diff --git a/etc/default/grub.d/40_cpu_mitigations.cfg b/etc/default/grub.d/40_cpu_mitigations.cfg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c18d80c --- /dev/null +++ b/etc/default/grub.d/40_cpu_mitigations.cfg @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +## Copyright (C) 2019 - 2019 ENCRYPTED SUPPORT LP +## See the file COPYING for copying conditions. + +## Enables all mitigations for CPU vulnerabilities. +## +## https://forums.whonix.org/t/should-all-kernel-patches-for-cpu-bugs-be-unconditionally-enabled-vs-performance-vs-applicability/7647 + +## Enable all mitigations for Spectre Variant 2. +## +## https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/hw-vuln/spectre.html +GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="$GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX spectre_v2=on" + +## Disable Speculative Store Bypass. +GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="$GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX spec_store_bypass_disable=on" + +## Disable TSX, enable all mitigations for the TSX Async Abort +## vulnerability and disable SMT. +## +## https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.html +GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="$GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX tsx=off tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt" + +## Enable all mitigations for the MDS vulnerability and disable +## SMT. +## +## https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.html +GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="$GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX mds=full,nosmt" + +## Enable all mitigations for the L1TF vulnerability and disable SMT +## and L1D flush runtime control. +## +## https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.html +GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="$GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX l1tf=full,force" + +## Force disable SMT as it has caused numerous CPU vulnerabilities. +## +## https://forums.whonix.org/t/should-all-kernel-patches-for-cpu-bugs-be-unconditionally-enabled-vs-performance-vs-applicability/7647/17 +GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="$GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX nosmt=force" + +## Mark all huge pages in the EPT as non-executable to mitigate iTLB multihit. +## +## https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/hw-vuln/multihit.html#mitigation-control-on-the-kernel-command-line-and-kvm-module-parameter +GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="$GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX kvm.nx_huge_pages=force"