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Pull EFI fixes from Ingo Molnar:
"This tree reverts a GICv3 commit (which was broken) and fixes it in
another way, by adding a memblock build-time entries quirk for ARM64"
* 'efi-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
efi/arm: Revert "Defer persistent reservations until after paging_init()"
arm64, mm, efi: Account for GICv3 LPI tables in static memblock reserve table
Pull x86 fixes from Ingo Molnar:
"Three changes:
- An UV fix/quirk to pull UV BIOS calls into the efi_runtime_lock
locking regime. (This done by aliasing __efi_uv_runtime_lock to
efi_runtime_lock, which should make the quirk nature obvious and
maintain the general policy that the EFI lock (name...) isn't
exposed to drivers.)
- Our version of MAGA: Make a.out Great Again.
- Add a new Intel model name enumerator to an upstream header to help
reduce dependencies going forward"
* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/platform/UV: Use efi_runtime_lock to serialise BIOS calls
x86/CPU: Add Icelake model number
x86/a.out: Clear the dump structure initially
This reverts commit eff896288872d687d9662000ec9ae11b6d61766f, which
deferred the processing of persistent memory reservations to a point
where the memory may have already been allocated and overwritten,
defeating the purpose.
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190215123333.21209-3-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Pull perf fixes from Ingo Molnar:
"Two fixes on the kernel side: fix an over-eager condition that failed
larger perf ring-buffer sizes, plus fix crashes in the Intel BTS code
for a corner case, found by fuzzing"
* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
perf/core: Fix impossible ring-buffer sizes warning
perf/x86: Add check_period PMU callback
Calls into UV firmware must be protected against concurrency, expose the
efi_runtime_lock to the UV platform, and use it to serialise UV BIOS
calls.
Signed-off-by: Hedi Berriche <hedi.berriche@hpe.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Russ Anderson <rja@hpe.com>
Reviewed-by: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@hpe.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Travis <mike.travis@hpe.com>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andy@infradead.org>
Cc: Bhupesh Sharma <bhsharma@redhat.com>
Cc: Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-efi <linux-efi@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.9+
Cc: Steve Wahl <steve.wahl@hpe.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: x86-ml <x86@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190213193413.25560-5-hedi.berriche@hpe.com
In the irqchip and EFI code, we have what basically amounts to a quirk
to work around a peculiarity in the GICv3 architecture, which permits
the system memory address of LPI tables to be programmable only once
after a CPU reset. This means kexec kernels must use the same memory
as the first kernel, and thus ensure that this memory has not been
given out for other purposes by the time the ITS init code runs, which
is not very early for secondary CPUs.
On systems with many CPUs, these reservations could overflow the
memblock reservation table, and this was addressed in commit:
eff896288872 ("efi/arm: Defer persistent reservations until after paging_init()")
However, this turns out to have made things worse, since the allocation
of page tables and heap space for the resized memblock reservation table
itself may overwrite the regions we are attempting to reserve, which may
cause all kinds of corruption, also considering that the ITS will still
be poking bits into that memory in response to incoming MSIs.
So instead, let's grow the static memblock reservation table on such
systems so it can accommodate these reservations at an earlier time.
This will permit us to revert the above commit in a subsequent patch.
[ mingo: Minor cleanups. ]
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190215123333.21209-2-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Pull powerpc fix from Michael Ellerman:
"Just one fix, for pgd/pud_present() which were broken on big endian
since v4.20, leading to possible data corruption.
Thanks to: Aneesh Kumar K.V., Erhard F., Jan Kara"
* tag 'powerpc-5.0-5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux:
powerpc/64s: Fix possible corruption on big endian due to pgd/pud_present()
The following commit:
9dff0aa95a32 ("perf/core: Don't WARN() for impossible ring-buffer sizes")
results in perf recording failures with larger mmap areas:
root@skl:/tmp# perf record -g -a
failed to mmap with 12 (Cannot allocate memory)
The root cause is that the following condition is buggy:
if (order_base_2(size) >= MAX_ORDER)
goto fail;
The problem is that @size is in bytes and MAX_ORDER is in pages,
so the right test is:
if (order_base_2(size) >= PAGE_SHIFT+MAX_ORDER)
goto fail;
Fix it.
Reported-by: "Jin, Yao" <yao.jin@linux.intel.com>
Bisected-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Analyzed-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Julien Thierry <julien.thierry@arm.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.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: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Fixes: 9dff0aa95a32 ("perf/core: Don't WARN() for impossible ring-buffer sizes")
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Add the CPUID model number of Icelake (ICL) mobile processors to the
Intel family list. Icelake U/Y series uses model number 0x7E.
Signed-off-by: Rajneesh Bhardwaj <rajneesh.bhardwaj@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "David E. Box" <david.e.box@intel.com>
Cc: dvhart@infradead.org
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Qiuxu Zhuo <qiuxu.zhuo@intel.com>
Cc: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: x86-ml <x86@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190214115712.19642-2-rajneesh.bhardwaj@linux.intel.com
Pull SCSI fixes from James Bottomley:
"Two fairly small fixes: the qla one is a panic inducing use after free
and the entropy fix may seem minor but it has had huge userspace
impact thanks to an unrelated change in openssl that causes sshd to
refuse logins until it has enough entropy for the session keys, which
causes tens of minutes delay before the affected systems allow logins
after reboot"
* tag 'scsi-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi:
scsi: qla2xxx: Fix panic from use after free in qla2x00_async_tm_cmd
scsi: sd: fix entropy gathering for most rotational disks
Pull arch/csky fixes from Guo Ren:
"Here are some fixup patches for 5.0-rc6"
* tag 'csky-for-linus-5.0-rc6' of git://github.com/c-sky/csky-linux:
csky: Fixup dead loop in show_stack
csky: Fixup io-range page attribute for mmap("/dev/mem")
csky: coding convention: Use task_stack_page
csky: Fixup wrong pt_regs size
csky: Fixup _PAGE_GLOBAL bit for 610 tlb entry
In v4.20 we changed our pgd/pud_present() to check for _PAGE_PRESENT
rather than just checking that the value is non-zero, e.g.:
static inline int pgd_present(pgd_t pgd)
{
- return !pgd_none(pgd);
+ return (pgd_raw(pgd) & cpu_to_be64(_PAGE_PRESENT));
}
Unfortunately this is broken on big endian, as the result of the
bitwise & is truncated to int, which is always zero because
_PAGE_PRESENT is 0x8000000000000000ul. This means pgd_present() and
pud_present() are always false at compile time, and the compiler
elides the subsequent code.
Remarkably with that bug present we are still able to boot and run
with few noticeable effects. However under some work loads we are able
to trigger a warning in the ext4 code:
WARNING: CPU: 11 PID: 29593 at fs/ext4/inode.c:3927 .ext4_set_page_dirty+0x70/0xb0
CPU: 11 PID: 29593 Comm: debugedit Not tainted 4.20.0-rc1 #1
...
NIP .ext4_set_page_dirty+0x70/0xb0
LR .set_page_dirty+0xa0/0x150
Call Trace:
.set_page_dirty+0xa0/0x150
.unmap_page_range+0xbf0/0xe10
.unmap_vmas+0x84/0x130
.unmap_region+0xe8/0x190
.__do_munmap+0x2f0/0x510
.__vm_munmap+0x80/0x110
.__se_sys_munmap+0x14/0x30
system_call+0x5c/0x70
The fix is simple, we need to convert the result of the bitwise & to
an int before returning it.
Thanks to Erhard, Jan Kara and Aneesh for help with debugging.
Fixes: da7ad366b497 ("powerpc/mm/book3s: Update pmd_present to look at _PAGE_PRESENT bit")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.20+
Reported-by: Erhard F. <erhard_f@mailbox.org>
Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Vince (and later on Ravi) reported crashes in the BTS code during
fuzzing with the following backtrace:
general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI
...
RIP: 0010:perf_prepare_sample+0x8f/0x510
...
Call Trace:
<IRQ>
? intel_pmu_drain_bts_buffer+0x194/0x230
intel_pmu_drain_bts_buffer+0x160/0x230
? tick_nohz_irq_exit+0x31/0x40
? smp_call_function_single_interrupt+0x48/0xe0
? call_function_single_interrupt+0xf/0x20
? call_function_single_interrupt+0xa/0x20
? x86_schedule_events+0x1a0/0x2f0
? x86_pmu_commit_txn+0xb4/0x100
? find_busiest_group+0x47/0x5d0
? perf_event_set_state.part.42+0x12/0x50
? perf_mux_hrtimer_restart+0x40/0xb0
intel_pmu_disable_event+0xae/0x100
? intel_pmu_disable_event+0xae/0x100
x86_pmu_stop+0x7a/0xb0
x86_pmu_del+0x57/0x120
event_sched_out.isra.101+0x83/0x180
group_sched_out.part.103+0x57/0xe0
ctx_sched_out+0x188/0x240
ctx_resched+0xa8/0xd0
__perf_event_enable+0x193/0x1e0
event_function+0x8e/0xc0
remote_function+0x41/0x50
flush_smp_call_function_queue+0x68/0x100
generic_smp_call_function_single_interrupt+0x13/0x30
smp_call_function_single_interrupt+0x3e/0xe0
call_function_single_interrupt+0xf/0x20
</IRQ>
The reason is that while event init code does several checks
for BTS events and prevents several unwanted config bits for
BTS event (like precise_ip), the PERF_EVENT_IOC_PERIOD allows
to create BTS event without those checks being done.
Following sequence will cause the crash:
If we create an 'almost' BTS event with precise_ip and callchains,
and it into a BTS event it will crash the perf_prepare_sample()
function because precise_ip events are expected to come
in with callchain data initialized, but that's not the
case for intel_pmu_drain_bts_buffer() caller.
Adding a check_period callback to be called before the period
is changed via PERF_EVENT_IOC_PERIOD. It will deny the change
if the event would become BTS. Plus adding also the limit_period
check as well.
Reported-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190204123532.GA4794@krava
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
dump_thread32() in aout_core_dump() does not clear the user32 structure
allocated on the stack as the first thing on function entry.
As a result, the dump.u_comm, dump.u_ar0 and dump.signal which get
assigned before the clearing, get overwritten.
Rename that function to fill_dump() to make it clear what it does and
call it first thing.
This was caught while staring at a patch by Derek Robson
<robsonde@gmail.com>.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Derek Robson <robsonde@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michael Matz <matz@suse.de>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190202005512.3144-1-robsonde@gmail.com
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