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Pawan Gupta 6c58ea8525 x86/speculation/taa: Add mitigation for TSX Async Abort 
commit 1b42f01741 upstream.

TSX Async Abort (TAA) is a side channel vulnerability to the internal
buffers in some Intel processors similar to Microachitectural Data
Sampling (MDS). In this case, certain loads may speculatively pass
invalid data to dependent operations when an asynchronous abort
condition is pending in a TSX transaction.

This includes loads with no fault or assist condition. Such loads may
speculatively expose stale data from the uarch data structures as in
MDS. Scope of exposure is within the same-thread and cross-thread. This
issue affects all current processors that support TSX, but do not have
ARCH_CAP_TAA_NO (bit 8) set in MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.

On CPUs which have their IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES MSR bit MDS_NO=0,
CPUID.MD_CLEAR=1 and the MDS mitigation is clearing the CPU buffers
using VERW or L1D_FLUSH, there is no additional mitigation needed for
TAA. On affected CPUs with MDS_NO=1 this issue can be mitigated by
disabling the Transactional Synchronization Extensions (TSX) feature.

A new MSR IA32_TSX_CTRL in future and current processors after a
microcode update can be used to control the TSX feature. There are two
bits in that MSR:

* TSX_CTRL_RTM_DISABLE disables the TSX sub-feature Restricted
Transactional Memory (RTM).

* TSX_CTRL_CPUID_CLEAR clears the RTM enumeration in CPUID. The other
TSX sub-feature, Hardware Lock Elision (HLE), is unconditionally
disabled with updated microcode but still enumerated as present by
CPUID(EAX=7).EBX{bit4}.

The second mitigation approach is similar to MDS which is clearing the
affected CPU buffers on return to user space and when entering a guest.
Relevant microcode update is required for the mitigation to work.  More
details on this approach can be found here:

  https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.html

The TSX feature can be controlled by the "tsx" command line parameter.
If it is force-enabled then "Clear CPU buffers" (MDS mitigation) is
deployed. The effective mitigation state can be read from sysfs.

 [ bp:
   - massage + comments cleanup
   - s/TAA_MITIGATION_TSX_DISABLE/TAA_MITIGATION_TSX_DISABLED/g - Josh.
   - remove partial TAA mitigation in update_mds_branch_idle() - Josh.
   - s/tsx_async_abort_cmdline/tsx_async_abort_parse_cmdline/g
 ]

Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-11-12 19:21:32 +01:00
arch x86/speculation/taa: Add mitigation for TSX Async Abort 2019-11-12 19:21:32 +01:00
block blkcg: make blkcg_print_stat() print stats only for online blkgs 2019-11-12 19:21:19 +01:00
certs export.h: remove VMLINUX_SYMBOL() and VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR() 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
crypto crypto: skcipher - Unmap pages after an external error 2019-10-11 18:20:52 +02:00
Documentation x86/cpu: Add a "tsx=" cmdline option with TSX disabled by default 2019-11-12 19:21:32 +01:00
drivers drm/i915/cmdparser: Fix jump whitelist clearing 2019-11-12 19:21:29 +01:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs cgroup,writeback: don't switch wbs immediately on dead wbs if the memcg is dead 2019-11-12 19:21:20 +01:00
include net: prevent load/store tearing on sk->sk_stamp 2019-11-12 19:21:21 +01:00
init initramfs: don't free a non-existent initrd 2019-10-01 08:26:09 +02:00
ipc ipc/mqueue.c: only perform resource calculation if user valid 2019-08-06 19:06:52 +02:00
kernel sched/fair: Fix -Wunused-but-set-variable warnings 2019-11-12 19:20:51 +01:00
lib dump_stack: avoid the livelock of the dump_lock 2019-11-12 19:20:37 +01:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Remove CC-BY-SA-4.0 license text 2018-10-18 11:28:50 +02:00
mm mm/filemap.c: don't initiate writeback if mapping has no dirty pages 2019-11-12 19:21:20 +01:00
net vsock/virtio: fix sock refcnt holding during the shutdown 2019-11-12 19:21:22 +01:00
samples samples: bpf: fix: seg fault with NULL pointer arg 2019-11-06 13:05:30 +01:00
scripts scripts/setlocalversion: Improve -dirty check with git-status --no-optional-locks 2019-11-06 13:05:27 +01:00
security ima: fix freeing ongoing ahash_request 2019-10-11 18:21:11 +02:00
sound ALSA: usb-audio: Fix copy&paste error in the validator 2019-11-12 19:20:50 +01:00
tools usbip: tools: Fix read_usb_vudc_device() error path handling 2019-11-12 19:21:09 +01:00
usr kbuild: clean compressed initramfs image 2019-10-07 18:57:16 +02:00
virt KVM: coalesced_mmio: add bounds checking 2019-09-21 07:16:44 +02:00
.clang-format clang-format: Set IndentWrappedFunctionNames false 2018-08-01 18:38:51 +02:00
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.gitignore Kbuild updates for v4.17 (2nd) 2018-04-15 17:21:30 -07:00
.mailmap libnvdimm-for-4.19_misc 2018-08-25 18:13:10 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS 9p: remove Ron Minnich from MAINTAINERS 2018-08-17 16:20:26 -07:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig kconfig: move the "Executable file formats" menu to fs/Kconfig.binfmt 2018-08-02 08:06:55 +09:00
MAINTAINERS USB: rio500: Remove Rio 500 kernel driver 2019-10-17 13:44:47 -07:00
Makefile Linux 4.19.83 2019-11-10 11:27:57 +01:00
README Docs: Added a pointer to the formatted docs to README 2018-03-21 09:02:53 -06:00

README 

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

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

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.