Commit 3b564968 authored by Borislav Petkov's avatar Borislav Petkov Committed by H. Peter Anvin

x86, cpu, amd: Add workaround for family 16h, erratum 793

This adds the workaround for erratum 793 as a precaution in case not
every BIOS implements it.  This addresses CVE-2013-6885.

Erratum text:

[Revision Guide for AMD Family 16h Models 00h-0Fh Processors,
document 51810 Rev. 3.04 November 2013]

793 Specific Combination of Writes to Write Combined Memory Types and
Locked Instructions May Cause Core Hang

Description

Under a highly specific and detailed set of internal timing
conditions, a locked instruction may trigger a timing sequence whereby
the write to a write combined memory type is not flushed, causing the
locked instruction to stall indefinitely.

Potential Effect on System

Processor core hang.

Suggested Workaround

BIOS should set MSR
C001_1020[15] = 1b.

Fix Planned

No fix planned

[ hpa: updated description, fixed typo in MSR name ]
Signed-off-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140114230711.GS29865@pd.tnicTested-by: default avatarAravind Gopalakrishnan <aravind.gopalakrishnan@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
parent a6da83f9
......@@ -184,6 +184,7 @@
#define MSR_AMD64_PATCH_LOADER 0xc0010020
#define MSR_AMD64_OSVW_ID_LENGTH 0xc0010140
#define MSR_AMD64_OSVW_STATUS 0xc0010141
#define MSR_AMD64_LS_CFG 0xc0011020
#define MSR_AMD64_DC_CFG 0xc0011022
#define MSR_AMD64_BU_CFG2 0xc001102a
#define MSR_AMD64_IBSFETCHCTL 0xc0011030
......
......@@ -508,6 +508,16 @@ static void early_init_amd(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
set_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_EXTD_APICID);
}
#endif
/* F16h erratum 793, CVE-2013-6885 */
if (c->x86 == 0x16 && c->x86_model <= 0xf) {
u64 val;
rdmsrl(MSR_AMD64_LS_CFG, val);
if (!(val & BIT(15)))
wrmsrl(MSR_AMD64_LS_CFG, val | BIT(15));
}
}
static const int amd_erratum_383[];
......
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