linux-stable.git/Documentation/admin-guide, branch v4.19.26

x86/speculation/l1tf: Drop the swap storage limit restriction when l1tf=off

2019-01-09T16:38:41+00:00

commit 5b5e4d623ec8a34689df98e42d038a3b594d2ff9 upstream.

Swap storage is restricted to max_swapfile_size (~16TB on x86_64) whenever
the system is deemed affected by L1TF vulnerability. Even though the limit
is quite high for most deployments it seems to be too restrictive for
deployments which are willing to live with the mitigation disabled.

We have a customer to deploy 8x 6,4TB PCIe/NVMe SSD swap devices which is
clearly out of the limit.

Drop the swap restriction when l1tf=off is specified. It also doesn't make
much sense to warn about too much memory for the l1tf mitigation when it is
forcefully disabled by the administrator.

[ tglx: Folded the documentation delta change ]

Fixes: 377eeaa8e11f ("x86/speculation/l1tf: Limit swap file size to MAX_PA/2")
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Reviewed-by: Pavel Tatashin 
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen 
Acked-by: Jiri Kosina 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181113184910.26697-1-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86/speculation: Provide IBPB always command line options

2018-12-05T18:32:04+00:00

commit 55a974021ec952ee460dc31ca08722158639de72 upstream

Provide the possibility to enable IBPB always in combination with 'prctl'
and 'seccomp'.

Add the extra command line options and rework the IBPB selection to
evaluate the command instead of the mode selected by the STIPB switch case.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Jiri Kosina 
Cc: Tom Lendacky 
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf 
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli 
Cc: David Woodhouse 
Cc: Tim Chen 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: Casey Schaufler 
Cc: Asit Mallick 
Cc: Arjan van de Ven 
Cc: Jon Masters 
Cc: Waiman Long 
Cc: Greg KH 
Cc: Dave Stewart 
Cc: Kees Cook 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181125185006.144047038@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86/speculation: Add seccomp Spectre v2 user space protection mode

2018-12-05T18:32:04+00:00

commit 6b3e64c237c072797a9ec918654a60e3a46488e2 upstream

If 'prctl' mode of user space protection from spectre v2 is selected
on the kernel command-line, STIBP and IBPB are applied on tasks which
restrict their indirect branch speculation via prctl.

SECCOMP enables the SSBD mitigation for sandboxed tasks already, so it
makes sense to prevent spectre v2 user space to user space attacks as
well.

The Intel mitigation guide documents how STIPB works:
    
   Setting bit 1 (STIBP) of the IA32_SPEC_CTRL MSR on a logical processor
   prevents the predicted targets of indirect branches on any logical
   processor of that core from being controlled by software that executes
   (or executed previously) on another logical processor of the same core.

Ergo setting STIBP protects the task itself from being attacked from a task
running on a different hyper-thread and protects the tasks running on
different hyper-threads from being attacked.

While the document suggests that the branch predictors are shielded between
the logical processors, the observed performance regressions suggest that
STIBP simply disables the branch predictor more or less completely. Of
course the document wording is vague, but the fact that there is also no
requirement for issuing IBPB when STIBP is used points clearly in that
direction. The kernel still issues IBPB even when STIBP is used until Intel
clarifies the whole mechanism.

IBPB is issued when the task switches out, so malicious sandbox code cannot
mistrain the branch predictor for the next user space task on the same
logical processor.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Tom Lendacky 
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf 
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli 
Cc: David Woodhouse 
Cc: Tim Chen 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: Casey Schaufler 
Cc: Asit Mallick 
Cc: Arjan van de Ven 
Cc: Jon Masters 
Cc: Waiman Long 
Cc: Greg KH 
Cc: Dave Stewart 
Cc: Kees Cook 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181125185006.051663132@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86/speculation: Enable prctl mode for spectre_v2_user

2018-12-05T18:32:04+00:00

commit 7cc765a67d8e04ef7d772425ca5a2a1e2b894c15 upstream

Now that all prerequisites are in place:

 - Add the prctl command line option

 - Default the 'auto' mode to 'prctl'

 - When SMT state changes, update the static key which controls the
   conditional STIBP evaluation on context switch.

 - At init update the static key which controls the conditional IBPB
   evaluation on context switch.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Jiri Kosina 
Cc: Tom Lendacky 
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf 
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli 
Cc: David Woodhouse 
Cc: Tim Chen 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: Casey Schaufler 
Cc: Asit Mallick 
Cc: Arjan van de Ven 
Cc: Jon Masters 
Cc: Waiman Long 
Cc: Greg KH 
Cc: Dave Stewart 
Cc: Kees Cook 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181125185005.958421388@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86/speculation: Add command line control for indirect branch speculation

2018-12-05T18:32:03+00:00

commit fa1202ef224391b6f5b26cdd44cc50495e8fab54 upstream

Add command line control for user space indirect branch speculation
mitigations. The new option is: spectre_v2_user=

The initial options are:

    -  on:   Unconditionally enabled
    - off:   Unconditionally disabled
    -auto:   Kernel selects mitigation (default off for now)

When the spectre_v2= command line argument is either 'on' or 'off' this
implies that the application to application control follows that state even
if a contradicting spectre_v2_user= argument is supplied.

Originally-by: Tim Chen 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Jiri Kosina 
Cc: Tom Lendacky 
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf 
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli 
Cc: David Woodhouse 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: Casey Schaufler 
Cc: Asit Mallick 
Cc: Arjan van de Ven 
Cc: Jon Masters 
Cc: Waiman Long 
Cc: Greg KH 
Cc: Dave Stewart 
Cc: Kees Cook 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181125185005.082720373@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Documentation/security-bugs: Postpone fix publication in exceptional cases

2018-12-01T08:37:26+00:00

commit 544b03da39e2d7b4961d3163976ed4bfb1fac509 upstream.

At the request of the reporter, the Linux kernel security team offers to
postpone the publishing of a fix for up to 5 business days from the date
of a report.

While it is generally undesirable to keep a fix private after it has
been developed, this short window is intended to allow distributions to
package the fix into their kernel builds and permits early inclusion of
the security team in the case of a co-ordinated disclosure with other
parties. Unfortunately, discussions with major Linux distributions and
cloud providers has revealed that 5 business days is not sufficient to
achieve either of these two goals.

As an example, cloud providers need to roll out KVM security fixes to a
global fleet of hosts with sufficient early ramp-up and monitoring. An
end-to-end timeline of less than two weeks dramatically cuts into the
amount of early validation and increases the chance of guest-visible
regressions.

The consequence of this timeline mismatch is that security issues are
commonly fixed without the involvement of the Linux kernel security team
and are instead analysed and addressed by an ad-hoc group of developers
across companies contributing to Linux. In some cases, mainline (and
therefore the official stable kernels) can be left to languish for
extended periods of time. This undermines the Linux kernel security
process and puts upstream developers in a difficult position should they
find themselves involved with an undisclosed security problem that they
are unable to report due to restrictions from their employer.

To accommodate the needs of these users of the Linux kernel and
encourage them to engage with the Linux security team when security
issues are first uncovered, extend the maximum period for which fixes
may be delayed to 7 calendar days, or 14 calendar days in exceptional
cases, where the logistics of QA and large scale rollouts specifically
need to be accommodated. This brings parity with the linux-distros@
maximum embargo period of 14 calendar days.

Cc: Paolo Bonzini 
Cc: David Woodhouse 
Cc: Amit Shah 
Cc: Laura Abbott 
Acked-by: Kees Cook 
Co-developed-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Co-developed-by: David Woodhouse 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse 
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon 
Reviewed-by: Tyler Hicks 
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Documentation/security-bugs: Clarify treatment of embargoed information

2018-12-01T08:37:26+00:00

commit 14fdc2c5318ae420e68496975f48dc1dbef52649 upstream.

The Linux kernel security team has been accused of rejecting the idea of
security embargoes. This is incorrect, and could dissuade people from
reporting security issues to us under the false assumption that the
issue would leak prematurely.

Clarify the handling of embargoed information in our process
documentation.

Co-developed-by: Ingo Molnar 
Acked-by: Kees Cook 
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Acked-by: Laura Abbott 
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

USB: Wait for extra delay time after USB_PORT_FEAT_RESET for quirky hub

2018-11-27T15:13:09+00:00

commit 781f0766cc41a9dd2e5d118ef4b1d5d89430257b upstream.

Devices connected under Terminus Technology Inc. Hub (1a40:0101) may
fail to work after the system resumes from suspend:
[  206.063325] usb 3-2.4: reset full-speed USB device number 4 using xhci_hcd
[  206.143691] usb 3-2.4: device descriptor read/64, error -32
[  206.351671] usb 3-2.4: device descriptor read/64, error -32

Info for this hub:
T:  Bus=03 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=01 Cnt=01 Dev#=  2 Spd=480 MxCh= 4
D:  Ver= 2.00 Cls=09(hub  ) Sub=00 Prot=01 MxPS=64 #Cfgs=  1
P:  Vendor=1a40 ProdID=0101 Rev=01.11
S:  Product=USB 2.0 Hub
C:  #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=e0 MxPwr=100mA
I:  If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub  ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub

Some expirements indicate that the USB devices connected to the hub are
innocent, it's the hub itself is to blame. The hub needs extra delay
time after it resets its port.

Hence wait for extra delay, if the device is connected to this quirky
hub.

Signed-off-by: Kai-Heng Feng 
Cc: stable 
Acked-by: Alan Stern 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86/earlyprintk: Add a force option for pciserial device

2018-11-27T15:13:00+00:00

[ Upstream commit d2266bbfa9e3e32e3b642965088ca461bd24a94f ]

The "pciserial" earlyprintk variant helps much on many modern x86
platforms, but unfortunately there are still some platforms with PCI
UART devices which have the wrong PCI class code. In that case, the
current class code check does not allow for them to be used for logging.

Add a sub-option "force" which overrides the class code check and thus
the use of such device can be enforced.

 [ bp: massage formulations. ]

Suggested-by: Borislav Petkov 
Signed-off-by: Feng Tang 
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" 
Cc: "Stuart R . Anderson" 
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: Feng Tang 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Cc: H Peter Anvin 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Jiri Kosina 
Cc: Jonathan Corbet 
Cc: Kai-Heng Feng 
Cc: Kate Stewart 
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Philippe Ombredanne 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Thymo van Beers 
Cc: alan@linux.intel.com
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181002164921.25833-1-feng.tang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

xen/balloon: add runtime control for scrubbing ballooned out pages

2018-09-14T12:51:10+00:00

Scrubbing pages on initial balloon down can take some time, especially
in nested virtualization case (nested EPT is slow). When HVM/PVH guest is
started with memory= significantly lower than maxmem=, all the extra
pages will be scrubbed before returning to Xen. But since most of them
weren't used at all at that point, Xen needs to populate them first
(from populate-on-demand pool). In nested virt case (Xen inside KVM)
this slows down the guest boot by 15-30s with just 1.5GB needed to be
returned to Xen.

Add runtime parameter to enable/disable it, to allow initially disabling
scrubbing, then enable it back during boot (for example in initramfs).
Such usage relies on assumption that a) most pages ballooned out during
initial boot weren't used at all, and b) even if they were, very few
secrets are in the guest at that time (before any serious userspace
kicks in).
Convert CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES to CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES_DEFAULT (also
enabled by default), controlling default value for the new runtime
switch.

Signed-off-by: Marek Marczykowski-Górecki 
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross 
Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky