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In some cases where shadow paging is in use, the root page will
be either mmu->pae_root or vcpu->arch.mmu->lm_root. Then it will
not have an associated struct kvm_mmu_page, because it is allocated
with alloc_page instead of kvm_mmu_alloc_page.
Just return false quickly from is_tdp_mmu_root if the TDP MMU is
not in use, which also includes the case where shadow paging is
enabled.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
For AMD SEV guests, update the cr3_lm_rsvd_bits to mask
the memory encryption bit in reserved bits.
Signed-off-by: Babu Moger <babu.moger@amd.com>
Message-Id: <160521948301.32054.5783800787423231162.stgit@bmoger-ubuntu>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
SEV guests fail to boot on a system that supports the PCID feature.
While emulating the RSM instruction, KVM reads the guest CR3
and calls kvm_set_cr3(). If the vCPU is in the long mode,
kvm_set_cr3() does a sanity check for the CR3 value. In this case,
it validates whether the value has any reserved bits set. The
reserved bit range is 63:cpuid_maxphysaddr(). When AMD memory
encryption is enabled, the memory encryption bit is set in the CR3
value. The memory encryption bit may fall within the KVM reserved
bit range, causing the KVM emulation failure.
Introduce a new field cr3_lm_rsvd_bits in kvm_vcpu_arch which will
cache the reserved bits in the CR3 value. This will be initialized
to rsvd_bits(cpuid_maxphyaddr(vcpu), 63).
If the architecture has any special bits(like AMD SEV encryption bit)
that needs to be masked from the reserved bits, should be cleared
in vendor specific kvm_x86_ops.vcpu_after_set_cpuid handler.
Fixes: a780a3ea628268b2 ("KVM: X86: Fix reserved bits check for MOV to CR3")
Signed-off-by: Babu Moger <babu.moger@amd.com>
Message-Id: <160521947657.32054.3264016688005356563.stgit@bmoger-ubuntu>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
The instruction emulator ignores clflush instructions, yet fails to
support clflushopt. Treat both similarly.
Fixes: 13e457e0eebf ("KVM: x86: Emulator does not decode clflush well")
Signed-off-by: David Edmondson <david.edmondson@oracle.com>
Message-Id: <20201103120400.240882-1-david.edmondson@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
KVM/arm64 fixes for v5.10, take #3
- Allow userspace to downgrade ID_AA64PFR0_EL1.CSV2
- Inject UNDEF on SCXTNUM_ELx access
Pull fscrypt fix from Eric Biggers:
"Fix a regression where new files weren't using inline encryption when
they should be"
* tag 'fscrypt-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/fscrypt/fscrypt:
fscrypt: fix inline encryption not used on new files
As the kernel never sets HCR_EL2.EnSCXT, accesses to SCXTNUM_ELx
will trap to EL2. Let's handle that as gracefully as possible
by injecting an UNDEF exception into the guest. This is consistent
with the guest's view of ID_AA64PFR0_EL1.CSV2 being at most 1.
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201110141308.451654-4-maz@kernel.org
Pull gfs2 fixes from Andreas Gruenbacher:
"Fix jdata data corruption and glock reference leak"
* tag 'gfs2-v5.10-rc3-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gfs2/linux-gfs2:
gfs2: Fix case in which ail writes are done to jdata holes
Revert "gfs2: Ignore journal log writes for jdata holes"
gfs2: fix possible reference leak in gfs2_check_blk_type
The new helper function fscrypt_prepare_new_inode() runs before
S_ENCRYPTED has been set on the new inode. This accidentally made
fscrypt_select_encryption_impl() never enable inline encryption on newly
created files, due to its use of fscrypt_needs_contents_encryption()
which only returns true when S_ENCRYPTED is set.
Fix this by using S_ISREG() directly instead of
fscrypt_needs_contents_encryption(), analogous to what
select_encryption_mode() does.
I didn't notice this earlier because by design, the user-visible
behavior is the same (other than performance, potentially) regardless of
whether inline encryption is used or not.
Fixes: a992b20cd4ee ("fscrypt: add fscrypt_prepare_new_inode() and fscrypt_set_context()")
Reviewed-by: Satya Tangirala <satyat@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201111015224.303073-1-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
A large number of system register trap handlers only inject an
UNDEF exeption, and yet each class of sysreg seems to provide its
own, identical function.
Let's unify them all, saving us introducing yet another one later.
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201110141308.451654-3-maz@kernel.org
Pull networking fixes from Jakub Kicinski:
"Current release - regressions:
- arm64: dts: fsl-ls1028a-kontron-sl28: specify in-band mode for
ENETC
Current release - bugs in new features:
- mptcp: provide rmem[0] limit offset to fix oops
Previous release - regressions:
- IPv6: Set SIT tunnel hard_header_len to zero to fix path MTU
calculations
- lan743x: correctly handle chips with internal PHY
- bpf: Don't rely on GCC __attribute__((optimize)) to disable GCSE
- mlx5e: Fix VXLAN port table synchronization after function reload
Previous release - always broken:
- bpf: Zero-fill re-used per-cpu map element
- fix out-of-order UDP packets when forwarding with UDP GSO fraglists
turned on:
- fix UDP header access on Fast/frag0 UDP GRO
- fix IP header access and skb lookup on Fast/frag0 UDP GRO
- ethtool: netlink: add missing netdev_features_change() call
- net: Update window_clamp if SOCK_RCVBUF is set
- igc: Fix returning wrong statistics
- ch_ktls: fix multiple leaks and corner cases in Chelsio TLS offload
- tunnels: Fix off-by-one in lower MTU bounds for ICMP/ICMPv6 replies
- r8169: disable hw csum for short packets on all chip versions
- vrf: Fix fast path output packet handling with async Netfilter
rules"
* tag 'net-5.10-rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net: (65 commits)
lan743x: fix use of uninitialized variable
net: udp: fix IP header access and skb lookup on Fast/frag0 UDP GRO
net: udp: fix UDP header access on Fast/frag0 UDP GRO
devlink: Avoid overwriting port attributes of registered port
vrf: Fix fast path output packet handling with async Netfilter rules
cosa: Add missing kfree in error path of cosa_write
net: switch to the kernel.org patchwork instance
ch_ktls: stop the txq if reaches threshold
ch_ktls: tcb update fails sometimes
ch_ktls/cxgb4: handle partial tag alone SKBs
ch_ktls: don't free skb before sending FIN
ch_ktls: packet handling prior to start marker
ch_ktls: Correction in middle record handling
ch_ktls: missing handling of header alone
ch_ktls: Correction in trimmed_len calculation
cxgb4/ch_ktls: creating skbs causes panic
ch_ktls: Update cheksum information
ch_ktls: Correction in finding correct length
cxgb4/ch_ktls: decrypted bit is not enough
net/x25: Fix null-ptr-deref in x25_connect
...
Patch b2a846dbef4e ("gfs2: Ignore journal log writes for jdata holes")
tried (unsuccessfully) to fix a case in which writes were done to jdata
blocks, the blocks are sent to the ail list, then a punch_hole or truncate
operation caused the blocks to be freed. In other words, the ail items
are for jdata holes. Before b2a846dbef4e, the jdata hole caused function
gfs2_block_map to return -EIO, which was eventually interpreted as an
IO error to the journal, and then withdraw.
This patch changes function gfs2_get_block_noalloc, which is only used
for jdata writes, so it returns -ENODATA rather than -EIO, and when
-ENODATA is returned to gfs2_ail1_start_one, the error is ignored.
We can safely ignore it because gfs2_ail1_start_one is only called
when the jdata pages have already been written and truncated, so the
ail1 content no longer applies.
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
I_CREATING isn't actually set until the inode has been assigned an inode
number and inserted into the inode hash table. So the WARN_ON() in
fscrypt_setup_iv_ino_lblk_32_key() is wrong, and it can trigger when
creating an encrypted file on ext4. Remove it.
This was sometimes causing xfstest generic/602 to fail on ext4. I
didn't notice it before because due to a separate oversight, new inodes
that haven't been assigned an inode number yet don't necessarily have
i_ino == 0 as I had thought, so by chance I never saw the test fail.
Fixes: a992b20cd4ee ("fscrypt: add fscrypt_prepare_new_inode() and fscrypt_set_context()")
Reported-by: Theodore Y. Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201031004556.87862-1-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
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