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x86/nospec: Rename and rework l1tf-barrier as branch-harden
l1tf-barrier is an inappropriate name, and came about because of restrictions on could be discussed publicly when the patches were proposed. In practice, it is for general Spectre v1 mitigations, and is necessary in all cases. An adversary which can control speculation in Xen can leak data in cross-core (BCBS, etc) or remote (NetSpectre) scenarios - the problem is not limited to just L1TF with HT active. Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> Release-acked-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
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@@ -1960,7 +1960,7 @@ 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,l1tf-barrier}=<bool> ]`
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> l1d-flush,branch-harden}=<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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@@ -2032,11 +2032,10 @@ Irrespective of Xen's setting, the feature is virtualised for HVM guests to
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use. By default, Xen will enable this mitigation on hardware believed to be
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vulnerable to L1TF.
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On hardware vulnerable to L1TF, the `l1tf-barrier=` option can be used to force
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or prevent Xen from protecting evaluations inside the hypervisor with a barrier
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instruction to not load potentially secret information into L1 cache. By
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default, Xen will enable this mitigation on hardware believed to be vulnerable
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to L1TF.
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If Xen is compiled with `CONFIG_SPECULATIVE_HARDEN_BRANCH`, the
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`branch-harden=` boolean can be used to force or prevent Xen from using
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speculation barriers to protect selected conditional branches. By default,
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Xen will enable this mitigation.
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### sync_console
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> `= <boolean>`
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