From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Google-Smtp-Source: AH8x2268EsphpfgTS7WYFiL517gR3tXe77VZ1dp3MVcKzIjQAk44neZtd5BpJq5L9/9m9xMhG+F9 ARC-Seal: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; t=1516880063; cv=none; d=google.com; s=arc-20160816; b=evixHCV8+qFMoQvKIlsv79egPDS7rRmgl15ttS5dJ5Nhy1FWhSjtt/yw8K4rQ1pVBy qGshmS28kHL0HAu9zGy11CV8GQjrOYRgT8uy0c3RLtUGRYqQaM511vj9fFWIhjEygfgj 4OrIXC/7tgeixzptLFCiDHSvGpSxvnfeV0bdvh7Qjo1iM5NyFeN412/rWU5z02Taz3il 5F0Mwz/wMCTYN+aZiYsWG0Us0hE3RJY43K1TMzLQX9Al/zqDYWUtJyKtd84hAUqM+r4F OUFUIbJOvtWy0oeSDYAZaOrIrlle/Of8OqQoPY/x/odokPA0nbn11Br3fu5oyo9ykr2N jxag== ARC-Message-Signature: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=arc-20160816; h=mime-version:user-agent:references:message-id:in-reply-to:subject :cc:to:from:date:arc-authentication-results; bh=225Ey7qCMDdrIK4y5jVblbE7bLcUDrolPNDZC1Z9RGM=; b=yoXo7UQ8h8u6fGjhqZq7wVpwAPuZDhmeGIQuU/yO7rmTmS3s6Te2z0BnMj6lLsmgYb XGTNfKR9pySNTmUgGwD1CT2L4GTVsKndzJIDQ0SDmA/hgSp6b0yhZ9Ws7nntQ3IkwDVj 55C6OEnLjzS2xwyz/Ju9YybFDvLha8RDB+AsA6Z0Hu2GnBS3Aal0sLqLPDSmAo+xhuSb zv0/kbU91usMWMqdTCZoTEoUS99E+ZsqIhvXEV0u5QAaUd8MlyYI+SmrNl76gssA57Uq Wf2cujnUo8vzZg0QsP54t3XogwhC5RmaW2WrbzXbtZ84ymWV3O5/R0+RNSvyZDDhY3Z/ utnw== ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of tglx@linutronix.de designates 2a01:7a0:2:106d:700::1 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=tglx@linutronix.de Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of tglx@linutronix.de designates 2a01:7a0:2:106d:700::1 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=tglx@linutronix.de Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2018 12:34:06 +0100 (CET) From: Thomas Gleixner To: David Woodhouse cc: arjan@linux.intel.com, karahmed@amazon.de, x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com, bp@alien8.de, peterz@infradead.org, pbonzini@redhat.com, ak@linux.intel.com, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, gregkh@linux-foundation.org, dave.hansen@intel.com, gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, ashok.raj@intel.com, mingo@kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 6/7] x86/cpufeature: Blacklist SPEC_CTRL on early Spectre v2 microcodes In-Reply-To: <1516879213.30244.74.camel@infradead.org> Message-ID: References: <1516872189-16577-1-git-send-email-dwmw@amazon.co.uk> <1516872189-16577-7-git-send-email-dwmw@amazon.co.uk> <1516876994.30244.51.camel@infradead.org> <1516879213.30244.74.camel@infradead.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.20 (DEB 67 2015-01-07) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; BOUNDARY="8323329-1168674758-1516880047=:2020" X-getmail-retrieved-from-mailbox: INBOX X-GMAIL-THRID: =?utf-8?q?1590555855308082400?= X-GMAIL-MSGID: =?utf-8?q?1590564029947501177?= X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --8323329-1168674758-1516880047=:2020 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT On Thu, 25 Jan 2018, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Thu, 2018-01-25 at 11:54 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > On Thu, 25 Jan 2018, David Woodhouse wrote: > > > Thomas, want another copy in email now, or were we waiting for another > > > round of these before you merge them anyway? > > Looking at this mess makes me even less convinced that a blacklist is a > > good idea. We have already at least 3 different variants of blacklists. > > > > So I rather see a whitelist approach which says: > > > >    if (ucode_version < known_good(family, model)) > >        return; > > > > I know it would require that Intel releases a set of known good ucodes at > > some point in the future, but that's a reasonable request. > > > > I rather take a few patches which add the cutoff for family/model (and NO, > > I don't want to add stepping into the mix at all) than having this > > blacklist mess which keeps changing every other day. > > I don't know why they added KBL 0x84 microcode; I'm not aware that it's > been released. Maybe it escaped somewhere so that's why they added it > to the doc. > > If they ship another bad microcode revision to the public, newer than > the ones which are already in that list, then there is something > *SEVERELY* wrong. Wronger than we already know. Well, all of this is already wrong. > And if we take this 'piecemeal whitelist' approach, they're going to > have to add the newly-released microcodes to the kernel each time they > do a release which covers a new SKU — so it's not like it'll even help, > because if they *do* ship another bad one, we'll *already* have added > it to the kernel by the time we realise. Fair enough. > I don't expect them to *keep* doing daily releases of the blacklist > doc; it's just been a bit rushed, that's all. I think we're much better > off doing it this way than saying that we'll keep taking incremental > updates as they do new releases. > > Also, I don't think we can avoid looking at the stepping. Not unless > you want to make Intel synchronise the microcode version numbers for > different steppings of the same model? Because they aren't at the > moment. This stuff is really a master piece of trainwreck engineering. So yeah, whatever we do we end up with a proper mess. Lets go for a blacklist and hope that we'll have something which holds at some foreseeable day in the future. The other concern I have is IBRS vs. IBPB. Are we sufficiently sure that IBPB is working on those IBRS blacklisted ucode revisions? Or should we just play safe and not touch any of this at all when we detect a blacklisted one? Given the close to 0 trust in Intels change management and QA, I rather keep my hands from everything which was ever mentioned in any document as broken. I hope we have a collection of those PDFs stored at a safe place. Thanks, tglx --8323329-1168674758-1516880047=:2020--