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Gustavo noticed that 'new' can be left uninitialized if 'bios_start'
happens to be less or equal to 'entry->addr + entry->size'.
Initialize the variable at the begin of the iteration to the current value
of 'bios_start'.
Fixes: 0a46fff2f910 ("x86/boot/compressed/64: Fix boot on machines with broken E820 table")
Reported-by: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190826133326.7cxb4vbmiawffv2r@box
Although APIC initialization will typically clear out the LDR before
setting it, the APIC cleanup code should reset the LDR.
This was discovered with a 32-bit KVM guest jumping into a kdump
kernel. The stale bits in the LDR triggered a bug in the KVM APIC
implementation which caused the destination mapping for VCPUs to be
corrupted.
Note that this isn't intended to paper over the KVM APIC bug. The kernel
has to clear the LDR when resetting the APIC registers except when X2APIC
is enabled.
This lacks a Fixes tag because missing to clear LDR goes way back into pre
git history.
[ tglx: Made x2apic_enabled a function call as required ]
Signed-off-by: Bandan Das <bsd@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190826101513.5080-3-bsd@redhat.com
Legacy apic init uses bigsmp for smp systems with 8 and more CPUs. The
bigsmp APIC implementation uses physical destination mode, but it
nevertheless initializes LDR and DFR. The LDR even ends up incorrectly with
multiple bit being set.
This does not cause a functional problem because LDR and DFR are ignored
when physical destination mode is active, but it triggered a problem on a
32-bit KVM guest which jumps into a kdump kernel.
The multiple bits set unearthed a bug in the KVM APIC implementation. The
code which creates the logical destination map for VCPUs ignores the
disabled state of the APIC and ends up overwriting an existing valid entry
and as a result, APIC calibration hangs in the guest during kdump
initialization.
Remove the bogus LDR/DFR initialization.
This is not intended to work around the KVM APIC bug. The LDR/DFR
ininitalization is wrong on its own.
The issue goes back into the pre git history. The fixes tag is the commit
in the bitkeeper import which introduced bigsmp support in 2003.
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git
Fixes: db7b9e9f26b8 ("[PATCH] Clustered APIC setup for >8 CPU systems")
Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Bandan Das <bsd@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190826101513.5080-2-bsd@redhat.com
32-bit processes running on a 64-bit kernel are not always detected
correctly, causing the process to crash when uretprobes are installed.
The reason for the crash is that in_ia32_syscall() is used to determine the
process's mode, which only works correctly when called from a syscall.
In the case of uretprobes, however, the function is called from a exception
and always returns 'false' on a 64-bit kernel. In consequence this leads to
corruption of the process's return address.
Fix this by using user_64bit_mode() instead of in_ia32_syscall(), which
is correct in any situation.
[ tglx: Add a comment and the following historical info ]
This should have been detected by the rename which happened in commit
abfb9498ee13 ("x86/entry: Rename is_{ia32,x32}_task() to in_{ia32,x32}_syscall()")
which states in the changelog:
The is_ia32_task()/is_x32_task() function names are a big misnomer: they
suggests that the compat-ness of a system call is a task property, which
is not true, the compatness of a system call purely depends on how it
was invoked through the system call layer.
.....
and then it went and blindly renamed every call site.
Sadly enough this was already mentioned here:
8faaed1b9f50 ("uprobes/x86: Introduce sizeof_long(), cleanup adjust_ret_addr() and
arch_uretprobe_hijack_return_addr()")
where the changelog says:
TODO: is_ia32_task() is not what we actually want, TS_COMPAT does
not necessarily mean 32bit. Fortunately syscall-like insns can't be
probed so it actually works, but it would be better to rename and
use is_ia32_frame().
and goes all the way back to:
0326f5a94dde ("uprobes/core: Handle breakpoint and singlestep exceptions")
Oh well. 7+ years until someone actually tried a uretprobe on a 32bit
process on a 64bit kernel....
Fixes: 0326f5a94dde ("uprobes/core: Handle breakpoint and singlestep exceptions")
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Mayr <me@sam.st>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Dmitry Safonov <dsafonov@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190728152617.7308-1-me@sam.st
Rahul Tanwar reported the following bug on DT systems:
> 'ioapic_dynirq_base' contains the virtual IRQ base number. Presently, it is
> updated to the end of hardware IRQ numbers but this is done only when IOAPIC
> configuration type is IOAPIC_DOMAIN_LEGACY or IOAPIC_DOMAIN_STRICT. There is
> a third type IOAPIC_DOMAIN_DYNAMIC which applies when IOAPIC configuration
> comes from devicetree.
>
> See dtb_add_ioapic() in arch/x86/kernel/devicetree.c
>
> In case of IOAPIC_DOMAIN_DYNAMIC (DT/OF based system), 'ioapic_dynirq_base'
> remains to zero initialized value. This means that for OF based systems,
> virtual IRQ base will get set to zero.
Such systems will very likely not even boot.
For DT enabled machines ioapic_dynirq_base is irrelevant and not
updated, so simply map the IRQ base 1:1 instead.
Reported-by: Rahul Tanwar <rahul.tanwar@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Rahul Tanwar <rahul.tanwar@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: alan@linux.intel.com
Cc: bp@alien8.de
Cc: cheol.yong.kim@intel.com
Cc: qi-ming.wu@intel.com
Cc: rahul.tanwar@intel.com
Cc: rppt@linux.ibm.com
Cc: tony.luck@intel.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190821081330.1187-1-rahul.tanwar@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Use 'lea' instead of 'add' when adjusting %rsp in CALL_NOSPEC so as to
avoid clobbering flags.
KVM's emulator makes indirect calls into a jump table of sorts, where
the destination of the CALL_NOSPEC is a small blob of code that performs
fast emulation by executing the target instruction with fixed operands.
adcb_al_dl:
0x000339f8 <+0>: adc %dl,%al
0x000339fa <+2>: ret
A major motiviation for doing fast emulation is to leverage the CPU to
handle consumption and manipulation of arithmetic flags, i.e. RFLAGS is
both an input and output to the target of CALL_NOSPEC. Clobbering flags
results in all sorts of incorrect emulation, e.g. Jcc instructions often
take the wrong path. Sans the nops...
asm("push %[flags]; popf; " CALL_NOSPEC " ; pushf; pop %[flags]\n"
0x0003595a <+58>: mov 0xc0(%ebx),%eax
0x00035960 <+64>: mov 0x60(%ebx),%edx
0x00035963 <+67>: mov 0x90(%ebx),%ecx
0x00035969 <+73>: push %edi
0x0003596a <+74>: popf
0x0003596b <+75>: call *%esi
0x000359a0 <+128>: pushf
0x000359a1 <+129>: pop %edi
0x000359a2 <+130>: mov %eax,0xc0(%ebx)
0x000359b1 <+145>: mov %edx,0x60(%ebx)
ctxt->eflags = (ctxt->eflags & ~EFLAGS_MASK) | (flags & EFLAGS_MASK);
0x000359a8 <+136>: mov -0x10(%ebp),%eax
0x000359ab <+139>: and $0x8d5,%edi
0x000359b4 <+148>: and $0xfffff72a,%eax
0x000359b9 <+153>: or %eax,%edi
0x000359bd <+157>: mov %edi,0x4(%ebx)
For the most part this has gone unnoticed as emulation of guest code
that can trigger fast emulation is effectively limited to MMIO when
running on modern hardware, and MMIO is rarely, if ever, accessed by
instructions that affect or consume flags.
Breakage is almost instantaneous when running with unrestricted guest
disabled, in which case KVM must emulate all instructions when the guest
has invalid state, e.g. when the guest is in Big Real Mode during early
BIOS.
Fixes: 776b043848fd2 ("x86/retpoline: Add initial retpoline support")
Fixes: 1a29b5b7f347a ("KVM: x86: Make indirect calls in emulator speculation safe")
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190822211122.27579-1-sean.j.christopherson@intel.com
commit a90118c445cc ("x86/boot: Save fields explicitly, zero out everything
else") had two errors:
* It preserved boot_params.acpi_rsdp_addr, and
* It failed to preserve boot_params.hdr
Therefore, zero out acpi_rsdp_addr, and preserve hdr.
Fixes: a90118c445cc ("x86/boot: Save fields explicitly, zero out everything else")
Reported-by: Neil MacLeod <neil@nmacleod.com>
Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Neil MacLeod <neil@nmacleod.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190821192513.20126-1-jhubbard@nvidia.com
There have been reports of RDRAND issues after resuming from suspend on
some AMD family 15h and family 16h systems. This issue stems from a BIOS
not performing the proper steps during resume to ensure RDRAND continues
to function properly.
RDRAND support is indicated by CPUID Fn00000001_ECX[30]. This bit can be
reset by clearing MSR C001_1004[62]. Any software that checks for RDRAND
support using CPUID, including the kernel, will believe that RDRAND is
not supported.
Update the CPU initialization to clear the RDRAND CPUID bit for any family
15h and 16h processor that supports RDRAND. If it is known that the family
15h or family 16h system does not have an RDRAND resume issue or that the
system will not be placed in suspend, the "rdrand=force" kernel parameter
can be used to stop the clearing of the RDRAND CPUID bit.
Additionally, update the suspend and resume path to save and restore the
MSR C001_1004 value to ensure that the RDRAND CPUID setting remains in
place after resuming from suspend.
Note, that clearing the RDRAND CPUID bit does not prevent a processor
that normally supports the RDRAND instruction from executing it. So any
code that determined the support based on family and model won't #UD.
Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: "linux-doc@vger.kernel.org" <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: "linux-pm@vger.kernel.org" <linux-pm@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "x86@kernel.org" <x86@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/7543af91666f491547bd86cebb1e17c66824ab9f.1566229943.git.thomas.lendacky@amd.com
BIOS on Samsung 500C Chromebook reports very rudimentary E820 table that
consists of 2 entries:
BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000fff] usable
BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000fffff000-0x00000000ffffffff] reserved
It breaks logic in find_trampoline_placement(): bios_start lands on the
end of the first 4k page and trampoline start gets placed below 0.
Detect underflow and don't touch bios_start for such cases. It makes
kernel ignore E820 table on machines that doesn't have two usable pages
below BIOS_START_MAX.
Fixes: 1b3a62643660 ("x86/boot/compressed/64: Validate trampoline placement against E820")
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: x86-ml <x86@kernel.org>
Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=203463
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190813131654.24378-1-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Some newer machines do not advertise legacy timers. The kernel can handle
that situation if the TSC and the CPU frequency are enumerated by CPUID or
MSRs and the CPU supports TSC deadline timer. If the CPU does not support
TSC deadline timer the local APIC timer frequency has to be known as well.
Some Ryzens machines do not advertize legacy timers, but there is no
reliable way to determine the bus frequency which feeds the local APIC
timer when the machine allows overclocking of that frequency.
As there is no legacy timer the local APIC timer calibration crashes due to
a NULL pointer dereference when accessing the not installed global clock
event device.
Switch the calibration loop to a non interrupt based one, which polls
either TSC (if frequency is known) or jiffies. The latter requires a global
clockevent. As the machines which do not have a global clockevent installed
have a known TSC frequency this is a non issue. For older machines where
TSC frequency is not known, there is no known case where the legacy timers
do not exist as that would have been reported long ago.
Reported-by: Daniel Drake <drake@endlessm.com>
Reported-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Daniel Drake <drake@endlessm.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.21.1908091443030.21433@nanos.tec.linutronix.de
Link: http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1142926#c12
Dave Hansen spelled out the rules in an e-mail:
https://lkml.kernel.org/r/91eefbe4-e32b-d762-be4d-672ff915db47@intel.com
Copy those right into the <asm/intel-family.h> file to make it easy for
people to find them.
Suggested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: x86-ml <x86@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190815224704.GA10025@agluck-desk2.amr.corp.intel.com
Recent gcc compilers (gcc 9.1) generate warnings about an out of bounds
memset, if the memset goes accross several fields of a struct. This
generated a couple of warnings on x86_64 builds in sanitize_boot_params().
Fix this by explicitly saving the fields in struct boot_params
that are intended to be preserved, and zeroing all the rest.
[ tglx: Tagged for stable as it breaks the warning free build there as well ]
Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Suggested-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190731054627.5627-2-jhubbard@nvidia.com
There are a few different subsystems in the kernel that depend on model
specific behaviour (perf, EDAC, power, ...). Easier for just one person
to have the task to get new model numbers included instead of having
these groups trip over each other to do it.
[ bp: s/Cpu/CPU/ and add x86@kernel.org so that it gets CCed too as
FYI. ]
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: x86-ml <x86@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190814234030.30817-1-tony.luck@intel.com
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