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x86/KVM/VMX: Add module argument for L1TF mitigation
authorKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Mon, 2 Jul 2018 10:29:30 +0000 (12:29 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 15 Aug 2018 16:11:03 +0000 (18:11 +0200)
commit9431927cfe0353f8263f230fe8bc30d4a84a6aef
treeddfff9690e6e95e12acccf396e38b6fd44039be1
parent8efd53e73ae385947d22c6d0c1fc6dc718048a63
x86/KVM/VMX: Add module argument for L1TF mitigation

commit a399477e52c17e148746d3ce9a483f681c2aa9a0 upstream

Add a mitigation mode parameter "vmentry_l1d_flush" for CVE-2018-3620, aka
L1 terminal fault. The valid arguments are:

 - "always"  L1D cache flush on every VMENTER.
 - "cond" Conditional L1D cache flush, explained below
 - "never" Disable the L1D cache flush mitigation

"cond" is trying to avoid L1D cache flushes on VMENTER if the code executed
between VMEXIT and VMENTER is considered safe, i.e. is not bringing any
interesting information into L1D which might exploited.

[ tglx: Split out from a larger patch ]

Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c