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Tremont CPUs support IA32_CORE_CAPABILITIES bits to indicate whether
specific SKUs have support for split lock detection.
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200416205754.21177-4-tony.luck@intel.com
The Intel Software Developers' Manual erroneously listed bit 5 of the
IA32_CORE_CAPABILITIES register as an architectural feature. It is not.
Features enumerated by IA32_CORE_CAPABILITIES are model specific and
implementation details may vary in different cpu models. Thus it is only
safe to trust features after checking the CPU model.
Icelake client and server models are known to implement the split lock
detect feature even though they don't enumerate IA32_CORE_CAPABILITIES
[ tglx: Use switch() for readability and massage comments ]
Fixes: 6650cdd9a8cc ("x86/split_lock: Enable split lock detection by kernel")
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200416205754.21177-3-tony.luck@intel.com
Resctrl assumes that all CPUs are online when the filesystem is mounted,
and that CPUs remember their CDP-enabled state over CPU hotplug.
This goes wrong when resctrl's CDP-enabled state changes while all the
CPUs in a domain are offline.
When a domain comes online, enable (or disable!) CDP to match resctrl's
current setting.
Fixes: 5ff193fbde20 ("x86/intel_rdt: Add basic resctrl filesystem support")
Suggested-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200221162105.154163-1-james.morse@arm.com
The default resource group ("rdtgroup_default") is associated with the
root of the resctrl filesystem and should never be removed. New resource
groups can be created as subdirectories of the resctrl filesystem and
they can be removed from user space.
There exists a safeguard in the directory removal code
(rdtgroup_rmdir()) that ensures that only subdirectories can be removed
by testing that the directory to be removed has to be a child of the
root directory.
A possible deadlock was recently fixed with
334b0f4e9b1b ("x86/resctrl: Fix a deadlock due to inaccurate reference").
This fix involved associating the private data of the "mon_groups"
and "mon_data" directories to the resource group to which they belong
instead of NULL as before. A consequence of this change was that
the original safeguard code preventing removal of "mon_groups" and
"mon_data" found in the root directory failed resulting in attempts to
remove the default resource group that ends in a BUG:
kernel BUG at mm/slub.c:3969!
invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI
Call Trace:
rdtgroup_rmdir+0x16b/0x2c0
kernfs_iop_rmdir+0x5c/0x90
vfs_rmdir+0x7a/0x160
do_rmdir+0x17d/0x1e0
do_syscall_64+0x55/0x1d0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9
Fix this by improving the directory removal safeguard to ensure that
subdirectories of the resctrl root directory can only be removed if they
are a child of the resctrl filesystem's root _and_ not associated with
the default resource group.
Fixes: 334b0f4e9b1b ("x86/resctrl: Fix a deadlock due to inaccurate reference")
Reported-by: Sai Praneeth Prakhya <sai.praneeth.prakhya@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Tested-by: Sai Praneeth Prakhya <sai.praneeth.prakhya@intel.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/884cbe1773496b5dbec1b6bd11bb50cffa83603d.1584461853.git.reinette.chatre@intel.com
The SPLIT_LOCK_CPU() macro escaped the tree-wide sweep for old-style
initialization. Update to use X86_MATCH_INTEL_FAM6_MODEL().
Fixes: 6650cdd9a8cc ("x86/split_lock: Enable split lock detection by kernel")
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200416205754.21177-2-tony.luck@intel.com
Fix the following sparse warning:
arch/x86/kernel/umip.c:84:12: warning: symbol 'umip_insns' was not declared.
Should it be static?
Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Yan <yanaijie@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200413082213.22934-1-yanaijie@huawei.com
Future AMD CPUs will have microcode patches that exceed the default 4K
patch size. Raise our limit.
Signed-off-by: John Allen <john.allen@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.14..
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200409152931.GA685273@mojo.amd.com
If func is NULL, a seg fault can result.
This is a theoretical issue which was found by Coverity, ID: 1492002
("Dereference after null check").
Fixes: c705cecc8431 ("objtool: Track original function across branches")
Reported-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/afc628693a37acd287e843bcc5c0430263d93c74.1585761021.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
If a switch jump table's indirect branch is in a ".cold" subfunction in
.text.unlikely, objtool doesn't detect it, and instead prints a false
warning:
drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-ioctl.o: warning: objtool: v4l_print_format.cold()+0xd6: sibling call from callable instruction with modified stack frame
drivers/hwmon/max6650.o: warning: objtool: max6650_probe.cold()+0xa5: sibling call from callable instruction with modified stack frame
drivers/media/dvb-frontends/drxk_hard.o: warning: objtool: init_drxk.cold()+0x16f: sibling call from callable instruction with modified stack frame
Fix it by comparing the function, instead of the section and offset.
Fixes: 13810435b9a7 ("objtool: Support GCC 8's cold subfunctions")
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/157c35d42ca9b6354bbb1604fe9ad7d1153ccb21.1585761021.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
When compiling the kernel with AS=clang, objtool produces a lot of
warnings:
warning: objtool: missing symbol for section .text
warning: objtool: missing symbol for section .init.text
warning: objtool: missing symbol for section .ref.text
It then fails to generate the ORC table.
The problem is that objtool assumes text section symbols always exist.
But the Clang assembler is aggressive about removing them.
When generating relocations for the ORC table, objtool always tries to
reference instructions by their section symbol offset. If the section
symbol doesn't exist, it bails.
Do a fallback: when a section symbol isn't available, reference a
function symbol instead.
Reported-by: Dmitry Golovin <dima@golovin.in>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/669
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/9a9cae7fcf628843aabe5a086b1a3c5bf50f42e8.1585761021.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Historically, the relocation symbols for ORC entries have only been
section symbols:
.text+0: sp:sp+8 bp:(und) type:call end:0
However, the Clang assembler is aggressive about stripping section
symbols. In that case we will need to use function symbols:
freezing_slow_path+0: sp:sp+8 bp:(und) type:call end:0
In preparation for the generation of such entries in "objtool orc
generate", add support for reading them in "objtool orc dump".
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/b811b5eb1a42602c3b523576dc5efab9ad1c174d.1585761021.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
CONFIG_UBSAN_TRAP causes GCC to emit a UD2 whenever it encounters an
unreachable code path. This includes __builtin_unreachable(). Because
the BUG() macro uses __builtin_unreachable() after it emits its own UD2,
this results in a double UD2. In this case objtool rightfully detects
that the second UD2 is unreachable:
init/main.o: warning: objtool: repair_env_string()+0x1c8: unreachable instruction
We weren't able to figure out a way to get rid of the double UD2s, so
just silence the warning.
Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/6653ad73c6b59c049211bd7c11ed3809c20ee9f5.1585761021.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
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