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author | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2018-11-25 19:33:56 +0100 |
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committer | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2018-11-28 11:57:14 +0100 |
commit | 55a974021ec952ee460dc31ca08722158639de72 (patch) | |
tree | 635b280e93b615f957d80d190eaa901d51aee804 /Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | |
parent | 6b3e64c237c072797a9ec918654a60e3a46488e2 (diff) |
x86/speculation: Provide IBPB always command line options
Provide the possibility to enable IBPB always in combination with 'prctl'
and 'seccomp'.
Add the extra command line options and rework the IBPB selection to
evaluate the command instead of the mode selected by the STIPB switch case.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Casey Schaufler <casey.schaufler@intel.com>
Cc: Asit Mallick <asit.k.mallick@intel.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com>
Cc: Waiman Long <longman9394@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Dave Stewart <david.c.stewart@intel.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181125185006.144047038@linutronix.de
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index f405281bb202..05a252e5178d 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -4241,11 +4241,23 @@ per thread. The mitigation control state is inherited on fork. + prctl,ibpb + - Like "prctl" above, but only STIBP is + controlled per thread. IBPB is issued + always when switching between different user + space processes. + seccomp - Same as "prctl" above, but all seccomp threads will enable the mitigation unless they explicitly opt out. + seccomp,ibpb + - Like "seccomp" above, but only STIBP is + controlled per thread. IBPB is issued + always when switching between different + user space processes. + auto - Kernel selects the mitigation depending on the available CPU features and vulnerability. |