Commit 74c32638 authored by Tom Lendacky's avatar Tom Lendacky Committed by Kleber Sacilotto de Souza

x86/cpu, x86/pti: Do not enable PTI on AMD processors

CVE-2017-5715 (Spectre v2 retpoline)

AMD processors are not subject to the types of attacks that the kernel
page table isolation feature protects against.  The AMD microarchitecture
does not allow memory references, including speculative references, that
access higher privileged data when running in a lesser privileged mode
when that access would result in a page fault.

Disable page table isolation by default on AMD processors by not setting
the X86_BUG_CPU_INSECURE feature, which controls whether X86_FEATURE_PTI
is set.
Signed-off-by: default avatarTom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171227054354.20369.94587.stgit@tlendack-t1.amdoffice.net

(cherry picked from commit 694d99d4)
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarKleber Sacilotto de Souza <kleber.souza@canonical.com>
parent b2f8503b
......@@ -800,8 +800,8 @@ static void __init early_identify_cpu(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
setup_force_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_ALWAYS);
/* Assume for now that ALL x86 CPUs are insecure */
setup_force_cpu_bug(X86_BUG_CPU_INSECURE);
if (c->x86_vendor != X86_VENDOR_AMD)
setup_force_cpu_bug(X86_BUG_CPU_INSECURE);
fpu__init_system(c);
}
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