linux-kernel - Re: [patch V2 5/5] x86/kaiser: Add boottime disable switch

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Message-ID: <24359653-5b93-7146-8f65-ac38c3af0069@linux.intel.com>
Date:   Mon, 27 Nov 2017 10:22:52 -0800
From:   Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>,
        Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@...hat.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>, daniel.gruss@...k.tugraz.at,
        hughd@...gle.com, keescook@...gle.com, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        michael.schwarz@...k.tugraz.at, moritz.lipp@...k.tugraz.at,
        richard.fellner@...dent.tugraz.at
Subject: Re: [patch V2 5/5] x86/kaiser: Add boottime disable switch

On 11/26/2017 03:14 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> --- a/security/Kconfig
> +++ b/security/Kconfig
> @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ config SECURITY_NETWORK
>  
>  config KAISER
>  	bool "Remove the kernel mapping in user mode"
> -	depends on X86_64 && SMP && !PARAVIRT
> +	depends on X86_64 && SMP && !PARAVIRT && JUMP_LABEL
>  	help
>  	  This feature reduces the number of hardware side channels by
>  	  ensuring that the majority of kernel addresses are not mapped

One of the reasons for doing the runtime-disable was to get rid of the
!PARAVIRT dependency.  I can add a follow-on here that will act as if we
did "nokaiser" whenever Xen is in play so we can remove this dependency.

I just hope Xen is detectable early enough to do the static patching.