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[11/14] prctl.2: Add PR_SPEC_DISABLE_NOEXEC for SPECULATION_CTRL prctls

Message ID 1589301419-24459-12-git-send-email-Dave.Martin@arm.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series prctl.2 man page updates for Linux 5.6 | expand

Commit Message

Dave Martin May 12, 2020, 4:36 p.m. UTC 
Add the PR_SPEC_DISABLE_NOEXEC mode added in Linux 5.1
for the PR_SPEC_STORE_BYPASS "misfeature" of
PR_SET_SPECULATION_CTRL and PR_GET_SPECULATION_CTRL.

Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
---
 man2/prctl.2 | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/man2/prctl.2 b/man2/prctl.2
index 66417cf..2361b44 100644
--- a/man2/prctl.2
+++ b/man2/prctl.2
@@ -1187,6 +1187,12 @@  The speculation feature is disabled, mitigation is enabled.
 Same as
 .B PR_SPEC_DISABLE
 but cannot be undone.
+.TP
+.BR PR_SPEC_DISABLE_NOEXEC " (since Linux 5.1)"
+Same as
+.BR PR_SPEC_DISABLE ,
+but but the state will be cleared on
+.BR execve (2).
 .RE
 .IP
 If all bits are 0,
@@ -1251,6 +1257,17 @@  with the same value for
 .I arg2
 will fail with the error
 .BR EPERM .
+.\" commit 71368af9027f18fe5d1c6f372cfdff7e4bde8b48
+.TP
+.BR PR_SPEC_DISABLE_NOEXEC " (since Linux 5.1)"
+Same as
+.BR PR_SPEC_DISABLE ,
+but but the state will be cleared on
+.BR execve (2).
+Currently only supported for
+.I arg2
+equal to
+.B PR_SPEC_STORE_BYPASS.
 .RE
 .IP
 Any unsupported value in
@@ -1898,11 +1915,12 @@  was
 .BR PR_SET_SPECULATION_CTRL
 and
 .IR arg3
-is neither
+is not
 .BR PR_SPEC_ENABLE ,
 .BR PR_SPEC_DISABLE ,
+.BR PR_SPEC_FORCE_DISABLE ,
 nor
-.BR PR_SPEC_FORCE_DISABLE .
+.BR PR_SPEC_DISABLE_NOEXEC .
 .SH VERSIONS
 The
 .BR prctl ()