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Commit 400331f8 authored by Pawan Gupta's avatar Pawan Gupta Committed by Borislav Petkov
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x86/tsx: Disable TSX development mode at boot



A microcode update on some Intel processors causes all TSX transactions
to always abort by default[*]. Microcode also added functionality to
re-enable TSX for development purposes. With this microcode loaded, if
tsx=on was passed on the cmdline, and TSX development mode was already
enabled before the kernel boot, it may make the system vulnerable to TSX
Asynchronous Abort (TAA).

To be on safer side, unconditionally disable TSX development mode during
boot. If a viable use case appears, this can be revisited later.

  [*]: Intel TSX Disable Update for Selected Processors, doc ID: 643557

  [ bp: Drop unstable web link, massage heavily. ]

Suggested-by: default avatarAndrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Suggested-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Tested-by: default avatarNeelima Krishnan <neelima.krishnan@intel.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/347bd844da3a333a9793c6687d4e4eb3b2419a3e.1646943780.git.pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com
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