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| author | Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com> | 2017-12-08 14:11:39 +0300 |
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| committer | Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com> | 2018-03-09 12:54:11 +0300 |
| commit | 6fc14e1a44e53c472865252b47398346a27d600e (patch) | |
| tree | 2ddc11cdf4f12749618fc06dc4969a5157fac6eb /Documentation/admin-guide | |
| parent | 9aaa3b8b4c56d24210acef37b7c800ca218c3d40 (diff) | |
thunderbolt: Introduce USB only (SL4) security level
This new security level works so that it creates one PCIe tunnel to the
connected Thunderbolt dock, removing PCIe links downstream of the dock.
This leaves only the internal USB controller visible.
Display Port tunnels are created normally.
While there make sure security sysfs attribute returns "unknown" for any
future security level.
Signed-off-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/admin-guide')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/thunderbolt.rst | 15 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/thunderbolt.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/thunderbolt.rst index 9948ec36a204..35fccba6a9a6 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/thunderbolt.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/thunderbolt.rst @@ -21,11 +21,11 @@ vulnerable to DMA attacks. Security levels and how to use them ----------------------------------- Starting with Intel Falcon Ridge Thunderbolt controller there are 4 -security levels available. The reason for these is the fact that the -connected devices can be DMA masters and thus read contents of the host -memory without CPU and OS knowing about it. There are ways to prevent -this by setting up an IOMMU but it is not always available for various -reasons. +security levels available. Intel Titan Ridge added one more security level +(usbonly). The reason for these is the fact that the connected devices can +be DMA masters and thus read contents of the host memory without CPU and OS +knowing about it. There are ways to prevent this by setting up an IOMMU but +it is not always available for various reasons. The security levels are as follows: @@ -52,6 +52,11 @@ The security levels are as follows: USB. No PCIe tunneling is done. In BIOS settings this is typically called *Display Port Only*. + usbonly + The firmware automatically creates tunnels for the USB controller and + Display Port in a dock. All PCIe links downstream of the dock are + removed. + The current security level can be read from ``/sys/bus/thunderbolt/devices/domainX/security`` where ``domainX`` is the Thunderbolt domain the host controller manages. There is typically |