linux/tools/arch
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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alpha/include
arc/include/uapi/asm
arm/include tools headers kvm: Sync kvm headers with the kernel sources 2019-12-02 12:54:13 -03:00
arm64/include tools headers arm64: Sync arm64's cputype.h with the kernel sources 2022-04-09 12:34:29 -03:00
csky/include/uapi/asm
h8300/include
hexagon/include/uapi/asm
ia64/include ia64: tools: remove duplicate definition of ia64_mf() on ia64 2021-04-16 16:10:37 -07:00
microblaze/include/uapi/asm
mips/include perf tools: Copy uapi/asm/perf_regs.h from the kernel for MIPS 2021-06-01 10:07:46 -03:00
parisc/include/uapi/asm parisc: Add MAP_UNINITIALIZED define 2020-10-15 08:10:39 +02:00
powerpc/include perf powerpc: Add support to expose instruction and data address registers as part of extended regs 2021-10-25 13:47:42 -03:00
riscv/include/uapi/asm Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones: RISC-V 2020-07-30 11:37:40 -07:00
s390/include tools headers UAPI s390: Sync ptrace.h kernel headers 2021-03-06 16:54:23 -03:00
sh/include sh: remove sh5 support 2020-06-01 14:48:52 -04:00
sparc/include tools headers UAPI: Update tools's copy of mman.h headers 2019-07-29 09:02:58 -03:00
x86 x86/tsx: Disable TSX development mode at boot 2022-04-11 09:58:40 +02:00
xtensa/include