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Andrew Cooper
2be76f2018
A TSX Abort is one option mitigate Native-BHI, but a guest kernel doesn't get
to see this if Xen has turned RTM off using MSR_TSX_{CTRL,FORCE_ABORT}.
Therefore, the meaning of RTM_ALWAYS_ABORT has been adjusted to "XBEGIN won't
fault", and it should be exposed to guests so they can make a better decision.
Expose it in the max policy for any RTM-capable system. Offer it by default
only if RTM has been disabled.
Update test-tsx to account for this new meaning. While adjusting the logic in
test_guest_policies(), take the opportunity to use feature names (now they're
available) to make the logic easier to follow.
This is part of XSA-456 / CVE-2024-2201.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
(cherry picked from commit c94e210592)