linux/tools
Pawan Gupta 400331f8ff 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
2022-04-11 09:58:40 +02:00
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accounting delayacct: track delays from memory compact 2022-01-20 08:52:55 +02:00
arch x86/tsx: Disable TSX development mode at boot 2022-04-11 09:58:40 +02:00
bootconfig
bpf Networking fixes for 5.18-rc2, including fixes from bpf and netfilter 2022-04-07 19:01:47 -10:00
build tools build: Filter out options and warnings not supported by clang 2022-04-09 12:34:16 -03:00
cgroup tools/cgroup/slabinfo: update to work with struct slab 2022-02-21 11:34:49 +01:00
counter kbuild: replace $(if A,A,B) with $(or A,B) 2022-02-15 12:25:56 +09:00
debugging
edid
firewire
firmware
gpio kbuild: replace $(if A,A,B) with $(or A,B) 2022-02-15 12:25:56 +09:00
hv kbuild: replace $(if A,A,B) with $(or A,B) 2022-02-15 12:25:56 +09:00
iio Kbuild updates for v5.18 2022-03-31 11:59:03 -07:00
include tools include UAPI: Sync linux/vhost.h with the kernel sources 2022-04-09 11:42:33 -03:00
io_uring
kvm/kvm_stat
laptop
leds
lib perf cpumap: More cpu map reuse by merge. 2022-04-01 16:19:35 -03:00
memory-model tools/memory-model: Explain syntactic and semantic dependencies 2022-02-01 17:32:30 -08:00
objtool objtool: Fix SLS validation for kcov tail-call replacement 2022-04-05 10:24:40 +02:00
pci kbuild: replace $(if A,A,B) with $(or A,B) 2022-02-15 12:25:56 +09:00
pcmcia
perf perf annotate: Drop objdump stderr to avoid getting stuck waiting for stdout output 2022-04-09 14:21:00 -03:00
power Kbuild updates for v5.18 2022-03-31 11:59:03 -07:00
rcu
scripts Kbuild updates for v5.18 2022-03-31 11:59:03 -07:00
spi kbuild: replace $(if A,A,B) with $(or A,B) 2022-02-15 12:25:56 +09:00
testing cxl + nvdimm fixes for v5.18-rc2 2022-04-09 18:31:59 -10:00
thermal/tmon thermal: tools: tmon: remove unneeded local variable 2021-11-24 17:26:13 +01:00
time
tracing Kbuild updates for v5.18 2022-03-31 11:59:03 -07:00
usb kbuild: replace $(if A,A,B) with $(or A,B) 2022-02-15 12:25:56 +09:00
virtio tools/virtio: compile with -pthread 2022-03-28 16:52:59 -04:00
vm tools/vm/page_owner_sort.c: remove -c option 2022-04-01 11:46:09 -07:00
wmi
Makefile tools/lib/lockdep: drop liblockdep 2021-11-12 11:07:17 -08:00