linux-stable.git/Documentation/admin-guide, branch v5.4.178

Documentation: refer to config RANDOMIZE_BASE for kernel address-space randomization

2022-01-27T08:19:52+00:00

commit 82ca67321f55a8d1da6ac3ed611da3c32818bb37 upstream.

The config RANDOMIZE_SLAB does not exist, the authors probably intended to
refer to the config RANDOMIZE_BASE, which provides kernel address-space
randomization. They probably just confused SLAB with BASE (these two
four-letter words coincidentally share three common letters), as they also
point out the config SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM as further randomization within
the same sentence.

Fix the reference of the config for kernel address-space randomization to
the config that provides that.

Fixes: 6e88559470f5 ("Documentation: Add section about CPU vulnerabilities for Spectre")
Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211230171940.27558-1-lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Input: i8042 - add deferred probe support

2022-01-05T11:37:43+00:00

[ Upstream commit 9222ba68c3f4065f6364b99cc641b6b019ef2d42 ]

We've got a bug report about the non-working keyboard on ASUS ZenBook
UX425UA.  It seems that the PS/2 device isn't ready immediately at
boot but takes some seconds to get ready.  Until now, the only
workaround is to defer the probe, but it's available only when the
driver is a module.  However, many distros, including openSUSE as in
the original report, build the PS/2 input drivers into kernel, hence
it won't work easily.

This patch adds the support for the deferred probe for i8042 stuff as
a workaround of the problem above.  When the deferred probe mode is
enabled and the device couldn't be probed, it'll be repeated with the
standard deferred probe mechanism.

The deferred probe mode is enabled either via the new option
i8042.probe_defer or via the quirk table entry.  As of this patch, the
quirk table contains only ASUS ZenBook UX425UA.

The deferred probe part is based on Fabio's initial work.

BugLink: https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1190256
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai 
Tested-by: Samuel Čavoj 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211117063757.11380-1-tiwai@suse.de

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

KVM: VMX: Fix stale docs for kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state

2021-12-29T11:23:37+00:00

commit 0ff29701ffad9a5d5a24344d8b09f3af7b96ffda upstream.

Update the documentation for kvm-intel's emulate_invalid_guest_state to
rectify the description of KVM's default behavior, and to document that
the behavior and thus parameter only applies to L1.

Fixes: a27685c33acc ("KVM: VMX: Emulate invalid guest state by default")
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson 
Message-Id: <20211207193006.120997-4-seanjc@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Maxim Levitsky 
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

xen/balloon: add late_initcall_sync() for initial ballooning done

2021-11-17T08:48:25+00:00

commit 40fdea0284bb20814399da0484a658a96c735d90 upstream.

When running as PVH or HVM guest with actual memory < max memory the
hypervisor is using "populate on demand" in order to allow the guest
to balloon down from its maximum memory size. For this to work
correctly the guest must not touch more memory pages than its target
memory size as otherwise the PoD cache will be exhausted and the guest
is crashed as a result of that.

In extreme cases ballooning down might not be finished today before
the init process is started, which can consume lots of memory.

In order to avoid random boot crashes in such cases, add a late init
call to wait for ballooning down having finished for PVH/HVM guests.

Warn on console if initial ballooning fails, panic() after stalling
for more than 3 minutes per default. Add a module parameter for
changing this timeout.

[boris: replaced pr_info() with pr_notice()]

Cc: 
Reported-by: Marek Marczykowski-Górecki 
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211102091944.17487-1-jgross@suse.com
Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky 
Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

docs: Fix infiniband uverbs minor number

2021-09-22T10:26:23+00:00

[ Upstream commit 8d7e415d55610d503fdb8815344846b72d194a40 ]

Starting from the beginning of infiniband subsystem, the uverbs char
devices start from 192 as a minor number, see
commit bc38a6abdd5a ("[PATCH] IB uverbs: core implementation").

This patch updates the admin guide documentation to reflect it.

Fixes: 9d85025b0418 ("docs-rst: create an user's manual book")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/bad03e6bcde45550c01e12908a6fe7dfa4770703.1627477347.git.leonro@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky 
Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

clocksource: Retry clock read if long delays detected

2021-07-14T14:53:18+00:00

[ Upstream commit db3a34e17433de2390eb80d436970edcebd0ca3e ]

When the clocksource watchdog marks a clock as unstable, this might be due
to that clock being unstable or it might be due to delays that happen to
occur between the reads of the two clocks.  Yes, interrupts are disabled
across those two reads, but there are no shortage of things that can delay
interrupts-disabled regions of code ranging from SMI handlers to vCPU
preemption.  It would be good to have some indication as to why the clock
was marked unstable.

Therefore, re-read the watchdog clock on either side of the read from the
clock under test.  If the watchdog clock shows an excessive time delta
between its pair of reads, the reads are retried.

The maximum number of retries is specified by a new kernel boot parameter
clocksource.max_cswd_read_retries, which defaults to three, that is, up to
four reads, one initial and up to three retries.  If more than one retry
was required, a message is printed on the console (the occasional single
retry is expected behavior, especially in guest OSes).  If the maximum
number of retries is exceeded, the clock under test will be marked
unstable.  However, the probability of this happening due to various sorts
of delays is quite small.  In addition, the reason (clock-read delays) for
the unstable marking will be apparent.

Reported-by: Chris Mason 
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Acked-by: Feng Tang 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210527190124.440372-1-paulmck@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

dm integrity: conditionally disable "recalculate" feature

2021-01-30T12:54:10+00:00

commit 5c02406428d5219c367c5f53457698c58bc5f917 upstream.

Otherwise a malicious user could (ab)use the "recalculate" feature
that makes dm-integrity calculate the checksums in the background
while the device is already usable. When the system restarts before all
checksums have been calculated, the calculation continues where it was
interrupted even if the recalculate feature is not requested the next
time the dm device is set up.

Disable recalculating if we use internal_hash or journal_hash with a
key (e.g. HMAC) and we don't have the "legacy_recalculate" flag.

This may break activation of a volume, created by an older kernel,
that is not yet fully recalculated -- if this happens, the user should
add the "legacy_recalculate" flag to constructor parameters.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka 
Reported-by: Daniel Glockner 
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86/xen: Add xen_no_vector_callback option to test PCI INTX delivery

2021-01-27T10:47:45+00:00

[ Upstream commit b36b0fe96af13460278bf9b173beced1bd15f85d ]

It's useful to be able to test non-vector event channel delivery, to make
sure Linux will work properly on older Xen which doesn't have it.

It's also useful for those working on Xen and Xen-compatible hypervisors,
because there are guest kernels still in active use which use PCI INTX
even when vector delivery is available.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse 
Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210106153958.584169-4-dwmw2@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

USB: UAS: introduce a quirk to set no_write_same

2020-12-21T12:27:06+00:00

commit 8010622c86ca5bb44bc98492f5968726fc7c7a21 upstream.

UAS does not share the pessimistic assumption storage is making that
devices cannot deal with WRITE_SAME.  A few devices supported by UAS,
are reported to not deal well with WRITE_SAME. Those need a quirk.

Add it to the device that needs it.

Reported-by: David C. Partridge 
Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum 
Cc: stable 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201209152639.9195-1-oneukum@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

powerpc/64s: flush L1D after user accesses

2020-11-22T09:14:10+00:00

commit 9a32a7e78bd0cd9a9b6332cbdc345ee5ffd0c5de upstream.

IBM Power9 processors can speculatively operate on data in the L1 cache
before it has been completely validated, via a way-prediction mechanism. It
is not possible for an attacker to determine the contents of impermissible
memory using this method, since these systems implement a combination of
hardware and software security measures to prevent scenarios where
protected data could be leaked.

However these measures don't address the scenario where an attacker induces
the operating system to speculatively execute instructions using data that
the attacker controls. This can be used for example to speculatively bypass
"kernel user access prevention" techniques, as discovered by Anthony
Steinhauser of Google's Safeside Project. This is not an attack by itself,
but there is a possibility it could be used in conjunction with
side-channels or other weaknesses in the privileged code to construct an
attack.

This issue can be mitigated by flushing the L1 cache between privilege
boundaries of concern. This patch flushes the L1 cache after user accesses.

This is part of the fix for CVE-2020-4788.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin 
Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman