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x86/cpu, x86/pti: Do not enable PTI on AMD processors
authorTom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Wed, 27 Dec 2017 05:43:54 +0000 (23:43 -0600)
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Wed, 3 Jan 2018 14:57:59 +0000 (15:57 +0100)
commit694d99d40972f12e59a3696effee8a376b79d7c8
tree91b9a122670a807534c2ed283789406deec2e1b4
parent87faa0d9b43b4755ff6963a22d1fd1bee1aa3b39
x86/cpu, x86/pti: Do not enable PTI on AMD processors

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: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Borislav 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
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c