When "eagerfpu=off" is given as a command-line input, the kernel should disable AVX support.
The Task Switched bit used for lazy context switching does not support AVX. If AVX is enabled without eagerfpu context switching, one task's AVX state could become corrupted or leak to other tasks. This is a bug and has bad security implications. This only affects systems that have AVX/AVX2/AVX512 and this issue will be found only when one actually uses AVX/AVX2/AVX512 _AND_ does eagerfpu=off. Referece: Intel Software Developer's Manual Vol. 3A Sec. 2.5 Control Registers: TS Task Switched bit (bit 3 of CR0) -- Allows the saving of the x87 FPU/ MMX/SSE/SSE2/SSE3/SSSE3/SSE4 context on a task switch to be delayed until an x87 FPU/MMX/SSE/SSE2/SSE3/SSSE3/SSE4 instruction is actually executed by the new task. Sec. 13.4.1 Using the TS Flag to Control the Saving of the X87 FPU and SSE State When the TS flag is set, the processor monitors the instruction stream for x87 FPU, MMX, SSE instructions. When the processor detects one of these instructions, it raises a device-not-available exeception (#NM) prior to executing the instruction. Signed-off-by: Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng...@intel.com> Cc: x...@kernel.org Cc: H. Peter Anvin <h...@zytor.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.han...@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mi...@redhat.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <b...@suse.de> Cc: Sai Praneeth Prakhya <sai.praneeth.prak...@intel.com> Cc: Ravi V. Shankar <ravi.v.shan...@intel.com> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua...@intel.com> --- arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/xstate.h | 11 ++++++----- arch/x86/kernel/fpu/init.c | 6 ++++++ 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/xstate.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/xstate.h index 3a6c89b..af30fde 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/xstate.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/xstate.h @@ -20,15 +20,16 @@ /* Supported features which support lazy state saving */ #define XFEATURE_MASK_LAZY (XFEATURE_MASK_FP | \ - XFEATURE_MASK_SSE | \ + XFEATURE_MASK_SSE) + +/* Supported features which require eager state saving */ +#define XFEATURE_MASK_EAGER (XFEATURE_MASK_BNDREGS | \ + XFEATURE_MASK_BNDCSR | \ XFEATURE_MASK_YMM | \ - XFEATURE_MASK_OPMASK | \ + XFEATURE_MASK_OPMASK | \ XFEATURE_MASK_ZMM_Hi256 | \ XFEATURE_MASK_Hi16_ZMM) -/* Supported features which require eager state saving */ -#define XFEATURE_MASK_EAGER (XFEATURE_MASK_BNDREGS | XFEATURE_MASK_BNDCSR) - /* All currently supported features */ #define XCNTXT_MASK (XFEATURE_MASK_LAZY | XFEATURE_MASK_EAGER) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/init.c b/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/init.c index aad53cc..e7e3dbfdb 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/init.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/init.c @@ -291,6 +291,12 @@ u64 __init fpu__get_supported_xfeatures_mask(void) static void __init fpu__clear_eager_fpu_features(void) { setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_MPX); + setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_AVX); + setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_AVX2); + setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_AVX512F); + setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_AVX512PF); + setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_AVX512ER); + setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_AVX512CD); } /* -- 1.9.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/