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Pull x86/gds fixes from Dave Hansen:
 "Mitigate Gather Data Sampling issue:

   - Add Base GDS mitigation

   - Support GDS_NO under KVM

   - Fix a documentation typo"

* tag 'gds-for-linus-2023-08-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  Documentation/x86: Fix backwards on/off logic about YMM support
  KVM: Add GDS_NO support to KVM
  x86/speculation: Add Kconfig option for GDS
  x86/speculation: Add force option to GDS mitigation
  x86/speculation: Add Gather Data Sampling mitigation
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13 changes: 7 additions & 6 deletions Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu
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cpu_capacity: capacity of cpuX.

What: /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities
/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/gather_data_sampling
/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/itlb_multihit
/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/l1tf
/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/mds
/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/meltdown
/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/mmio_stale_data
/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/retbleed
/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spec_store_bypass
/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spectre_v1
/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spectre_v2
/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spec_store_bypass
/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/l1tf
/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/mds
/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/srbds
/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/tsx_async_abort
/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/itlb_multihit
/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/mmio_stale_data
/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/retbleed
Date: January 2018
Contact: Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Description: Information about CPU vulnerabilities
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109 changes: 109 additions & 0 deletions Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/gather_data_sampling.rst
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.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
GDS - Gather Data Sampling
==========================

Gather Data Sampling is a hardware vulnerability which allows unprivileged
speculative access to data which was previously stored in vector registers.

Problem
-------
When a gather instruction performs loads from memory, different data elements
are merged into the destination vector register. However, when a gather
instruction that is transiently executed encounters a fault, stale data from
architectural or internal vector registers may get transiently forwarded to the
destination vector register instead. This will allow a malicious attacker to
infer stale data using typical side channel techniques like cache timing
attacks. GDS is a purely sampling-based attack.

The attacker uses gather instructions to infer the stale vector register data.
The victim does not need to do anything special other than use the vector
registers. The victim does not need to use gather instructions to be
vulnerable.

Because the buffers are shared between Hyper-Threads cross Hyper-Thread attacks
are possible.

Attack scenarios
----------------
Without mitigation, GDS can infer stale data across virtually all
permission boundaries:

Non-enclaves can infer SGX enclave data
Userspace can infer kernel data
Guests can infer data from hosts
Guest can infer guest from other guests
Users can infer data from other users

Because of this, it is important to ensure that the mitigation stays enabled in
lower-privilege contexts like guests and when running outside SGX enclaves.

The hardware enforces the mitigation for SGX. Likewise, VMMs should ensure
that guests are not allowed to disable the GDS mitigation. If a host erred and
allowed this, a guest could theoretically disable GDS mitigation, mount an
attack, and re-enable it.

Mitigation mechanism
--------------------
This issue is mitigated in microcode. The microcode defines the following new
bits:

================================ === ============================
IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES[GDS_CTRL] R/O Enumerates GDS vulnerability
and mitigation support.
IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES[GDS_NO] R/O Processor is not vulnerable.
IA32_MCU_OPT_CTRL[GDS_MITG_DIS] R/W Disables the mitigation
0 by default.
IA32_MCU_OPT_CTRL[GDS_MITG_LOCK] R/W Locks GDS_MITG_DIS=0. Writes
to GDS_MITG_DIS are ignored
Can't be cleared once set.
================================ === ============================

GDS can also be mitigated on systems that don't have updated microcode by
disabling AVX. This can be done by setting gather_data_sampling="force" or
"clearcpuid=avx" on the kernel command-line.

If used, these options will disable AVX use by turning off XSAVE YMM support.
However, the processor will still enumerate AVX support. Userspace that
does not follow proper AVX enumeration to check both AVX *and* XSAVE YMM
support will break.

Mitigation control on the kernel command line
---------------------------------------------
The mitigation can be disabled by setting "gather_data_sampling=off" or
"mitigations=off" on the kernel command line. Not specifying either will default
to the mitigation being enabled. Specifying "gather_data_sampling=force" will
use the microcode mitigation when available or disable AVX on affected systems
where the microcode hasn't been updated to include the mitigation.

GDS System Information
------------------------
The kernel provides vulnerability status information through sysfs. For
GDS this can be accessed by the following sysfs file:

/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/gather_data_sampling

The possible values contained in this file are:

============================== =============================================
Not affected Processor not vulnerable.
Vulnerable Processor vulnerable and mitigation disabled.
Vulnerable: No microcode Processor vulnerable and microcode is missing
mitigation.
Mitigation: AVX disabled,
no microcode Processor is vulnerable and microcode is missing
mitigation. AVX disabled as mitigation.
Mitigation: Microcode Processor is vulnerable and mitigation is in
effect.
Mitigation: Microcode (locked) Processor is vulnerable and mitigation is in
effect and cannot be disabled.
Unknown: Dependent on
hypervisor status Running on a virtual guest processor that is
affected but with no way to know if host
processor is mitigated or vulnerable.
============================== =============================================

GDS Default mitigation
----------------------
The updated microcode will enable the mitigation by default. The kernel's
default action is to leave the mitigation enabled.
1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/index.rst
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processor_mmio_stale_data.rst
cross-thread-rsb.rst
srso
gather_data_sampling.rst
47 changes: 34 additions & 13 deletions Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
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Format: off | on
default: on

gather_data_sampling=
[X86,INTEL] Control the Gather Data Sampling (GDS)
mitigation.

Gather Data Sampling is a hardware vulnerability which
allows unprivileged speculative access to data which was
previously stored in vector registers.

This issue is mitigated by default in updated microcode.
The mitigation may have a performance impact but can be
disabled. On systems without the microcode mitigation
disabling AVX serves as a mitigation.

force: Disable AVX to mitigate systems without
microcode mitigation. No effect if the microcode
mitigation is present. Known to cause crashes in
userspace with buggy AVX enumeration.

off: Disable GDS mitigation.

gcov_persist= [GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
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Disable all optional CPU mitigations. This
improves system performance, but it may also
expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities.
Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC]
if nokaslr then kpti=0 [ARM64]
nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC]
nobp=0 [S390]
nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64]
spectre_v2_user=off [X86]
spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC]
ssbd=force-off [ARM64]
nospectre_bhb [ARM64]
Equivalent to: if nokaslr then kpti=0 [ARM64]
gather_data_sampling=off [X86]
kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86]
l1tf=off [X86]
mds=off [X86]
tsx_async_abort=off [X86]
kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86]
srbds=off [X86,INTEL]
mmio_stale_data=off [X86]
no_entry_flush [PPC]
no_uaccess_flush [PPC]
mmio_stale_data=off [X86]
nobp=0 [S390]
nopti [X86,PPC]
nospectre_bhb [ARM64]
nospectre_v1 [X86,PPC]
nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64]
retbleed=off [X86]
spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC]
spectre_v2_user=off [X86]
srbds=off [X86,INTEL]
ssbd=force-off [ARM64]
tsx_async_abort=off [X86]

Exceptions:
This does not have any effect on
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against straight line speculation. The kernel image might be slightly
larger.

config GDS_FORCE_MITIGATION
bool "Force GDS Mitigation"
depends on CPU_SUP_INTEL
default n
help
Gather Data Sampling (GDS) is a hardware vulnerability which allows
unprivileged speculative access to data which was previously stored in
vector registers.

This option is equivalent to setting gather_data_sampling=force on the
command line. The microcode mitigation is used if present, otherwise
AVX is disabled as a mitigation. On affected systems that are missing
the microcode any userspace code that unconditionally uses AVX will
break with this option set.

Setting this option on systems not vulnerable to GDS has no effect.

If in doubt, say N.

endif

config ARCH_HAS_ADD_PAGES
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#define X86_BUG_RETBLEED X86_BUG(27) /* CPU is affected by RETBleed */
#define X86_BUG_EIBRS_PBRSB X86_BUG(28) /* EIBRS is vulnerable to Post Barrier RSB Predictions */
#define X86_BUG_SMT_RSB X86_BUG(29) /* CPU is vulnerable to Cross-Thread Return Address Predictions */
#define X86_BUG_GDS X86_BUG(30) /* CPU is affected by Gather Data Sampling */

/* BUG word 2 */
#define X86_BUG_SRSO X86_BUG(1*32 + 0) /* AMD SRSO bug */
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11 changes: 11 additions & 0 deletions arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h
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* Not susceptible to Post-Barrier
* Return Stack Buffer Predictions.
*/
#define ARCH_CAP_GDS_CTRL BIT(25) /*
* CPU is vulnerable to Gather
* Data Sampling (GDS) and
* has controls for mitigation.
*/
#define ARCH_CAP_GDS_NO BIT(26) /*
* CPU is not vulnerable to Gather
* Data Sampling (GDS).
*/

#define ARCH_CAP_XAPIC_DISABLE BIT(21) /*
* IA32_XAPIC_DISABLE_STATUS MSR
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#define RNGDS_MITG_DIS BIT(0) /* SRBDS support */
#define RTM_ALLOW BIT(1) /* TSX development mode */
#define FB_CLEAR_DIS BIT(3) /* CPU Fill buffer clear disable */
#define GDS_MITG_DIS BIT(4) /* Disable GDS mitigation */
#define GDS_MITG_LOCKED BIT(5) /* GDS mitigation locked */

#define MSR_IA32_SYSENTER_CS 0x00000174
#define MSR_IA32_SYSENTER_ESP 0x00000175
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