[SRU OEM-5.14 05/11] x86/bugs: Group MDS, TAA & Processor MMIO Stale Data mitigations

Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo cascardo at canonical.com
Wed Jun 15 12:17:19 UTC 2022


From: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta at linux.intel.com>

commit e5925fb867290ee924fcf2fe3ca887b792714366 upstream

MDS, TAA and Processor MMIO Stale Data mitigations rely on clearing CPU
buffers. Moreover, status of these mitigations affects each other.
During boot, it is important to maintain the order in which these
mitigations are selected. This is especially true for
md_clear_update_mitigation() that needs to be called after MDS, TAA and
Processor MMIO Stale Data mitigation selection is done.

Introduce md_clear_select_mitigation(), and select all these mitigations
from there. This reflects relationships between these mitigations and
ensures proper ordering.

Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta at linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp at suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
CVE-2022-21166
CVE-2022-21123
CVE-2022-21125
Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo at canonical.com>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
index 284a80f48627..dc3b8b434fdc 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ static void __init ssb_select_mitigation(void);
 static void __init l1tf_select_mitigation(void);
 static void __init mds_select_mitigation(void);
 static void __init md_clear_update_mitigation(void);
+static void __init md_clear_select_mitigation(void);
 static void __init taa_select_mitigation(void);
 static void __init mmio_select_mitigation(void);
 static void __init srbds_select_mitigation(void);
@@ -114,18 +115,9 @@ void __init check_bugs(void)
 	spectre_v2_select_mitigation();
 	ssb_select_mitigation();
 	l1tf_select_mitigation();
-	mds_select_mitigation();
-	taa_select_mitigation();
-	mmio_select_mitigation();
+	md_clear_select_mitigation();
 	srbds_select_mitigation();
 
-	/*
-	 * As MDS, TAA and MMIO Stale Data mitigations are inter-related, update
-	 * and print their mitigation after MDS, TAA and MMIO Stale Data
-	 * mitigation selection is done.
-	 */
-	md_clear_update_mitigation();
-
 	arch_smt_update();
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
@@ -511,6 +503,20 @@ static void __init md_clear_update_mitigation(void)
 		pr_info("MMIO Stale Data: %s\n", mmio_strings[mmio_mitigation]);
 }
 
+static void __init md_clear_select_mitigation(void)
+{
+	mds_select_mitigation();
+	taa_select_mitigation();
+	mmio_select_mitigation();
+
+	/*
+	 * As MDS, TAA and MMIO Stale Data mitigations are inter-related, update
+	 * and print their mitigation after MDS, TAA and MMIO Stale Data
+	 * mitigation selection is done.
+	 */
+	md_clear_update_mitigation();
+}
+
 #undef pr_fmt
 #define pr_fmt(fmt)	"SRBDS: " fmt
 
-- 
2.34.1




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