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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)
commita484a14fae00b00a2af7cfe3a817e0f57ca0e946
treea13d7ac52030156c867f812614e3ccf75b5c6ea5
parentd1b659c0b5f5b333244eb0b5445940961a0cdb29
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