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| author | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2018-05-03 22:09:15 +0200 |
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| committer | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2018-05-05 00:51:43 +0200 |
| commit | 356e4bfff2c5489e016fdb925adbf12a1e3950ee (patch) | |
| tree | 27bfbcbf2c23c3d6cfa0219e93ccf35c2e14f5b3 /Documentation | |
| parent | f9544b2b076ca90d887c5ae5d74fab4c21bb7c13 (diff) | |
prctl: Add force disable speculation
For certain use cases it is desired to enforce mitigations so they cannot
be undone afterwards. That's important for loader stubs which want to
prevent a child from disabling the mitigation again. Will also be used for
seccomp(). The extra state preserving of the prctl state for SSB is a
preparatory step for EBPF dymanic speculation control.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/userspace-api/spec_ctrl.rst | 34 |
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/spec_ctrl.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/spec_ctrl.rst index ddbebcd01208..1b3690d30943 100644 --- a/Documentation/userspace-api/spec_ctrl.rst +++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/spec_ctrl.rst @@ -25,19 +25,21 @@ 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 0-2 with +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 -==== ================ =================================================== +==== ===================== =================================================== +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. @@ -47,9 +49,11 @@ 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. +in the control value, i.e. either PR_SPEC_ENABLE or PR_SPEC_DISABLE or +PR_SPEC_FORCE_DISABLE. Common error codes ------------------ @@ -70,10 +74,13 @@ Value Meaning 0 Success ERANGE arg3 is incorrect, i.e. it's neither PR_SPEC_ENABLE nor - PR_SPEC_DISABLE + 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 @@ -84,3 +91,4 @@ Speculation misfeature controls * 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); |