From d90a7a0ec83fb86622cd7dae23255d3c50a99ec8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jiri Kosina Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 16:23:25 +0200 Subject: x86/bugs, kvm: Introduce boot-time control of L1TF mitigations Introduce the 'l1tf=' kernel command line option to allow for boot-time switching of mitigation that is used on processors affected by L1TF. The possible values are: full Provides all available mitigations for the L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and enables all mitigations in the hypervisors. SMT control via /sys/devices/system/cpu/smt/control is still possible after boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning when the first VM is started in a potentially insecure configuration, i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. full,force Same as 'full', but disables SMT control. Implies the 'nosmt=force' command line option. sysfs control of SMT and the hypervisor flush control is disabled. flush Leaves SMT enabled and enables the conditional hypervisor mitigation. Hypervisors will issue a warning when the first VM is started in a potentially insecure configuration, i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. flush,nosmt Disables SMT and enables the conditional hypervisor mitigation. SMT control via /sys/devices/system/cpu/smt/control is still possible after boot. If SMT is reenabled or flushing disabled at runtime hypervisors will issue a warning. flush,nowarn Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not warn when a VM is started in a potentially insecure configuration. off Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't emit any warnings. Default is 'flush'. Let KVM adhere to these semantics, which means: - 'lt1f=full,force' : Performe L1D flushes. No runtime control possible. - 'l1tf=full' - 'l1tf-flush' - 'l1tf=flush,nosmt' : Perform L1D flushes and warn on VM start if SMT has been runtime enabled or L1D flushing has been run-time enabled - 'l1tf=flush,nowarn' : Perform L1D flushes and no warnings are emitted. - 'l1tf=off' : L1D flushes are not performed and no warnings are emitted. KVM can always override the L1D flushing behavior using its 'vmentry_l1d_flush' module parameter except when lt1f=full,force is set. This makes KVM's private 'nosmt' option redundant, and as it is a bit non-systematic anyway (this is something to control globally, not on hypervisor level), remove that option. Add the missing Documentation entry for the l1tf vulnerability sysfs file while at it. Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Tested-by: Jiri Kosina Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180713142323.202758176@linutronix.de --- Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 68 ++++++++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 62 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation/admin-guide') diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index 4f790566ad91..9a08a7aa2bc3 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -1946,12 +1946,6 @@ [KVM,ARM] Allow use of GICv4 for direct injection of LPIs. - kvm-intel.nosmt=[KVM,Intel] If the L1TF CPU bug is present (CVE-2018-3620) - and the system has SMT (aka Hyper-Threading) enabled then - don't allow guests to be created. - - Default is 0 (allow guests to be created). - kvm-intel.ept= [KVM,Intel] Disable extended page tables (virtualized MMU) support on capable Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled) @@ -1989,6 +1983,68 @@ feature (tagged TLBs) on capable Intel chips. Default is 1 (enabled) + l1tf= [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on + affected CPUs + + The kernel PTE inversion protection is unconditionally + enabled and cannot be disabled. + + full + Provides all available mitigations for the + L1TF vulnerability. Disables SMT and + enables all mitigations in the + hypervisors, i.e. unconditional L1D flush. + + SMT control and L1D flush control via the + sysfs interface is still possible after + boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning + when the first VM is started in a + potentially insecure configuration, + i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. + + full,force + Same as 'full', but disables SMT and L1D + flush runtime control. Implies the + 'nosmt=force' command line option. + (i.e. sysfs control of SMT is disabled.) + + flush + Leaves SMT enabled and enables the default + hypervisor mitigation, i.e. conditional + L1D flush. + + SMT control and L1D flush control via the + sysfs interface is still possible after + boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning + when the first VM is started in a + potentially insecure configuration, + i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. + + flush,nosmt + + Disables SMT and enables the default + hypervisor mitigation. + + SMT control and L1D flush control via the + sysfs interface is still possible after + boot. Hypervisors will issue a warning + when the first VM is started in a + potentially insecure configuration, + i.e. SMT enabled or L1D flush disabled. + + flush,nowarn + Same as 'flush', but hypervisors will not + warn when a VM is started in a potentially + insecure configuration. + + off + Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't + emit any warnings. + + Default is 'flush'. + + For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/l1tf.rst + l2cr= [PPC] l3cr= [PPC] -- cgit v1.2.3