x86/speculation: Add Kconfig option for GDS

commit 53cf579 upstream

Gather Data Sampling (GDS) is mitigated in microcode. However, on
systems that haven't received the updated microcode, disabling AVX
can act as a mitigation. Add a Kconfig option that uses the microcode
mitigation if available and disables AVX otherwise. Setting this
option has no effect on systems not affected by GDS. This is the
equivalent of setting gather_data_sampling=force.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Sneddon <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Sneddon <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

Author: Daniel Sneddon

arch/x86/Kconfig

@@ -2522,6 +2522,25 @@ config SLS
 	  against straight line speculation. The kernel image might be slightly
 	  larger.
 
+config GDS_FORCE_MITIGATION
+	bool "Force GDS Mitigation"
+	depends on CPU_SUP_INTEL
+	default n
+	help
+	  Gather Data Sampling (GDS) is a hardware vulnerability which allows
+	  unprivileged speculative access to data which was previously stored in
+	  vector registers.
+
+	  This option is equivalent to setting gather_data_sampling=force on the
+	  command line. The microcode mitigation is used if present, otherwise
+	  AVX is disabled as a mitigation. On affected systems that are missing
+	  the microcode any userspace code that unconditionally uses AVX will
+	  break with this option set.
+
+	  Setting this option on systems not vulnerable to GDS has no effect.
+
+	  If in doubt, say N.
+
 endif
 
 config ARCH_HAS_ADD_PAGES

arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c

@@ -658,7 +658,11 @@ enum gds_mitigations {
 	GDS_MITIGATION_HYPERVISOR,
 };
 
+#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_GDS_FORCE_MITIGATION)
+static enum gds_mitigations gds_mitigation __ro_after_init = GDS_MITIGATION_FORCE;
+#else
 static enum gds_mitigations gds_mitigation __ro_after_init = GDS_MITIGATION_FULL;
+#endif
 
 static const char * const gds_strings[] = {
 	[GDS_MITIGATION_OFF]		= "Vulnerable",