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Pull powerpc fixes from Michael Ellerman:
"A bit of a big batch, partly because I didn't send any last week, and
also just because the BPF fixes happened to land this week.
Summary:
- Fix a regression hit by the IPR SCSI driver, introduced by the
recent addition of MSI domains on pseries.
- A big series including 8 BPF fixes, some with potential security
impact and the rest various code generation issues.
- Fix our program check assembler entry path, which was accidentally
jumping into a gas macro and generating strange stack frames, which
could confuse find_bug().
- A couple of fixes, and related changes, to fix corner cases in our
machine check handling.
- Fix our DMA IOMMU ops, which were not always returning the optimal
DMA mask, leading to at least one device falling back to 32-bit DMA
when it shouldn't.
- A fix for KUAP handling on 32-bit Book3S.
- Fix crashes seen when kdumping on some pseries systems.
Thanks to Naveen N. Rao, Nicholas Piggin, Alexey Kardashevskiy, Cédric
Le Goater, Christophe Leroy, Mahesh Salgaonkar, Abdul Haleem,
Christoph Hellwig, Johan Almbladh, Stan Johnson"
* tag 'powerpc-5.15-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux:
pseries/eeh: Fix the kdump kernel crash during eeh_pseries_init
powerpc/32s: Fix kuap_kernel_restore()
powerpc/pseries/msi: Add an empty irq_write_msi_msg() handler
powerpc/64s: Fix unrecoverable MCE calling async handler from NMI
powerpc/64/interrupt: Reconcile soft-mask state in NMI and fix false BUG
powerpc/64: warn if local irqs are enabled in NMI or hardirq context
powerpc/traps: do not enable irqs in _exception
powerpc/64s: fix program check interrupt emergency stack path
powerpc/bpf ppc32: Fix BPF_SUB when imm == 0x80000000
powerpc/bpf ppc32: Do not emit zero extend instruction for 64-bit BPF_END
powerpc/bpf ppc32: Fix JMP32_JSET_K
powerpc/bpf ppc32: Fix ALU32 BPF_ARSH operation
powerpc/bpf: Emit stf barrier instruction sequences for BPF_NOSPEC
powerpc/security: Add a helper to query stf_barrier type
powerpc/bpf: Fix BPF_SUB when imm == 0x80000000
powerpc/bpf: Fix BPF_MOD when imm == 1
powerpc/bpf: Validate branch ranges
powerpc/lib: Add helper to check if offset is within conditional branch range
powerpc/iommu: Report the correct most efficient DMA mask for PCI devices
Pull objtool fixes from Borislav Petkov:
- Remove an extra section.len member in favour of section.sh_size
- Align .altinstructions section creation with the kernel's by creating
them with entry size of 0
- Fix objtool to convert a reloc symbol to a section offset and not to
not warn about not knowing how
* tag 'objtool_urgent_for_v5.15_rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
objtool: Remove redundant 'len' field from struct section
objtool: Make .altinstructions section entry size consistent
objtool: Remove reloc symbol type checks in get_alt_entry()
On pseries LPAR when an empty slot is assigned to partition OR in single
LPAR mode, kdump kernel crashes during issuing PHB reset.
In the kdump scenario, we traverse all PHBs and issue reset using the
pe_config_addr of the first child device present under each PHB. However
the code assumes that none of the PHB slots can be empty and uses
list_first_entry() to get the first child device under the PHB. Since
list_first_entry() expects the list to be non-empty, it returns an
invalid pci_dn entry and ends up accessing NULL phb pointer under
pci_dn->phb causing kdump kernel crash.
This patch fixes the below kdump kernel crash by skipping empty slots:
audit: initializing netlink subsys (disabled)
thermal_sys: Registered thermal governor 'fair_share'
thermal_sys: Registered thermal governor 'step_wise'
cpuidle: using governor menu
pstore: Registered nvram as persistent store backend
Issue PHB reset ...
audit: type=2000 audit(1631267818.000:1): state=initialized audit_enabled=0 res=1
BUG: Kernel NULL pointer dereference on read at 0x00000268
Faulting instruction address: 0xc000000008101fb0
Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 7 [#1]
LE PAGE_SIZE=64K MMU=Radix SMP NR_CPUS=2048 NUMA pSeries
Modules linked in:
CPU: 7 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/7 Not tainted 5.14.0 #1
NIP: c000000008101fb0 LR: c000000009284ccc CTR: c000000008029d70
REGS: c00000001161b840 TRAP: 0300 Not tainted (5.14.0)
MSR: 8000000002009033 <SF,VEC,EE,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE> CR: 28000224 XER: 20040002
CFAR: c000000008101f0c DAR: 0000000000000268 DSISR: 00080000 IRQMASK: 0
...
NIP pseries_eeh_get_pe_config_addr+0x100/0x1b0
LR __machine_initcall_pseries_eeh_pseries_init+0x2cc/0x350
Call Trace:
0xc00000001161bb80 (unreliable)
__machine_initcall_pseries_eeh_pseries_init+0x2cc/0x350
do_one_initcall+0x60/0x2d0
kernel_init_freeable+0x350/0x3f8
kernel_init+0x3c/0x17c
ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0x64
Fixes: 5a090f7c363fd ("powerpc/pseries: PCIE PHB reset")
Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.ibm.com>
[mpe: Tweak wording and trim oops]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163215558252.413351.8600189949820258982.stgit@jupiter
Pull x86 fixes from Borislav Petkov:
- A FPU fix to properly handle invalid MXCSR values: 32-bit masks them
out due to historical reasons and 64-bit kernels reject them
- A fix to clear X86_FEATURE_SMAP when support for is not
config-enabled
- Three fixes correcting misspelled Kconfig symbols used in code
- Two resctrl object cleanup fixes
- Yet another attempt at fixing the neverending saga of botched x86
timers, this time because some incredibly smart hardware decides to
turn off the HPET timer in a low power state - who cares if the OS is
relying on it...
- Check the full return value range of an SEV VMGEXIT call to determine
whether it returned an error
* tag 'x86_urgent_for_v5.15_rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/fpu: Restore the masking out of reserved MXCSR bits
x86/Kconfig: Correct reference to MWINCHIP3D
x86/platform/olpc: Correct ifdef symbol to intended CONFIG_OLPC_XO15_SCI
x86/entry: Clear X86_FEATURE_SMAP when CONFIG_X86_SMAP=n
x86/entry: Correct reference to intended CONFIG_64_BIT
x86/resctrl: Fix kfree() of the wrong type in domain_add_cpu()
x86/resctrl: Free the ctrlval arrays when domain_setup_mon_state() fails
x86/hpet: Use another crystalball to evaluate HPET usability
x86/sev: Return an error on a returned non-zero SW_EXITINFO1[31:0]
The section structure already contains sh_size, so just remove the extra
'len' member that requires extra mirroring and potential confusion.
Suggested-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210822225037.54620-3-joe.lawrence@redhat.com
Cc: Andy Lavr <andy.lavr@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
At interrupt exit, kuap_kernel_restore() calls kuap_unlock() with the
value contained in regs->kuap. However, when regs->kuap contains
0xffffffff it means that KUAP was not unlocked so calling kuap_unlock()
is unrelevant and results in jeopardising the contents of kernel space
segment registers.
So check that regs->kuap doesn't contain KUAP_NONE before calling
kuap_unlock(). In the meantime it also means that if KUAP has not
been correcly locked back at interrupt exit, it must be locked
before continuing. This is done by checking the content of
current->thread.kuap which was returned by kuap_get_and_assert_locked()
Fixes: 16132529cee5 ("powerpc/32s: Rework Kernel Userspace Access Protection")
Reported-by: Stan Johnson <userm57@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/0d0c4d0f050a637052287c09ba521bad960a2790.1631715131.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu
Pull i2c fixes from Wolfram Sang:
"Three driver bugfixes and one leak fix for the core"
* 'i2c/for-current-fixed' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wsa/linux:
i2c: mlxcpld: Modify register setting for 400KHz frequency
i2c: mlxcpld: Fix criteria for frequency setting
i2c: mediatek: Add OFFSET_EXT_CONF setting back
i2c: acpi: fix resource leak in reconfiguration device addition
Ser Olmy reported a boot failure:
init[1] bad frame in sigreturn frame:(ptrval) ip:b7c9fbe6 sp:bf933310 orax:ffffffff \
in libc-2.33.so[b7bed000+156000]
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x0000000b
CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: init Tainted: G W 5.14.9 #1
Hardware name: Hewlett-Packard HP PC/HP Board, BIOS JD.00.06 12/06/2001
Call Trace:
dump_stack_lvl
dump_stack
panic
do_exit.cold
do_group_exit
get_signal
arch_do_signal_or_restart
? force_sig_info_to_task
? force_sig
exit_to_user_mode_prepare
syscall_exit_to_user_mode
do_int80_syscall_32
entry_INT80_32
on an old 32-bit Intel CPU:
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 6
model name : Celeron (Mendocino)
stepping : 5
microcode : 0x3
Ser bisected the problem to the commit in Fixes.
tglx suggested reverting the rejection of invalid MXCSR values which
this commit introduced and replacing it with what the old code did -
simply masking them out to zero.
Further debugging confirmed his suggestion:
fpu->state.fxsave.mxcsr: 0xb7be13b4, mxcsr_feature_mask: 0xffbf
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at arch/x86/kernel/fpu/signal.c:384 __fpu_restore_sig+0x51f/0x540
so restore the original behavior only for 32-bit kernels where you have
ancient machines with buggy hardware. For 32-bit programs on 64-bit
kernels, user space which supplies wrong MXCSR values is considered
malicious so fail the sigframe restoration there.
Fixes: 6f9866a166cd ("x86/fpu/signal: Let xrstor handle the features to init")
Reported-by: Ser Olmy <ser.olmy@protonmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Tested-by: Ser Olmy <ser.olmy@protonmail.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YVtA67jImg3KlBTw@zn.tnic
Commit e31694e0a7a7 ("objtool: Don't make .altinstructions writable")
aligned objtool-created and kernel-created .altinstructions section
flags, but there remains a minor discrepency in their use of a section
entry size: objtool sets one while the kernel build does not.
While sh_entsize of sizeof(struct alt_instr) seems intuitive, this small
deviation can cause failures with external tooling (kpatch-build).
Fix this by creating new .altinstructions sections with sh_entsize of 0
and then later updating sec->sh_size as alternatives are added to the
section. An added benefit is avoiding the data descriptor and buffer
created by elf_create_section(), but previously unused by
elf_add_alternative().
Fixes: 9bc0bb50727c ("objtool/x86: Rewrite retpoline thunk calls")
Signed-off-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210822225037.54620-2-joe.lawrence@redhat.com
Cc: Andy Lavr <andy.lavr@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
The IPR drivers tests for MSI support at probe time with MSI vector 0
and when done, frees the IRQ with free_irq(). This test was introduced
by 95fecd90397e ("ipr: add test for MSI interrupt support") as an
improvement of commit 5a9ef25b14d3 ("[SCSI] ipr: add MSI support")
because a boot failure was reported on a Bimini PowerPC system:
https://lore.kernel.org/r/1242926159.3007.5.camel@localhost.localdomain
It was finally decided to remove MSI support on Bimini systems in
6eb0ac03899a ("powerpc/maple: Add a quirk to disable MSI for IPR on
Bimini").
Linux 5.15-rc1 added MSI domain support to the pseries machine and
when free_irq is called() in the driver, msi_domain_deactivate() also
is. This resets the MSI table entry of the associate vector by calling
__pci_write_msi_msg() with an empty message and breaks any further
activation of the same vector. In the case of the IPR driver, it
breaks the initialization sequence of the IOA.
Introduce an empty irq_write_msi_msg() handler in the MSI domain of
the pseries machine to avoid clearing the MSI vector entry. Updating
the entry is not strictly necessary since it is initialized by the
underlying hypervisor, PowerVM or QEMU/KVM.
Fixes: a5f3d2c17b07 ("powerpc/pseries/pci: Add MSI domains")
Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>
Reported-by: Abdul Haleem <abdhalee@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.ibm.com>
[mpe: Tweak comment wording and formatting slightly]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210930102535.1047230-1-clg@kaod.org
Pull SCSI fixes from James Bottomley:
"Five fixes, all in drivers.
The big change is the UFS task management rework, with lpfc next and
the rest being fairly minor and obvious fixes"
* tag 'scsi-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi:
scsi: iscsi: Fix iscsi_task use after free
scsi: lpfc: Fix memory overwrite during FC-GS I/O abort handling
scsi: elx: efct: Delete stray unlock statement
scsi: ufs: core: Fix task management completion
scsi: acornscsi: Remove scsi_cmd_to_tag() reference
Change setting for 400KHz frequency support by more accurate value.
Fixes: 66b0c2846ba8 ("i2c: mlxcpld: Add support for I2C bus frequency setting")
Signed-off-by: Vadim Pasternak <vadimp@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@kernel.org>
Commit in Fixes intended to exclude the Winchip series and referred to
CONFIG_WINCHIP3D, but the config symbol is called CONFIG_MWINCHIP3D.
Hence, scripts/checkkconfigsymbols.py warns:
WINCHIP3D
Referencing files: arch/x86/Kconfig
Correct the reference to the intended config symbol.
Fixes: 69b8d3fcabdc ("x86/Kconfig: Exclude i586-class CPUs lacking PAE support from the HIGHMEM64G Kconfig group")
Suggested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210803113531.30720-4-lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com
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