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x86/tsx: Disable TSX development mode at boot
authorPawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Thu, 10 Mar 2022 22:02:09 +0000 (14:02 -0800)
committerBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Mon, 11 Apr 2022 07:58:40 +0000 (09:58 +0200)
commit2d7fbed9897810b77b0888c8fcf51bf909a11c75
treea13d7ac52030156c867f812614e3ccf75b5c6ea5
parent1f02b4a17b09331caf2490c96065b220c9a5eeca
x86/tsx: Disable TSX development mode at boot

A microcode update on some Intel processors causes all TSX transactions
to always abort by default[*]. Microcode also added functionality to
re-enable TSX for development purposes. With this microcode loaded, if
tsx=on was passed on the cmdline, and TSX development mode was already
enabled before the kernel boot, it may make the system vulnerable to TSX
Asynchronous Abort (TAA).

To be on safer side, unconditionally disable TSX development mode during
boot. If a viable use case appears, this can be revisited later.

  [*]: Intel TSX Disable Update for Selected Processors, doc ID: 643557

  [ bp: Drop unstable web link, massage heavily. ]

Suggested-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Suggested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Tested-by: Neelima Krishnan <neelima.krishnan@intel.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/347bd844da3a333a9793c6687d4e4eb3b2419a3e.1646943780.git.pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com
arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpu.h
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/tsx.c
tools/arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h