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authorDavid Kaplan <david.kaplan@amd.com>2025-07-07 13:33:00 -0500
committerBorislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>2025-07-11 17:56:40 +0200
commite3a88d4c068242c00a1d6ddfd3c711fc22983f75 (patch)
tree06c0c8264d2fa57073f2100662207ffb834933b3 /arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
parent2d31d2874663cde2cab8c18bfb52ed8be6dfa958 (diff)
x86/bugs: Add attack vector controls for MDS
Use attack vector controls to determine if MDS mitigation is required. The global mitigations=off command now simply disables all attack vectors so explicit checking of mitigations=off is no longer needed. If cross-thread attack mitigations are required, disable SMT. Signed-off-by: David Kaplan <david.kaplan@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250707183316.1349127-6-david.kaplan@amd.com
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c14
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
index b083e7eabc56..31e0cf87d71e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
@@ -441,13 +441,17 @@ static bool verw_clear_cpu_buf_mitigation_selected __ro_after_init;
static void __init mds_select_mitigation(void)
{
- if (!boot_cpu_has_bug(X86_BUG_MDS) || cpu_mitigations_off()) {
+ if (!boot_cpu_has_bug(X86_BUG_MDS)) {
mds_mitigation = MDS_MITIGATION_OFF;
return;
}
- if (mds_mitigation == MDS_MITIGATION_AUTO)
- mds_mitigation = MDS_MITIGATION_FULL;
+ if (mds_mitigation == MDS_MITIGATION_AUTO) {
+ if (should_mitigate_vuln(X86_BUG_MDS))
+ mds_mitigation = MDS_MITIGATION_FULL;
+ else
+ mds_mitigation = MDS_MITIGATION_OFF;
+ }
if (mds_mitigation == MDS_MITIGATION_OFF)
return;
@@ -457,7 +461,7 @@ static void __init mds_select_mitigation(void)
static void __init mds_update_mitigation(void)
{
- if (!boot_cpu_has_bug(X86_BUG_MDS) || cpu_mitigations_off())
+ if (!boot_cpu_has_bug(X86_BUG_MDS))
return;
/* If TAA, MMIO, or RFDS are being mitigated, MDS gets mitigated too. */
@@ -478,7 +482,7 @@ static void __init mds_apply_mitigation(void)
mds_mitigation == MDS_MITIGATION_VMWERV) {
setup_force_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_CLEAR_CPU_BUF);
if (!boot_cpu_has(X86_BUG_MSBDS_ONLY) &&
- (mds_nosmt || cpu_mitigations_auto_nosmt()))
+ (mds_nosmt || smt_mitigations == SMT_MITIGATIONS_ON))
cpu_smt_disable(false);
}
}