20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (49 commits) bpf: Prevent memory disambiguation attack x86/bugs: Rename SSBD_NO to SSB_NO KVM: SVM: Implement VIRT_SPEC_CTRL support for SSBD x86/speculation, KVM: Implement support for VIRT_SPEC_CTRL/LS_CFG x86/bugs: Rework spec_ctrl base and mask logic x86/bugs: Remove x86_spec_ctrl_set() x86/bugs: Expose x86_spec_ctrl_base directly x86/bugs: Unify x86_spec_ctrl_{set_guest,restore_host} x86/speculation: Rework speculative_store_bypass_update() x86/speculation: Add virtualized speculative store bypass disable support x86/bugs, KVM: Extend speculation control for VIRT_SPEC_CTRL x86/speculation: Handle HT correctly on AMD x86/cpufeatures: Add FEATURE_ZEN x86/cpufeatures: Disentangle SSBD enumeration x86/cpufeatures: Disentangle MSR_SPEC_CTRL enumeration from IBRS x86/speculation: Use synthetic bits for IBRS/IBPB/STIBP KVM: SVM: Move spec control call after restore of GS x86/cpu: Make alternative_msr_write work for 32-bit code x86/bugs: Fix the parameters alignment and missing void x86/bugs: Make cpu_show_common() static ...
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu1
-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt45
-rw-r--r--Documentation/userspace-api/index.rst1
-rw-r--r--Documentation/userspace-api/spec_ctrl.rst94
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diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu
index 025b7cf3768d..bd4975e132d3 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu
@@ -478,6 +478,7 @@ What: /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities
/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/meltdown
/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spectre_v1
/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spectre_v2
+ /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spec_store_bypass
Date: January 2018
Contact: Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Description: Information about CPU vulnerabilities
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index 11fc28ecdb6d..f2040d46f095 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -2680,6 +2680,9 @@
allow data leaks with this option, which is equivalent
to spectre_v2=off.
+ nospec_store_bypass_disable
+ [HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability
+
noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
@@ -4025,6 +4028,48 @@
Not specifying this option is equivalent to
spectre_v2=auto.
+ spec_store_bypass_disable=
+ [HW] Control Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) Disable mitigation
+ (Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability)
+
+ Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a
+ a common industry wide performance optimization known
+ as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which recent stores
+ to the same memory location may not be observed by
+ later loads during speculative execution. The idea
+ is that such stores are unlikely and that they can
+ be detected prior to instruction retirement at the
+ end of a particular speculation execution window.
+
+ In vulnerable processors, the speculatively forwarded
+ store can be used in a cache side channel attack, for
+ example to read memory to which the attacker does not
+ directly have access (e.g. inside sandboxed code).
+
+ This parameter controls whether the Speculative Store
+ Bypass optimization is used.
+
+ on - Unconditionally disable Speculative Store Bypass
+ off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass
+ auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an
+ implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and
+ picks the most appropriate mitigation. If the
+ CPU is not vulnerable, "off" is selected. If the
+ CPU is vulnerable the default mitigation is
+ architecture and Kconfig dependent. See below.
+ prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread
+ via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled
+ for a process by default. The state of the control
+ is inherited on fork.
+ seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads
+ will disable SSB unless they explicitly opt out.
+
+ Not specifying this option is equivalent to
+ spec_store_bypass_disable=auto.
+
+ Default mitigations:
+ X86: If CONFIG_SECCOMP=y "seccomp", otherwise "prctl"
+
spia_io_base= [HW,MTD]
spia_fio_base=
spia_pedr=
diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/index.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/index.rst
index 7b2eb1b7d4ca..a3233da7fa88 100644
--- a/Documentation/userspace-api/index.rst
+++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/index.rst
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ place where this information is gathered.
no_new_privs
seccomp_filter
unshare
+ spec_ctrl
.. only:: subproject and html
diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/spec_ctrl.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/spec_ctrl.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..32f3d55c54b7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/spec_ctrl.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,94 @@
+===================
+Speculation Control
+===================
+
+Quite some CPUs have speculation-related misfeatures which are in
+fact vulnerabilities causing data leaks in various forms even across
+privilege domains.
+
+The kernel provides mitigation for such vulnerabilities in various
+forms. Some of these mitigations are compile-time configurable and some
+can be supplied on the kernel command line.
+
+There is also a class of mitigations which are very expensive, but they can
+be restricted to a certain set of processes or tasks in controlled
+environments. The mechanism to control these mitigations is via
+:manpage:`prctl(2)`.
+
+There are two prctl options which are related to this:
+
+ * PR_GET_SPECULATION_CTRL
+
+ * PR_SET_SPECULATION_CTRL
+
+PR_GET_SPECULATION_CTRL
+-----------------------
+
+PR_GET_SPECULATION_CTRL returns the state of the speculation misfeature
+which is selected with arg2 of prctl(2). The return value uses bits 0-3 with
+the following meaning:
+
+==== ===================== ===================================================
+Bit Define Description
+==== ===================== ===================================================
+0 PR_SPEC_PRCTL Mitigation can be controlled per task by
+ PR_SET_SPECULATION_CTRL.
+1 PR_SPEC_ENABLE The speculation feature is enabled, mitigation is
+ disabled.
+2 PR_SPEC_DISABLE The speculation feature is disabled, mitigation is
+ enabled.
+3 PR_SPEC_FORCE_DISABLE Same as PR_SPEC_DISABLE, but cannot be undone. A
+ subsequent prctl(..., PR_SPEC_ENABLE) will fail.
+==== ===================== ===================================================
+
+If all bits are 0 the CPU is not affected by the speculation misfeature.
+
+If PR_SPEC_PRCTL is set, then the per-task control of the mitigation is
+available. If not set, prctl(PR_SET_SPECULATION_CTRL) for the speculation
+misfeature will fail.
+
+PR_SET_SPECULATION_CTRL
+-----------------------
+
+PR_SET_SPECULATION_CTRL allows to control the speculation misfeature, which
+is selected by arg2 of :manpage:`prctl(2)` per task. arg3 is used to hand
+in the control value, i.e. either PR_SPEC_ENABLE or PR_SPEC_DISABLE or
+PR_SPEC_FORCE_DISABLE.
+
+Common error codes
+------------------
+======= =================================================================
+Value Meaning
+======= =================================================================
+EINVAL The prctl is not implemented by the architecture or unused
+ prctl(2) arguments are not 0.
+
+ENODEV arg2 is selecting a not supported speculation misfeature.
+======= =================================================================
+
+PR_SET_SPECULATION_CTRL error codes
+-----------------------------------
+======= =================================================================
+Value Meaning
+======= =================================================================
+0 Success
+
+ERANGE arg3 is incorrect, i.e. it's neither PR_SPEC_ENABLE nor
+ PR_SPEC_DISABLE nor PR_SPEC_FORCE_DISABLE.
+
+ENXIO Control of the selected speculation misfeature is not possible.
+ See PR_GET_SPECULATION_CTRL.
+
+EPERM Speculation was disabled with PR_SPEC_FORCE_DISABLE and caller
+ tried to enable it again.
+======= =================================================================
+
+Speculation misfeature controls
+-------------------------------
+- PR_SPEC_STORE_BYPASS: Speculative Store Bypass
+
+ Invocations:
+ * prctl(PR_GET_SPECULATION_CTRL, PR_SPEC_STORE_BYPASS, 0, 0, 0);
+ * prctl(PR_SET_SPECULATION_CTRL, PR_SPEC_STORE_BYPASS, PR_SPEC_ENABLE, 0, 0);
+ * prctl(PR_SET_SPECULATION_CTRL, PR_SPEC_STORE_BYPASS, PR_SPEC_DISABLE, 0, 0);
+ * prctl(PR_SET_SPECULATION_CTRL, PR_SPEC_STORE_BYPASS, PR_SPEC_FORCE_DISABLE, 0, 0);