cpu/speculation: Add 'mitigations=' cmdline option

commit 98af8452945c55652de68536afdde3b520fec429 upstream

Keeping track of the number of mitigations for all the CPU speculation
bugs has become overwhelming for many users.  It's getting more and more
complicated to decide which mitigations are needed for a given
architecture.  Complicating matters is the fact that each arch tends to
have its own custom way to mitigate the same vulnerability.

Most users fall into a few basic categories:

a) they want all mitigations off;

b) they want all reasonable mitigations on, with SMT enabled even if
   it's vulnerable; or

c) they want all reasonable mitigations on, with SMT disabled if
   vulnerable.

Define a set of curated, arch-independent options, each of which is an
aggregation of existing options:

- mitigations=off: Disable all mitigations.

- mitigations=auto: [default] Enable all the default mitigations, but
  leave SMT enabled, even if it's vulnerable.

- mitigations=auto,nosmt: Enable all the default mitigations, disabling
  SMT if needed by a mitigation.

Currently, these options are placeholders which don't actually do
anything.  They will be fleshed out in upcoming patches.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> (on x86)
Reviewed-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>
Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com>
Cc: Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/b07a8ef9b7c5055c3a4637c87d07c296d5016fe0.1555085500.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
(cherry picked from commit 6cbbaa933b325234d6ffc93836d6b7c06dea7a56)

Orabug: 29526900
CVE: CVE-2018-12126
CVE: CVE-2018-12130
CVE: CVE-2018-12127

Signed-off-by: Mihai Carabas <mihai.carabas@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Conflicts:
	Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
Different location: Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 528070893b5a5aab1e1088420a7fc387e4cd5279..e3b53ab90b450a944ea96f285e5e7efb5dc1f448 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -2189,6 +2189,30 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
                        in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at
                        http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
 
+       mitigations=
+                       Control optional mitigations for CPU vulnerabilities.
+                       This is a set of curated, arch-independent options, each
+                       of which is an aggregation of existing arch-specific
+                       options.
+
+                       off
+                               Disable all optional CPU mitigations.  This
+                               improves system performance, but it may also
+                               expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities.
+
+                       auto (default)
+                               Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT
+                               enabled, even if it's vulnerable.  This is for
+                               users who don't want to be surprised by SMT
+                               getting disabled across kernel upgrades, or who
+                               have other ways of avoiding SMT-based attacks.
+                               This is the default behavior.
+
+                       auto,nosmt
+                               Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, disabling SMT
+                               if needed.  This is for users who always want to
+                               be fully mitigated, even if it means losing SMT.
+
        mminit_loglevel=
                        [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this
                        parameter allows control of the logging verbosity for

diff --git a/include/linux/cpu.h b/include/linux/cpu.h
index 00ddb1b5d0ba89c9130617e1cf50773845b92792..19eac0e842dd30695ae141e49332032607c12346 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/cpu.h
+++ b/include/linux/cpu.h
@@ -329,4 +329,28 @@ static inline void cpu_smt_check_topology_early(void) { }
 static inline void cpu_smt_check_topology(void) { }
 #endif
 
+/*
+ * These are used for a global "mitigations=" cmdline option for toggling
+ * optional CPU mitigations.
+ */
+enum cpu_mitigations {
+       CPU_MITIGATIONS_OFF,
+       CPU_MITIGATIONS_AUTO,
+       CPU_MITIGATIONS_AUTO_NOSMT,
+};
+
+extern enum cpu_mitigations cpu_mitigations;
+
+/* mitigations=off */
+static inline bool cpu_mitigations_off(void)
+{
+       return cpu_mitigations == CPU_MITIGATIONS_OFF;
+}
+
+/* mitigations=auto,nosmt */
+static inline bool cpu_mitigations_auto_nosmt(void)
+{
+       return cpu_mitigations == CPU_MITIGATIONS_AUTO_NOSMT;
+}
+
 #endif /* _LINUX_CPU_H_ */

diff --git a/kernel/cpu.c b/kernel/cpu.c
index 5ae7d911392e753dfb5ad12d46ba4cb0f1b47ac0..099b92015deda39dbde307ce995a4d5ed6866e1f 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/cpu.c
+++ b/kernel/cpu.c
@@ -1088,3 +1088,18 @@ void init_cpu_online(const struct cpumask *src)
 {
        cpumask_copy(to_cpumask(cpu_online_bits), src);
 }
+
+enum cpu_mitigations cpu_mitigations = CPU_MITIGATIONS_AUTO;
+
+static int __init mitigations_parse_cmdline(char *arg)
+{
+       if (!strcmp(arg, "off"))
+               cpu_mitigations = CPU_MITIGATIONS_OFF;
+       else if (!strcmp(arg, "auto"))
+               cpu_mitigations = CPU_MITIGATIONS_AUTO;
+       else if (!strcmp(arg, "auto,nosmt"))
+               cpu_mitigations = CPU_MITIGATIONS_AUTO_NOSMT;
+
+       return 0;
+}
+early_param("mitigations", mitigations_parse_cmdline);