Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 1 Mar 2023 00:23:01 +0000 | From | Andrew Cooper <> | Subject | Re: x86: AMD Zen2 ymm registers rolling back |
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On 28/02/2023 9:16 pm, Alexander Monakov wrote: > On Tue, 28 Feb 2023, Borislav Petkov wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 10:29:23PM +0300, Alexander Monakov wrote: >>> That I can reproduce the bug even with the latest BIOS, >> Can you reproduce if you boot with >> >> clearcpuid=xsaves >> >> ? > No, with this option it is not reproducible.
Ok.
Given that AMD do appear to have screwed up here, and the exploit does reliably work on modern versions of Linux and up-to-date firmware, the next course of action is to clobber XSAVES by default.
So we need a table for all Zen2 parts of ucode revisions below which we force hide XSAVES as the erratum workaround.
That, or we skip the table and just hide XSAVES unconditionally on all Fam17/18h CPUs... The Zen1/2 uarches have no supervisor states to manage (AFAICT - the first supervisor states are CET in Zen3 I think), and Linux already knows how to use XSAVEC (from virt usecases) which is equivalent given no supervisor states.
Thoughts?
~Andrew
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