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2025-10-19fs: Add 'initramfs_options' to set initramfs mount optionsLichen Liu1-0/+3
[ Upstream commit 278033a225e13ec21900f0a92b8351658f5377f2 ] When CONFIG_TMPFS is enabled, the initial root filesystem is a tmpfs. By default, a tmpfs mount is limited to using 50% of the available RAM for its content. This can be problematic in memory-constrained environments, particularly during a kdump capture. In a kdump scenario, the capture kernel boots with a limited amount of memory specified by the 'crashkernel' parameter. If the initramfs is large, it may fail to unpack into the tmpfs rootfs due to insufficient space. This is because to get X MB of usable space in tmpfs, 2*X MB of memory must be available for the mount. This leads to an OOM failure during the early boot process, preventing a successful crash dump. This patch introduces a new kernel command-line parameter, initramfs_options, which allows passing specific mount options directly to the rootfs when it is first mounted. This gives users control over the rootfs behavior. For example, a user can now specify initramfs_options=size=75% to allow the tmpfs to use up to 75% of the available memory. This can significantly reduce the memory pressure for kdump. Consider a practical example: To unpack a 48MB initramfs, the tmpfs needs 48MB of usable space. With the default 50% limit, this requires a memory pool of 96MB to be available for the tmpfs mount. The total memory requirement is therefore approximately: 16MB (vmlinuz) + 48MB (loaded initramfs) + 48MB (unpacked kernel) + 96MB (for tmpfs) + 12MB (runtime overhead) ≈ 220MB. By using initramfs_options=size=75%, the memory pool required for the 48MB tmpfs is reduced to 48MB / 0.75 = 64MB. This reduces the total memory requirement by 32MB (96MB - 64MB), allowing the kdump to succeed with a smaller crashkernel size, such as 192MB. An alternative approach of reusing the existing rootflags parameter was considered. However, a new, dedicated initramfs_options parameter was chosen to avoid altering the current behavior of rootflags (which applies to the final root filesystem) and to prevent any potential regressions. Also add documentation for the new kernel parameter "initramfs_options" This approach is inspired by prior discussions and patches on the topic. Ref: https://www.lightofdawn.org/blog/?viewDetailed=00128 Ref: https://landley.net/notes-2015.html#01-01-2015 Ref: https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/6/29/783 Ref: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.html#what-is-rootfs Signed-off-by: Lichen Liu <lichliu@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250815121459.3391223-1-lichliu@redhat.com Tested-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2025-09-11x86/vmscape: Enable the mitigationPawan Gupta1-0/+11
commit 556c1ad666ad90c50ec8fccb930dd5046cfbecfb upstream. Enable the previously added mitigation for VMscape. Add the cmdline vmscape={off|ibpb|force} and sysfs reporting. Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Reviewed-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2025-07-10x86/bugs: Add a Transient Scheduler Attacks mitigationBorislav Petkov (AMD)1-0/+13
commit d8010d4ba43e9f790925375a7de100604a5e2dba upstream. Add the required features detection glue to bugs.c et all in order to support the TSA mitigation. Co-developed-by: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Reviewed-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2025-06-27arm64: spectre: increase parameters that can be used to turn off bhb ↵Liu Song1-0/+5
mitigation individually [ Upstream commit 877ace9eab7de032f954533afd5d1ecd0cf62eaf ] In our environment, it was found that the mitigation BHB has a great impact on the benchmark performance. For example, in the lmbench test, the "process fork && exit" test performance drops by 20%. So it is necessary to have the ability to turn off the mitigation individually through cmdline, thus avoiding having to compile the kernel by adjusting the config. Signed-off-by: Liu Song <liusong@linux.alibaba.com> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1661514050-22263-1-git-send-email-liusong@linux.alibaba.com Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Pu Lehui <pulehui@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2025-06-27Revert "x86/bugs: Make spectre user default depend on MITIGATION_SPECTRE_V2" ↵Breno Leitao1-2/+0
on v6.6 and older This reverts commit 4fc2d289b3cc4cf23ccabe59cf936d1dc49aeda8 which is commit 98fdaeb296f51ef08e727a7cc72e5b5c864c4f4d upstream. commit 7adb96687ce8 ("x86/bugs: Make spectre user default depend on MITIGATION_SPECTRE_V2") depends on commit 72c70f480a70 ("x86/bugs: Add a separate config for Spectre V2"), which introduced MITIGATION_SPECTRE_V2. commit 72c70f480a70 ("x86/bugs: Add a separate config for Spectre V2") never landed in stable tree, thus, stable tree doesn't have MITIGATION_SPECTRE_V2, that said, commit 7adb96687ce8 ("x86/bugs: Make spectre user default depend on MITIGATION_SPECTRE_V2") has no value if the dependecy was not applied. Revert commit 7adb96687ce8 ("x86/bugs: Make spectre user default depend on MITIGATION_SPECTRE_V2") in stable kernel which landed in in 5.4.294, 5.10.238, 5.15.185, 6.1.141 and 6.6.93 stable versions. Cc: David.Kaplan@amd.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com Cc: mingo@kernel.org Cc: brad.spengler@opensrcsec.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 6.6 6.1 5.15 5.10 5.4 Reported-by: Brad Spengler <brad.spengler@opensrcsec.com> Reported-by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org> Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2025-06-04x86/bugs: Make spectre user default depend on MITIGATION_SPECTRE_V2Breno Leitao1-0/+2
[ Upstream commit 98fdaeb296f51ef08e727a7cc72e5b5c864c4f4d ] Change the default value of spectre v2 in user mode to respect the CONFIG_MITIGATION_SPECTRE_V2 config option. Currently, user mode spectre v2 is set to auto (SPECTRE_V2_USER_CMD_AUTO) by default, even if CONFIG_MITIGATION_SPECTRE_V2 is disabled. Set the spectre_v2 value to auto (SPECTRE_V2_USER_CMD_AUTO) if the Spectre v2 config (CONFIG_MITIGATION_SPECTRE_V2) is enabled, otherwise set the value to none (SPECTRE_V2_USER_CMD_NONE). Important to say the command line argument "spectre_v2_user" overwrites the default value in both cases. When CONFIG_MITIGATION_SPECTRE_V2 is not set, users have the flexibility to opt-in for specific mitigations independently. In this scenario, setting spectre_v2= will not enable spectre_v2_user=, and command line options spectre_v2_user and spectre_v2 are independent when CONFIG_MITIGATION_SPECTRE_V2=n. Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: David Kaplan <David.Kaplan@amd.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241031-x86_bugs_last_v2-v2-2-b7ff1dab840e@debian.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2025-05-22x86/its: Add "vmexit" option to skip mitigation on some CPUsPawan Gupta1-0/+2
commit 2665281a07e19550944e8354a2024635a7b2714a upstream. Ice Lake generation CPUs are not affected by guest/host isolation part of ITS. If a user is only concerned about KVM guests, they can now choose a new cmdline option "vmexit" that will not deploy the ITS mitigation when CPU is not affected by guest/host isolation. This saves the performance overhead of ITS mitigation on Ice Lake gen CPUs. When "vmexit" option selected, if the CPU is affected by ITS guest/host isolation, the default ITS mitigation is deployed. Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Alexandre Chartre <alexandre.chartre@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2025-05-22x86/its: Enable Indirect Target Selection mitigationPawan Gupta1-0/+13
commit f4818881c47fd91fcb6d62373c57c7844e3de1c0 upstream. Indirect Target Selection (ITS) is a bug in some pre-ADL Intel CPUs with eIBRS. It affects prediction of indirect branch and RETs in the lower half of cacheline. Due to ITS such branches may get wrongly predicted to a target of (direct or indirect) branch that is located in the upper half of the cacheline. Scope of impact =============== Guest/host isolation -------------------- When eIBRS is used for guest/host isolation, the indirect branches in the VMM may still be predicted with targets corresponding to branches in the guest. Intra-mode ---------- cBPF or other native gadgets can be used for intra-mode training and disclosure using ITS. User/kernel isolation --------------------- When eIBRS is enabled user/kernel isolation is not impacted. Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier (IBPB) ----------------------------------------- After an IBPB, indirect branches may be predicted with targets corresponding to direct branches which were executed prior to IBPB. This is mitigated by a microcode update. Add cmdline parameter indirect_target_selection=off|on|force to control the mitigation to relocate the affected branches to an ITS-safe thunk i.e. located in the upper half of cacheline. Also add the sysfs reporting. When retpoline mitigation is deployed, ITS safe-thunks are not needed, because retpoline sequence is already ITS-safe. Similarly, when call depth tracking (CDT) mitigation is deployed (retbleed=stuff), ITS safe return thunk is not used, as CDT prevents RSB-underflow. To not overcomplicate things, ITS mitigation is not supported with spectre-v2 lfence;jmp mitigation. Moreover, it is less practical to deploy lfence;jmp mitigation on ITS affected parts anyways. Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Alexandre Chartre <alexandre.chartre@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2024-10-17proc: add config & param to block forcing mem writesAdrian Ratiu1-0/+10
[ Upstream commit 41e8149c8892ed1962bd15350b3c3e6e90cba7f4 ] This adds a Kconfig option and boot param to allow removing the FOLL_FORCE flag from /proc/pid/mem write calls because it can be abused. The traditional forcing behavior is kept as default because it can break GDB and some other use cases. Previously we tried a more sophisticated approach allowing distributions to fine-tune /proc/pid/mem behavior, however that got NAK-ed by Linus [1], who prefers this simpler approach with semantics also easier to understand for users. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wiGWLChxYmUA5HrT5aopZrB7_2VTa0NLZcxORgkUe5tEQ@mail.gmail.com/ [1] Cc: Doug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org> Cc: Jeff Xu <jeffxu@google.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Adrian Ratiu <adrian.ratiu@collabora.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240802080225.89408-1-adrian.ratiu@collabora.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2024-10-17powerpc/32: Remove 'noltlbs' kernel parameterChristophe Leroy1-3/+0
[ Upstream commit 56e54b4e6c477b2a7df43f9a320ae5f9a5bfb16c ] Mapping without large TLBs has no added value on the 8xx. Mapping without large TLBs is still necessary on 40x when selecting CONFIG_KFENCE or CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC or CONFIG_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX, but this is done automatically and doesn't require user selection. Remove 'noltlbs' kernel parameter, the user has no reason to use it. Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/80ca17bd39cf608a8ebd0764d7064a498e131199.1655202721.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu Stable-dep-of: f9f2bff64c2f ("powerpc/8xx: Fix initial memory mapping") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2024-10-17powerpc/32: Remove the 'nobats' kernel parameterChristophe Leroy1-3/+0
[ Upstream commit 1ce844973bb516e95d3f2bcb001a3992548def9d ] Mapping without BATs doesn't bring any added value to the user. Remove that option. Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/6977314c823cfb728bc0273cea634b41807bfb64.1655202721.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu Stable-dep-of: f9f2bff64c2f ("powerpc/8xx: Fix initial memory mapping") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2024-08-19clocksource: Scale the watchdog read retries automaticallyFeng Tang1-6/+0
[ Upstream commit 2ed08e4bc53298db3f87b528cd804cb0cce066a9 ] On a 8-socket server the TSC is wrongly marked as 'unstable' and disabled during boot time on about one out of 120 boot attempts: clocksource: timekeeping watchdog on CPU227: wd-tsc-wd excessive read-back delay of 153560ns vs. limit of 125000ns, wd-wd read-back delay only 11440ns, attempt 3, marking tsc unstable tsc: Marking TSC unstable due to clocksource watchdog TSC found unstable after boot, most likely due to broken BIOS. Use 'tsc=unstable'. sched_clock: Marking unstable (119294969739, 159204297)<-(125446229205, -5992055152) clocksource: Checking clocksource tsc synchronization from CPU 319 to CPUs 0,99,136,180,210,542,601,896. clocksource: Switched to clocksource hpet The reason is that for platform with a large number of CPUs, there are sporadic big or huge read latencies while reading the watchog/clocksource during boot or when system is under stress work load, and the frequency and maximum value of the latency goes up with the number of online CPUs. The cCurrent code already has logic to detect and filter such high latency case by reading the watchdog twice and checking the two deltas. Due to the randomness of the latency, there is a low probabilty that the first delta (latency) is big, but the second delta is small and looks valid. The watchdog code retries the readouts by default twice, which is not necessarily sufficient for systems with a large number of CPUs. There is a command line parameter 'max_cswd_read_retries' which allows to increase the number of retries, but that's not user friendly as it needs to be tweaked per system. As the number of required retries is proportional to the number of online CPUs, this parameter can be calculated at runtime. Scale and enlarge the number of retries according to the number of online CPUs and remove the command line parameter completely. [ tglx: Massaged change log and comments ] Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Tested-by: Jin Wang <jin1.wang@intel.com> Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240221060859.1027450-1-feng.tang@intel.com Stable-dep-of: f2655ac2c06a ("clocksource: Fix brown-bag boolean thinko in cs_watchdog_read()") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2024-08-19clocksource: Reduce the default clocksource_watchdog() retries to 2Waiman Long1-2/+2
[ Upstream commit 1a5620671a1b6fd9cc08761677d050f1702f910c ] With the previous patch, there is an extra watchdog read in each retry. Now the total number of clocksource reads is increased to 4 per iteration. In order to avoid increasing the clock skew check overhead, the default maximum number of retries is reduced from 3 to 2 to maintain the same 12 clocksource reads in the worst case. Suggested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Stable-dep-of: f2655ac2c06a ("clocksource: Fix brown-bag boolean thinko in cs_watchdog_read()") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2024-08-19profiling: remove profile=sleep supportTetsuo Handa1-3/+1
commit b88f55389ad27f05ed84af9e1026aa64dbfabc9a upstream. The kernel sleep profile is no longer working due to a recursive locking bug introduced by commit 42a20f86dc19 ("sched: Add wrapper for get_wchan() to keep task blocked") Booting with the 'profile=sleep' kernel command line option added or executing # echo -n sleep > /sys/kernel/profiling after boot causes the system to lock up. Lockdep reports kthreadd/3 is trying to acquire lock: ffff93ac82e08d58 (&p->pi_lock){....}-{2:2}, at: get_wchan+0x32/0x70 but task is already holding lock: ffff93ac82e08d58 (&p->pi_lock){....}-{2:2}, at: try_to_wake_up+0x53/0x370 with the call trace being lock_acquire+0xc8/0x2f0 get_wchan+0x32/0x70 __update_stats_enqueue_sleeper+0x151/0x430 enqueue_entity+0x4b0/0x520 enqueue_task_fair+0x92/0x6b0 ttwu_do_activate+0x73/0x140 try_to_wake_up+0x213/0x370 swake_up_locked+0x20/0x50 complete+0x2f/0x40 kthread+0xfb/0x180 However, since nobody noticed this regression for more than two years, let's remove 'profile=sleep' support based on the assumption that nobody needs this functionality. Fixes: 42a20f86dc19 ("sched: Add wrapper for get_wchan() to keep task blocked") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.16+ Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2024-04-17x86/bugs: Remove CONFIG_BHI_MITIGATION_AUTO and spectre_bhi=autoJosh Poimboeuf1-3/+0
commit 36d4fe147c870f6d3f6602befd7ef44393a1c87a upstream. Unlike most other mitigations' "auto" options, spectre_bhi=auto only mitigates newer systems, which is confusing and not particularly useful. Remove it. Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Nikolay Borisov <nik.borisov@suse.com> Cc: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/412e9dc87971b622bbbaf64740ebc1f140bff343.1712813475.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2024-04-17x86/bugs: Clarify that syscall hardening isn't a BHI mitigationJosh Poimboeuf1-2/+1
commit 5f882f3b0a8bf0788d5a0ee44b1191de5319bb8a upstream. While syscall hardening helps prevent some BHI attacks, there's still other low-hanging fruit remaining. Don't classify it as a mitigation and make it clear that the system may still be vulnerable if it doesn't have a HW or SW mitigation enabled. Fixes: ec9404e40e8f ("x86/bhi: Add BHI mitigation knob") Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/b5951dae3fdee7f1520d5136a27be3bdfe95f88b.1712813475.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2024-04-17x86/bugs: Fix BHI documentationJosh Poimboeuf1-5/+7
commit dfe648903f42296866d79f10d03f8c85c9dfba30 upstream. Fix up some inaccuracies in the BHI documentation. Fixes: ec9404e40e8f ("x86/bhi: Add BHI mitigation knob") Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Nikolay Borisov <nik.borisov@suse.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/8c84f7451bfe0dd08543c6082a383f390d4aa7e2.1712813475.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2024-04-10x86/bhi: Mitigate KVM by defaultPawan Gupta1-2/+3
commit 95a6ccbdc7199a14b71ad8901cb788ba7fb5167b upstream. BHI mitigation mode spectre_bhi=auto does not deploy the software mitigation by default. In a cloud environment, it is a likely scenario where userspace is trusted but the guests are not trusted. Deploying system wide mitigation in such cases is not desirable. Update the auto mode to unconditionally mitigate against malicious guests. Deploy the software sequence at VMexit in auto mode also, when hardware mitigation is not available. Unlike the force =on mode, software sequence is not deployed at syscalls in auto mode. Suggested-by: Alexandre Chartre <alexandre.chartre@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Sneddon <daniel.sneddon@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Alexandre Chartre <alexandre.chartre@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Sneddon <daniel.sneddon@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2024-04-10x86/bhi: Add BHI mitigation knobPawan Gupta1-0/+11
commit ec9404e40e8f36421a2b66ecb76dc2209fe7f3ef upstream. Branch history clearing software sequences and hardware control BHI_DIS_S were defined to mitigate Branch History Injection (BHI). Add cmdline spectre_bhi={on|off|auto} to control BHI mitigation: auto - Deploy the hardware mitigation BHI_DIS_S, if available. on - Deploy the hardware mitigation BHI_DIS_S, if available, otherwise deploy the software sequence at syscall entry and VMexit. off - Turn off BHI mitigation. The default is auto mode which does not deploy the software sequence mitigation. This is because of the hardening done in the syscall dispatch path, which is the likely target of BHI. Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Sneddon <daniel.sneddon@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Alexandre Chartre <alexandre.chartre@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Sneddon <daniel.sneddon@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2024-04-10x86/rfds: Mitigate Register File Data Sampling (RFDS)Pawan Gupta1-0/+21
commit 8076fcde016c9c0e0660543e67bff86cb48a7c9c upstream. RFDS is a CPU vulnerability that may allow userspace to infer kernel stale data previously used in floating point registers, vector registers and integer registers. RFDS only affects certain Intel Atom processors. Intel released a microcode update that uses VERW instruction to clear the affected CPU buffers. Unlike MDS, none of the affected cores support SMT. Add RFDS bug infrastructure and enable the VERW based mitigation by default, that clears the affected buffers just before exiting to userspace. Also add sysfs reporting and cmdline parameter "reg_file_data_sampling" to control the mitigation. For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/reg-file-data-sampling.rst [ pawan: - Resolved conflicts in sysfs reporting. - s/ATOM_GRACEMONT/ALDERLAKE_N/ATOM_GRACEMONT is called ALDERLAKE_N in 6.6. ] Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2024-04-10x86/cpu: Support AMD Automatic IBRSKim Phillips1-3/+3
commit e7862eda309ecfccc36bb5558d937ed3ace07f3f upstream. The AMD Zen4 core supports a new feature called Automatic IBRS. It is a "set-and-forget" feature that means that, like Intel's Enhanced IBRS, h/w manages its IBRS mitigation resources automatically across CPL transitions. The feature is advertised by CPUID_Fn80000021_EAX bit 8 and is enabled by setting MSR C000_0080 (EFER) bit 21. Enable Automatic IBRS by default if the CPU feature is present. It typically provides greater performance over the incumbent generic retpolines mitigation. Reuse the SPECTRE_V2_EIBRS spectre_v2_mitigation enum. AMD Automatic IBRS and Intel Enhanced IBRS have similar enablement. Add NO_EIBRS_PBRSB to cpu_vuln_whitelist, since AMD Automatic IBRS isn't affected by PBRSB-eIBRS. The kernel command line option spectre_v2=eibrs is used to select AMD Automatic IBRS, if available. Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Acked-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230124163319.2277355-8-kim.phillips@amd.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2024-03-27module: Add support for default value for module async_probeSaravana Kannan1-2/+15
[ Upstream commit ae39e9ed964f8e450d0de410b5a757e19581dfc5 ] Add a module.async_probe kernel command line option that allows enabling async probing for all modules. When this command line option is used, there might still be some modules for which we want to explicitly force synchronous probing, so extend <modulename>.async_probe to take an optional bool input so that async probing can be disabled for a specific module. Signed-off-by: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com> Reviewed-by: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org> Stable-dep-of: 8f8cd6c0a43e ("modules: wait do_free_init correctly") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2023-10-20KEYS: trusted: allow use of kernel RNG for key materialAhmad Fatoum1-0/+10
[ Upstream commit fcd7c26901c83681532c6daac599e53d4df11738 ] The two existing trusted key sources don't make use of the kernel RNG, but instead let the hardware doing the sealing/unsealing also generate the random key material. However, both users and future backends may want to place less trust into the quality of the trust source's random number generator and instead reuse the kernel entropy pool, which can be seeded from multiple entropy sources. Make this possible by adding a new trusted.rng parameter, that will force use of the kernel RNG. In its absence, it's up to the trust source to decide, which random numbers to use, maintaining the existing behavior. Suggested-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org> Acked-by: Sumit Garg <sumit.garg@linaro.org> Acked-by: Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta@nxp.com> Reviewed-by: David Gstir <david@sigma-star.at> Reviewed-by: Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta@nxp.com> Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org> Tested-by: Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta@nxp.com> Tested-by: Michael Walle <michael@walle.cc> # on ls1028a (non-E and E) Tested-by: John Ernberg <john.ernberg@actia.se> # iMX8QXP Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org> Stable-dep-of: 01bbafc63b65 ("KEYS: trusted: Remove redundant static calls usage") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2023-09-02ACPI: thermal: Drop nocrt parameterMario Limonciello1-4/+0
commit 5f641174a12b8a876a4101201a21ef4675ecc014 upstream. The `nocrt` module parameter has no code associated with it and does nothing. As `crt=-1` has same functionality as what nocrt should be doing drop `nocrt` and associated documentation. This should fix a quirk for Gigabyte GA-7ZX that used `nocrt` and thus didn't function properly. Fixes: 8c99fdce3078 ("ACPI: thermal: set "thermal.nocrt" via DMI on Gigabyte GA-7ZX") Signed-off-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@amd.com> Cc: All applicable <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2023-08-08x86/srso: Add a Speculative RAS Overflow mitigationBorislav Petkov (AMD)1-0/+11
Upstream commit: fb3bd914b3ec28f5fb697ac55c4846ac2d542855 Add a mitigation for the speculative return address stack overflow vulnerability found on AMD processors. The mitigation works by ensuring all RET instructions speculate to a controlled location, similar to how speculation is controlled in the retpoline sequence. To accomplish this, the __x86_return_thunk forces the CPU to mispredict every function return using a 'safe return' sequence. To ensure the safety of this mitigation, the kernel must ensure that the safe return sequence is itself free from attacker interference. In Zen3 and Zen4, this is accomplished by creating a BTB alias between the untraining function srso_untrain_ret_alias() and the safe return function srso_safe_ret_alias() which results in evicting a potentially poisoned BTB entry and using that safe one for all function returns. In older Zen1 and Zen2, this is accomplished using a reinterpretation technique similar to Retbleed one: srso_untrain_ret() and srso_safe_ret(). Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2023-08-08x86/speculation: Add force option to GDS mitigationDaniel Sneddon1-1/+7
commit 553a5c03e90a6087e88f8ff878335ef0621536fb upstream The Gather Data Sampling (GDS) vulnerability allows malicious software to infer stale data previously stored in vector registers. This may include sensitive data such as cryptographic keys. GDS is mitigated in microcode, and systems with up-to-date microcode are protected by default. However, any affected system that is running with older microcode will still be vulnerable to GDS attacks. Since the gather instructions used by the attacker are part of the AVX2 and AVX512 extensions, disabling these extensions prevents gather instructions from being executed, thereby mitigating the system from GDS. Disabling AVX2 is sufficient, but we don't have the granularity to do this. The XCR0[2] disables AVX, with no option to just disable AVX2. Add a kernel parameter gather_data_sampling=force that will enable the microcode mitigation if available, otherwise it will disable AVX on affected systems. This option will be ignored if cmdline mitigations=off. This is a *big* hammer. It is known to break buggy userspace that uses incomplete, buggy AVX enumeration. Unfortunately, such userspace does exist in the wild: https://www.mail-archive.com/bug-coreutils@gnu.org/msg33046.html [ dhansen: add some more ominous warnings about disabling AVX ] Signed-off-by: Daniel Sneddon <daniel.sneddon@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Sneddon <daniel.sneddon@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2023-08-08x86/speculation: Add Gather Data Sampling mitigationDaniel Sneddon1-10/+25
commit 8974eb588283b7d44a7c91fa09fcbaf380339f3a upstream Gather Data Sampling (GDS) is a hardware vulnerability which allows unprivileged speculative access to data which was previously stored in vector registers. Intel processors that support AVX2 and AVX512 have gather instructions that fetch non-contiguous data elements from memory. On vulnerable hardware, when a gather instruction is transiently executed and encounters a fault, stale data from architectural or internal vector registers may get transiently stored to the destination vector register allowing an attacker to infer the stale data using typical side channel techniques like cache timing attacks. This mitigation is different from many earlier ones for two reasons. First, it is enabled by default and a bit must be set to *DISABLE* it. This is the opposite of normal mitigation polarity. This means GDS can be mitigated simply by updating microcode and leaving the new control bit alone. Second, GDS has a "lock" bit. This lock bit is there because the mitigation affects the hardware security features KeyLocker and SGX. It needs to be enabled and *STAY* enabled for these features to be mitigated against GDS. The mitigation is enabled in the microcode by default. Disable it by setting gather_data_sampling=off or by disabling all mitigations with mitigations=off. The mitigation status can be checked by reading: /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/gather_data_sampling Signed-off-by: Daniel Sneddon <daniel.sneddon@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Sneddon <daniel.sneddon@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2023-06-21Remove DECnet support from kernelStephen Hemminger1-4/+0
commit 1202cdd665315c525b5237e96e0bedc76d7e754f upstream. DECnet is an obsolete network protocol that receives more attention from kernel janitors than users. It belongs in computer protocol history museum not in Linux kernel. It has been "Orphaned" in kernel since 2010. The iproute2 support for DECnet was dropped in 5.0 release. The documentation link on Sourceforge says it is abandoned there as well. Leave the UAPI alone to keep userspace programs compiling. This means that there is still an empty neighbour table for AF_DECNET. The table of /proc/sys/net entries was updated to match current directories and reformatted to be alphabetical. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org> Acked-by: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org> Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2023-03-17iommu/amd: Fix ill-formed ivrs_ioapic, ivrs_hpet and ivrs_acpihid optionsKim Phillips1-5/+22
[ Upstream commit 1198d2316dc4265a97d0e8445a22c7a6d17580a4 ] Currently, these options cause the following libkmod error: libkmod: ERROR ../libkmod/libkmod-config.c:489 kcmdline_parse_result: \ Ignoring bad option on kernel command line while parsing module \ name: 'ivrs_xxxx[XX:XX' Fix by introducing a new parameter format for these options and throw a warning for the deprecated format. Users are still allowed to omit the PCI Segment if zero. Adding a Link: to the reason why we're modding the syntax parsing in the driver and not in libkmod. Fixes: ca3bf5d47cec ("iommu/amd: Introduces ivrs_acpihid kernel parameter") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-modules/20200310082308.14318-2-lucas.demarchi@intel.com/ Reported-by: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@amd.com> Co-developed-by: Suravee Suthikulpanit <suravee.suthikulpanit@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Suravee Suthikulpanit <suravee.suthikulpanit@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@amd.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220919155638.391481-2-kim.phillips@amd.com Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de> Stable-dep-of: b6b26d86c61c ("iommu/amd: Add a length limitation for the ivrs_acpihid command-line parameter") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2023-03-17iommu/amd: Add PCI segment support for ivrs_[ioapic/hpet/acpihid] commandsSuravee Suthikulpanit1-9/+25
[ Upstream commit bbe3a106580c21bc883fb0c9fa3da01534392fe8 ] By default, PCI segment is zero and can be omitted. To support system with non-zero PCI segment ID, modify the parsing functions to allow PCI segment ID. Co-developed-by: Vasant Hegde <vasant.hegde@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Vasant Hegde <vasant.hegde@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Suravee Suthikulpanit <suravee.suthikulpanit@amd.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220706113825.25582-33-vasant.hegde@amd.com Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de> Stable-dep-of: b6b26d86c61c ("iommu/amd: Add a length limitation for the ivrs_acpihid command-line parameter") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2022-08-17x86/bugs: Enable STIBP for IBPB mitigated RETBleedKim Phillips1-8/+21
commit e6cfcdda8cbe81eaf821c897369a65fec987b404 upstream. AMD's "Technical Guidance for Mitigating Branch Type Confusion, Rev. 1.0 2022-07-12" whitepaper, under section 6.1.2 "IBPB On Privileged Mode Entry / SMT Safety" says: Similar to the Jmp2Ret mitigation, if the code on the sibling thread cannot be trusted, software should set STIBP to 1 or disable SMT to ensure SMT safety when using this mitigation. So, like already being done for retbleed=unret, and now also for retbleed=ibpb, force STIBP on machines that have it, and report its SMT vulnerability status accordingly. [ bp: Remove the "we" and remove "[AMD]" applicability parameter which doesn't work here. ] Fixes: 3ebc17006888 ("x86/bugs: Add retbleed=ibpb") Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.10, 5.15, 5.19 Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206537 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220804192201.439596-1-kim.phillips@amd.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2022-08-03docs/kernel-parameters: Update descriptions for "mitigations=" param with ↵Eiichi Tsukata1-0/+2
retbleed commit ea304a8b89fd0d6cf94ee30cb139dc23d9f1a62f upstream. Updates descriptions for "mitigations=off" and "mitigations=auto,nosmt" with the respective retbleed= settings. Signed-off-by: Eiichi Tsukata <eiichi.tsukata@nutanix.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: corbet@lwn.net Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220728043907.165688-1-eiichi.tsukata@nutanix.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2022-07-23x86/bugs: Add retbleed=ibpbPeter Zijlstra1-0/+3
commit 3ebc170068885b6fc7bedda6c667bb2c4d533159 upstream. jmp2ret mitigates the easy-to-attack case at relatively low overhead. It mitigates the long speculation windows after a mispredicted RET, but it does not mitigate the short speculation window from arbitrary instruction boundaries. On Zen2, there is a chicken bit which needs setting, which mitigates "arbitrary instruction boundaries" down to just "basic block boundaries". But there is no fix for the short speculation window on basic block boundaries, other than to flush the entire BTB to evict all attacker predictions. On the spectrum of "fast & blurry" -> "safe", there is (on top of STIBP or no-SMT): 1) Nothing System wide open 2) jmp2ret May stop a script kiddy 3) jmp2ret+chickenbit Raises the bar rather further 4) IBPB Only thing which can count as "safe". Tentative numbers put IBPB-on-entry at a 2.5x hit on Zen2, and a 10x hit on Zen1 according to lmbench. [ bp: Fixup feature bit comments, document option, 32-bit build fix. ] Suggested-by: Andrew Cooper <Andrew.Cooper3@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2022-07-23x86/speculation: Add spectre_v2=ibrs option to support Kernel IBRSPawan Gupta1-0/+1
commit 7c693f54c873691a4b7da05c7e0f74e67745d144 upstream. Extend spectre_v2= boot option with Kernel IBRS. [jpoimboe: no STIBP with IBRS] Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2022-07-23x86/bugs: Enable STIBP for JMP2RETKim Phillips1-5/+11
commit e8ec1b6e08a2102d8755ccb06fa26d540f26a2fa upstream. For untrained return thunks to be fully effective, STIBP must be enabled or SMT disabled. Co-developed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2022-07-23x86/bugs: Add AMD retbleed= boot parameterAlexandre Chartre1-0/+15
commit 7fbf47c7ce50b38a64576b150e7011ae73d54669 upstream. Add the "retbleed=<value>" boot parameter to select a mitigation for RETBleed. Possible values are "off", "auto" and "unret" (JMP2RET mitigation). The default value is "auto". Currently, "retbleed=auto" will select the unret mitigation on AMD and Hygon and no mitigation on Intel (JMP2RET is not effective on Intel). [peterz: rebase; add hygon] [jpoimboe: cleanups] Signed-off-by: Alexandre Chartre <alexandre.chartre@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2022-06-16x86/speculation/mmio: Add mitigation for Processor MMIO Stale DataPawan Gupta1-0/+36
commit 8cb861e9e3c9a55099ad3d08e1a3b653d29c33ca upstream Processor MMIO Stale Data is a class of vulnerabilities that may expose data after an MMIO operation. For details please refer to Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/processor_mmio_stale_data.rst. These vulnerabilities are broadly categorized as: Device Register Partial Write (DRPW): Some endpoint MMIO registers incorrectly handle writes that are smaller than the register size. Instead of aborting the write or only copying the correct subset of bytes (for example, 2 bytes for a 2-byte write), more bytes than specified by the write transaction may be written to the register. On some processors, this may expose stale data from the fill buffers of the core that created the write transaction. Shared Buffers Data Sampling (SBDS): After propagators may have moved data around the uncore and copied stale data into client core fill buffers, processors affected by MFBDS can leak data from the fill buffer. Shared Buffers Data Read (SBDR): It is similar to Shared Buffer Data Sampling (SBDS) except that the data is directly read into the architectural software-visible state. An attacker can use these vulnerabilities to extract data from CPU fill buffers using MDS and TAA methods. Mitigate it by clearing the CPU fill buffers using the VERW instruction before returning to a user or a guest. On CPUs not affected by MDS and TAA, user application cannot sample data from CPU fill buffers using MDS or TAA. A guest with MMIO access can still use DRPW or SBDR to extract data architecturally. Mitigate it with VERW instruction to clear fill buffers before VMENTER for MMIO capable guests. Add a kernel parameter mmio_stale_data={off|full|full,nosmt} to control the mitigation. Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2022-05-30random: treat bootloader trust toggle the same way as cpu trust toggleJason A. Donenfeld1-0/+6
commit d97c68d178fbf8aaaf21b69b446f2dfb13909316 upstream. If CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU is set, the RNG initializes using RDRAND. But, the user can disable (or enable) this behavior by setting `random.trust_cpu=0/1` on the kernel command line. This allows system builders to do reasonable things while avoiding howls from tinfoil hatters. (Or vice versa.) CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_BOOTLOADER is basically the same thing, but regards the seed passed via EFI or device tree, which might come from RDRAND or a TPM or somewhere else. In order to allow distros to more easily enable this while avoiding those same howls (or vice versa), this commit adds the corresponding `random.trust_bootloader=0/1` toggle. Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Graham Christensen <graham@grahamc.com> Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Link: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/165355 Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2022-04-08vsprintf: Fix %pK with kptr_restrict == 0Christophe Leroy1-2/+1
[ Upstream commit 84842911322fc6a02a03ab9e728a48c691fe3efd ] Although kptr_restrict is set to 0 and the kernel is booted with no_hash_pointers parameter, the content of /proc/vmallocinfo is lacking the real addresses. / # cat /proc/vmallocinfo 0x(ptrval)-0x(ptrval) 8192 load_module+0xc0c/0x2c0c pages=1 vmalloc 0x(ptrval)-0x(ptrval) 12288 start_kernel+0x4e0/0x690 pages=2 vmalloc 0x(ptrval)-0x(ptrval) 12288 start_kernel+0x4e0/0x690 pages=2 vmalloc 0x(ptrval)-0x(ptrval) 8192 _mpic_map_mmio.constprop.0+0x20/0x44 phys=0x80041000 ioremap 0x(ptrval)-0x(ptrval) 12288 _mpic_map_mmio.constprop.0+0x20/0x44 phys=0x80041000 ioremap ... According to the documentation for /proc/sys/kernel/, %pK is equivalent to %p when kptr_restrict is set to 0. Fixes: 5ead723a20e0 ("lib/vsprintf: no_hash_pointers prints all addresses as unhashed") Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu> Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/107476128e59bff11a309b5bf7579a1753a41aca.1645087605.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2022-03-11Documentation/hw-vuln: Update spectre docPeter Zijlstra1-2/+6
commit 5ad3eb1132453b9795ce5fd4572b1c18b292cca9 upstream. Update the doc with the new fun. [ bp: Massage commit message. ] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> [fllinden@amazon.com: backported to 5.15] Signed-off-by: Frank van der Linden <fllinden@amazon.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2022-01-05Input: i8042 - add deferred probe supportTakashi Iwai1-0/+2
[ Upstream commit 9222ba68c3f4065f6364b99cc641b6b019ef2d42 ] We've got a bug report about the non-working keyboard on ASUS ZenBook UX425UA. It seems that the PS/2 device isn't ready immediately at boot but takes some seconds to get ready. Until now, the only workaround is to defer the probe, but it's available only when the driver is a module. However, many distros, including openSUSE as in the original report, build the PS/2 input drivers into kernel, hence it won't work easily. This patch adds the support for the deferred probe for i8042 stuff as a workaround of the problem above. When the deferred probe mode is enabled and the device couldn't be probed, it'll be repeated with the standard deferred probe mechanism. The deferred probe mode is enabled either via the new option i8042.probe_defer or via the quirk table entry. As of this patch, the quirk table contains only ASUS ZenBook UX425UA. The deferred probe part is based on Fabio's initial work. BugLink: https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1190256 Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Tested-by: Samuel Čavoj <samuel@cavoj.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211117063757.11380-1-tiwai@suse.de Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2021-12-29KVM: VMX: Fix stale docs for kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_stateSean Christopherson1-2/+6
commit 0ff29701ffad9a5d5a24344d8b09f3af7b96ffda upstream. Update the documentation for kvm-intel's emulate_invalid_guest_state to rectify the description of KVM's default behavior, and to document that the behavior and thus parameter only applies to L1. Fixes: a27685c33acc ("KVM: VMX: Emulate invalid guest state by default") Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Message-Id: <20211207193006.120997-4-seanjc@google.com> Reviewed-by: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2021-11-18xen/balloon: add late_initcall_sync() for initial ballooning doneJuergen Gross1-0/+7
commit 40fdea0284bb20814399da0484a658a96c735d90 upstream. When running as PVH or HVM guest with actual memory < max memory the hypervisor is using "populate on demand" in order to allow the guest to balloon down from its maximum memory size. For this to work correctly the guest must not touch more memory pages than its target memory size as otherwise the PoD cache will be exhausted and the guest is crashed as a result of that. In extreme cases ballooning down might not be finished today before the init process is started, which can consume lots of memory. In order to avoid random boot crashes in such cases, add a late init call to wait for ballooning down having finished for PVH/HVM guests. Warn on console if initial ballooning fails, panic() after stalling for more than 3 minutes per default. Add a module parameter for changing this timeout. [boris: replaced pr_info() with pr_notice()] Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Reported-by: Marek Marczykowski-Górecki <marmarek@invisiblethingslab.com> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211102091944.17487-1-jgross@suse.com Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2021-10-08Merge tag 'for-linus-5.15b-rc5-tag' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-1/+1
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip Pull xen fixes from Juergen Gross: - fix two minor issues in the Xen privcmd driver plus a cleanup patch for that driver - fix multiple issues related to running as PVH guest and some related earlyprintk fixes for other Xen guest types - fix an issue introduced in 5.15 the Xen balloon driver * tag 'for-linus-5.15b-rc5-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip: xen/balloon: fix cancelled balloon action xen/x86: adjust data placement x86/PVH: adjust function/data placement xen/x86: hook up xen_banner() also for PVH xen/x86: generalize preferred console model from PV to PVH Dom0 xen/x86: make "earlyprintk=xen" work for HVM/PVH DomU xen/x86: allow "earlyprintk=xen" to work for PV Dom0 xen/x86: make "earlyprintk=xen" work better for PVH Dom0 xen/x86: allow PVH Dom0 without XEN_PV=y xen/x86: prevent PVH type from getting clobbered xen/privcmd: drop "pages" parameter from xen_remap_pfn() xen/privcmd: fix error handling in mmap-resource processing xen/privcmd: replace kcalloc() by kvcalloc() when allocating empty pages
2021-10-05xen/x86: make "earlyprintk=xen" work for HVM/PVH DomUJan Beulich1-1/+1
xenboot_write_console() is dealing with these quite fine so I don't see why xenboot_console_setup() would return -ENOENT in this case. Adjust documentation accordingly. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/3d212583-700e-8b2d-727a-845ef33ac265@suse.com Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
2021-09-09Merge tag 'dmaengine-5.15-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+5
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vkoul/dmaengine Pull dmaengine updates from Vinod Koul: "New drivers/devices - Support for Renesas RZ/G2L dma controller - New driver for AMD PTDMA controller Updates: - Big pile of idxd updates - Updates for Altera driver, stm32-dma, dw etc" * tag 'dmaengine-5.15-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vkoul/dmaengine: (83 commits) dmaengine: sh: fix some NULL dereferences dmaengine: sh: Fix unused initialization of pointer lmdesc MAINTAINERS: Fix AMD PTDMA DRIVER entry dmaengine: ptdma: remove PT_OFFSET to avoid redefnition dmaengine: ptdma: Add debugfs entries for PTDMA dmaengine: ptdma: register PTDMA controller as a DMA resource dmaengine: ptdma: Initial driver for the AMD PTDMA dmaengine: fsl-dpaa2-qdma: Fix spelling mistake "faile" -> "failed" dmaengine: idxd: remove interrupt disable for dev_lock dmaengine: idxd: remove interrupt disable for cmd_lock dmaengine: idxd: fix setting up priv mode for dwq dmaengine: xilinx_dma: Set DMA mask for coherent APIs dmaengine: ti: k3-psil-j721e: Add entry for CSI2RX dmaengine: sh: Add DMAC driver for RZ/G2L SoC dmaengine: Extend the dma_slave_width for 128 bytes dt-bindings: dma: Document RZ/G2L bindings dmaengine: ioat: depends on !UML dmaengine: idxd: set descriptor allocation size to threshold for swq dmaengine: idxd: make submit failure path consistent on desc freeing dmaengine: idxd: remove interrupt flag for completion list spinlock ...
2021-09-03Merge tag 'iommu-updates-v5.15' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-17/+12
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/iommu Pull iommu updates from Joerg Roedel: - New DART IOMMU driver for Apple Silicon M1 chips - Optimizations for iommu_[map/unmap] performance - Selective TLB flush support for the AMD IOMMU driver to make it more efficient on emulated IOMMUs - Rework IOVA setup and default domain type setting to move more code out of IOMMU drivers and to support runtime switching between certain types of default domains - VT-d Updates from Lu Baolu: - Update the virtual command related registers - Enable Intel IOMMU scalable mode by default - Preset A/D bits for user space DMA usage - Allow devices to have more than 32 outstanding PRs - Various cleanups - ARM SMMU Updates from Will Deacon: SMMUv3: - Minor optimisation to avoid zeroing struct members on CMD submission - Increased use of batched commands to reduce submission latency - Refactoring in preparation for ECMDQ support SMMUv2: - Fix races when probing devices with identical StreamIDs - Optimise walk cache flushing for Qualcomm implementations - Allow deep sleep states for some Qualcomm SoCs with shared clocks - Various smaller optimizations, cleanups, and fixes * tag 'iommu-updates-v5.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/iommu: (85 commits) iommu/io-pgtable: Abstract iommu_iotlb_gather access iommu/arm-smmu: Fix missing unlock on error in arm_smmu_device_group() iommu/vt-d: Add present bit check in pasid entry setup helpers iommu/vt-d: Use pasid_pte_is_present() helper function iommu/vt-d: Drop the kernel doc annotation iommu/vt-d: Allow devices to have more than 32 outstanding PRs iommu/vt-d: Preset A/D bits for user space DMA usage iommu/vt-d: Enable Intel IOMMU scalable mode by default iommu/vt-d: Refactor Kconfig a bit iommu/vt-d: Remove unnecessary oom message iommu/vt-d: Update the virtual command related registers iommu: Allow enabling non-strict mode dynamically iommu: Merge strictness and domain type configs iommu: Only log strictness for DMA domains iommu: Expose DMA domain strictness via sysfs iommu: Express DMA strictness via the domain type iommu/vt-d: Prepare for multiple DMA domain types iommu/arm-smmu: Prepare for multiple DMA domain types iommu/amd: Prepare for multiple DMA domain types iommu: Introduce explicit type for non-strict DMA domains ...
2021-09-02Merge tag 'printk-for-5.15' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+9
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/printk/linux Pull printk updates from Petr Mladek: - Optionally, provide an index of possible printk messages via <debugfs>/printk/index/. It can be used when monitoring important kernel messages on a farm of various hosts. The monitor has to be updated when some messages has changed or are not longer available by a newly deployed kernel. - Add printk.console_no_auto_verbose boot parameter. It allows to generate crash dump even with slow consoles in a reasonable time frame. - Remove printk_safe buffers. The messages are always stored directly to the main logbuffer, even in NMI or recursive context. Also it allows to serialize syslog operations by a mutex instead of a spin lock. - Misc clean up and build fixes. * tag 'printk-for-5.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/printk/linux: printk/index: Fix -Wunused-function warning lib/nmi_backtrace: Serialize even messages about idle CPUs printk: Add printk.console_no_auto_verbose boot parameter printk: Remove console_silent() lib/test_scanf: Handle n_bits == 0 in random tests printk: syslog: close window between wait and read printk: convert @syslog_lock to mutex printk: remove NMI tracking printk: remove safe buffers printk: track/limit recursion lib/nmi_backtrace: explicitly serialize banner and regs printk: Move the printk() kerneldoc comment to its new home printk/index: Fix warning about missing prototypes MIPS/asm/printk: Fix build failure caused by printk printk: index: Add indexing support to dev_printk printk: Userspace format indexing support printk: Rework parse_prefix into printk_parse_prefix printk: Straighten out log_flags into printk_info_flags string_helpers: Escape double quotes in escape_special printk/console: Check consistent sequence number when handling race in console_unlock()
2021-09-02Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+14
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux Pull arm64 updates from Catalin Marinas: - Support for 32-bit tasks on asymmetric AArch32 systems (on top of the scheduler changes merged via the tip tree). - More entry.S clean-ups and conversion to C. - MTE updates: allow a preferred tag checking mode to be set per CPU (the overhead of synchronous mode is smaller for some CPUs than others); optimisations for kernel entry/exit path; optionally disable MTE on the kernel command line. - Kselftest improvements for SVE and signal handling, PtrAuth. - Fix unlikely race where a TLBI could use stale ASID on an ASID roll-over (found by inspection). - Miscellaneous fixes: disable trapping of PMSNEVFR_EL1 to higher exception levels; drop unnecessary sigdelsetmask() call in the signal32 handling; remove BUG_ON when failing to allocate SVE state (just signal the process); SYM_CODE annotations. - Other trivial clean-ups: use macros instead of magic numbers, remove redundant returns, typos. * tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (56 commits) arm64: Do not trap PMSNEVFR_EL1 arm64: mm: fix comment typo of pud_offset_phys() arm64: signal32: Drop pointless call to sigdelsetmask() arm64/sve: Better handle failure to allocate SVE register storage arm64: Document the requirement for SCR_EL3.HCE arm64: head: avoid over-mapping in map_memory arm64/sve: Add a comment documenting the binutils needed for SVE asm arm64/sve: Add some comments for sve_save/load_state() kselftest/arm64: signal: Add a TODO list for signal handling tests kselftest/arm64: signal: Add test case for SVE register state in signals kselftest/arm64: signal: Verify that signals can't change the SVE vector length kselftest/arm64: signal: Check SVE signal frame shows expected vector length kselftest/arm64: signal: Support signal frames with SVE register data kselftest/arm64: signal: Add SVE to the set of features we can check for arm64: replace in_irq() with in_hardirq() kselftest/arm64: pac: Fix skipping of tests on systems without PAC Documentation: arm64: describe asymmetric 32-bit support arm64: Remove logic to kill 32-bit tasks on 64-bit-only cores arm64: Hook up cmdline parameter to allow mismatched 32-bit EL0 arm64: Advertise CPUs capable of running 32-bit applications in sysfs ...
2021-09-01Merge tag 'net-next-5.15' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-2/+0
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski: "Core: - Enable memcg accounting for various networking objects. BPF: - Introduce bpf timers. - Add perf link and opaque bpf_cookie which the program can read out again, to be used in libbpf-based USDT library. - Add bpf_task_pt_regs() helper to access user space pt_regs in kprobes, to help user space stack unwinding. - Add support for UNIX sockets for BPF sockmap. - Extend BPF iterator support for UNIX domain sockets. - Allow BPF TCP congestion control progs and bpf iterators to call bpf_setsockopt(), e.g. to switch to another congestion control algorithm. Protocols: - Support IOAM Pre-allocated Trace with IPv6. - Support Management Component Transport Protocol. - bridge: multicast: add vlan support. - netfilter: add hooks for the SRv6 lightweight tunnel driver. - tcp: - enable mid-stream window clamping (by user space or BPF) - allow data-less, empty-cookie SYN with TFO_SERVER_COOKIE_NOT_REQD - more accurate DSACK processing for RACK-TLP - mptcp: - add full mesh path manager option - add partial support for MP_FAIL - improve use of backup subflows - optimize option processing - af_unix: add OOB notification support. - ipv6: add IFLA_INET6_RA_MTU to expose MTU value advertised by the router. - mac80211: Target Wake Time support in AP mode. - can: j1939: extend UAPI to notify about RX status. Driver APIs: - Add page frag support in page pool API. - Many improvements to the DSA (distributed switch) APIs. - ethtool: extend IRQ coalesce uAPI with timer reset modes. - devlink: control which auxiliary devices are created. - Support CAN PHYs via the generic PHY subsystem. - Proper cross-chip support for tag_8021q. - Allow TX forwarding for the software bridge data path to be offloaded to capable devices. Drivers: - veth: more flexible channels number configuration. - openvswitch: introduce per-cpu upcall dispatch. - Add internet mix (IMIX) mode to pktgen. - Transparently handle XDP operations in the bonding driver. - Add LiteETH network driver. - Renesas (ravb): - support Gigabit Ethernet IP - NXP Ethernet switch (sja1105): - fast aging support - support for "H" switch topologies - traffic termination for ports under VLAN-aware bridge - Intel 1G Ethernet - support getcrosststamp() with PCIe PTM (Precision Time Measurement) for better time sync - support Credit-Based Shaper (CBS) offload, enabling HW traffic prioritization and bandwidth reservation - Broadcom Ethernet (bnxt) - support pulse-per-second output - support larger Rx rings - Mellanox Ethernet (mlx5) - support ethtool RSS contexts and MQPRIO channel mode - support LAG offload with bridging - support devlink rate limit API - support packet sampling on tunnels - Huawei Ethernet (hns3): - basic devlink support - add extended IRQ coalescing support - report extended link state - Netronome Ethernet (nfp): - add conntrack offload support - Broadcom WiFi (brcmfmac): - add WPA3 Personal with FT to supported cipher suites - support 43752 SDIO device - Intel WiFi (iwlwifi): - support scanning hidden 6GHz networks - support for a new hardware family (Bz) - Xen pv driver: - harden netfront against malicious backends - Qualcomm mobile - ipa: refactor power management and enable automatic suspend - mhi: move MBIM to WWAN subsystem interfaces Refactor: - Ambient BPF run context and cgroup storage cleanup. - Compat rework for ndo_ioctl. Old code removal: - prism54 remove the obsoleted driver, deprecated by the p54 driver. - wan: remove sbni/granch driver" * tag 'net-next-5.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1715 commits) net: Add depends on OF_NET for LiteX's LiteETH ipv6: seg6: remove duplicated include net: hns3: remove unnecessary spaces net: hns3: add some required spaces net: hns3: clean up a type mismatch warning net: hns3: refine function hns3_set_default_feature() ipv6: remove duplicated 'net/lwtunnel.h' include net: w5100: check return value after calling platform_get_resource() net/mlxbf_gige: Make use of devm_platform_ioremap_resourcexxx() net: mdio: mscc-miim: Make use of the helper function devm_platform_ioremap_resource() net: mdio-ipq4019: Make use of devm_platform_ioremap_resource() fou: remove sparse errors ipv4: fix endianness issue in inet_rtm_getroute_build_skb() octeontx2-af: Set proper errorcode for IPv4 checksum errors octeontx2-af: Fix static code analyzer reported issues octeontx2-af: Fix mailbox errors in nix_rss_flowkey_cfg octeontx2-af: Fix loop in free and unmap counter af_unix: fix potential NULL deref in unix_dgram_connect() dpaa2-eth: Replace strlcpy with strscpy octeontx2-af: Use NDC TX for transmit packet data ...