linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 1/7] sysfs/cpu: Allow individual architectures to select vulnerabilities

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Date:   Fri, 18 Jan 2019 10:31:00 -0600
From:   Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@....com>
To:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>
Cc:     linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, catalin.marinas@....com,
        will.deacon@....com, marc.zyngier@....com, dave.martin@....com,
        shankerd@...eaurora.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        ykaukab@...e.de, julien.thierry@....com, mlangsdo@...hat.com,
        Steven.Price@....com, stefan.wahren@...e.com, rafael@...nel.org,
        tglx@...utronix.de, jpoimboe@...hat.com, konrad.wilk@...cle.com,
        mingo@...nel.org, longman@...hat.com, ak@...ux.intel.com,
        jkosina@...e.cz
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/7] sysfs/cpu: Allow individual architectures to
 select vulnerabilities

On 01/18/2019 09:46 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 10:02:21AM +0000, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 09/01/2019 23:55, Jeremy Linton wrote:
>>> As suggested on the list, https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/1/4/282, there are
>>> a number of cases where its useful for a system to avoid exporting a
>>> sysfs entry for a given vulnerability. This set adds an architecture
>>> specific callback which returns the bitmap of vulnerabilities the
>>> architecture would like to advertise.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@....com>
>>> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
>>> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@...nel.org>
>>> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
>>> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
>>> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
>>> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
>>> Cc: Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>
>>> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
>>> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
>>> ---
>>>    drivers/base/cpu.c  | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
>>>    include/linux/cpu.h |  7 +++++++
>>>    2 files changed, 26 insertions(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/base/cpu.c b/drivers/base/cpu.c
>>> index eb9443d5bae1..35f6dfb24cd6 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/base/cpu.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/base/cpu.c
>>> @@ -561,6 +561,11 @@ static struct attribute *cpu_root_vulnerabilities_attrs[] = {
>>>    	NULL
>>>    };
>>> +uint __weak arch_supported_vuln_attr_fields(void)
>>> +{
>>> +	return VULN_MELTDOWN|VULN_SPECTREV1|VULN_SPECTREV2|VULN_SSB|VULN_L1TF;
>>> +}
>>> +
>>>    static const struct attribute_group cpu_root_vulnerabilities_group = {
>>>    	.name  = "vulnerabilities",
>>>    	.attrs = cpu_root_vulnerabilities_attrs,
>>> @@ -568,6 +573,20 @@ static const struct attribute_group cpu_root_vulnerabilities_group = {
>>>    static void __init cpu_register_vulnerabilities(void)
>>>    {
>>> +	int fld;
>>> +	int max_fields = ARRAY_SIZE(cpu_root_vulnerabilities_attrs) - 1;
>>> +	struct attribute **hd = cpu_root_vulnerabilities_attrs;
>>> +	uint enabled_fields = arch_supported_vuln_attr_fields();
>>> +
>>> +	/* only enable entries requested by the arch code */
>>> +	for (fld = 0; fld < max_fields; fld++) {
>>> +		if (enabled_fields & 1 << fld) {
>>> +			*hd = cpu_root_vulnerabilities_attrs[fld];
>>> +			hd++;
>>> +		}
>>> +	}
>>> +	*hd = NULL;
>>> +
>>
>> nit: Could we use "is_visible" callback in the attribute group to check this
>> dynamically ?
> 
> You should, that is what it is there for.


Yes, its a good suggestion. OTOH, I think the plan is to drop this 
functionality all together by removing the ability to build kernels 
without the vulnerability checking/processor white lists. That will 
simplify some of the #ifdef'ing going on as well.