Contributed by Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd on from the cached bugs dept.
Theo de Raadt (deraadt@) has committed a diff to mitigate the "Intel L1TF screwup" for the amd64 platform we reported on earlier:
From: Theo de Raadt (elided) Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2018 13:04:41 -0600 (MDT) To: source-changes@openbsd.org Subject: CVS: cvs.openbsd.org: src CVSROOT: /cvs Module name: src Changes by: deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org 2018/08/21 13:04:41 Modified files: sys/arch/amd64/amd64: identcpu.c vmm.c vmm_support.S sys/arch/amd64/include: cpu.h specialreg.h vmmvar.h Log message: Perform mitigations for Intel L1TF screwup. There are three options: (1) Future cpus which don't have the bug, (2) cpu's with microcode containing a L1D flush operation, (3) stuffing the L1D cache with fresh data and expiring old content. This stuffing loop is complicated and interesting, no details on the mitigation have been released by Intel so Mike and I studied other systems for inspiration. Replacement algorithm for the L1D is described in the tlbleed paper. We use a 64K PA-linear region filled with trapsleds (in case there is L1D->L1I data movement). The TLBs covering the region are loaded first, because TLB loading apparently flows through the D cache. Before performing vmlaunch or vmresume, the cachelines covering the guest registers are also flushed. with mlarkin, additional testing by pd, handy comments from the kettenis and guenther peanuts
Now we wait for further discoveries…
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