From da285121560e769cc31797bba6422eea71d473e0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Woodhouse Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 21:46:26 +0000 Subject: x86/spectre: Add boot time option to select Spectre v2 mitigation Add a spectre_v2= option to select the mitigation used for the indirect branch speculation vulnerability. Currently, the only option available is retpoline, in its various forms. This will be expanded to cover the new IBRS/IBPB microcode features. The RETPOLINE_AMD feature relies on a serializing LFENCE for speculation control. For AMD hardware, only set RETPOLINE_AMD if LFENCE is a serializing instruction, which is indicated by the LFENCE_RDTSC feature. [ tglx: Folded back the LFENCE/AMD fixes and reworked it so IBRS integration becomes simple ] Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Josh Poimboeuf Cc: thomas.lendacky@amd.com Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Jiri Kosina Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Tim Chen Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Paul Turner Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1515707194-20531-5-git-send-email-dwmw@amazon.co.uk --- Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 28 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index 905991745d26..8122b5f98ea1 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -2599,6 +2599,11 @@ nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). Equivalent to smt=1. + nospectre_v2 [X86] Disable all mitigations for the Spectre variant 2 + (indirect branch prediction) vulnerability. System may + allow data leaks with this option, which is equivalent + to spectre_v2=off. + noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to enabling legacy floating-point and sse state. @@ -3908,6 +3913,29 @@ sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt + spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2 + (indirect branch speculation) vulnerability. + + on - unconditionally enable + off - unconditionally disable + auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is + vulnerable + + Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a + mitigation method at run time according to the + CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the + CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the + compiler with which the kernel was built. + + Specific mitigations can also be selected manually: + + retpoline - replace indirect branches + retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline + retpoline,amd - AMD-specific minimal thunk + + Not specifying this option is equivalent to + spectre_v2=auto. + spia_io_base= [HW,MTD] spia_fio_base= spia_pedr= -- cgit v1.2.3-58-ga151