From 400331f8ffa3bec5c561417e5eec6848464e9160 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pawan Gupta Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2022 14:02:09 -0800 Subject: x86/tsx: Disable TSX development mode at boot A microcode update on some Intel processors causes all TSX transactions to always abort by default[*]. Microcode also added functionality to re-enable TSX for development purposes. With this microcode loaded, if tsx=on was passed on the cmdline, and TSX development mode was already enabled before the kernel boot, it may make the system vulnerable to TSX Asynchronous Abort (TAA). To be on safer side, unconditionally disable TSX development mode during boot. If a viable use case appears, this can be revisited later. [*]: Intel TSX Disable Update for Selected Processors, doc ID: 643557 [ bp: Drop unstable web link, massage heavily. ] Suggested-by: Andrew Cooper Suggested-by: Borislav Petkov Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov Tested-by: Neelima Krishnan Cc: Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/347bd844da3a333a9793c6687d4e4eb3b2419a3e.1646943780.git.pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com --- tools/arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'tools') diff --git a/tools/arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h b/tools/arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h index 0eb90d21049e..ee15311b6be1 100644 --- a/tools/arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h +++ b/tools/arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h @@ -128,9 +128,9 @@ #define TSX_CTRL_RTM_DISABLE BIT(0) /* Disable RTM feature */ #define TSX_CTRL_CPUID_CLEAR BIT(1) /* Disable TSX enumeration */ -/* SRBDS support */ #define MSR_IA32_MCU_OPT_CTRL 0x00000123 -#define RNGDS_MITG_DIS BIT(0) +#define RNGDS_MITG_DIS BIT(0) /* SRBDS support */ +#define RTM_ALLOW BIT(1) /* TSX development mode */ #define MSR_IA32_SYSENTER_CS 0x00000174 #define MSR_IA32_SYSENTER_ESP 0x00000175 -- cgit v1.2.3