linux-stable.git/Documentation, branch linux-3.16.y

x86/speculation: Add Ivy Bridge to affected list

2020-06-11T18:05:58+00:00

commit 3798cc4d106e91382bfe016caa2edada27c2bb3f upstream.

Make the docs match the code.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

x86/speculation: Add SRBDS vulnerability and mitigation documentation

2020-06-11T18:05:57+00:00

commit 7222a1b5b87417f22265c92deea76a6aecd0fb0f upstream.

Add documentation for the SRBDS vulnerability and its mitigation.

 [ bp: Massage.
   jpoimboe: sysfs table strings. ]

Signed-off-by: Mark Gross 
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov 
Reviewed-by: Tony Luck 
Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf 
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

x86/speculation: Add Special Register Buffer Data Sampling (SRBDS) mitigation

2020-06-11T18:05:57+00:00

commit 7e5b3c267d256822407a22fdce6afdf9cd13f9fb upstream.

SRBDS is an MDS-like speculative side channel that can leak bits from the
random number generator (RNG) across cores and threads. New microcode
serializes the processor access during the execution of RDRAND and
RDSEED. This ensures that the shared buffer is overwritten before it is
released for reuse.

While it is present on all affected CPU models, the microcode mitigation
is not needed on models that enumerate ARCH_CAPABILITIES[MDS_NO] in the
cases where TSX is not supported or has been disabled with TSX_CTRL.

The mitigation is activated by default on affected processors and it
increases latency for RDRAND and RDSEED instructions. Among other
effects this will reduce throughput from /dev/urandom.

* Enable administrator to configure the mitigation off when desired using
  either mitigations=off or srbds=off.

* Export vulnerability status via sysfs

* Rename file-scoped macros to apply for non-whitelist table initializations.

 [ bp: Massage,
   - s/VULNBL_INTEL_STEPPING/VULNBL_INTEL_STEPPINGS/g,
   - do not read arch cap MSR a second time in tsx_fused_off() - just pass it in,
   - flip check in cpu_set_bug_bits() to save an indentation level,
   - reflow comments.
   jpoimboe: s/Mitigated/Mitigation/ in user-visible strings
   tglx: Dropped the fused off magic for now
 ]

Signed-off-by: Mark Gross 
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Reviewed-by: Tony Luck 
Reviewed-by: Pawan Gupta 
Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf 
Tested-by: Neelima Krishnan 
[bwh: Backported to 3.16:
 - CPU feature words and bugs are numbered differently
 - Adjust filename for ]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

namei: allow restricted O_CREAT of FIFOs and regular files

2020-04-28T18:03:36+00:00

commit 30aba6656f61ed44cba445a3c0d38b296fa9e8f5 upstream.

Disallows open of FIFOs or regular files not owned by the user in world
writable sticky directories, unless the owner is the same as that of the
directory or the file is opened without the O_CREAT flag.  The purpose
is to make data spoofing attacks harder.  This protection can be turned
on and off separately for FIFOs and regular files via sysctl, just like
the symlinks/hardlinks protection.  This patch is based on Openwall's
"HARDEN_FIFO" feature by Solar Designer.

This is a brief list of old vulnerabilities that could have been prevented
by this feature, some of them even allow for privilege escalation:

CVE-2000-1134
CVE-2007-3852
CVE-2008-0525
CVE-2009-0416
CVE-2011-4834
CVE-2015-1838
CVE-2015-7442
CVE-2016-7489

This list is not meant to be complete.  It's difficult to track down all
vulnerabilities of this kind because they were often reported without any
mention of this particular attack vector.  In fact, before
hardlinks/symlinks restrictions, fifos/regular files weren't the favorite
vehicle to exploit them.

[s.mesoraca16@gmail.com: fix bug reported by Dan Carpenter]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180426081456.GA7060@mwanda
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1524829819-11275-1-git-send-email-s.mesoraca16@gmail.com
[keescook@chromium.org: drop pr_warn_ratelimited() in favor of audit changes in the future]
[keescook@chromium.org: adjust commit subjet]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180416175918.GA13494@beast
Signed-off-by: Salvatore Mesoraca 
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook 
Suggested-by: Solar Designer 
Suggested-by: Kees Cook 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Dan Carpenter 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
[bwh: Backported to 3.16: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

USB: documentation: flags on usb-storage versus UAS

2020-02-11T20:03:42+00:00

commit 65cc8bf99349f651a0a2cee69333525fe581f306 upstream.

Document which flags work storage, UAS or both

Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191114112758.32747-4-oneukum@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
[bwh: Backported to 3.16: Drop change relating to ALWAYS_SYNC]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

x86/speculation: Fix incorrect MDS/TAA mitigation status

2020-02-11T20:03:41+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: 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
[bwh: Backported to 3.16: adjust filenames]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

USB: rio500: Remove Rio 500 kernel driver

2019-12-19T15:57:59+00:00

commit 015664d15270a112c2371d812f03f7c579b35a73 upstream.

The Rio500 kernel driver has not been used by Rio500 owners since 2001
not long after the rio500 project added support for a user-space USB stack
through the very first versions of usbdevfs and then libusb.

Support for the kernel driver was removed from the upstream utilities
in 2008:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/hadess/rio500/commit/943f624ab721eb8281c287650fcc9e2026f6f5db

Cc: Cesar Miquel 
Signed-off-by: Bastien Nocera 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/6251c17584d220472ce882a3d9c199c401a51a71.camel@hadess.net
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
[bwh: Backported to 3.16:
 - Also delete CONFIG_USB_RIO500 from arch/powerpc/configs/c2k_defconfig
 - Drop change to arch/arm/configs/pxa_defconfig
 - Adjust filename, content]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

x86/bugs: Add ITLB_MULTIHIT bug infrastructure

2019-11-15T00:56:52+00:00

commit db4d30fbb71b47e4ecb11c4efa5d8aad4b03dfae upstream.

Some processors may incur a machine check error possibly resulting in an
unrecoverable CPU lockup when an instruction fetch encounters a TLB
multi-hit in the instruction TLB. This can occur when the page size is
changed along with either the physical address or cache type. The relevant
erratum can be found here:

   https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=205195

There are other processors affected for which the erratum does not fully
disclose the impact.

This issue affects both bare-metal x86 page tables and EPT.

It can be mitigated by either eliminating the use of large pages or by
using careful TLB invalidations when changing the page size in the page
tables.

Just like Spectre, Meltdown, L1TF and MDS, a new bit has been allocated in
MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES (PSCHANGE_MC_NO) and will be set on CPUs which
are mitigated against this issue.

Signed-off-by: Vineela Tummalapalli 
Co-developed-by: Pawan Gupta 
Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta 
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
[bwh: Backported to 3.16:
 - Use next available X86_BUG bit
 - Don't use BIT() in msr-index.h because it's a UAPI header
 - No support for X86_VENDOR_HYGON, ATOM_AIRMONT_NP
 - Adjust filename, context, indentation]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

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

2019-11-15T00:56:50+00:00

commit a7a248c593e4fd7a67c50b5f5318fe42a0db335e upstream.

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 
[bwh: Backported to 4.4:
 - Drop changes to ReST index files
 - Drop "nosmt" documentation
 - Adjust filenames, context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

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

2019-11-15T00:56:50+00:00

commit 7531a3596e3272d1f6841e0d601a614555dc6b65 upstream.

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 
[bwh: Backported to 4.4: adjust filename]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings