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Pull x86 fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
"A set of fixes for x86:
- Prevent multiplication result truncation on 32bit. Introduced with
the early timestamp reworrk.
- Ensure microcode revision storage to be consistent under all
circumstances
- Prevent write tearing of PTEs
- Prevent confusion of user and kernel reegisters when dumping fatal
signals verbosely
- Make an error return value in a failure path of the vector
allocation negative. Returning EINVAL might the caller assume
success and causes further wreckage.
- A trivial kernel doc warning fix"
* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/mm: Use WRITE_ONCE() when setting PTEs
x86/apic/vector: Make error return value negative
x86/process: Don't mix user/kernel regs in 64bit __show_regs()
x86/tsc: Prevent result truncation on 32bit
x86: Fix kernel-doc atomic.h warnings
x86/microcode: Update the new microcode revision unconditionally
x86/microcode: Make sure boot_cpu_data.microcode is up-to-date
Pull timekeeping fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
"Two fixes for timekeeping:
- Revert to the previous kthread based update, which is unfortunately
required due to lock ordering issues. The removal caused boot
failures on old Core2 machines. Add a proper comment why the thread
needs to stay to prevent accidental removal in the future.
- Fix a silly typo in a function declaration"
* 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
clocksource: Revert "Remove kthread"
timekeeping: Fix declaration of read_persistent_wall_and_boot_offset()
When page-table entries are set, the compiler might optimize their
assignment by using multiple instructions to set the PTE. This might
turn into a security hazard if the user somehow manages to use the
interim PTE. L1TF does not make our lives easier, making even an interim
non-present PTE a security hazard.
Using WRITE_ONCE() to set PTEs and friends should prevent this potential
security hazard.
I skimmed the differences in the binary with and without this patch. The
differences are (obviously) greater when CONFIG_PARAVIRT=n as more
code optimizations are possible. For better and worse, the impact on the
binary with this patch is pretty small. Skimming the code did not cause
anything to jump out as a security hazard, but it seems that at least
move_soft_dirty_pte() caused set_pte_at() to use multiple writes.
Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180902181451.80520-1-namit@vmware.com
Pull irqchip fix from Thomas Gleixner:
"A single fix to prevent allocating excessive memory in the GIC/ITS
driver.
While the subject of the patch might suggest otherwise this is a real
fix as some SoCs exceed the memory allocation limits and fail to boot"
* 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
irqchip/gic-v3-its: Cap lpi_id_bits to reduce memory footprint
I turns out that the silly spawn kthread from worker was actually needed.
clocksource_watchdog_kthread() cannot be called directly from
clocksource_watchdog_work(), because clocksource_select() calls
timekeeping_notify() which uses stop_machine(). One cannot use
stop_machine() from a workqueue() due lock inversions wrt CPU hotplug.
Revert the patch but add a comment that explain why we jump through such
apparently silly hoops.
Fixes: 7197e77abcb6 ("clocksource: Remove kthread")
Reported-by: Siegfried Metz <frame@mailbox.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Niklas Cassel <niklas.cassel@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Kevin Shanahan <kevin@shanahan.id.au>
Tested-by: viktor_jaegerskuepper@freenet.de
Tested-by: Siegfried Metz <frame@mailbox.org>
Cc: rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com
Cc: len.brown@intel.com
Cc: diego.viola@gmail.com
Cc: rui.zhang@intel.com
Cc: bjorn.andersson@linaro.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180905084158.GR24124@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net
activate_managed() returns EINVAL instead of -EINVAL in case of
error. While this is unlikely to happen, the positive return value would
cause further malfunction at the call site.
Fixes: 2db1f959d9dc ("x86/vector: Handle managed interrupts proper")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Pull cpu hotplug fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
"Two fixes for the hotplug state machine code:
- Move the misplaces smb() in the hotplug thread function to the
proper place, otherwise a half update control struct could be
observed
- Prevent state corruption on error rollback, which causes the state
to advance by one and as a consequence skip it in the bringup
sequence"
* 'smp-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
cpu/hotplug: Prevent state corruption on error rollback
cpu/hotplug: Adjust misplaced smb() in cpuhp_thread_fun()
Commit fe8e93504ce8 ("irqchip/gic-v3-its: Use full range of LPIs"), removes
the cap for lpi_id_bits, which causes the following warning to trigger on a
QDF2400 server:
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at mm/page_alloc.c:4066 __alloc_pages_nodemask
...
Call trace:
__alloc_pages_nodemask+0x2d8/0x1188
alloc_pages_current+0x8c/0xd8
its_allocate_prop_table+0x5c/0xb8
its_init+0x220/0x3c0
gic_init_bases+0x250/0x380
gic_acpi_init+0x16c/0x2a4
In its_alloc_lpi_tables(), lpi_id_bits is 24 in QDF2400. The allocation in
allocate_prop_table() tries therefore to allocate 16M (order 12 if
pagesize=4k), which triggers the warning.
As said by MarcL
Capping lpi_id_bits at 16 (which is what we had before) is plenty,
will save a some memory, and gives some margin before we need to push
it up again.
Bring the upper limit of lpi_id_bits back to prevent
Fixes: fe8e93504ce8 ("irqchip/gic-v3-its: Use full range of LPIs")
Suggested-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jia He <jia.he@hxt-semitech.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Tested-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Cc: Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1535432006-2304-1-git-send-email-jia.he@hxt-semitech.com
It is read_persistent_wall_and_boot_offset() and not
read_persistent_clock_and_boot_offset()
Fixes: 3eca993740b8eb40f51 ("timekeeping: Replace read_boot_clock64() with read_persistent_wall_and_boot_offset()")
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@oracle.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180903081533.34366-1-borntraeger@de.ibm.com
When the kernel.print-fatal-signals sysctl has been enabled, a simple
userspace crash will cause the kernel to write a crash dump that contains,
among other things, the kernel gsbase into dmesg.
As suggested by Andy, limit output to pt_regs, FS_BASE and KERNEL_GS_BASE
in this case.
This also moves the bitness-specific logic from show_regs() into
process_{32,64}.c.
Fixes: 45807a1df9f5 ("vdso: print fatal signals")
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bpetkov@suse.de>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180831194151.123586-1-jannh@google.com
Pull random driver fix from Ted Ts'o:
"Fix things so the choice of whether or not to trust RDRAND to
initialize the CRNG is configurable via the boot option
random.trust_cpu={on,off}"
* tag 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/random:
random: make CPU trust a boot parameter
When a teardown callback fails, the CPU hotplug code brings the CPU back to
the previous state. The previous state becomes the new target state. The
rollback happens in undo_cpu_down() which increments the state
unconditionally even if the state is already the same as the target.
As a consequence the next CPU hotplug operation will start at the wrong
state. This is easily to observe when __cpu_disable() fails.
Prevent the unconditional undo by checking the state vs. target before
incrementing state and fix up the consequently wrong conditional in the
unplug code which handles the failure of the final CPU take down on the
control CPU side.
Fixes: 4dddfb5faa61 ("smp/hotplug: Rewrite AP state machine core")
Reported-by: Neeraj Upadhyay <neeraju@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Tested-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
Tested-by: Neeraj Upadhyay <neeraju@codeaurora.org>
Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: jiangshanlai@gmail.com
Cc: dzickus@redhat.com
Cc: brendan.jackman@arm.com
Cc: malat@debian.org
Cc: sramana@codeaurora.org
Cc: linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.21.1809051419580.1416@nanos.tec.linutronix.de
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Pull apparmor fix from John Johansen:
"A fix for an issue syzbot discovered last week:
- Fix for bad debug check when converting secids to secctx"
* tag 'apparmor-pr-2018-09-06' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jj/linux-apparmor:
apparmor: fix bad debug check in apparmor_secid_to_secctx()
Pull dma-mapping fixes from Christoph Hellwig:
"A few fixes for the fallout of being a little more pedantic about dma
masks"
* tag 'dma-mapping-4.19-2' of git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/dma-mapping:
of/platform: initialise AMBA default DMA masks
sparc: set a default 32-bit dma mask for OF devices
kernel/dma/direct: take DMA offset into account in dma_direct_supported