From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>,
Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
daniel.gruss@iaik.tugraz.at, hughd@google.com,
keescook@google.com, linux-mm@kvack.org,
michael.schwarz@iaik.tugraz.at, moritz.lipp@iaik.tugraz.at,
richard.fellner@student.tugraz.at
Subject: Re: [patch V2 5/5] x86/kaiser: Add boottime disable switch
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 10:22:52 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <24359653-5b93-7146-8f65-ac38c3af0069@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171126232414.645128754@linutronix.de>
On 11/26/2017 03:14 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> --- a/security/Kconfig
> +++ b/security/Kconfig
> @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ config SECURITY_NETWORK
>
> config KAISER
> bool "Remove the kernel mapping in user mode"
> - depends on X86_64 && SMP && !PARAVIRT
> + depends on X86_64 && SMP && !PARAVIRT && JUMP_LABEL
> help
> This feature reduces the number of hardware side channels by
> ensuring that the majority of kernel addresses are not mapped
One of the reasons for doing the runtime-disable was to get rid of the
!PARAVIRT dependency. I can add a follow-on here that will act as if we
did "nokaiser" whenever Xen is in play so we can remove this dependency.
I just hope Xen is detectable early enough to do the static patching.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-27 18:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-26 23:14 [patch V2 0/5] x86/kaiser: Boot time disabling and debug support Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-26 23:14 ` [patch V2 1/5] x86/kaiser: Respect disabled CPU features Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-27 9:57 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-11-27 11:47 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-27 12:31 ` Brian Gerst
2017-11-27 13:18 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-27 18:11 ` Dave Hansen
2017-11-27 18:37 ` Kees Cook
2017-11-26 23:14 ` [patch V2 2/5] x86/kaiser: Simplify disabling of global pages Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-27 11:49 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-27 18:15 ` Dave Hansen
2017-11-27 20:28 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-26 23:14 ` [patch V2 3/5] x86/dump_pagetables: Check KAISER shadow page table for WX pages Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-27 18:17 ` Dave Hansen
2017-11-26 23:14 ` [patch V2 4/5] x86/mm/debug_pagetables: Allow dumping current pagetables Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-27 9:41 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-11-27 10:06 ` [PATCH] vfs: Add PERM_* symbolic helpers for common file mode/permissions Ingo Molnar
2017-11-27 19:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-11-28 10:54 ` Ingo Molnar
2017-11-28 11:12 ` Ingo Molnar
2017-11-29 8:52 ` Michael Ellerman
2017-11-27 18:18 ` [patch V2 4/5] x86/mm/debug_pagetables: Allow dumping current pagetables Dave Hansen
2017-11-26 23:14 ` [patch V2 5/5] x86/kaiser: Add boottime disable switch Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-27 9:48 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-11-27 10:22 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-11-27 11:50 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-27 12:49 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-11-27 21:43 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-11-27 18:22 ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2017-11-27 19:00 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-27 19:18 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-11-27 20:47 ` Thomas Gleixner
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