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Pull x86/pti updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"Yet another pile of melted spectrum related updates:
- Drop native vsyscall support finally as it causes more trouble than
benefit.
- Make microcode loading more robust. There were a few issues
especially related to late loading which are now surfacing because
late loading of the IB* microcodes addressing spectre issues has
become more widely used.
- Simplify and robustify the syscall handling in the entry code
- Prevent kprobes on the entry trampoline code which lead to kernel
crashes when the probe hits before CR3 is updated
- Don't check microcode versions when running on hypervisors as they
are considered as lying anyway.
- Fix the 32bit objtool build and a coment typo"
* 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/kprobes: Fix kernel crash when probing .entry_trampoline code
x86/pti: Fix a comment typo
x86/microcode: Synchronize late microcode loading
x86/microcode: Request microcode on the BSP
x86/microcode/intel: Look into the patch cache first
x86/microcode: Do not upload microcode if CPUs are offline
x86/microcode/intel: Writeback and invalidate caches before updating microcode
x86/microcode/intel: Check microcode revision before updating sibling threads
x86/microcode: Get rid of struct apply_microcode_ctx
x86/spectre_v2: Don't check microcode versions when running under hypervisors
x86/vsyscall/64: Drop "native" vsyscalls
x86/entry/64/compat: Save one instruction in entry_INT80_compat()
x86/entry: Do not special-case clone(2) in compat entry
x86/syscalls: Use COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros for x86-only compat syscalls
x86/syscalls: Use proper syscall definition for sys_ioperm()
x86/entry: Remove stale syscall prototype
x86/syscalls/32: Simplify $entry == $compat entries
objtool: Fix 32-bit build
Pull timer fix from Thomas Gleixner:
"Just a single fix which adds a missing Kconfig dependency to avoid
unmet dependency warnings"
* 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
clocksource/atmel-st: Add 'depends on HAS_IOMEM' to fix unmet dependency
Disable the kprobe probing of the entry trampoline:
.entry_trampoline is a code area that is used to ensure page table
isolation between userspace and kernelspace.
At the beginning of the execution of the trampoline, we load the
kernel's CR3 register. This has the effect of enabling the translation
of the kernel virtual addresses to physical addresses. Before this
happens most kernel addresses can not be translated because the running
process' CR3 is still used.
If a kprobe is placed on the trampoline code before that change of the
CR3 register happens the kernel crashes because int3 handling pages are
not accessible.
To fix this, add the .entry_trampoline section to the kprobe blacklist
to prohibit the probing of code before all the kernel pages are
accessible.
Signed-off-by: Francis Deslauriers <francis.deslauriers@efficios.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com
Cc: mhiramat@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1520565492-4637-2-git-send-email-francis.deslauriers@efficios.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Pull RAS fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
"Two small fixes for RAS/MCE:
- Serialize sysfs changes to avoid concurrent modificaiton of
underlying data
- Add microcode revision to Machine Check records. This should have
been there forever, but now with the broken microcode versions in
the wild it has become important"
* 'ras-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/MCE: Serialize sysfs changes
x86/MCE: Save microcode revision in machine check records
The ATMEL_ST config selects MFD_SYSCON, but does not depend on HAS_IOMEM.
Compile testing on architecture without HAS_IOMEM causes "unmet direct
dependencies" in Kconfig phase. Detected by "make ARCH=score allyesconfig".
Add the proper dependency to the ATMEL_ST config.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1520335233-11277-1-git-send-email-yamada.masahiro@socionext.com
s/visinble/visible/
Signed-off-by: Seunghun Han <kkamagui@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1520397135-132809-1-git-send-email-kkamagui@gmail.com
Pull perf updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"Another set of perf updates:
- Fix a Skylake Uncore event format declaration
- Prevent perf pipe mode from crahsing which was caused by a missing
buffer allocation
- Make the perf top popup message which tells the user that it uses
fallback mode on older kernels a debug message.
- Make perf context rescheduling work correcctly
- Robustify the jump error drawing in perf browser mode so it does
not try to create references to NULL initialized offset entries
- Make trigger_on() robust so it does not enable the trigger before
everything is set up correctly to handle it
- Make perf auxtrace respect the --no-itrace option so it does not
try to queue AUX data for decoding.
- Prevent having different number of field separators in CVS output
lines when a counter is not supported.
- Make the perf kallsyms man page usage behave like it does for all
other perf commands.
- Synchronize the kernel headers"
* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
perf/core: Fix ctx_event_type in ctx_resched()
perf tools: Fix trigger class trigger_on()
perf auxtrace: Prevent decoding when --no-itrace
perf stat: Fix CVS output format for non-supported counters
tools headers: Sync x86's cpufeatures.h
tools headers: Sync copy of kvm UAPI headers
perf record: Fix crash in pipe mode
perf annotate browser: Be more robust when drawing jump arrows
perf top: Fix annoying fallback message on older kernels
perf kallsyms: Fix the usage on the man page
perf/x86/intel/uncore: Fix Skylake UPI event format
The check_interval file in
/sys/devices/system/machinecheck/machinecheck<cpu number>
directory is a global timer value for MCE polling. If it is changed by one
CPU, mce_restart() broadcasts the event to other CPUs to delete and restart
the MCE polling timer and __mcheck_cpu_init_timer() reinitializes the
mce_timer variable.
If more than one CPU writes a specific value to the check_interval file
concurrently, mce_timer is not protected from such concurrent accesses and
all kinds of explosions happen. Since only root can write to those sysfs
variables, the issue is not a big deal security-wise.
However, concurrent writes to these configuration variables is void of
reason so the proper thing to do is to serialize the access with a mutex.
Boris:
- Make store_int_with_restart() use device_store_ulong() to filter out
negative intervals
- Limit min interval to 1 second
- Correct locking
- Massage commit message
Signed-off-by: Seunghun Han <kkamagui@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: linux-edac <linux-edac@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180302202706.9434-1-kkamagui@gmail.com
Pull virtio bugfix from Michael Tsirkin:
"A bugfix for error handling in virtio"
* tag 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost:
virtio_ring: fix num_free handling in error case
Original idea by Ashok, completely rewritten by Borislav.
Before you read any further: the early loading method is still the
preferred one and you should always do that. The following patch is
improving the late loading mechanism for long running jobs and cloud use
cases.
Gather all cores and serialize the microcode update on them by doing it
one-by-one to make the late update process as reliable as possible and
avoid potential issues caused by the microcode update.
[ Borislav: Rewrite completely. ]
Co-developed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Tested-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Cc: Arjan Van De Ven <arjan.van.de.ven@intel.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180228102846.13447-8-bp@alien8.de
Pull locking fix from Thomas Gleixner:
"rt_mutex_futex_unlock() grew a new irq-off call site, but the function
assumes that its always called from irq enabled context.
Use (un)lock_irqsafe() to handle the new call site correctly"
* 'locking-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
rtmutex: Make rt_mutex_futex_unlock() safe for irq-off callsites
In ctx_resched(), EVENT_FLEXIBLE should be sched_out when EVENT_PINNED is
added. However, ctx_resched() calculates ctx_event_type before checking
this condition. As a result, pinned events will NOT get higher priority
than flexible events.
The following shows this issue on an Intel CPU (where ref-cycles can
only use one hardware counter).
1. First start:
perf stat -C 0 -e ref-cycles -I 1000
2. Then, in the second console, run:
perf stat -C 0 -e ref-cycles:D -I 1000
The second perf uses pinned events, which is expected to have higher
priority. However, because it failed in ctx_resched(). It is never
run.
This patch fixes this by calculating ctx_event_type after re-evaluating
event_type.
Reported-by: Ephraim Park <ephiepark@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: <kernel-team@fb.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Fixes: 487f05e18aa4 ("perf/core: Optimize event rescheduling on active contexts")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180306055504.3283731-1-songliubraving@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Updating microcode used to be relatively rare. Now that it has become
more common we should save the microcode version in a machine check
record to make sure that those people looking at the error have this
important information bundled with the rest of the logged information.
[ Borislav: Simplify a bit. ]
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Yazen Ghannam <yazen.ghannam@amd.com>
Cc: linux-edac <linux-edac@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180301233449.24311-1-tony.luck@intel.com
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