This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
x86/speculation/l1tf: Drop the swap storage limit restriction when l1tf=off
to the 4.20-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
x86-speculation-l1tf-drop-the-swap-storage-limit-restriction-when-l1tf-off.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.20 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 5b5e4d623ec8a34689df98e42d038a3b594d2ff9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2018 19:49:10 +0100
Subject: x86/speculation/l1tf: Drop the swap storage limit restriction when l1tf=off
From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
commit 5b5e4d623ec8a34689df98e42d038a3b594d2ff9 upstream.
Swap storage is restricted to max_swapfile_size (~16TB on x86_64) whenever
the system is deemed affected by L1TF vulnerability. Even though the limit
is quite high for most deployments it seems to be too restrictive for
deployments which are willing to live with the mitigation disabled.
We have a customer to deploy 8x 6,4TB PCIe/NVMe SSD swap devices which is
clearly out of the limit.
Drop the swap restriction when l1tf=off is specified. It also doesn't make
much sense to warn about too much memory for the l1tf mitigation when it is
forcefully disabled by the administrator.
[ tglx: Folded the documentation delta change ]
Fixes: 377eeaa8e11f ("x86/speculation/l1tf: Limit swap file size to MAX_PA/2")
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
Cc: <linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181113184910.26697-1-mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 3 +++
Documentation/admin-guide/l1tf.rst | 6 +++++-
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c | 3 ++-
arch/x86/mm/init.c | 2 +-
4 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -2096,6 +2096,9 @@
off
Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't
emit any warnings.
+ It also drops the swap size and available
+ RAM limit restriction on both hypervisor and
+ bare metal.
Default is 'flush'.
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/l1tf.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/l1tf.rst
@@ -405,6 +405,9 @@ time with the option "l1tf=". The valid
off Disables hypervisor mitigations and doesn't emit any
warnings.
+ It also drops the swap size and available RAM limit restrictions
+ on both hypervisor and bare metal.
+
============ =============================================================
The default is 'flush'. For details about L1D flushing see :ref:`l1d_flush`.
@@ -576,7 +579,8 @@ Default mitigations
The kernel default mitigations for vulnerable processors are:
- PTE inversion to protect against malicious user space. This is done
- unconditionally and cannot be controlled.
+ unconditionally and cannot be controlled. The swap storage is limited
+ to ~16TB.
- L1D conditional flushing on VMENTER when EPT is enabled for
a guest.
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
@@ -1002,7 +1002,8 @@ static void __init l1tf_select_mitigatio
#endif
half_pa = (u64)l1tf_pfn_limit() << PAGE_SHIFT;
- if (e820__mapped_any(half_pa, ULLONG_MAX - half_pa, E820_TYPE_RAM)) {
+ if (l1tf_mitigation != L1TF_MITIGATION_OFF &&
+ e820__mapped_any(half_pa, ULLONG_MAX - half_pa, E820_TYPE_RAM)) {
pr_warn("System has more than MAX_PA/2 memory. L1TF mitigation not effective.\n");
pr_info("You may make it effective by booting the kernel with mem=%llu parameter.\n",
half_pa);
--- a/arch/x86/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/init.c
@@ -931,7 +931,7 @@ unsigned long max_swapfile_size(void)
pages = generic_max_swapfile_size();
- if (boot_cpu_has_bug(X86_BUG_L1TF)) {
+ if (boot_cpu_has_bug(X86_BUG_L1TF) && l1tf_mitigation != L1TF_MITIGATION_OFF) {
/* Limit the swap file size to MAX_PA/2 for L1TF workaround */
unsigned long long l1tf_limit = l1tf_pfn_limit();
/*
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mhocko@xxxxxxxx are
queue-4.20/x86-speculation-l1tf-drop-the-swap-storage-limit-restriction-when-l1tf-off.patch
