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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>
2025-09-11Documentation/hw-vuln: Add VMSCAPE documentationPawan Gupta2-0/+111
commit 9969779d0803f5dcd4460ae7aca2bc3fd91bff12 upstream. VMSCAPE is a vulnerability that may allow a guest to influence the branch prediction in host userspace, particularly affecting hypervisors like QEMU. Add the documentation. 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>
2025-07-10x86/bugs: Rename MDS machinery to something more genericBorislav Petkov (AMD)1-3/+1
Commit f9af88a3d384c8b55beb5dc5483e5da0135fadbd upstream. It will be used by other x86 mitigations. No functional changes. 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>
2025-05-22Documentation: x86/bugs/its: Add ITS documentationPawan Gupta2-0/+157
commit 1ac116ce6468670eeda39345a5585df308243dca upstream. Add the admin-guide for Indirect Target Selection (ITS). 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>
2024-07-27docs: Fix formatting of literal sections in fanotify docsGabriel Krisman Bertazi1-8/+12
[ Upstream commit 9abeae5d4458326e16df7ea237104b58c27dfd77 ] Stephen Rothwell reported the following warning was introduced by commit c0baf9ac0b05 ("docs: Document the FAN_FS_ERROR event"). Documentation/admin-guide/filesystem-monitoring.rst:60: WARNING: Definition list ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/87y26camhe.fsf@collabora.com Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@collabora.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2024-05-25admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling: fix return type of PR_SCHED_CORE_GETThomas Weißschuh1-2/+2
commit 8af2d1ab78f2342f8c4c3740ca02d86f0ebfac5a upstream. sched_core_share_pid() copies the cookie to userspace with put_user(id, (u64 __user *)uaddr), expecting 64 bits of space. The "unsigned long" datatype that is documented in core-scheduling.rst however is only 32 bits large on 32 bit architectures. Document "unsigned long long" as the correct data type that is always 64bits large. This matches what the selftest cs_prctl_test.c has been doing all along. Fixes: 0159bb020ca9 ("Documentation: Add usecases, design and interface for core scheduling") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/util-linux/df7a25a0-7923-4f8b-a527-5e6f0064074d@t-8ch.de/ Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net> Reviewed-by: Chris Hyser <chris.hyser@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240423-core-scheduling-cookie-v1-1-5753a35f8dfc@weissschuh.net Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2024-04-17x86/bugs: Remove CONFIG_BHI_MITIGATION_AUTO and spectre_bhi=autoJosh Poimboeuf2-7/+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 Poimboeuf2-8/+6
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 Poimboeuf2-12/+15
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 Gupta2-4/+8
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 Gupta2-6/+52
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/cpu: Enable STIBP on AMD if Automatic IBRS is enabledKim Phillips1-4/+7
commit fd470a8beed88440b160d690344fbae05a0b9b1b upstream. Unlike Intel's Enhanced IBRS feature, AMD's Automatic IBRS does not provide protection to processes running at CPL3/user mode, see section "Extended Feature Enable Register (EFER)" in the APM v2 at https://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=304652 Explicitly enable STIBP to protect against cross-thread CPL3 branch target injections on systems with Automatic IBRS enabled. Also update the relevant documentation. Fixes: e7862eda309e ("x86/cpu: Support AMD Automatic IBRS") Reported-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230720194727.67022-1-kim.phillips@amd.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2024-04-10docs: Document the FAN_FS_ERROR eventGabriel Krisman Bertazi2-0/+75
[ Upstream commit c0baf9ac0b05d53dfe0436661dbdc5e43c01c5e0 ] Document the FAN_FS_ERROR event for user administrators and user space developers. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211025192746.66445-32-krisman@collabora.com Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@collabora.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
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>
2024-04-10Documentation/hw-vuln: Add documentation for RFDSPawan Gupta2-0/+105
commit 4e42765d1be01111df0c0275bbaf1db1acef346e upstream. Add the documentation for transient execution vulnerability Register File Data Sampling (RFDS) that affects Intel Atom CPUs. [ pawan: s/ATOM_GRACEMONT/ALDERLAKE_N/ ] 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 Phillips2-6/+6
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>
2024-04-10Documentation/hw-vuln: Update spectre docLin Yujun1-0/+1
commit 06cb31cc761823ef444ba4e1df11347342a6e745 upstream. commit 7c693f54c873691 ("x86/speculation: Add spectre_v2=ibrs option to support Kernel IBRS") adds the "ibrs " option in Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt but omits it to Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/spectre.rst, add it. Signed-off-by: Lin Yujun <linyujun809@huawei.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220830123614.23007-1-linyujun809@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> 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>
2023-10-25Documentation: sysctl: align cells in second content columnBagas Sanjaya1-9/+9
commit 1faa34672f8a17a3e155e74bde9648564e9480d6 upstream. Stephen Rothwell reported htmldocs warning when merging net-next tree: Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst:37: WARNING: Malformed table. Text in column margin in table line 4. ========= =================== = ========== ================== Directory Content Directory Content ========= =================== = ========== ================== 802 E802 protocol mptcp Multipath TCP appletalk Appletalk protocol netfilter Network Filter ax25 AX25 netrom NET/ROM bridge Bridging rose X.25 PLP layer core General parameter tipc TIPC ethernet Ethernet protocol unix Unix domain sockets ipv4 IP version 4 x25 X.25 protocol ipv6 IP version 6 ========= =================== = ========== ================== The warning above is caused by cells in second "Content" column of /proc/sys/net subdirectory table which are in column margin. Align these cells against the column header to fix the warning. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-next/20220823134905.57ed08d5@canb.auug.org.au/ Fixes: 1202cdd665315c ("Remove DECnet support from kernel") Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220824035804.204322-1-bagasdotme@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.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>
2023-08-26x86/cpu: Rename srso_(.*)_alias to srso_alias_\1Peter Zijlstra1-2/+2
commit 42be649dd1f2eee6b1fb185f1a231b9494cf095f upstream. For a more consistent namespace. [ bp: Fixup names in the doc too. ] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230814121148.976236447@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2023-08-08x86/srso: Add a Speculative RAS Overflow mitigationBorislav Petkov (AMD)3-0/+145
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>
2023-08-08Documentation/x86: Fix backwards on/off logic about YMM supportDave Hansen1-1/+1
commit 1b0fc0345f2852ffe54fb9ae0e12e2ee69ad6a20 upstream These options clearly turn *off* XSAVE YMM support. Correct the typo. Reported-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> Fixes: 553a5c03e90a ("x86/speculation: Add force option to GDS mitigation") Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2023-08-08x86/speculation: Add force option to GDS mitigationDaniel Sneddon2-5/+21
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 Sneddon3-10/+125
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>
2023-08-03Documentation: security-bugs.rst: clarify CVE handlingGreg Kroah-Hartman1-7/+6
commit 3c1897ae4b6bc7cc586eda2feaa2cd68325ec29c upstream. The kernel security team does NOT assign CVEs, so document that properly and provide the "if you want one, ask MITRE for it" response that we give on a weekly basis in the document, so we don't have to constantly say it to everyone who asks. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/2023063022-retouch-kerosene-7e4a@gregkh Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2023-08-03Documentation: security-bugs.rst: update preferences when dealing with the ↵Greg Kroah-Hartman1-14/+12
linux-distros group commit 4fee0915e649bd0cea56dece6d96f8f4643df33c upstream. Because the linux-distros group forces reporters to release information about reported bugs, and they impose arbitrary deadlines in having those bugs fixed despite not actually being kernel developers, the kernel security team recommends not interacting with them at all as this just causes confusion and the early-release of reported security problems. Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/2023063020-throat-pantyhose-f110@gregkh Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2023-07-23dm init: add dm-mod.waitfor to wait for asynchronously probed block devicesPeter Korsgaard1-0/+8
commit 035641b01e72af4f6c6cf22a4bdb5d7dfc4e8e8e upstream. Just calling wait_for_device_probe() is not enough to ensure that asynchronously probed block devices are available (E.G. mmc, usb), so add a "dm-mod.waitfor=<device1>[,..,<deviceN>]" parameter to get dm-init to explicitly wait for specific block devices before initializing the tables with logic similar to the rootwait logic that was introduced with commit cc1ed7542c8c ("init: wait for asynchronously scanned block devices"). E.G. with dm-verity on mmc using: dm-mod.waitfor="PARTLABEL=hash-a,PARTLABEL=root-a" [ 0.671671] device-mapper: init: waiting for all devices to be available before creating mapped devices [ 0.671679] device-mapper: init: waiting for device PARTLABEL=hash-a ... [ 0.710695] mmc0: new HS200 MMC card at address 0001 [ 0.711158] mmcblk0: mmc0:0001 004GA0 3.69 GiB [ 0.715954] mmcblk0boot0: mmc0:0001 004GA0 partition 1 2.00 MiB [ 0.722085] mmcblk0boot1: mmc0:0001 004GA0 partition 2 2.00 MiB [ 0.728093] mmcblk0rpmb: mmc0:0001 004GA0 partition 3 512 KiB, chardev (249:0) [ 0.738274] mmcblk0: p1 p2 p3 p4 p5 p6 p7 [ 0.751282] device-mapper: init: waiting for device PARTLABEL=root-a ... [ 0.751306] device-mapper: init: all devices available [ 0.751683] device-mapper: verity: sha256 using implementation "sha256-generic" [ 0.759344] device-mapper: ioctl: dm-0 (vroot) is ready [ 0.766540] VFS: Mounted root (squashfs filesystem) readonly on device 254:0. Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org> Cc: Mark-PK Tsai <mark-pk.tsai@mediatek.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2023-06-21Remove DECnet support from kernelStephen Hemminger2-11/+8
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>
2023-03-10mm: memcontrol: deprecate charge movingJohannes Weiner1-2/+11
commit da34a8484d162585e22ed8c1e4114aa2f60e3567 upstream. Charge moving mode in cgroup1 allows memory to follow tasks as they migrate between cgroups. This is, and always has been, a questionable thing to do - for several reasons. First, it's expensive. Pages need to be identified, locked and isolated from various MM operations, and reassigned, one by one. Second, it's unreliable. Once pages are charged to a cgroup, there isn't always a clear owner task anymore. Cache isn't moved at all, for example. Mapped memory is moved - but if trylocking or isolating a page fails, it's arbitrarily left behind. Frequent moving between domains may leave a task's memory scattered all over the place. Third, it isn't really needed. Launcher tasks can kick off workload tasks directly in their target cgroup. Using dedicated per-workload groups allows fine-grained policy adjustments - no need to move tasks and their physical pages between control domains. The feature was never forward-ported to cgroup2, and it hasn't been missed. Despite it being a niche usecase, the maintenance overhead of supporting it is enormous. Because pages are moved while they are live and subject to various MM operations, the synchronization rules are complicated. There are lock_page_memcg() in MM and FS code, which non-cgroup people don't understand. In some cases we've been able to shift code and cgroup API calls around such that we can rely on native locking as much as possible. But that's fragile, and sometimes we need to hold MM locks for longer than we otherwise would (pte lock e.g.). Mark the feature deprecated. Hopefully we can remove it soon. And backport into -stable kernels so that people who develop against earlier kernels are warned about this deprecation as early as possible. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix memory.rst underlining] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/Y5COd+qXwk/S+n8N@cmpxchg.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2023-03-10docs: gdbmacros: print newest recordJohn Ogness1-1/+1
commit f2e4cca2f670c8e52fbb551a295f2afc9aa2bd72 upstream. @head_id points to the newest record, but the printing loop exits when it increments to this value (before printing). Exit the printing loop after the newest record has been printed. The python-based function in scripts/gdb/linux/dmesg.py already does this correctly. Fixes: e60768311af8 ("scripts/gdb: update for lockless printk ringbuffer") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221229134339.197627-1-john.ogness@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2023-03-10Documentation/hw-vuln: Document the interaction between IBRS and STIBPKP Singh1-5/+16
commit e02b50ca442e88122e1302d4dbc1b71a4808c13f upstream. Explain why STIBP is needed with legacy IBRS as currently implemented (KERNEL_IBRS) and why STIBP is not needed when enhanced IBRS is enabled. Fixes: 7c693f54c873 ("x86/speculation: Add spectre_v2=ibrs option to support Kernel IBRS") Signed-off-by: KP Singh <kpsingh@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230227060541.1939092-2-kpsingh@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2023-02-14Documentation/hw-vuln: Add documentation for Cross-Thread Return PredictionsTom Lendacky2-0/+93
commit 493a2c2d23ca91afba96ac32b6cbafb54382c2a3 upstream. Add the admin guide for the Cross-Thread Return Predictions vulnerability. Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com> Message-Id: <60f9c0b4396956ce70499ae180cb548720b25c7e.1675956146.git.thomas.lendacky@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2023-02-01panic: Introduce warn_limitKees Cook1-0/+10
commit 9fc9e278a5c0b708eeffaf47d6eb0c82aa74ed78 upstream. Like oops_limit, add warn_limit for limiting the number of warnings when panic_on_warn is not set. Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com> Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Cc: tangmeng <tangmeng@uniontech.com> Cc: "Guilherme G. Piccoli" <gpiccoli@igalia.com> Cc: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@loongson.cn> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221117234328.594699-5-keescook@chromium.org Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2023-02-01exit: Allow oops_limit to be disabledKees Cook1-2/+3
commit de92f65719cd672f4b48397540b9f9eff67eca40 upstream. In preparation for keeping oops_limit logic in sync with warn_limit, have oops_limit == 0 disable checking the Oops counter. Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com> Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>