The following commit has been merged into the x86/urgent branch of tip: Commit-ID: b0563468eeac88ebc70559d52a0b66efc37e4e9d Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/b0563468eeac88ebc70559d52a0b66efc37e4e9d Author: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx> AuthorDate: Tue, 07 Mar 2023 17:46:43 Committer: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@xxxxxxxxx> CommitterDate: Wed, 08 Mar 2023 16:56:08 +01:00 x86/CPU/AMD: Disable XSAVES on AMD family 0x17 AMD Erratum 1386 is summarised as: XSAVES Instruction May Fail to Save XMM Registers to the Provided State Save Area This piece of accidental chronomancy causes the %xmm registers to occasionally reset back to an older value. Ignore the XSAVES feature on all AMD Zen1/2 hardware. The XSAVEC instruction (which works fine) is equivalent on affected parts. [ bp: Typos, move it into the F17h-specific function. ] Reported-by: Tavis Ormandy <taviso@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230307174643.1240184-1-andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx --- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c index 380753b..95cdd08 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c @@ -880,6 +880,15 @@ void init_spectral_chicken(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c) } } #endif + /* + * Work around Erratum 1386. The XSAVES instruction malfunctions in + * certain circumstances on Zen1/2 uarch, and not all parts have had + * updated microcode at the time of writing (March 2023). + * + * Affected parts all have no supervisor XSAVE states, meaning that + * the XSAVEC instruction (which works fine) is equivalent. + */ + clear_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_XSAVES); } static void init_amd_zn(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
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