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The efi_pgd is allocated as PGD_ALLOCATION_ORDER pages and therefore must
also be freed as PGD_ALLOCATION_ORDER pages with free_pages().
Fixes: d9e9a6418065 ("x86/mm/pti: Allocate a separate user PGD")
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1521746333-19593-1-git-send-email-longman@redhat.com
Writing to it directly does not work for Xen PV guests.
Fixes: 49275fef986a ("x86/vsyscall/64: Explicitly set _PAGE_USER in the pagetable hierarchy")
Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180319143154.3742-1-boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
There were only a few Pentium Pro multiprocessors systems where this
errata applied. They are more than 20 years old now, and we've slowly
dropped places which put the workarounds in and discouraged anyone
from enabling the workaround.
Get rid of it for good.
Tested-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
Cc: Jon Mason <jdmason@kudzu.us>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Muli Ben-Yehuda <mulix@mulix.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180319103826.12853-2-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Since the x86-64 kernel must be aligned to 2MB, refuse to boot the
kernel if the alignment of the LOAD segment isn't a multiple of 2MB.
Signed-off-by: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAMe9rOrR7xSJgUfiCoZLuqWUwymRxXPoGBW38%2BpN%3D9g%2ByKNhZw@mail.gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Binutils 2.31 will enable -z separate-code by default for x86 to avoid
mixing code pages with data to improve cache performance as well as
security. To reduce x86-64 executable and shared object sizes, the
maximum page size is reduced from 2MB to 4KB. But x86-64 kernel must
be aligned to 2MB. Pass -z max-page-size=0x200000 to linker to force
2MB page size regardless of the default page size used by linker.
Tested with Linux kernel 4.15.6 on x86-64.
Signed-off-by: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAMe9rOp4_%3D_8twdpTyAP2DhONOCeaTOsniJLoppzhoNptL8xzA@mail.gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
glibc keeps getting cleverer, and my version now turns raise() into
more than one syscall. Since the test relies on ptrace seeing an
exact set of syscalls, this breaks the test. Replace raise(SIGSTOP)
with syscall(SYS_tgkill, ...) to force glibc to get out of our way.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/bc80338b453afa187bc5f895bd8e2c8d6e264da2.1521300271.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Emanuel reported an issue with a hang during microcode update because my
dumb idea to use one atomic synchronization variable for both rendezvous
- before and after update - was simply bollocks:
microcode: microcode_reload_late: late_cpus: 4
microcode: __reload_late: cpu 2 entered
microcode: __reload_late: cpu 1 entered
microcode: __reload_late: cpu 3 entered
microcode: __reload_late: cpu 0 entered
microcode: __reload_late: cpu 1 left
microcode: Timeout while waiting for CPUs rendezvous, remaining: 1
CPU1 above would finish, leave and the others will still spin waiting for
it to join.
So do two synchronization atomics instead, which makes the code a lot more
straightforward.
Also, since the update is serialized and it also takes quite some time per
microcode engine, increase the exit timeout by the number of CPUs on the
system.
That's ok because the moment all CPUs are done, that timeout will be cut
short.
Furthermore, panic when some of the CPUs timeout when returning from a
microcode update: we can't allow a system with not all cores updated.
Also, as an optimization, do not do the exit sync if microcode wasn't
updated.
Reported-by: Emanuel Czirai <xftroxgpx@protonmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Emanuel Czirai <xftroxgpx@protonmail.com>
Tested-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Tested-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180314183615.17629-2-bp@alien8.de
Return UCODE_NEW from the scanning functions to denote that new microcode
was found and only then attempt the expensive synchronization dance.
Reported-by: Emanuel Czirai <xftroxgpx@protonmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Emanuel Czirai <xftroxgpx@protonmail.com>
Tested-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Tested-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180314183615.17629-1-bp@alien8.de
In accordance with Intel's microcode revision guidance from March 6 MCU
rev 0xc2 is cleared on both Skylake H/S and Skylake Xeon E3 processors
that share CPUID 506E3.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Sergeyev <sergeev917@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Jia Zhang <qianyue.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Kyle Huey <me@kylehuey.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180313193856.GA8580@localhost.localdomain
The kbuild test robot reported the following warning on sparc64:
kernel/jump_label.c: In function '__jump_label_update':
kernel/jump_label.c:376:51: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size [-Wint-to-pointer-cast]
WARN_ONCE(1, "can't patch jump_label at %pS", (void *)entry->code);
On sparc64, the jump_label entry->code field is of type u32, but
pointers are 64-bit. Silence the warning by casting entry->code to an
unsigned long before casting it to a pointer. This is also what the
sparc jump label code does.
Fixes: dc1dd184c2f0 ("jump_label: Warn on failed jump_label patching attempt")
Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@akamai.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: "David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/c966fed42be6611254a62d46579ec7416548d572.1521041026.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
In the following commit:
9e0e3c5130e9 ("x86/speculation, objtool: Annotate indirect calls/jumps for objtool")
... we added annotations for CALL_NOSPEC/JMP_NOSPEC on 64-bit x86 kernels,
but we did not annotate the 32-bit path.
Annotate it similarly.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180314112427.22351-1-apw@canonical.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
POPF would trap if VIP was set regardless of whether IF was set. Fix it.
Suggested-by: Stas Sergeev <stsp@list.ru>
Reported-by: Bart Oldeman <bartoldeman@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 5ed92a8ab71f ("x86/vm86: Use the normal pt_regs area for vm86")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ce95f40556e7b2178b6bc06ee9557827ff94bd28.1521003603.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
POPF is currently broken -- add tests to catch the error. This
results in:
[RUN] POPF with VIP set and IF clear from vm86 mode
[INFO] Exited vm86 mode due to STI
[FAIL] Incorrect return reason (started at eip = 0xd, ended at eip = 0xf)
because POPF currently fails to check IF before reporting a pending
interrupt.
This patch also makes the FAIL message a bit more informative.
Reported-by: Bart Oldeman <bartoldeman@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stas Sergeev <stsp@list.ru>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/a16270b5cfe7832d6d00c479d0f871066cbdb52b.1521003603.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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