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Pull powerpc fix from Michael Ellerman:
"One fix for a regression in my commit adding KUAP (Kernel User Access
Prevention) on Radix, which incorrectly touched the AMR in the early
machine check handler.
Thanks to Nicholas Piggin"
* tag 'powerpc-5.2-7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux:
powerpc/64s/exception: Fix machine check early corrupting AMR
Pull SMP fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
"Two small changes for the cpu hotplug code:
- Prevent out of bounds access which actually might crash the machine
caused by a missing bounds check in the fail injection code
- Warn about unsupported migitation mode command line arguments to
make people aware that they typoed the paramater. Not necessarily a
fix but quite some people tripped over that"
* 'smp-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
cpu/hotplug: Fix out-of-bounds read when setting fail state
cpu/speculation: Warn on unsupported mitigations= parameter
The early machine check runs in real mode, so locking is unnecessary.
Worse, the windup does not restore AMR, so this can result in a false
KUAP fault after a recoverable machine check hits inside a user copy
operation.
Fix this similarly to HMI by just avoiding the kuap lock in the
early machine check handler (it will be set by the late handler that
runs in virtual mode if that runs). If the virtual mode handler is
reached, it will lock and restore the AMR.
Fixes: 890274c2dc4c0 ("powerpc/64s: Implement KUAP for Radix MMU")
Cc: Russell Currey <ruscur@russell.cc>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Pull x86 fixes from Ingo Molnar:
"Misc fixes all over the place:
- might_sleep() atomicity fix in the microcode loader
- resctrl boundary condition fix
- APIC arithmethics bug fix for frequencies >= 4.2 GHz
- three 5-level paging crash fixes
- two speculation fixes
- a perf/stacktrace fix"
* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/unwind/orc: Fall back to using frame pointers for generated code
perf/x86: Always store regs->ip in perf_callchain_kernel()
x86/speculation: Allow guests to use SSBD even if host does not
x86/mm: Handle physical-virtual alignment mismatch in phys_p4d_init()
x86/boot/64: Add missing fixup_pointer() for next_early_pgt access
x86/boot/64: Fix crash if kernel image crosses page table boundary
x86/apic: Fix integer overflow on 10 bit left shift of cpu_khz
x86/resctrl: Prevent possible overrun during bitmap operations
x86/microcode: Fix the microcode load on CPU hotplug for real
Setting invalid value to /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/hotplug/fail
can control `struct cpuhp_step *sp` address, results in the following
global-out-of-bounds read.
Reproducer:
# echo -2 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/hotplug/fail
KASAN report:
BUG: KASAN: global-out-of-bounds in write_cpuhp_fail+0x2cd/0x2e0
Read of size 8 at addr ffffffff89734438 by task bash/1941
CPU: 0 PID: 1941 Comm: bash Not tainted 5.2.0-rc6+ #31
Call Trace:
write_cpuhp_fail+0x2cd/0x2e0
dev_attr_store+0x58/0x80
sysfs_kf_write+0x13d/0x1a0
kernfs_fop_write+0x2bc/0x460
vfs_write+0x1e1/0x560
ksys_write+0x126/0x250
do_syscall_64+0xc1/0x390
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe
RIP: 0033:0x7f05e4f4c970
The buggy address belongs to the variable:
cpu_hotplug_lock+0x98/0xa0
Memory state around the buggy address:
ffffffff89734300: fa fa fa fa 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
ffffffff89734380: fa fa fa fa 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>ffffffff89734400: 00 00 00 00 fa fa fa fa 00 00 00 00 fa fa fa fa
^
ffffffff89734480: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
ffffffff89734500: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Add a sanity check for the value written from user space.
Fixes: 1db49484f21ed ("smp/hotplug: Hotplug state fail injection")
Signed-off-by: Eiichi Tsukata <devel@etsukata.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190627024732.31672-1-devel@etsukata.com
When a guest vcpu moves from one physical thread to another it is
necessary for the host to perform a tlb flush on the previous core if
another vcpu from the same guest is going to run there. This is because the
guest may use the local form of the tlb invalidation instruction meaning
stale tlb entries would persist where it previously ran. This is handled
on guest entry in kvmppc_check_need_tlb_flush() which calls
flush_guest_tlb() to perform the tlb flush.
Previously the generic radix__local_flush_tlb_lpid_guest() function was
used, however the functionality was reimplemented in flush_guest_tlb()
to avoid the trace_tlbie() call as the flushing may be done in real
mode. The reimplementation in flush_guest_tlb() was missing an erat
invalidation after flushing the tlb.
This lead to observable memory corruption in the guest due to the
caching of stale translations. Fix this by adding the erat invalidation.
Fixes: 70ea13f6e609 ("KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Flush TLB on secondary radix threads")
Signed-off-by: Suraj Jitindar Singh <sjitindarsingh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Pull perf fixes from Ingo Molnar:
"Various fixes, most of them related to bugs perf fuzzing found in the
x86 code"
* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
perf/x86/regs: Use PERF_REG_EXTENDED_MASK
perf/x86: Remove pmu->pebs_no_xmm_regs
perf/x86: Clean up PEBS_XMM_REGS
perf/x86/regs: Check reserved bits
perf/x86: Disable extended registers for non-supported PMUs
perf/ioctl: Add check for the sample_period value
perf/core: Fix perf_sample_regs_user() mm check
The ORC unwinder can't unwind through BPF JIT generated code because
there are no ORC entries associated with the code.
If an ORC entry isn't available, try to fall back to frame pointers. If
BPF and other generated code always do frame pointer setup (even with
CONFIG_FRAME_POINTERS=n) then this will allow ORC to unwind through most
generated code despite there being no corresponding ORC entries.
Fixes: d15d356887e7 ("perf/x86: Make perf callchains work without CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER")
Reported-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/b6f69208ddff4343d56b7bfac1fc7cfcd62689e8.1561595111.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Currently, if the user specifies an unsupported mitigation strategy on the
kernel command line, it will be ignored silently. The code will fall back
to the default strategy, possibly leaving the system more vulnerable than
expected.
This may happen due to e.g. a simple typo, or, for a stable kernel release,
because not all mitigation strategies have been backported.
Inform the user by printing a message.
Fixes: 98af8452945c5565 ("cpu/speculation: Add 'mitigations=' cmdline option")
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190516070935.22546-1-geert@linux-m68k.org
With the strict dma mask checking introduced with the switch to
the generic DMA direct code common wifi chips on 32-bit powerbooks
stopped working. Add a 30-bit ZONE_DMA to the 32-bit pmac builds
to allow them to reliably allocate dma coherent memory.
Fixes: 65a21b71f948 ("powerpc/dma: remove dma_nommu_dma_supported")
Reported-by: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Tested-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Acked-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Tested-by: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Pull irq fixes from Ingo Molnar:
"Diverse irqchip driver fixes"
* 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
irqchip/gic-v3-its: Fix command queue pointer comparison bug
irqchip/mips-gic: Use the correct local interrupt map registers
irqchip/ti-sci-inta: Fix kernel crash if irq_create_fwspec_mapping fail
irqchip/irq-csky-mpintc: Support auto irq deliver to all cpus
Use the macro defined in kernel ABI header to replace the local name.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
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: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1559081314-9714-5-git-send-email-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
The stacktrace_map_raw_tp BPF selftest is failing because the RIP saved by
perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs() isn't getting saved by perf_callchain_kernel().
This was broken by the following commit:
d15d356887e7 ("perf/x86: Make perf callchains work without CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER")
With that change, when starting with non-HW regs, the unwinder starts
with the current stack frame and unwinds until it passes up the frame
which called perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs(). So regs->ip needs to be
saved deliberately.
Fixes: d15d356887e7 ("perf/x86: Make perf callchains work without CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER")
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/3975a298fa52b506fea32666d8ff6a13467eee6d.1561595111.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
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