linux-stable.git/Documentation/admin-guide, branch v5.4.26

dm: add dm-clone to the documentation index

2020-01-17T18:48:45+00:00

commit 484e0d2b11e1fdd0d17702b282eb2ed56148385f upstream.

Fixes: 7431b7835f554 ("dm: add clone target")
Signed-off-by: Diego Calleja 
Signed-off-by: Nikos Tsironis 
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ACPI: sysfs: Change ACPI_MASKABLE_GPE_MAX to 0x100

2020-01-09T09:20:02+00:00

commit a7583e72a5f22470d3e6fd3b6ba912892242339f upstream.

The commit 0f27cff8597d ("ACPI: sysfs: Make ACPI GPE mask kernel
parameter cover all GPEs") says:
  "Use a bitmap of size 0xFF instead of a u64 for the GPE mask so 256
   GPEs can be masked"

But the masking of GPE 0xFF it not supported and the check condition
"gpe > ACPI_MASKABLE_GPE_MAX" is not valid because the type of gpe is
u8.

So modify the macro ACPI_MASKABLE_GPE_MAX to 0x100, and drop the "gpe >
ACPI_MASKABLE_GPE_MAX" check. In addition, update the docs "Format" for
acpi_mask_gpe parameter.

Fixes: 0f27cff8597d ("ACPI: sysfs: Make ACPI GPE mask kernel parameter cover all GPEs")
Signed-off-by: Yunfeng Ye 
[ rjw: Use u16 as gpe data type in acpi_gpe_apply_masked_gpes() ]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

USB: documentation: flags on usb-storage versus UAS

2019-12-17T18:55:32+00:00

commit 65cc8bf99349f651a0a2cee69333525fe581f306 upstream.

Document which flags work storage, UAS or both

Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum 
Cc: stable 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191114112758.32747-4-oneukum@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

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

Documentation: Add ITLB_MULTIHIT documentation

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

Add the initial ITLB_MULTIHIT documentation.

[ tglx: Add it to the index so it gets actually built. ]

Signed-off-by: Antonio Gomez Iglesias 
Signed-off-by: Nelson D'Souza 
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

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