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On CPUs like AMD's Geode, for example, we shouldn't even try to load
microcode because they do not support the modern microcode loading
interface.
However, we do the family check *after* the other checks whether the
loader has been disabled on the command line or whether we're running in
a guest.
So move the family checks first in order to exit early if we're being
loaded on an unsupported family.
Reported-and-tested-by: Sven Glodowski <glodi1@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.11..
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1061396
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171012112316.977-1-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Since commit:
94b1b03b519b ("x86/mm: Rework lazy TLB mode and TLB freshness tracking")
x86's lazy TLB mode has been all the way lazy: when running a kernel thread
(including the idle thread), the kernel keeps using the last user mm's
page tables without attempting to maintain user TLB coherence at all.
From a pure semantic perspective, this is fine -- kernel threads won't
attempt to access user pages, so having stale TLB entries doesn't matter.
Unfortunately, I forgot about a subtlety. By skipping TLB flushes,
we also allow any paging-structure caches that may exist on the CPU
to become incoherent. This means that we can have a
paging-structure cache entry that references a freed page table, and
the CPU is within its rights to do a speculative page walk starting
at the freed page table.
I can imagine this causing two different problems:
- A speculative page walk starting from a bogus page table could read
IO addresses. I haven't seen any reports of this causing problems.
- A speculative page walk that involves a bogus page table can install
garbage in the TLB. Such garbage would always be at a user VA, but
some AMD CPUs have logic that triggers a machine check when it notices
these bogus entries. I've seen a couple reports of this.
Boris further explains the failure mode:
> It is actually more of an optimization which assumes that paging-structure
> entries are in WB DRAM:
>
> "TlbCacheDis: cacheable memory disable. Read-write. 0=Enables
> performance optimization that assumes PML4, PDP, PDE, and PTE entries
> are in cacheable WB-DRAM; memory type checks may be bypassed, and
> addresses outside of WB-DRAM may result in undefined behavior or NB
> protocol errors. 1=Disables performance optimization and allows PML4,
> PDP, PDE and PTE entries to be in any memory type. Operating systems
> that maintain page tables in memory types other than WB- DRAM must set
> TlbCacheDis to insure proper operation."
>
> The MCE generated is an NB protocol error to signal that
>
> "Link: A specific coherent-only packet from a CPU was issued to an
> IO link. This may be caused by software which addresses page table
> structures in a memory type other than cacheable WB-DRAM without
> properly configuring MSRC001_0015[TlbCacheDis]. This may occur, for
> example, when page table structure addresses are above top of memory. In
> such cases, the NB will generate an MCE if it sees a mismatch between
> the memory operation generated by the core and the link type."
>
> I'm assuming coherent-only packets don't go out on IO links, thus the
> error.
To fix this, reinstate TLB coherence in lazy mode. With this patch
applied, we do it in one of two ways:
- If we have PCID, we simply switch back to init_mm's page tables
when we enter a kernel thread -- this seems to be quite cheap
except for the cost of serializing the CPU.
- If we don't have PCID, then we set a flag and switch to init_mm
the first time we would otherwise need to flush the TLB.
The /sys/kernel/debug/x86/tlb_use_lazy_mode debug switch can be changed
to override the default mode for benchmarking.
In theory, we could optimize this better by only flushing the TLB in
lazy CPUs when a page table is freed. Doing that would require
auditing the mm code to make sure that all page table freeing goes
through tlb_remove_page() as well as reworking some data structures
to implement the improved flush logic.
Reported-by: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
Reported-by: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Hirte <johannes.hirte@datenkhaos.de>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Roman Kagan <rkagan@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fixes: 94b1b03b519b ("x86/mm: Rework lazy TLB mode and TLB freshness tracking")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171009170231.fkpraqokz6e4zeco@pd.tnic
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
SKX stepping-3 fixed the TSC_DEADLINE issue in a different ucode
version number than stepping-4. Linux needs to know this stepping-3
specific version number to also enable the TSC_DEADLINE on stepping-3.
The steppings and ucode versions are documented in the SKX BIOS update:
https://downloadmirror.intel.com/26978/eng/ReleaseNotes_R00.01.0004.txt
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/60f2bbf7cf617e212b522e663f84225bfebc50e5.1507756305.git.len.brown@intel.com
Commit 594a30fb1242 ("x86/apic: Silence "FW_BUG TSC_DEADLINE disabled
due to Errata" on CPUs without the feature", 2017-08-30) was also about
silencing the warning on VirtualBox; however, KVM does expose the TSC
deadline timer, and it's virtualized so that it is immune from CPU errata.
Therefore, booting 4.13 with "-cpu Haswell" shows this in the logs:
[ 0.000000] [Firmware Bug]: TSC_DEADLINE disabled due to Errata;
please update microcode to version: 0xb2 (or later)
Even if you had a hypervisor that does _not_ virtualize the TSC deadline
and rather exposes the hardware one, it should be the hypervisors task
to update microcode and possibly hide the flag from CPUID. So just
hide the message when running on _any_ hypervisor, not just those that
do not support the TSC deadline timer.
The older check still makes sense, so keep it.
Fixes: bd9240a18e ("x86/apic: Add TSC_DEADLINE quirk due to errata")
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1507630377-54471-1-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com
Some routines in mem_encrypt.c are called very early in the boot process,
e.g. sme_enable(). When CONFIG_KCOV=y is defined the resulting code added
to sme_enable() (and others) for KCOV instrumentation results in a kernel
crash. Disable the KCOV instrumentation for mem_encrypt.c by adding
KCOV_INSTRUMENT_mem_encrypt.o := n to arch/x86/mm/Makefile.
In order to avoid other possible early boot issues, model mem_encrypt.c
after head64.c in regards to tools. In addition to disabling KCOV as
stated above and a previous patch that disables branch profiling, also
remove the "-pg" CFLAG if CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER is enabled and set
KASAN_SANITIZE to "n", each of which are done on a file basis.
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@01.org>
Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
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>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171010194504.18887.38053.stgit@tlendack-t1.amdoffice.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Do not consider the fixed size of hv_vp_set when passing the variable
header size to hv_do_rep_hypercall().
The Hyper-V hypervisor specification states that for a hypercall with a
variable header only the size of the variable portion should be supplied
via the input control.
For HVCALL_FLUSH_VIRTUAL_ADDRESS_SPACE_EX/LIST_EX calls that means the
fixed portion of hv_vp_set should not be considered.
That fixes random failures of some applications that are unexpectedly
killed with SIGBUS or SIGSEGV.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Henrique Cerri <marcelo.cerri@canonical.com>
Cc: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>
Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Cc: Jork Loeser <Jork.Loeser@microsoft.com>
Cc: Josh Poulson <jopoulso@microsoft.com>
Cc: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Simon Xiao <sixiao@microsoft.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Cc: devel@linuxdriverproject.org
Fixes: 628f54cc6451 ("x86/hyper-v: Support extended CPU ranges for TLB flush hypercalls")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1507210469-29065-1-git-send-email-marcelo.cerri@canonical.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
hv_do_hypercall() does virt_to_phys() translation and with some configs
(CONFIG_SLAB) this doesn't work for percpu areas, we pass wrong memory to
hypervisor and get #GP. We could use working slow_virt_to_phys() instead
but doing so kills the performance.
Move pcpu_flush/pcpu_flush_ex structures out of percpu areas and
allocate memory on first call. The additional level of indirection gives
us a small performance penalty, in future we may consider introducing
hypercall functions which avoid virt_to_phys() conversion and cache
physical addresses of pcpu_flush/pcpu_flush_ex structures somewhere.
Reported-by: Simon Xiao <sixiao@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Cc: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>
Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Cc: Jork Loeser <Jork.Loeser@microsoft.com>
Cc: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: devel@linuxdriverproject.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171005113924.28021-1-vkuznets@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
hv_flush_pcpu_ex structures are not cleared between calls for performance
reasons (they're variable size up to PAGE_SIZE each) but we must clear
hv_vp_set.bank_contents part of it to avoid flushing unneeded vCPUs. The
rest of the structure is formed correctly.
To do the clearing in an efficient way stash the maximum possible vCPU
number (this may differ from Linux CPU id).
Reported-by: Jork Loeser <Jork.Loeser@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Cc: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>
Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Cc: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: devel@linuxdriverproject.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171006154854.18092-1-vkuznets@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
x86-32 doesn't have stack validation, so in most cases it doesn't make
sense to warn about bad frame pointers.
Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com>
Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: LKP <lkp@01.org>
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/a69658760800bf281e6353248c23e0fa0acf5230.1507597785.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
When printing the unwinder dump, the stack pointer could be unaligned,
for one of two reasons:
- stack corruption; or
- GCC created an unaligned stack.
There's no way for the unwinder to tell the difference between the two,
so we have to assume one or the other. GCC unaligned stacks are very
rare, and have only been spotted before GCC 5. Presumably, if we're
doing an unwinder stack dump, stack corruption is more likely than a
GCC unaligned stack. So always align the stack before starting the
dump.
Reported-and-tested-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Reported-and-tested-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com>
Cc: LKP <lkp@01.org>
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/2f540c515946ab09ed267e1a1d6421202a0cce08.1507597785.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
On x86-32, Tetsuo Handa and Fengguang Wu reported unwinder warnings
like:
WARNING: kernel stack regs at f60bb9c8 in swapper:1 has bad 'bp' value 0ba00000
And also there were some stack dumps with a bunch of unreliable '?'
symbols after an apic_timer_interrupt symbol, meaning the unwinder got
confused when it tried to read the regs.
The cause of those issues is that, with GCC 4.8 (and possibly older),
there are cases where GCC misaligns the stack pointer in a leaf function
for no apparent reason:
c124a388 <acpi_rs_move_data>:
c124a388: 55 push %ebp
c124a389: 89 e5 mov %esp,%ebp
c124a38b: 57 push %edi
c124a38c: 56 push %esi
c124a38d: 89 d6 mov %edx,%esi
c124a38f: 53 push %ebx
c124a390: 31 db xor %ebx,%ebx
c124a392: 83 ec 03 sub $0x3,%esp
...
c124a3e3: 83 c4 03 add $0x3,%esp
c124a3e6: 5b pop %ebx
c124a3e7: 5e pop %esi
c124a3e8: 5f pop %edi
c124a3e9: 5d pop %ebp
c124a3ea: c3 ret
If an interrupt occurs in such a function, the regs on the stack will be
unaligned, which breaks the frame pointer encoding assumption. So on
32-bit, use the MSB instead of the LSB to encode the regs.
This isn't an issue on 64-bit, because interrupts align the stack before
writing to it.
Reported-and-tested-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Reported-and-tested-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com>
Cc: LKP <lkp@01.org>
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/279a26996a482ca716605c7dbc7f2db9d8d91e81.1507597785.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Tetsuo Handa and Fengguang Wu reported a panic in the unwinder:
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 000001f2
IP: update_stack_state+0xd4/0x340
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
CPU: 0 PID: 18728 Comm: 01-cpu-hotplug Not tainted 4.13.0-rc4-00170-gb09be67 #592
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.9.3-20161025_171302-gandalf 04/01/2014
task: bb0b53c0 task.stack: bb3ac000
EIP: update_stack_state+0xd4/0x340
EFLAGS: 00010002 CPU: 0
EAX: 0000a570 EBX: bb3adccb ECX: 0000f401 EDX: 0000a570
ESI: 00000001 EDI: 000001ba EBP: bb3adc6b ESP: bb3adc3f
DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0000 SS: 0068
CR0: 80050033 CR2: 000001f2 CR3: 0b3a7000 CR4: 00140690
DR0: 00000000 DR1: 00000000 DR2: 00000000 DR3: 00000000
DR6: fffe0ff0 DR7: 00000400
Call Trace:
? unwind_next_frame+0xea/0x400
? __unwind_start+0xf5/0x180
? __save_stack_trace+0x81/0x160
? save_stack_trace+0x20/0x30
? __lock_acquire+0xfa5/0x12f0
? lock_acquire+0x1c2/0x230
? tick_periodic+0x3a/0xf0
? _raw_spin_lock+0x42/0x50
? tick_periodic+0x3a/0xf0
? tick_periodic+0x3a/0xf0
? debug_smp_processor_id+0x12/0x20
? tick_handle_periodic+0x23/0xc0
? local_apic_timer_interrupt+0x63/0x70
? smp_trace_apic_timer_interrupt+0x235/0x6a0
? trace_apic_timer_interrupt+0x37/0x3c
? strrchr+0x23/0x50
Code: 0f 95 c1 89 c7 89 45 e4 0f b6 c1 89 c6 89 45 dc 8b 04 85 98 cb 74 bc 88 4d e3 89 45 f0 83 c0 01 84 c9 89 04 b5 98 cb 74 bc 74 3b <8b> 47 38 8b 57 34 c6 43 1d 01 25 00 00 02 00 83 e2 03 09 d0 83
EIP: update_stack_state+0xd4/0x340 SS:ESP: 0068:bb3adc3f
CR2: 00000000000001f2
---[ end trace 0d147fd4aba8ff50 ]---
Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt
On x86-32, after decoding a frame pointer to get a regs address,
regs_size() dereferences the regs pointer when it checks regs->cs to see
if the regs are user mode. This is dangerous because it's possible that
what looks like a decoded frame pointer is actually a corrupt value, and
we don't want the unwinder to make things worse.
Instead of calling regs_size() on an unsafe pointer, just assume they're
kernel regs to start with. Later, once it's safe to access the regs, we
can do the user mode check and corresponding safety check for the
remaining two regs.
Reported-and-tested-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Reported-and-tested-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com>
Cc: LKP <lkp@01.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fixes: 5ed8d8bb38c5 ("x86/unwind: Move common code into update_stack_state()")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/7f95b9a6993dec7674b3f3ab3dcd3294f7b9644d.1507597785.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
The alt_max_short() macro in asm/alternative.h does not work as
intended, leading to nasty bugs. E.g. alt_max_short("1", "3")
evaluates to 3, but alt_max_short("3", "1") evaluates to 1 -- not
exactly the maximum of 1 and 3.
In fact, I had to learn it the hard way by crashing my kernel in not
so funny ways by attempting to make use of the ALTENATIVE_2 macro
with alternatives where the first one was larger than the second
one.
According to [1] and commit dbe4058a6a44 ("x86/alternatives: Fix
ALTERNATIVE_2 padding generation properly") the right handed side
should read "-(-(a < b))" not "-(-(a - b))". Fix that, to make the
macro work as intended.
While at it, fix up the comments regarding the additional "-", too.
It's not about gas' usage of s32 but brain dead logic of having a
"true" value of -1 for the < operator ... *sigh*
Btw., the one in asm/alternative-asm.h is correct. And, apparently,
all current users of ALTERNATIVE_2() pass same sized alternatives,
avoiding to hit the bug.
[1] http://graphics.stanford.edu/~seander/bithacks.html#IntegerMinOrMax
Reviewed-and-tested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Fixes: dbe4058a6a44 ("x86/alternatives: Fix ALTERNATIVE_2 padding generation properly")
Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1507228213-13095-1-git-send-email-minipli@googlemail.com
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