Commit 53cf5797 authored by Daniel Sneddon's avatar Daniel Sneddon Committed by Dave Hansen

x86/speculation: Add Kconfig option for GDS

Gather Data Sampling (GDS) is mitigated in microcode. However, on
systems that haven't received the updated microcode, disabling AVX
can act as a mitigation. Add a Kconfig option that uses the microcode
mitigation if available and disables AVX otherwise. Setting this
option has no effect on systems not affected by GDS. This is the
equivalent of setting gather_data_sampling=force.
Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Sneddon <daniel.sneddon@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: default avatarJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
parent 553a5c03
......@@ -2603,6 +2603,25 @@ config SLS
against straight line speculation. The kernel image might be slightly
larger.
config GDS_FORCE_MITIGATION
bool "Force GDS Mitigation"
depends on CPU_SUP_INTEL
default n
help
Gather Data Sampling (GDS) is a hardware vulnerability which allows
unprivileged speculative access to data which was previously stored in
vector registers.
This option is equivalent to setting gather_data_sampling=force on the
command line. The microcode mitigation is used if present, otherwise
AVX is disabled as a mitigation. On affected systems that are missing
the microcode any userspace code that unconditionally uses AVX will
break with this option set.
Setting this option on systems not vulnerable to GDS has no effect.
If in doubt, say N.
endif
config ARCH_HAS_ADD_PAGES
......
......@@ -659,7 +659,11 @@ enum gds_mitigations {
GDS_MITIGATION_HYPERVISOR,
};
#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_GDS_FORCE_MITIGATION)
static enum gds_mitigations gds_mitigation __ro_after_init = GDS_MITIGATION_FORCE;
#else
static enum gds_mitigations gds_mitigation __ro_after_init = GDS_MITIGATION_FULL;
#endif
static const char * const gds_strings[] = {
[GDS_MITIGATION_OFF] = "Vulnerable",
......
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