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x86/lam: Disable ADDRESS_MASKING in most cases
authorPawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Wed, 24 Jan 2024 03:55:21 +0000 (19:55 -0800)
committerDave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Mon, 21 Oct 2024 22:05:43 +0000 (15:05 -0700)
commit3267cb6d3a174ff83d6287dcd5b0047bbd912452
tree3012a2225e382fbad6c7bfe628288acde710f9d8
parentffd95846c6ec6cf1f93da411ea10d504036cab42
x86/lam: Disable ADDRESS_MASKING in most cases

Linear Address Masking (LAM) has a weakness related to transient
execution as described in the SLAM paper[1]. Unless Linear Address
Space Separation (LASS) is enabled this weakness may be exploitable.

Until kernel adds support for LASS[2], only allow LAM for COMPILE_TEST,
or when speculation mitigations have been disabled at compile time,
otherwise keep LAM disabled.

There are no processors in market that support LAM yet, so currently
nobody is affected by this issue.

[1] SLAM: https://download.vusec.net/papers/slam_sp24.pdf
[2] LASS: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230609183632.48706-1-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com/

[ dhansen: update SPECULATION_MITIGATIONS -> CPU_MITIGATIONS ]

Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Sohil Mehta <sohil.mehta@intel.com>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc:stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/5373262886f2783f054256babdf5a98545dc986b.1706068222.git.pawan.kumar.gupta%40linux.intel.com
arch/x86/Kconfig