linux/arch/x86
Paolo Bonzini b8e8c8303f kvm: mmu: ITLB_MULTIHIT mitigation
With some Intel processors, putting the same virtual address in the TLB
as both a 4 KiB and 2 MiB page can confuse the instruction fetch unit
and cause the processor to issue a machine check resulting in a CPU lockup.

Unfortunately when EPT page tables use huge pages, it is possible for a
malicious guest to cause this situation.

Add a knob to mark huge pages as non-executable. When the nx_huge_pages
parameter is enabled (and we are using EPT), all huge pages are marked as
NX. If the guest attempts to execute in one of those pages, the page is
broken down into 4K pages, which are then marked executable.

This is not an issue for shadow paging (except nested EPT), because then
the host is in control of TLB flushes and the problematic situation cannot
happen.  With nested EPT, again the nested guest can cause problems shadow
and direct EPT is treated in the same way.

[ tglx: Fixup default to auto and massage wording a bit ]

Originally-by: Junaid Shahid <junaids@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2019-11-04 12:22:02 +01:00
..
boot x86, efi: Never relocate kernel below lowest acceptable address 2019-10-31 09:40:19 +01:00
configs x86/defconfigs: Remove useless UEVENT_HELPER_PATH 2019-06-21 19:22:08 +02:00
crypto crypto: x86/aes-ni - use AES library instead of single-use AES cipher 2019-09-09 23:48:41 +10:00
entry Kbuild updates for v5.4 2019-09-20 08:36:47 -07:00
events perf/x86/uncore: Fix event group support 2019-10-28 11:02:01 +01:00
hyperv x86/hyperv: Make vapic support x2apic mode 2019-10-15 10:57:09 +02:00
ia32 clone: fix CLONE_PIDFD support 2019-07-14 20:36:12 +02:00
include kvm: mmu: ITLB_MULTIHIT mitigation 2019-11-04 12:22:02 +01:00
kernel kvm: mmu: ITLB_MULTIHIT mitigation 2019-11-04 12:22:02 +01:00
kvm kvm: mmu: ITLB_MULTIHIT mitigation 2019-11-04 12:22:02 +01:00
lib x86/asm: Fix MWAITX C-state hint value 2019-10-08 13:25:24 +02:00
math-emu x86/fpu/math-emu: Address fallthrough warnings 2019-08-12 20:35:05 +02:00
mm Merge branch 'next-lockdown' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2019-09-28 08:14:15 -07:00
net bpf: fix x64 JIT code generation for jmp to 1st insn 2019-08-01 13:12:09 -07:00
oprofile
pci dma-mapping updates for 5.4: 2019-09-19 13:27:23 -07:00
platform efi/x86: Do not clean dummy variable in kexec path 2019-10-07 15:24:36 +02:00
power Merge branch 'x86-apic-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2019-09-17 12:04:39 -07:00
purgatory Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2019-09-28 13:37:41 -07:00
ras RAS/CEC: Add CONFIG_RAS_CEC_DEBUG and move CEC debug features there 2019-06-08 17:39:24 +02:00
realmode x86/realmode: Remove trampoline_status 2019-07-22 11:30:18 +02:00
tools Merge branch 'x86-paravirt-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2019-07-08 17:34:44 -07:00
um um: Use real DMA barriers 2019-09-15 21:37:14 +02:00
video treewide: Add SPDX license identifier - Makefile/Kconfig 2019-05-21 10:50:46 +02:00
xen xen: patch for 5.4-rc5 2019-10-26 06:32:12 -04:00
.gitignore
Kbuild treewide: Add SPDX license identifier - Kbuild 2019-05-30 11:32:33 -07:00
Kconfig x86/tsx: Add config options to set tsx=on|off|auto 2019-10-28 09:12:18 +01:00
Kconfig.cpu x86/cpu: Create Zhaoxin processors architecture support file 2019-06-22 11:45:57 +02:00
Kconfig.debug x86, perf: Fix the dependency of the x86 insn decoder selftest 2019-09-02 20:05:58 +02:00
Makefile x86/build: Add -Wnoaddress-of-packed-member to REALMODE_CFLAGS, to silence GCC9 build warning 2019-08-28 17:31:31 +02:00
Makefile_32.cpu
Makefile.um