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| author | Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> | 2020-11-20 02:42:03 +0300 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2020-11-22 12:02:26 +0300 |
| commit | 31ebc2fe02df202566d0e36c1106b4902d6e2f8c (patch) | |
| tree | e87f1513686b0cfed3a22e702cb7e413eba104df /Documentation | |
| parent | 6b36099dc92354dc0a895115605d4bf31f252142 (diff) | |
| download | linux-31ebc2fe02df202566d0e36c1106b4902d6e2f8c.tar.xz | |
powerpc/64s: flush L1D after user accesses
commit 9a32a7e78bd0cd9a9b6332cbdc345ee5ffd0c5de upstream.
IBM Power9 processors can speculatively operate on data in the L1 cache before
it has been completely validated, via a way-prediction mechanism. It is not possible
for an attacker to determine the contents of impermissible memory using this method,
since these systems implement a combination of hardware and software security measures
to prevent scenarios where protected data could be leaked.
However these measures don't address the scenario where an attacker induces
the operating system to speculatively execute instructions using data that the
attacker controls. This can be used for example to speculatively bypass "kernel
user access prevention" techniques, as discovered by Anthony Steinhauser of
Google's Safeside Project. This is not an attack by itself, but there is a possibility
it could be used in conjunction with side-channels or other weaknesses in the
privileged code to construct an attack.
This issue can be mitigated by flushing the L1 cache between privilege boundaries
of concern. This patch flushes the L1 cache after user accesses.
This is part of the fix for CVE-2020-4788.
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index 973861421264..7371643dd8d4 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -2561,6 +2561,7 @@ tsx_async_abort=off [X86] kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86] no_entry_flush [PPC] + no_uaccess_flush [PPC] Exceptions: This does not have any effect on @@ -2922,6 +2923,9 @@ nospec_store_bypass_disable [HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability + no_uaccess_flush + [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data. + noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to enabling legacy floating-point and sse state. |