linux-kernel - [PATCH v3 03/10] x86/bugs: Add a separate config for TAA

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Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2024 09:58:17 -0700
From: Breno Leitao <leitao@...ian.org>
To: jpoimboe@...nel.org,
	mingo@...hat.com,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
	x86@...nel.org,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v3 03/10] x86/bugs: Add a separate config for TAA

Currently, the CONFIG_SPECULATION_MITIGATIONS is halfway populated,
where some mitigations have entries in Kconfig, and they could be
modified, while others mitigations do not have Kconfig entries, and
could not be controlled at build time.

Create an entry for the TAA CPU mitigation under
CONFIG_SPECULATION_MITIGATIONS. This allow users to enable or disable
it at compilation time.

Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@...ian.org>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...nel.org>
---
 arch/x86/Kconfig           | 11 +++++++++++
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c |  3 ++-
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index 5d0227b50faa..c7ce800fcdb2 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -2662,6 +2662,17 @@ config MITIGATION_MDS
 	  a hardware vulnerability which allows unprivileged speculative access
 	  to data which is available in various CPU internal buffers.
 	  See also <file:Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst>
+
+config MITIGATION_TAA
+	bool "Mitigate TSX Asynchronous Abort (TAA) hardware bug"
+	depends on CPU_SUP_INTEL
+	default y
+	help
+	  Enable mitigation for TSX Asynchronous Abort (TAA). TAA is a hardware
+	  vulnerability that allows unprivileged speculative access to data
+	  which is available in various CPU internal buffers by using
+	  asynchronous aborts within an Intel TSX transactional region.
+	  See also <file:Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst>
 endif
 
 config ARCH_HAS_ADD_PAGES
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
index fb6515b1b33e..87f3cc6c438d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
@@ -294,7 +294,8 @@ enum taa_mitigations {
 };
 
 /* Default mitigation for TAA-affected CPUs */
-static enum taa_mitigations taa_mitigation __ro_after_init = TAA_MITIGATION_VERW;
+static enum taa_mitigations taa_mitigation __ro_after_init =
+	IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_MITIGATION_TAA) ? TAA_MITIGATION_VERW : TAA_MITIGATION_OFF;
 static bool taa_nosmt __ro_after_init;
 
 static const char * const taa_strings[] = {
-- 
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