x86/speculation/mds: Add BUG_MSBDS_ONLY
This bug bit is set on CPUs which are only affected by Microarchitectural Store Buffer Data Sampling (MSBDS) and not by any other MDS variant. This is important because the Store Buffers are partitioned between Hyper-Threads so cross thread forwarding is not possible. But if a thread enters or exits a sleep state the store buffer is repartitioned which can expose data from one thread to the other. This transition can be mitigated. That means that for CPUs which are only affected by MSBDS SMT can be enabled, if the CPU is not affected by other SMT sensitive vulnerabilities, e.g. L1TF. The XEON PHI variants fall into that category. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> CVE-2018-12126 CVE-2018-12127 CVE-2018-12130 (cherry picked from commit ab12e2e20232e9b84e2b212346b9fe3956e91642) Signed-off-by: Juerg Haefliger <juergh@canonical.com> Acked-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com> Acked-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
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