Pull x86 TSX Async Abort and iTLB Multihit mitigations from Thomas Gleixner:
"The performance deterioration departement is not proud at all of
presenting the seventh installment of speculation mitigations and
hardware misfeature workarounds:
1) TSX Async Abort (TAA) - 'The Annoying Affair'
TAA is a hardware vulnerability that allows unprivileged
speculative access to data which is available in various CPU
internal buffers by using asynchronous aborts within an Intel TSX
transactional region.
The mitigation depends on a microcode update providing a new MSR
which allows to disable TSX in the CPU. CPUs which have no
microcode update can be mitigated by disabling TSX in the BIOS if
the BIOS provides a tunable.
Newer CPUs will have a bit set which indicates that the CPU is not
vulnerable, but the MSR to disable TSX will be available
nevertheless as it is an architected MSR. That means the kernel
provides the ability to disable TSX on the kernel command line,
which is useful as TSX is a truly useful mechanism to accelerate
side channel attacks of all sorts.
2) iITLB Multihit (NX) - 'No eXcuses'
iTLB Multihit is an erratum where some Intel processors may incur
a machine check error, possibly resulting in an unrecoverable CPU
lockup, when an instruction fetch hits multiple entries in the
instruction TLB. This can occur when the page size is changed
along with either the physical address or cache type. A malicious
guest running on a virtualized system can exploit this erratum to
perform a denial of service attack.
The workaround is that KVM marks huge pages in the extended page
tables as not executable (NX). If the guest attempts to execute in
such a page, the page is broken down into 4k pages which are
marked executable. The workaround comes with a mechanism to
recover these shattered huge pages over time.
Both issues come with full documentation in the hardware
vulnerabilities section of the Linux kernel user's and administrator's
guide.
Thanks to all patch authors and reviewers who had the extraordinary
priviledge to be exposed to this nuisance.
Special thanks to Borislav Petkov for polishing the final TAA patch
set and to Paolo Bonzini for shepherding the KVM iTLB workarounds and
providing also the backports to stable kernels for those!"
* 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/speculation/taa: Fix printing of TAA_MSG_SMT on IBRS_ALL CPUs
Documentation: Add ITLB_MULTIHIT documentation
kvm: x86: mmu: Recovery of shattered NX large pages
kvm: Add helper function for creating VM worker threads
kvm: mmu: ITLB_MULTIHIT mitigation
cpu/speculation: Uninline and export CPU mitigations helpers
x86/cpu: Add Tremont to the cpu vulnerability whitelist
x86/bugs: Add ITLB_MULTIHIT bug infrastructure
x86/tsx: Add config options to set tsx=on|off|auto
x86/speculation/taa: Add documentation for TSX Async Abort
x86/tsx: Add "auto" option to the tsx= cmdline parameter
kvm/x86: Export MDS_NO=0 to guests when TSX is enabled
x86/speculation/taa: Add sysfs reporting for TSX Async Abort
x86/speculation/taa: Add mitigation for TSX Async Abort
x86/cpu: Add a "tsx=" cmdline option with TSX disabled by default
x86/cpu: Add a helper function x86_read_arch_cap_msr()
x86/msr: Add the IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR
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