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From: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, mingo@kernel.org, jpoimboe@kernel.org
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>,
	tglx@linutronix.de, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
	x86@kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>,
	leit@meta.com,
	"open list:X86 ARCHITECTURE (32-BIT AND 64-BIT)" 
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	gustavold@meta.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] x86/bugs: Add a separate config for each mitigation
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2023 08:08:15 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZS6jX9v+QBsKyavE@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20231016124654.GDZS0wvqJlsf+iVAeu@fat_crate.local>

On Mon, Oct 16, 2023 at 02:46:54PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> IOW, I don't see the particular reason for having those namespaced. But
> since you and Josh care so much and I don't - not that much :-) - and
> I definitely won't be doing the work, feel free.

Thanks for all the discussion so far.

I am summarizing what I got from this discussion so far, and
starting to get the direction on where we want to be:

0) Each mitigation should have their own Kconfig entry under
SPECULATION_MITIGATIONS.

1) Have "Mitigation" namespace for each mitigation. These are the new
name for the mitigations:
 * MITIGATION_PAGE_TABLE_ISOLATION
 * MITIGATION_RETPOLINE
 * MITIGATION_UNRET_ENTRY
 * MITIGATION_CALL_DEPTH_TRACKING
 * MITIGATION_IBPB_ENTRY
 * MITIGATION_IBRS_ENTRY
 * MITIGATION_SRSO
 * MITIGATION_SLS

2) Split the GDS mitigation in two:
 * MITIGATION_GDS
 * MITIGATION_GDS_FORCE

3) Create new Kconfigs for the following missing mitigations:
 * MITIGATION_MDS
 * MITIGATION_TAA
 * MITIGATION_MMIO_STALE_DATA
 * MITIGATION_L1TF
 * MITIGATION_RETBLEED
 * MITIGATION_SPECTRE_V1
 * MITIGATION_SPECTRE_V2
 * MITIGATION_SRBDS
 * MITIGATION_SSB

4) Do no touch the enum order, instead use the something as the code
below to avoid the #ifdefs in the code:

  static enum retbleed_mitigation_cmd retbleed_cmd __ro_after_init =
        IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_MITIGATION_RETBLEED) ? RETBLEED_CMD_AUTO : RETBLEED_CMD_OFF;

5) Make sure that there is clear messages when the mitigations are
disabled.  i.e, make sure that the current pr_info() we have today are
called in case the mitigation is disabled.

Am I missing something?

  reply	other threads:[~2023-10-17 15:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-10-10 10:30 [PATCH v4] x86/bugs: Add a separate config for each mitigation Breno Leitao
2023-10-11  4:42 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2023-10-11 12:20   ` Breno Leitao
2023-10-11 16:49     ` Josh Poimboeuf
2023-10-11 19:03   ` Borislav Petkov
2023-10-11 22:03     ` Josh Poimboeuf
2023-10-12  7:29       ` Borislav Petkov
2023-10-12 16:48         ` Josh Poimboeuf
2023-10-15 15:06           ` Borislav Petkov
2023-10-16 10:07         ` Ingo Molnar
2023-10-16 12:46           ` Borislav Petkov
2023-10-17 15:08             ` Breno Leitao [this message]
2023-10-11 21:59 ` Ingo Molnar
2023-10-12 13:02   ` Breno Leitao
2023-10-12 17:05     ` Josh Poimboeuf
2023-10-12 18:51       ` Ingo Molnar
2023-10-12 20:43         ` Josh Poimboeuf
2023-10-13 10:50           ` Ingo Molnar
2023-10-15 14:11             ` Josh Poimboeuf
2023-10-16  9:45               ` Ingo Molnar
2023-10-17 17:15                 ` Josh Poimboeuf

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