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Sometimes it can be very useful to run CPU vulnerability mitigations on
systems where they aren't known to mitigate any real-world
vulnerabilities. This can be handy for mundane reasons like debugging
HW-agnostic logic on whatever machine is to hand, but also for research
reasons: while some mitigations are focused on individual vulns and
uarches, others are fairly general, and it's strategically useful to
have an idea how they'd perform on systems where they aren't currently
needed.
As evidence for this being useful, a flag specifically for Retbleed was
added in:
5c9a92dec3 ("x86/bugs: Add retbleed=force").
Since CPU bugs are tracked using the same basic mechanism as features,
and there are already parameters for manipulating them by hand, extend
that mechanism to support bug as well as capabilities.
With this patch and setcpuid=srso, a QEMU guest running on an Intel host
will boot with Safe-RET enabled.
Signed-off-by: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241220-force-cpu-bug-v2-3-7dc71bce742a@google.com
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.