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Waiman Long 75cad94d03 x86/speculation: Fix incorrect MDS/TAA mitigation status 
commit 64870ed1b1 upstream.

For MDS vulnerable processors with TSX support, enabling either MDS or
TAA mitigations will enable the use of VERW to flush internal processor
buffers at the right code path. IOW, they are either both mitigated
or both not. However, if the command line options are inconsistent,
the vulnerabilites sysfs files may not report the mitigation status
correctly.

For example, with only the "mds=off" option:

  vulnerabilities/mds:Vulnerable; SMT vulnerable
  vulnerabilities/tsx_async_abort:Mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable

The mds vulnerabilities file has wrong status in this case. Similarly,
the taa vulnerability file will be wrong with mds mitigation on, but
taa off.

Change taa_select_mitigation() to sync up the two mitigation status
and have them turned off if both "mds=off" and "tsx_async_abort=off"
are present.

Update documentation to emphasize the fact that both "mds=off" and
"tsx_async_abort=off" have to be specified together for processors that
are affected by both TAA and MDS to be effective.

 [ bp: Massage and add kernel-parameters.txt change too. ]

Fixes: 1b42f01741 ("x86/speculation/taa: Add mitigation for TSX Async Abort")
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Mark Gross <mgross@linux.intel.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com>
Cc: x86-ml <x86@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191115161445.30809-2-longman@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
 		2019-11-29 10:09:46 +01:00
Documentation x86/speculation: Fix incorrect MDS/TAA mitigation status 2019-11-29 10:09:46 +01:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
arch x86/speculation: Fix incorrect MDS/TAA mitigation status 2019-11-29 10:09:46 +01:00
block iocost: check active_list of all the ancestors in iocg_activate() 2019-11-14 13:56:54 -07:00
certs PKCS#7: Refactor verify_pkcs7_signature() 2019-08-05 18:40:18 -04:00
crypto Merge branch 'next-lockdown' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2019-09-28 08:14:15 -07:00
drivers md/raid10: prevent access of uninitialized resync_pages offset 2019-11-29 10:09:45 +01:00
fs Merge branch 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2019-11-24 12:36:39 -08:00
include Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2019-11-22 14:28:14 -08:00
init Merge branch 'next-lockdown' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2019-09-28 08:14:15 -07:00
ipc ipc/sem.c: convert to use built-in RCU list checking 2019-09-25 17:51:41 -07:00
kernel Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2019-11-22 14:28:14 -08:00
lib lib/xz: fix XZ_DYNALLOC to avoid useless memory reallocations 2019-11-15 18:34:00 -08:00
mm mm/ksm.c: don't WARN if page is still mapped in remove_stable_node() 2019-11-22 09:11:18 -08:00
net udp: drop skb extensions before marking skb stateless 2019-11-22 09:28:46 -08:00
samples samples/bpf: fix build by setting HAVE_ATTR_TEST to zero 2019-10-31 21:39:15 +01:00
scripts arm64 fix for -rc8 / final 2019-11-15 09:14:23 -08:00
security efi/efi_test: Lock down /dev/efi_test and require CAP_SYS_ADMIN 2019-10-31 09:40:21 +01:00
sound ALSA: usb-audio: Fix incorrect size check for processing/extension units 2019-11-14 18:01:22 +01:00
tools x86/insn: Fix awk regexp warnings 2019-11-29 10:09:45 +01:00
usr kbuild: update compile-test header list for v5.4-rc2 2019-10-05 15:29:49 +09:00
virt KVM: Add a comment describing the /dev/kvm no_compat handling 2019-11-15 10:14:04 +01:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with the latest for_each macro list 2019-08-31 10:00:51 +02:00
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.get_maintainer.ignore Opt out of scripts/get_maintainer.pl 2019-05-16 10:53:40 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore Modules updates for v5.4 2019-09-22 10:34:46 -07:00
.mailmap ARM: SoC fixes 2019-11-10 13:41:59 -08:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Remove Simon as Renesas SoC Co-Maintainer 2019-10-10 08:12:51 -07:00
Kbuild kbuild: do not descend to ./Kbuild when cleaning 2019-08-21 21:03:58 +09:00
Kconfig docs: kbuild: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst 2019-06-14 14:21:21 -06:00
MAINTAINERS Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2019-11-22 14:28:14 -08:00
Makefile Linux 5.4 2019-11-24 16:32:01 -08:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -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.

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.