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-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/attack_vector_controls.rst5
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c9
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/attack_vector_controls.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/attack_vector_controls.rst
index 6dd0800146f6..5964901d66e3 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/attack_vector_controls.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/attack_vector_controls.rst
@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ Spectre_v2 X X
Spectre_v2_user X X * (Note 1)
SRBDS X X X X
SRSO X X X X
-SSB (Note 4)
+SSB X
TAA X X X X * (Note 2)
TSA X X X X
=============== ============== ============ ============= ============== ============ ========
@@ -229,9 +229,6 @@ Notes:
3 -- Disables SMT if cross-thread mitigations are fully enabled, the CPU is
vulnerable, and STIBP is not supported
- 4 -- Speculative store bypass is always enabled by default (no kernel
- mitigation applied) unless overridden with spec_store_bypass_disable option
-
When an attack-vector is disabled, all mitigations for the vulnerabilities
listed in the above table are disabled, unless mitigation is required for a
different enabled attack-vector or a mitigation is explicitly selected via a
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
index 49ef1b832c1a..af838b8d845c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
@@ -416,6 +416,10 @@ static bool __init should_mitigate_vuln(unsigned int bug)
cpu_attack_vector_mitigated(CPU_MITIGATE_USER_USER) ||
cpu_attack_vector_mitigated(CPU_MITIGATE_GUEST_GUEST) ||
(smt_mitigations != SMT_MITIGATIONS_OFF);
+
+ case X86_BUG_SPEC_STORE_BYPASS:
+ return cpu_attack_vector_mitigated(CPU_MITIGATE_USER_USER);
+
default:
WARN(1, "Unknown bug %x\n", bug);
return false;
@@ -2710,6 +2714,11 @@ static void __init ssb_select_mitigation(void)
ssb_mode = SPEC_STORE_BYPASS_DISABLE;
break;
case SPEC_STORE_BYPASS_CMD_AUTO:
+ if (should_mitigate_vuln(X86_BUG_SPEC_STORE_BYPASS))
+ ssb_mode = SPEC_STORE_BYPASS_PRCTL;
+ else
+ ssb_mode = SPEC_STORE_BYPASS_NONE;
+ break;
case SPEC_STORE_BYPASS_CMD_PRCTL:
ssb_mode = SPEC_STORE_BYPASS_PRCTL;
break;