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When a guest PEBS counter is cross-mapped by a host counter, software
will remove the corresponding bit in the arr[global_ctrl].guest and
expect hardware to perform a change of state "from enable to disable"
via the msr_slot[] switch during the vmx transaction.
The real world is that if user adjust the counter overflow value small
enough, it still opens a tiny race window for the previously PEBS-enabled
counter to write cross-mapped PEBS records into the guest's PEBS buffer,
when arr[global_ctrl].guest has been prioritised (switch_msr_special stuff)
to switch into the enabled state, while the arr[pebs_enable].guest has not.
Close this window by clearing invalid bits in the arr[global_ctrl].guest.
Fixes: 854250329c02 ("KVM: x86/pmu: Disable guest PEBS temporarily in two rare situations")
Signed-off-by: Like Xu <likexu@tencent.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220831033524.58561-1-likexu@tencent.com
For some Alder Lake N machine, the below unchecked MSR access error may be
triggered.
[ 0.088017] rcu: Hierarchical SRCU implementation.
[ 0.088017] unchecked MSR access error: WRMSR to 0x38f (tried to write
0x0001000f0000003f) at rIP: 0xffffffffb5684de8 (native_write_msr+0x8/0x30)
[ 0.088017] Call Trace:
[ 0.088017] <TASK>
[ 0.088017] __intel_pmu_enable_all.constprop.46+0x4a/0xa0
The Alder Lake N only has e-cores. The X86_FEATURE_HYBRID_CPU flag is
not set. The perf cannot retrieve the correct CPU type via
get_this_hybrid_cpu_type(). The model specific get_hybrid_cpu_type() is
hardcode to p-core. The wrong CPU type is given to the PMU of the
Alder Lake N.
Since Alder Lake N isn't in fact a hybrid CPU, remove ALDERLAKE_N from
the rest of {ALDER,RAPTOP}LAKE and create a non-hybrid PMU setup.
The differences between Gracemont and the previous Tremont are,
- Number of GP counters
- Load and store latency Events
- PEBS event_constraints
- Instruction Latency support
- Data source encoding
- Memory access latency encoding
Fixes: c2a960f7c574 ("perf/x86: Add new Alder Lake and Raptor Lake support")
Reported-by: Jianfeng Gao <jianfeng.gao@intel.com>
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220831142702.153110-1-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
Pull more hotfixes from Andrew Morton:
"Seventeen hotfixes. Mostly memory management things.
Ten patches are cc:stable, addressing pre-6.0 issues"
* tag 'mm-hotfixes-stable-2022-08-28' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm:
.mailmap: update Luca Ceresoli's e-mail address
mm/mprotect: only reference swap pfn page if type match
squashfs: don't call kmalloc in decompressors
mm/damon/dbgfs: avoid duplicate context directory creation
mailmap: update email address for Colin King
asm-generic: sections: refactor memory_intersects
bootmem: remove the vmemmap pages from kmemleak in put_page_bootmem
ocfs2: fix freeing uninitialized resource on ocfs2_dlm_shutdown
Revert "memcg: cleanup racy sum avoidance code"
mm/zsmalloc: do not attempt to free IS_ERR handle
binder_alloc: add missing mmap_lock calls when using the VMA
mm: re-allow pinning of zero pfns (again)
vmcoreinfo: add kallsyms_num_syms symbol
mailmap: update Guilherme G. Piccoli's email addresses
writeback: avoid use-after-free after removing device
shmem: update folio if shmem_replace_page() updates the page
mm/hugetlb: avoid corrupting page->mapping in hugetlb_mcopy_atomic_pte
Pull bitmap fixes from Yury Norov:
"Fix the reported issues, and implements the suggested improvements,
for the version of the cpumask tests [1] that was merged with commit
c41e8866c28c ("lib/test: introduce cpumask KUnit test suite").
These changes include fixes for the tests, and better alignment with
the KUnit style guidelines"
* tag 'bitmap-6.0-rc3' of github.com:/norov/linux:
lib/cpumask_kunit: add tests file to MAINTAINERS
lib/cpumask_kunit: log mask contents
lib/test_cpumask: follow KUnit style guidelines
lib/test_cpumask: fix cpu_possible_mask last test
lib/test_cpumask: drop cpu_possible_mask full test
My Bootlin address is preferred from now on.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220826130515.3011951-1-luca.ceresoli@bootlin.com
Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca.ceresoli@bootlin.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Atish Patra <atishp@atishpatra.org>
Cc: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Pull btrfs fixes from David Sterba:
"Fixes:
- check that subvolume is writable when changing xattrs from security
namespace
- fix memory leak in device lookup helper
- update generation of hole file extent item when merging holes
- fix space cache corruption and potential double allocations; this
is a rare bug but can be serious once it happens, stable backports
and analysis tool will be provided
- fix error handling when deleting root references
- fix crash due to assert when attempting to cancel suspended device
replace, add message what to do if mount fails due to missing
replace item
Regressions:
- don't merge pages into bio if their page offset is not contiguous
- don't allow large NOWAIT direct reads, this could lead to short
reads eg. in io_uring"
* tag 'for-6.0-rc3-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kdave/linux:
btrfs: add info when mount fails due to stale replace target
btrfs: replace: drop assert for suspended replace
btrfs: fix silent failure when deleting root reference
btrfs: fix space cache corruption and potential double allocations
btrfs: don't allow large NOWAIT direct reads
btrfs: don't merge pages into bio if their page offset is not contiguous
btrfs: update generation of hole file extent item when merging holes
btrfs: fix possible memory leak in btrfs_get_dev_args_from_path()
btrfs: check if root is readonly while setting security xattr
cpumask related files are listed under the BITMAP API section, so the
file with tests for cpumask should be added to that list.
Signed-off-by: Sander Vanheule <sander@svanheule.net>
Reviewed-by: David Gow <davidgow@google.com>
Acked-by: Yury Norov <yury.norov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Yury Norov <yury.norov@gmail.com>
Yu Zhao reported a bug after the commit "mm/swap: Add swp_offset_pfn() to
fetch PFN from swap entry" added a check in swp_offset_pfn() for swap type [1]:
kernel BUG at include/linux/swapops.h:117!
CPU: 46 PID: 5245 Comm: EventManager_De Tainted: G S O L 6.0.0-dbg-DEV #2
RIP: 0010:pfn_swap_entry_to_page+0x72/0xf0
Code: c6 48 8b 36 48 83 fe ff 74 53 48 01 d1 48 83 c1 08 48 8b 09 f6
c1 01 75 7b 66 90 48 89 c1 48 8b 09 f6 c1 01 74 74 5d c3 eb 9e <0f> 0b
48 ba ff ff ff ff 03 00 00 00 eb ae a9 ff 0f 00 00 75 13 48
RSP: 0018:ffffa59e73fabb80 EFLAGS: 00010282
RAX: 00000000ffffffe8 RBX: 0c00000000000000 RCX: ffffcd5440000000
RDX: 1ffffffffff7a80a RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0c0000000000042b
RBP: ffffa59e73fabb80 R08: ffff9965ca6e8bb8 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: ffffffffa5a2f62d R11: 0000030b372e9fff R12: ffff997b79db5738
R13: 000000000000042b R14: 0c0000000000042b R15: 1ffffffffff7a80a
FS: 00007f549d1bb700(0000) GS:ffff99d3cf680000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000440d035b3180 CR3: 0000002243176004 CR4: 00000000003706e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
<TASK>
change_pte_range+0x36e/0x880
change_p4d_range+0x2e8/0x670
change_protection_range+0x14e/0x2c0
mprotect_fixup+0x1ee/0x330
do_mprotect_pkey+0x34c/0x440
__x64_sys_mprotect+0x1d/0x30
It triggers because pfn_swap_entry_to_page() could be called upon e.g. a
genuine swap entry.
Fix it by only calling it when it's a write migration entry where the page*
is used.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAOUHufaVC2Za-p8m0aiHw6YkheDcrO-C3wRGixwDS32VTS+k1w@mail.gmail.com/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220823221138.45602-1-peterx@redhat.com
Fixes: 6c287605fd56 ("mm: remember exclusively mapped anonymous pages with PG_anon_exclusive")
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Tested-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Pull cfis fixes from Steve French:
- two locking fixes (zero range, punch hole)
- DFS 9 fix (padding), affecting some servers
- three minor cleanup changes
* tag '6.0-rc2-smb3-client-fixes' of git://git.samba.org/sfrench/cifs-2.6:
cifs: Add helper function to check smb1+ server
cifs: Use help macro to get the mid header size
cifs: Use help macro to get the header preamble size
cifs: skip extra NULL byte in filenames
smb3: missing inode locks in punch hole
smb3: missing inode locks in zero range
If the replace target device reappears after the suspended replace is
cancelled, it blocks the mount operation as it can't find the matching
replace-item in the metadata. As shown below,
BTRFS error (device sda5): replace devid present without an active replace item
To overcome this situation, the user can run the command
btrfs device scan --forget <replace target device>
and try the mount command again. And also, to avoid repeating the issue,
superblock on the devid=0 must be wiped.
wipefs -a device-path-to-devid=0.
This patch adds some info when this situation occurs.
Reported-by: Samuel Greiner <samuel@balkonien.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-btrfs/b4f62b10-b295-26ea-71f9-9a5c9299d42c@balkonien.org/T/
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.0+
Signed-off-by: Anand Jain <anand.jain@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
For extra context, log the contents of the masks under test. This
should help with finding out why a certain test fails.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CABVgOSkPXBc-PWk1zBZRQ_Tt+Sz1ruFHBj3ixojymZF=Vi4tpQ@mail.gmail.com/
Suggested-by: David Gow <davidgow@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Sander Vanheule <sander@svanheule.net>
Signed-off-by: Yury Norov <yury.norov@gmail.com>
The decompressors may be called while in an atomic section. So move the
kmalloc() out of this path, and into the "page actor" init function.
This fixes a regression introduced by commit
f268eedddf35 ("squashfs: extend "page actor" to handle missing pages")
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220822215430.15933-1-phillip@squashfs.org.uk
Fixes: f268eedddf35 ("squashfs: extend "page actor" to handle missing pages")
Reported-by: Chris Murphy <lists@colorremedies.com>
Signed-off-by: Phillip Lougher <phillip@squashfs.org.uk>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Pull misc x86 fixes from Ingo Molnar:
- Fix PAT on Xen, which caused i915 driver failures
- Fix compat INT 80 entry crash on Xen PV guests
- Fix 'MMIO Stale Data' mitigation status reporting on older Intel CPUs
- Fix RSB stuffing regressions
- Fix ORC unwinding on ftrace trampolines
- Add Intel Raptor Lake CPU model number
- Fix (work around) a SEV-SNP bootloader bug providing bogus values in
boot_params->cc_blob_address, by ignoring the value on !SEV-SNP
bootups.
- Fix SEV-SNP early boot failure
- Fix the objtool list of noreturn functions and annotate snp_abort(),
which bug confused objtool on gcc-12.
- Fix the documentation for retbleed
* tag 'x86-urgent-2022-08-28' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
Documentation/ABI: Mention retbleed vulnerability info file for sysfs
x86/sev: Mark snp_abort() noreturn
x86/sev: Don't use cc_platform_has() for early SEV-SNP calls
x86/boot: Don't propagate uninitialized boot_params->cc_blob_address
x86/cpu: Add new Raptor Lake CPU model number
x86/unwind/orc: Unwind ftrace trampolines with correct ORC entry
x86/nospec: Fix i386 RSB stuffing
x86/nospec: Unwreck the RSB stuffing
x86/bugs: Add "unknown" reporting for MMIO Stale Data
x86/entry: Fix entry_INT80_compat for Xen PV guests
x86/PAT: Have pat_enabled() properly reflect state when running on Xen
SMB1 server's header_preamble_size is not 0, add use is_smb1 function
to simplify the code, no actual functional changes.
Reviewed-by: Paulo Alcantara (SUSE) <pc@cjr.nz>
Signed-off-by: Zhang Xiaoxu <zhangxiaoxu5@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>
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