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Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 65f747a6b1 x86/bugs: Provide boot parameters for the spec_store_bypass_disable mitigation 
commit 24f7fc83b9 upstream

Contemporary high performance processors use a common industry-wide
optimization known as "Speculative Store Bypass" in which loads from
addresses to which a recent store has occurred may (speculatively) see an
older value. Intel refers to this feature as "Memory Disambiguation" which
is part of their "Smart Memory Access" capability.

Memory Disambiguation can expose a cache side-channel attack against such
speculatively read values. An attacker can create exploit code that allows
them to read memory outside of a sandbox environment (for example,
malicious JavaScript in a web page), or to perform more complex attacks
against code running within the same privilege level, e.g. via the stack.

As a first step to mitigate against such attacks, provide two boot command
line control knobs:

 nospec_store_bypass_disable
 spec_store_bypass_disable=[off,auto,on]

By default affected x86 processors will power on with Speculative
Store Bypass enabled. Hence the provided kernel parameters are written
from the point of view of whether to enable a mitigation or not.
The parameters are as follows:

 - auto - Kernel detects whether your CPU model contains an implementation
	  of Speculative Store Bypass and picks the most appropriate
	  mitigation.

 - on   - disable Speculative Store Bypass
 - off  - enable Speculative Store Bypass

[ tglx: Reordered the checks so that the whole evaluation is not done
  	when the CPU does not support RDS ]

Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-05-22 18:54:02 +02:00
arch x86/bugs: Provide boot parameters for the spec_store_bypass_disable mitigation 2018-05-22 18:54:02 +02:00
block bfq-iosched: ensure to clear bic/bfqq pointers when preparing request 2018-05-01 12:58:19 -07:00
certs License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
crypto crypto: af_alg - fix possible uninit-value in alg_bind() 2018-05-16 10:10:23 +02:00
Documentation x86/bugs: Provide boot parameters for the spec_store_bypass_disable mitigation 2018-05-22 18:54:02 +02:00
drivers x86/bugs: Expose /sys/../spec_store_bypass 2018-05-22 18:54:02 +02:00
firmware License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
fs btrfs: fix reading stale metadata blocks after degraded raid1 mounts 2018-05-22 18:54:01 +02:00
include x86/bugs: Expose /sys/../spec_store_bypass 2018-05-22 18:54:02 +02:00
init kmemcheck: stop using GFP_NOTRACK and SLAB_NOTRACK 2018-02-22 15:42:23 +01:00
ipc ipc/shm: fix use-after-free of shm file via remap_file_pages() 2018-04-24 09:36:23 +02:00
kernel tick/broadcast: Use for_each_cpu() specially on UP kernels 2018-05-22 18:54:00 +02:00
lib radix tree: fix multi-order iteration race 2018-05-22 18:53:58 +02:00
mm mm: don't allow deferred pages with NEED_PER_CPU_KM 2018-05-22 18:53:58 +02:00
net netfilter: nf_socket: Fix out of bounds access in nf_sk_lookup_slow_v{4,6} 2018-05-22 18:53:58 +02:00
samples samples/bpf: Partially fixes the bpf.o build 2018-04-26 11:02:12 +02:00
scripts kconfig: Fix expr_free() E_NOT leak 2018-04-26 11:02:08 +02:00
security commoncap: Handle memory allocation failure. 2018-04-29 11:33:16 +02:00
sound ALSA: control: fix a redundant-copy issue 2018-05-22 18:53:56 +02:00
tools test_firmware: fix setting old custom fw path back on exit, second try 2018-05-09 09:51:54 +02:00
usr initramfs: fix initramfs rebuilds w/ compression after disabling 2017-11-03 07:39:19 -07:00
virt KVM: arm/arm64: VGIC/ITS: protect kvm_read_guest() calls with SRCU lock 2018-05-22 18:53:57 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
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Kbuild License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
Kconfig License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
MAINTAINERS dt-bindings: Document mti,mips-cpc binding 2018-03-15 10:54:35 +01:00
Makefile Linux 4.14.42 2018-05-19 10:20:27 +02:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.