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Pull x86/pti updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"Another set of melted spectrum updates:
- Iron out the last late microcode loading issues by actually
checking whether new microcode is present and preventing the CPU
synchronization to run into a timeout induced hang.
- Remove Skylake C2 from the microcode blacklist according to the
latest Intel documentation
- Fix the VM86 POPF emulation which traps if VIP is set, but VIF is
not. Enhance the selftests to catch that kind of issue
- Annotate indirect calls/jumps for objtool on 32bit. This is not a
functional issue, but for consistency sake its the right thing to
do.
- Fix a jump label build warning observed on SPARC64 which uses 32bit
storage for the code location which is casted to 64 bit pointer w/o
extending it to 64bit first.
- Add two new cpufeature bits. Not really an urgent issue, but
provides them for both x86 and x86/kvm work. No impact on the
current kernel"
* 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/microcode: Fix CPU synchronization routine
x86/microcode: Attempt late loading only when new microcode is present
x86/speculation: Remove Skylake C2 from Speculation Control microcode blacklist
jump_label: Fix sparc64 warning
x86/speculation, objtool: Annotate indirect calls/jumps for objtool on 32-bit kernels
x86/vm86/32: Fix POPF emulation
selftests/x86/entry_from_vm86: Add test cases for POPF
selftests/x86/entry_from_vm86: Exit with 1 if we fail
x86/cpufeatures: Add Intel PCONFIG cpufeature
x86/cpufeatures: Add Intel Total Memory Encryption cpufeature
Pull x86 fix from Thomas Gleixner:
"A single fix for vmalloc_fault() which uses p*d_huge() unconditionally
whether CONFIG_HUGETLBFS is set or not. In case of CONFIG_HUGETLBFS=n
this results in a crash as p*d_huge() returns 0 in that case"
* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/mm: Fix vmalloc_fault to use pXd_large
Emanuel reported an issue with a hang during microcode update because my
dumb idea to use one atomic synchronization variable for both rendezvous
- before and after update - was simply bollocks:
microcode: microcode_reload_late: late_cpus: 4
microcode: __reload_late: cpu 2 entered
microcode: __reload_late: cpu 1 entered
microcode: __reload_late: cpu 3 entered
microcode: __reload_late: cpu 0 entered
microcode: __reload_late: cpu 1 left
microcode: Timeout while waiting for CPUs rendezvous, remaining: 1
CPU1 above would finish, leave and the others will still spin waiting for
it to join.
So do two synchronization atomics instead, which makes the code a lot more
straightforward.
Also, since the update is serialized and it also takes quite some time per
microcode engine, increase the exit timeout by the number of CPUs on the
system.
That's ok because the moment all CPUs are done, that timeout will be cut
short.
Furthermore, panic when some of the CPUs timeout when returning from a
microcode update: we can't allow a system with not all cores updated.
Also, as an optimization, do not do the exit sync if microcode wasn't
updated.
Reported-by: Emanuel Czirai <xftroxgpx@protonmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Emanuel Czirai <xftroxgpx@protonmail.com>
Tested-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Tested-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180314183615.17629-2-bp@alien8.de
Pull irq fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
"Three fixes for irq chip drivers:
- Make sure the allocations in the GIC-V3 ITS driver are large enough
to accomodate the interrupt space
- Fix a misplaced __iomem annotation which causes a splat of 26
sparse warnings
- Remove an unused function in the IMX GPCV2 driver which causes
build warnings"
* 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
irqchip/irq-imx-gpcv2: Remove unused function
irqchip/gic-v3-its: Ensure nr_ites >= nr_lpis
irqchip/gic-v3-its: Fix misplaced __iomem annotations
Gratian Crisan reported that vmalloc_fault() crashes when CONFIG_HUGETLBFS
is not set since the function inadvertently uses pXn_huge(), which always
return 0 in this case. ioremap() does not depend on CONFIG_HUGETLBFS.
Fix vmalloc_fault() to call pXd_large() instead.
Fixes: f4eafd8bcd52 ("x86/mm: Fix vmalloc_fault() to handle large pages properly")
Reported-by: Gratian Crisan <gratian.crisan@ni.com>
Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180313170347.3829-2-toshi.kani@hpe.com
Return UCODE_NEW from the scanning functions to denote that new microcode
was found and only then attempt the expensive synchronization dance.
Reported-by: Emanuel Czirai <xftroxgpx@protonmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Emanuel Czirai <xftroxgpx@protonmail.com>
Tested-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Tested-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180314183615.17629-1-bp@alien8.de
Pull EFI fix from Thomas Gleixner:
"A single fix to prevent partially initialized pointers in mixed mode
(64bit kernel on 32bit UEFI)"
* 'efi-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
efi/libstub/tpm: Initialize pointer variables to zero for mixed mode
Pull irqchip updates for 4.16-rc5 from Marc Zyngier
- IMX GPCv2 cleanup
- GICv3 iomem annontation fixes
- GICv3 ITS minimal ITE allocation now matching the LPIs'.
Pull NFS client bugfixes from Trond Myklebust:
"Hightlights include the following stable fixes:
- NFS: Fix an incorrect type in struct nfs_direct_req
- pNFS: Prevent the layout header refcount going to zero in
pnfs_roc()
- NFS: Fix unstable write completion"
* tag 'nfs-for-4.16-4' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/linux-nfs:
NFS: Fix unstable write completion
pNFS: Prevent the layout header refcount going to zero in pnfs_roc()
NFS: Fix an incorrect type in struct nfs_direct_req
In accordance with Intel's microcode revision guidance from March 6 MCU
rev 0xc2 is cleared on both Skylake H/S and Skylake Xeon E3 processors
that share CPUID 506E3.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Sergeyev <sergeev917@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Jia Zhang <qianyue.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Kyle Huey <me@kylehuey.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180313193856.GA8580@localhost.localdomain
Pull KVM fixes from Paolo Bonzini:
"PPC:
- fix bug leading to lost IPIs and smp_call_function_many() lockups
on POWER9
ARM:
- locking fix
- reset fix
- GICv2 multi-source SGI injection fix
- GICv2-on-v3 MMIO synchronization fix
- make the console less verbose.
x86:
- fix device passthrough on AMD SME"
* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm:
KVM: x86: Fix device passthrough when SME is active
kvm: arm/arm64: vgic-v3: Tighten synchronization for guests using v2 on v3
KVM: arm/arm64: vgic: Don't populate multiple LRs with the same vintid
KVM: arm/arm64: Reduce verbosity of KVM init log
KVM: arm/arm64: Reset mapped IRQs on VM reset
KVM: arm/arm64: Avoid vcpu_load for other vcpu ioctls than KVM_RUN
KVM: arm/arm64: vgic: Add missing irq_lock to vgic_mmio_read_pending
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix trap number return from __kvmppc_vcore_entry
As reported by Jeremy Cline, running the new TPM libstub code in mixed
mode (i.e., 64-bit kernel on 32-bit UEFI) results in hangs when invoking
the TCG2 protocol, or when accessing the log_tbl pool allocation.
The reason turns out to be that in both cases, the 64-bit pointer
variables are not fully initialized by the 32-bit EFI code, and so
we should take care to zero initialize these variables beforehand,
or we'll end up dereferencing bogus pointers.
Reported-by: Jeremy Cline <jeremy@jcline.org>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: hdegoede@redhat.com
Cc: jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com
Cc: javierm@redhat.com
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: tweek@google.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180313140922.17266-2-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Document support for the Interrupt Controller for Externel Devices
(INTC-EX) in the Renesas M3-N (r8a77965) SoC.
No driver update is needed.
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms+renesas@verge.net.au>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: devicetree@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Cc: linux-renesas-soc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1519658712-22910-1-git-send-email-geert%2Brenesas@glider.be
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