x86/vmscape: Warn when STIBP is disabled with SMT
Commit b7cc9887 upstream. Cross-thread attacks are generally harder as they require the victim to be co-located on a core. However, with VMSCAPE the adversary targets belong to the same guest execution, that are more likely to get co-located. In particular, a thread that is currently executing userspace hypervisor (after the IBPB) may still be targeted by a guest execution from a sibling thread. Issue a warning about the potential risk, except when: - SMT is disabled - STIBP is enabled system-wide - Intel eIBRS is enabled (which implies STIBP protection) Signed-off-by:Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by:
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by:
Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Signed-off-by:
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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