linux-stable.git/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt, branch v5.4.3

x86/speculation: Fix incorrect MDS/TAA mitigation status

2019-11-29T09:09:46+00:00

commit 64870ed1b12e235cfca3f6c6da75b542c973ff78 upstream.

For MDS vulnerable processors with TSX support, enabling either MDS or
TAA mitigations will enable the use of VERW to flush internal processor
buffers at the right code path. IOW, they are either both mitigated
or both not. However, if the command line options are inconsistent,
the vulnerabilites sysfs files may not report the mitigation status
correctly.

For example, with only the "mds=off" option:

  vulnerabilities/mds:Vulnerable; SMT vulnerable
  vulnerabilities/tsx_async_abort:Mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable

The mds vulnerabilities file has wrong status in this case. Similarly,
the taa vulnerability file will be wrong with mds mitigation on, but
taa off.

Change taa_select_mitigation() to sync up the two mitigation status
and have them turned off if both "mds=off" and "tsx_async_abort=off"
are present.

Update documentation to emphasize the fact that both "mds=off" and
"tsx_async_abort=off" have to be specified together for processors that
are affected by both TAA and MDS to be effective.

 [ bp: Massage and add kernel-parameters.txt change too. ]

Fixes: 1b42f017415b ("x86/speculation/taa: Add mitigation for TSX Async Abort")
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long 
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Jiri Kosina 
Cc: Jonathan Corbet 
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf 
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Mark Gross 
Cc: 
Cc: Pawan Gupta 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Tim Chen 
Cc: Tony Luck 
Cc: Tyler Hicks 
Cc: x86-ml 
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191115161445.30809-2-longman@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

kvm: x86: mmu: Recovery of shattered NX large pages

2019-11-04T19:26:00+00:00

The page table pages corresponding to broken down large pages are zapped in
FIFO order, so that the large page can potentially be recovered, if it is
not longer being used for execution.  This removes the performance penalty
for walking deeper EPT page tables.

By default, one large page will last about one hour once the guest
reaches a steady state.

Signed-off-by: Junaid Shahid 
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

kvm: mmu: ITLB_MULTIHIT mitigation

2019-11-04T11:22:02+00:00

With some Intel processors, putting the same virtual address in the TLB
as both a 4 KiB and 2 MiB page can confuse the instruction fetch unit
and cause the processor to issue a machine check resulting in a CPU lockup.

Unfortunately when EPT page tables use huge pages, it is possible for a
malicious guest to cause this situation.

Add a knob to mark huge pages as non-executable. When the nx_huge_pages
parameter is enabled (and we are using EPT), all huge pages are marked as
NX. If the guest attempts to execute in one of those pages, the page is
broken down into 4K pages, which are then marked executable.

This is not an issue for shadow paging (except nested EPT), because then
the host is in control of TLB flushes and the problematic situation cannot
happen.  With nested EPT, again the nested guest can cause problems shadow
and direct EPT is treated in the same way.

[ tglx: Fixup default to auto and massage wording a bit ]

Originally-by: Junaid Shahid 
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

x86/speculation/taa: Add documentation for TSX Async Abort

2019-10-28T07:37:00+00:00

Add the documenation for TSX Async Abort. Include the description of
the issue, how to check the mitigation state, control the mitigation,
guidance for system administrators.

 [ bp: Add proper SPDX tags, touch ups by Josh and me. ]

Co-developed-by: Antonio Gomez Iglesias 

Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta 
Signed-off-by: Antonio Gomez Iglesias 
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Reviewed-by: Mark Gross 
Reviewed-by: Tony Luck 
Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf

x86/tsx: Add "auto" option to the tsx= cmdline parameter

2019-10-28T07:37:00+00:00

Platforms which are not affected by X86_BUG_TAA may want the TSX feature
enabled. Add "auto" option to the TSX cmdline parameter. When tsx=auto
disable TSX when X86_BUG_TAA is present, otherwise enable TSX.

More details on X86_BUG_TAA can be found here:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.html

 [ bp: Extend the arg buffer to accommodate "auto\0". ]

Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta 
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Reviewed-by: Tony Luck 
Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf

x86/cpu: Add a "tsx=" cmdline option with TSX disabled by default

2019-10-28T07:36:58+00:00

Add a kernel cmdline parameter "tsx" to control the Transactional
Synchronization Extensions (TSX) feature. On CPUs that support TSX
control, use "tsx=on|off" to enable or disable TSX. Not specifying this
option is equivalent to "tsx=off". This is because on certain processors
TSX may be used as a part of a speculative side channel attack.

Carve out the TSX controlling functionality into a separate compilation
unit because TSX is a CPU feature while the TSX async abort control
machinery will go to cpu/bugs.c.

 [ bp: - Massage, shorten and clear the arg buffer.
       - Clarifications of the tsx= possible options - Josh.
       - Expand on TSX_CTRL availability - Pawan. ]

Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta 
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf

Merge tag 'for-linus-5.4-rc3-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip

2019-10-12T21:11:21+00:00

Pull xen fixes from Juergen Gross:

 - correct panic handling when running as a Xen guest

 - cleanup the Xen grant driver to remove printing a pointer being
   always NULL

 - remove a soon to be wrong call of of_dma_configure()

* tag 'for-linus-5.4-rc3-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip:
  xen: Stop abusing DT of_dma_configure API
  xen/grant-table: remove unnecessary printing
  x86/xen: Return from panic notifier

x86/xen: Return from panic notifier

2019-10-07T21:53:30+00:00

Currently execution of panic() continues until Xen's panic notifier
(xen_panic_event()) is called at which point we make a hypercall that
never returns.

This means that any notifier that is supposed to be called later as
well as significant part of panic() code (such as pstore writes from
kmsg_dump()) is never executed.

There is no reason for xen_panic_event() to be this last point in
execution since panic()'s emergency_restart() will call into
xen_emergency_restart() from where we can perform our hypercall.

Nevertheless, we will provide xen_legacy_crash boot option that will
preserve original behavior during crash. This option could be used,
for example, if running kernel dumper (which happens after panic
notifiers) is undesirable.

Reported-by: James Dingwall 
Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky 
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross

Merge branch 'next-lockdown' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security

2019-09-28T15:14:15+00:00

Pull kernel lockdown mode from James Morris:
"This is the latest iteration of the kernel lockdown patchset, from
Matthew Garrett, David Howells and others.

From the original description:

This patchset introduces an optional kernel lockdown feature,
intended to strengthen the boundary between UID 0 and the kernel.
When enabled, various pieces of kernel functionality are restricted.
Applications that rely on low-level access to either hardware or the
kernel may cease working as a result - therefore this should not be
enabled without appropriate evaluation beforehand.

The majority of mainstream distributions have been carrying variants
of this patchset for many years now, so there's value in providing a
doesn't meet every distribution requirement, but gets us much closer
to not requiring external patches.

There are two major changes since this was last proposed for mainline:

- Separating lockdown from EFI secure boot. Background discussion is
covered here: https://lwn.net/Articles/751061/

- Implementation as an LSM, with a default stackable lockdown LSM
module. This allows the lockdown feature to be policy-driven,
rather than encoding an implicit policy within the mechanism.

The new locked_down LSM hook is provided to allow LSMs to make a
policy decision around whether kernel functionality that would allow
tampering with or examining the runtime state of the kernel should be
permitted.

The included lockdown LSM provides an implementation with a simple
policy intended for general purpose use. This policy provides a coarse
level of granularity, controllable via the kernel command line:

lockdown={integrity|confidentiality}

Enable the kernel lockdown feature. If set to integrity, kernel features
that allow userland to modify the running kernel are disabled. If set to
confidentiality, kernel features that allow userland to extract
confidential information from the kernel are also disabled.

This may also be controlled via /sys/kernel/security/lockdown and
overriden by kernel configuration.

New or existing LSMs may implement finer-grained controls of the
lockdown features. Refer to the lockdown_reason documentation in
include/linux/security.h for details.

The lockdown feature has had signficant design feedback and review
across many subsystems. This code has been in linux-next for some
weeks, with a few fixes applied along the way.

Stephen Rothwell noted that commit 9d1f8be5cf42 ("bpf: Restrict bpf
when kernel lockdown is in confidentiality mode") is missing a
Signed-off-by from its author. Matthew responded that he is providing
this under category (c) of the DCO"

* 'next-lockdown' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security: (31 commits)
kexec: Fix file verification on S390
security: constify some arrays in lockdown LSM
lockdown: Print current->comm in restriction messages
efi: Restrict efivar_ssdt_load when the kernel is locked down
tracefs: Restrict tracefs when the kernel is locked down
debugfs: Restrict debugfs when the kernel is locked down
kexec: Allow kexec_file() with appropriate IMA policy when locked down
lockdown: Lock down perf when in confidentiality mode
bpf: Restrict bpf when kernel lockdown is in confidentiality mode
lockdown: Lock down tracing and perf kprobes when in confidentiality mode
lockdown: Lock down /proc/kcore
x86/mmiotrace: Lock down the testmmiotrace module
lockdown: Lock down module params that specify hardware parameters (eg. ioport)
lockdown: Lock down TIOCSSERIAL
lockdown: Prohibit PCMCIA CIS storage when the kernel is locked down
acpi: Disable ACPI table override if the kernel is locked down
acpi: Ignore acpi_rsdp kernel param when the kernel has been locked down
ACPI: Limit access to custom_method when the kernel is locked down
x86/msr: Restrict MSR access when the kernel is locked down
x86: Lock down IO port access when the kernel is locked down
...

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

2019-09-24T23:10:23+00:00

Merge updates from Andrew Morton:

 - a few hot fixes

 - ocfs2 updates

 - almost all of -mm (slab-generic, slab, slub, kmemleak, kasan,
   cleanups, debug, pagecache, memcg, gup, pagemap, memory-hotplug,
   sparsemem, vmalloc, initialization, z3fold, compaction, mempolicy,
   oom-kill, hugetlb, migration, thp, mmap, madvise, shmem, zswap,
   zsmalloc)

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (132 commits)
  mm/zsmalloc.c: fix a -Wunused-function warning
  zswap: do not map same object twice
  zswap: use movable memory if zpool support allocate movable memory
  zpool: add malloc_support_movable to zpool_driver
  shmem: fix obsolete comment in shmem_getpage_gfp()
  mm/madvise: reduce code duplication in error handling paths
  mm: mmap: increase sockets maximum memory size pgoff for 32bits
  mm/mmap.c: refine find_vma_prev() with rb_last()
  riscv: make mmap allocation top-down by default
  mips: use generic mmap top-down layout and brk randomization
  mips: replace arch specific way to determine 32bit task with generic version
  mips: adjust brk randomization offset to fit generic version
  mips: use STACK_TOP when computing mmap base address
  mips: properly account for stack randomization and stack guard gap
  arm: use generic mmap top-down layout and brk randomization
  arm: use STACK_TOP when computing mmap base address
  arm: properly account for stack randomization and stack guard gap
  arm64, mm: make randomization selected by generic topdown mmap layout
  arm64, mm: move generic mmap layout functions to mm
  arm64: consider stack randomization for mmap base only when necessary
  ...