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x86/spec-ctrl: Add spec-ctrl=unpriv-mmio
Per Xen's support statement, PCI passthrough should be to trusted domains because the overall system security depends on factors outside of Xen's control. As such, Xen, in a supported configuration, is not vulnerable to DRPW/SBDR. However, users who have risk assessed their configuration may be happy with the risk of DoS, but unhappy with the risk of cross-domain data leakage. Such users should enable this option. On CPUs vulnerable to MDS, the existing mitigations are the best we can do to mitigate MMIO cross-domain data leakage. On CPUs fixed to MDS but vulnerable MMIO stale data leakage, this option: * On CPUs susceptible to FBSDP, mitigates cross-domain fill buffer leakage using FB_CLEAR. * On CPUs susceptible to SBDR, mitigates RNG data recovery by engaging the srb-lock, previously used to mitigate SRBDS. Both mitigations require microcode from IPU 2022.1, May 2022. This is part of XSA-404. Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com> Reviewed-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
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@@ -2259,7 +2259,7 @@ By default SSBD will be mitigated at runtime (i.e `ssbd=runtime`).
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### spec-ctrl (x86)
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> `= List of [ <bool>, xen=<bool>, {pv,hvm,msr-sc,rsb,md-clear}=<bool>,
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> bti-thunk=retpoline|lfence|jmp, {ibrs,ibpb,ssbd,eager-fpu,
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> l1d-flush,branch-harden,srb-lock}=<bool> ]`
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> l1d-flush,branch-harden,srb-lock,unpriv-mmio}=<bool> ]`
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Controls for speculative execution sidechannel mitigations. By default, Xen
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will pick the most appropriate mitigations based on compiled in support,
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@@ -2338,8 +2338,16 @@ Xen will enable this mitigation.
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On hardware supporting SRBDS_CTRL, the `srb-lock=` option can be used to force
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or prevent Xen from protect the Special Register Buffer from leaking stale
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data. By default, Xen will enable this mitigation, except on parts where MDS
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is fixed and TAA is fixed/mitigated (in which case, there is believed to be no
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way for an attacker to obtain the stale data).
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is fixed and TAA is fixed/mitigated and there are no unprivileged MMIO
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mappings (in which case, there is believed to be no way for an attacker to
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obtain stale data).
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The `unpriv-mmio=` boolean indicates whether the system has (or will have)
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less than fully privileged domains granted access to MMIO devices. By
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default, this option is disabled. If enabled, Xen will use the `FB_CLEAR`
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and/or `SRBDS_CTRL` functionality available in the Intel May 2022 microcode
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release to mitigate cross-domain leakage of data via the MMIO Stale Data
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vulnerabilities.
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### sync_console
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> `= <boolean>`
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