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<updated>2024-05-02T14:24:48+00:00</updated>
<entry>
<title>cpu: Re-enable CPU mitigations by default for !X86 architectures</title>
<updated>2024-05-02T14:24:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sean Christopherson</name>
<email>seanjc@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-04-20T00:05:54+00:00</published>
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commit fe42754b94a42d08cf9501790afc25c4f6a5f631 upstream.

Rename x86's to CPU_MITIGATIONS, define it in generic code, and force it
on for all architectures exception x86.  A recent commit to turn
mitigations off by default if SPECULATION_MITIGATIONS=n kinda sorta
missed that "cpu_mitigations" is completely generic, whereas
SPECULATION_MITIGATIONS is x86-specific.

Rename x86's SPECULATIVE_MITIGATIONS instead of keeping both and have it
select CPU_MITIGATIONS, as having two configs for the same thing is
unnecessary and confusing.  This will also allow x86 to use the knob to
manage mitigations that aren't strictly related to speculative
execution.

Use another Kconfig to communicate to common code that CPU_MITIGATIONS
is already defined instead of having x86's menu depend on the common
CPU_MITIGATIONS.  This allows keeping a single point of contact for all
of x86's mitigations, and it's not clear that other architectures *want*
to allow disabling mitigations at compile-time.

Fixes: f337a6a21e2f ("x86/cpu: Actually turn off mitigations by default for SPECULATION_MITIGATIONS=n")
Closes: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240413115324.53303a68%40canb.auug.org.au
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Reported-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240420000556.2645001-2-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arch: Introduce CONFIG_FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT</title>
<updated>2024-04-10T14:18:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-13T10:42:51+00:00</published>
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commit d49a0626216b95cd4bf696f6acf55f39a16ab0bb upstream.

Generic function-alignment infrastructure.

Architectures can select FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT_xxB symbols; the
FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT symbol is then set to the largest such selected
size, 0 otherwise.

&gt;From this the -falign-functions compiler argument and __ALIGN macro
are set.

This incorporates the DEBUG_FORCE_FUNCTION_ALIGN_64B knob and future
alignment requirements for x86_64 (later in this series) into a single
place.

NOTE: also removes the 0x90 filler byte from the generic __ALIGN
      primitive, that value makes no sense outside of x86.

NOTE: .balign 0 reverts to a no-op.

Requested-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Change-Id: I053b3c408d56988381feb8c8bdb5e27ea221755f
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220915111143.719248727@infradead.org
[cascardo: adjust context at arch/x86/Kconfig]
Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo &lt;cascardo@igalia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>scs: add CONFIG_MMU dependency for vfree_atomic()</title>
<updated>2024-02-23T07:55:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Samuel Holland</name>
<email>samuel.holland@sifive.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-01-22T17:52:01+00:00</published>
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commit 6f9dc684cae638dda0570154509884ee78d0f75c upstream.

The shadow call stack implementation fails to build without CONFIG_MMU:

  ld.lld: error: undefined symbol: vfree_atomic
  &gt;&gt;&gt; referenced by scs.c
  &gt;&gt;&gt;               kernel/scs.o:(scs_free) in archive vmlinux.a

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240122175204.2371009-1-samuel.holland@sifive.com
Fixes: a2abe7cbd8fe ("scs: switch to vmapped shadow stacks")
Signed-off-by: Samuel Holland &lt;samuel.holland@sifive.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sami Tolvanen &lt;samitolvanen@google.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>init: Provide arch_cpu_finalize_init()</title>
<updated>2023-08-08T17:58:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-01T16:58:30+00:00</published>
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commit 7725acaa4f0c04fbefb0e0d342635b967bb7d414 upstream

check_bugs() has become a dumping ground for all sorts of activities to
finalize the CPU initialization before running the rest of the init code.

Most are empty, a few do actual bug checks, some do alternative patching
and some cobble a CPU advertisement string together....

Aside of that the current implementation requires duplicated function
declaration and mostly empty header files for them.

Provide a new function arch_cpu_finalize_init(). Provide a generic
declaration if CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_CPU_FINALIZE_INIT is selected and a stub
inline otherwise.

This requires a temporary #ifdef in start_kernel() which will be removed
along with check_bugs() once the architectures are converted over.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230613224544.957805717@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Daniel Sneddon &lt;daniel.sneddon@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arch: make TRACE_IRQFLAGS_NMI_SUPPORT generic</title>
<updated>2022-08-17T12:23:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
<email>mark.rutland@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-05-11T13:17:32+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 4510bffb4d0246cdcc1f14c7367c026b807a862d ]

On most architectures, IRQ flag tracing is disabled in NMI context, and
architectures need to define and select TRACE_IRQFLAGS_NMI_SUPPORT in
order to enable this.

Commit:

  859d069ee1ddd878 ("lockdep: Prepare for NMI IRQ state tracking")

Permitted IRQ flag tracing in NMI context, allowing lockdep to work in
NMI context where an architecture had suitable entry logic. At the time,
most architectures did not have such suitable entry logic, and this broke
lockdep on such architectures. Thus, this was partially disabled in
commit:

  ed00495333ccc80f ("locking/lockdep: Fix TRACE_IRQFLAGS vs. NMIs")

... with architectures needing to select TRACE_IRQFLAGS_NMI_SUPPORT to
enable IRQ flag tracing in NMI context.

Currently TRACE_IRQFLAGS_NMI_SUPPORT is defined under
arch/x86/Kconfig.debug. Move it to arch/Kconfig so architectures can
select it without having to provide their own definition.

Since the regular TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT is selected by
arch/x86/Kconfig, the select of TRACE_IRQFLAGS_NMI_SUPPORT is moved
there too.

There should be no functional change as a result of this patch.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220511131733.4074499-2-mark.rutland@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>stack: Constrain and fix stack offset randomization with Clang builds</title>
<updated>2022-04-08T12:23:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marco Elver</name>
<email>elver@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-01-31T09:05:21+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit efa90c11f62e6b7252fb75efe2787056872a627c ]

All supported versions of Clang perform auto-init of __builtin_alloca()
when stack auto-init is on (CONFIG_INIT_STACK_ALL_{ZERO,PATTERN}).

add_random_kstack_offset() uses __builtin_alloca() to add a stack
offset. This means, when CONFIG_INIT_STACK_ALL_{ZERO,PATTERN} is
enabled, add_random_kstack_offset() will auto-init that unused portion
of the stack used to add an offset.

There are several problems with this:

	1. These offsets can be as large as 1023 bytes. Performing
	   memset() on them isn't exactly cheap, and this is done on
	   every syscall entry.

	2. Architectures adding add_random_kstack_offset() to syscall
	   entry implemented in C require them to be 'noinstr' (e.g. see
	   x86 and s390). The potential problem here is that a call to
	   memset may occur, which is not noinstr.

A x86_64 defconfig kernel with Clang 11 and CONFIG_VMLINUX_VALIDATION shows:

 | vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: do_syscall_64()+0x9d: call to memset() leaves .noinstr.text section
 | vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: do_int80_syscall_32()+0xab: call to memset() leaves .noinstr.text section
 | vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: __do_fast_syscall_32()+0xe2: call to memset() leaves .noinstr.text section
 | vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: fixup_bad_iret()+0x2f: call to memset() leaves .noinstr.text section

Clang 14 (unreleased) will introduce a way to skip alloca initialization
via __builtin_alloca_uninitialized() (https://reviews.llvm.org/D115440).

Constrain RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET to only be enabled if no stack
auto-init is enabled, the compiler is GCC, or Clang is version 14+. Use
__builtin_alloca_uninitialized() if the compiler provides it, as is done
by Clang 14.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YbHTKUjEejZCLyhX@elver.google.com
Fixes: 39218ff4c625 ("stack: Optionally randomize kernel stack offset each syscall")
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220131090521.1947110-2-elver@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arch/cc: Introduce a function to check for confidential computing features</title>
<updated>2021-11-18T18:17:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tom Lendacky</name>
<email>thomas.lendacky@amd.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-09-08T22:58:33+00:00</published>
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commit 46b49b12f3fc5e1347dba37d4639e2165f447871 upstream.

In preparation for other confidential computing technologies, introduce
a generic helper function, cc_platform_has(), that can be used to
check for specific active confidential computing attributes, like
memory encryption. This is intended to eliminate having to add multiple
technology-specific checks to the code (e.g. if (sev_active() ||
tdx_active() || ... ).

 [ bp: s/_CC_PLATFORM_H/_LINUX_CC_PLATFORM_H/g ]

Co-developed-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Co-developed-by: Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan &lt;sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan &lt;sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky &lt;thomas.lendacky@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210928191009.32551-3-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)</title>
<updated>2021-09-08T19:55:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-09-08T19:55:35+00:00</published>
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Merge more updates from Andrew Morton:
 "147 patches, based on 7d2a07b769330c34b4deabeed939325c77a7ec2f.

  Subsystems affected by this patch series: mm (memory-hotplug, rmap,
  ioremap, highmem, cleanups, secretmem, kfence, damon, and vmscan),
  alpha, percpu, procfs, misc, core-kernel, MAINTAINERS, lib,
  checkpatch, epoll, init, nilfs2, coredump, fork, pids, criu, kconfig,
  selftests, ipc, and scripts"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (94 commits)
  scripts: check_extable: fix typo in user error message
  mm/workingset: correct kernel-doc notations
  ipc: replace costly bailout check in sysvipc_find_ipc()
  selftests/memfd: remove unused variable
  Kconfig.debug: drop selecting non-existing HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH
  configs: remove the obsolete CONFIG_INPUT_POLLDEV
  prctl: allow to setup brk for et_dyn executables
  pid: cleanup the stale comment mentioning pidmap_init().
  kernel/fork.c: unexport get_{mm,task}_exe_file
  coredump: fix memleak in dump_vma_snapshot()
  fs/coredump.c: log if a core dump is aborted due to changed file permissions
  nilfs2: use refcount_dec_and_lock() to fix potential UAF
  nilfs2: fix memory leak in nilfs_sysfs_delete_snapshot_group
  nilfs2: fix memory leak in nilfs_sysfs_create_snapshot_group
  nilfs2: fix memory leak in nilfs_sysfs_delete_##name##_group
  nilfs2: fix memory leak in nilfs_sysfs_create_##name##_group
  nilfs2: fix NULL pointer in nilfs_##name##_attr_release
  nilfs2: fix memory leak in nilfs_sysfs_create_device_group
  trap: cleanup trap_init()
  init: move usermodehelper_enable() to populate_rootfs()
  ...
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<entry>
<title>arch: Kconfig: fix spelling mistake "seperate" -&gt; "separate"</title>
<updated>2021-09-08T18:50:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Colin Ian King</name>
<email>colin.king@canonical.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-09-08T02:57:38+00:00</published>
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Threre is a spelling mistake in the Kconfig text. Fix it.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210704095207.37342-1-colin.king@canonical.com
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King &lt;colin.king@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'trace-v5.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2021-09-05T18:50:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-09-05T18:50:41+00:00</published>
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Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:

 - simplify the Kconfig use of FTRACE and TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT

 - bootconfig can now start histograms

 - bootconfig supports group/all enabling

 - histograms now can put values in linear size buckets

 - execnames can be passed to synthetic events

 - introduce "event probes" that attach to other events and can retrieve
   data from pointers of fields, or record fields as different types (a
   pointer to a string as a string instead of just a hex number)

 - various fixes and clean ups

* tag 'trace-v5.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (35 commits)
  tracing/doc: Fix table format in histogram code
  selftests/ftrace: Add selftest for testing duplicate eprobes and kprobes
  selftests/ftrace: Add selftest for testing eprobe events on synthetic events
  selftests/ftrace: Add test case to test adding and removing of event probe
  selftests/ftrace: Fix requirement check of README file
  selftests/ftrace: Add clear_dynamic_events() to test cases
  tracing: Add a probe that attaches to trace events
  tracing/probes: Reject events which have the same name of existing one
  tracing/probes: Have process_fetch_insn() take a void * instead of pt_regs
  tracing/probe: Change traceprobe_set_print_fmt() to take a type
  tracing/probes: Use struct_size() instead of defining custom macros
  tracing/probes: Allow for dot delimiter as well as slash for system names
  tracing/probe: Have traceprobe_parse_probe_arg() take a const arg
  tracing: Have dynamic events have a ref counter
  tracing: Add DYNAMIC flag for dynamic events
  tracing: Replace deprecated CPU-hotplug functions.
  MAINTAINERS: Add an entry for os noise/latency
  tracepoint: Fix kerneldoc comments
  bootconfig/tracing/ktest: Update ktest example for boot-time tracing
  tools/bootconfig: Use per-group/all enable option in ftrace2bconf script
  ...
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