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<title>x86/mm: Remove broken vsyscall emulation code from the page fault code</title>
<updated>2024-06-16T11:28:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-04-29T08:00:51+00:00</published>
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commit 02b670c1f88e78f42a6c5aee155c7b26960ca054 upstream.

The syzbot-reported stack trace from hell in this discussion thread
actually has three nested page faults:

  https://lore.kernel.org/r/000000000000d5f4fc0616e816d4@google.com

... and I think that's actually the important thing here:

 - the first page fault is from user space, and triggers the vsyscall
   emulation.

 - the second page fault is from __do_sys_gettimeofday(), and that should
   just have caused the exception that then sets the return value to
   -EFAULT

 - the third nested page fault is due to _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore() -&gt;
   preempt_schedule() -&gt; trace_sched_switch(), which then causes a BPF
   trace program to run, which does that bpf_probe_read_compat(), which
   causes that page fault under pagefault_disable().

It's quite the nasty backtrace, and there's a lot going on.

The problem is literally the vsyscall emulation, which sets

        current-&gt;thread.sig_on_uaccess_err = 1;

and that causes the fixup_exception() code to send the signal *despite* the
exception being caught.

And I think that is in fact completely bogus.  It's completely bogus
exactly because it sends that signal even when it *shouldn't* be sent -
like for the BPF user mode trace gathering.

In other words, I think the whole "sig_on_uaccess_err" thing is entirely
broken, because it makes any nested page-faults do all the wrong things.

Now, arguably, I don't think anybody should enable vsyscall emulation any
more, but this test case clearly does.

I think we should just make the "send SIGSEGV" be something that the
vsyscall emulation does on its own, not this broken per-thread state for
something that isn't actually per thread.

The x86 page fault code actually tried to deal with the "incorrect nesting"
by having that:

                if (in_interrupt())
                        return;

which ignores the sig_on_uaccess_err case when it happens in interrupts,
but as shown by this example, these nested page faults do not need to be
about interrupts at all.

IOW, I think the only right thing is to remove that horrendously broken
code.

The attached patch looks like the ObviouslyCorrect(tm) thing to do.

NOTE! This broken code goes back to this commit in 2011:

  4fc3490114bb ("x86-64: Set siginfo and context on vsyscall emulation faults")

... and back then the reason was to get all the siginfo details right.
Honestly, I do not for a moment believe that it's worth getting the siginfo
details right here, but part of the commit says:

    This fixes issues with UML when vsyscall=emulate.

... and so my patch to remove this garbage will probably break UML in this
situation.

I do not believe that anybody should be running with vsyscall=emulate in
2024 in the first place, much less if you are doing things like UML. But
let's see if somebody screams.

Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+83e7f982ca045ab4405c@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wh9D6f7HUkDgZHKmDCHUQmp+Co89GP+b8+z+G56BKeyNg@mail.gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
[gpiccoli: Backport the patch due to differences in the trees. The main changes
 between 5.4.y and 5.15.y are due to renaming the fixup function, by
 commit 6456a2a69ee1 ("x86/fault: Rename no_context() to kernelmode_fixup_or_oops()"),
 and on processor.h thread_struct due to commit cf122cfba5b1 ("kill uaccess_try()").
 Following 2 commits cause divergence in the diffs too (in the removed lines):
 cd072dab453a ("x86/fault: Add a helper function to sanitize error code")
 d4ffd5df9d18 ("x86/fault: Fix wrong signal when vsyscall fails with pkey").]
Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli &lt;gpiccoli@igalia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 02b670c1f88e78f42a6c5aee155c7b26960ca054 upstream.

The syzbot-reported stack trace from hell in this discussion thread
actually has three nested page faults:

  https://lore.kernel.org/r/000000000000d5f4fc0616e816d4@google.com

... and I think that's actually the important thing here:

 - the first page fault is from user space, and triggers the vsyscall
   emulation.

 - the second page fault is from __do_sys_gettimeofday(), and that should
   just have caused the exception that then sets the return value to
   -EFAULT

 - the third nested page fault is due to _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore() -&gt;
   preempt_schedule() -&gt; trace_sched_switch(), which then causes a BPF
   trace program to run, which does that bpf_probe_read_compat(), which
   causes that page fault under pagefault_disable().

It's quite the nasty backtrace, and there's a lot going on.

The problem is literally the vsyscall emulation, which sets

        current-&gt;thread.sig_on_uaccess_err = 1;

and that causes the fixup_exception() code to send the signal *despite* the
exception being caught.

And I think that is in fact completely bogus.  It's completely bogus
exactly because it sends that signal even when it *shouldn't* be sent -
like for the BPF user mode trace gathering.

In other words, I think the whole "sig_on_uaccess_err" thing is entirely
broken, because it makes any nested page-faults do all the wrong things.

Now, arguably, I don't think anybody should enable vsyscall emulation any
more, but this test case clearly does.

I think we should just make the "send SIGSEGV" be something that the
vsyscall emulation does on its own, not this broken per-thread state for
something that isn't actually per thread.

The x86 page fault code actually tried to deal with the "incorrect nesting"
by having that:

                if (in_interrupt())
                        return;

which ignores the sig_on_uaccess_err case when it happens in interrupts,
but as shown by this example, these nested page faults do not need to be
about interrupts at all.

IOW, I think the only right thing is to remove that horrendously broken
code.

The attached patch looks like the ObviouslyCorrect(tm) thing to do.

NOTE! This broken code goes back to this commit in 2011:

  4fc3490114bb ("x86-64: Set siginfo and context on vsyscall emulation faults")

... and back then the reason was to get all the siginfo details right.
Honestly, I do not for a moment believe that it's worth getting the siginfo
details right here, but part of the commit says:

    This fixes issues with UML when vsyscall=emulate.

... and so my patch to remove this garbage will probably break UML in this
situation.

I do not believe that anybody should be running with vsyscall=emulate in
2024 in the first place, much less if you are doing things like UML. But
let's see if somebody screams.

Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+83e7f982ca045ab4405c@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wh9D6f7HUkDgZHKmDCHUQmp+Co89GP+b8+z+G56BKeyNg@mail.gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
[gpiccoli: Backport the patch due to differences in the trees. The main changes
 between 5.4.y and 5.15.y are due to renaming the fixup function, by
 commit 6456a2a69ee1 ("x86/fault: Rename no_context() to kernelmode_fixup_or_oops()"),
 and on processor.h thread_struct due to commit cf122cfba5b1 ("kill uaccess_try()").
 Following 2 commits cause divergence in the diffs too (in the removed lines):
 cd072dab453a ("x86/fault: Add a helper function to sanitize error code")
 d4ffd5df9d18 ("x86/fault: Fix wrong signal when vsyscall fails with pkey").]
Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli &lt;gpiccoli@igalia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86: Move gds_ucode_mitigated() declaration to header</title>
<updated>2023-08-16T16:19:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-09T13:05:00+00:00</published>
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commit eb3515dc99c7c85f4170b50838136b2a193f8012 upstream.

The declaration got placed in the .c file of the caller, but that
causes a warning for the definition:

arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c:682:6: error: no previous prototype for 'gds_ucode_mitigated' [-Werror=missing-prototypes]

Move it to a header where both sides can observe it instead.

Fixes: 81ac7e5d74174 ("KVM: Add GDS_NO support to KVM")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Daniel Sneddon &lt;daniel.sneddon@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230809130530.1913368-2-arnd%40kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit eb3515dc99c7c85f4170b50838136b2a193f8012 upstream.

The declaration got placed in the .c file of the caller, but that
causes a warning for the definition:

arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c:682:6: error: no previous prototype for 'gds_ucode_mitigated' [-Werror=missing-prototypes]

Move it to a header where both sides can observe it instead.

Fixes: 81ac7e5d74174 ("KVM: Add GDS_NO support to KVM")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Daniel Sneddon &lt;daniel.sneddon@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230809130530.1913368-2-arnd%40kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86: Move TS_COMPAT back to asm/thread_info.h</title>
<updated>2021-03-24T10:26:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Oleg Nesterov</name>
<email>oleg@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-02-01T17:46:49+00:00</published>
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commit 66c1b6d74cd7035e85c426f0af4aede19e805c8a upstream.

Move TS_COMPAT back to asm/thread_info.h, close to TS_I386_REGS_POKED.

It was moved to asm/processor.h by b9d989c7218a ("x86/asm: Move the
thread_info::status field to thread_struct"), then later 37a8f7c38339
("x86/asm: Move 'status' from thread_struct to thread_info") moved the
'status' field back but TS_COMPAT was forgotten.

Preparatory patch to fix the COMPAT case for get_nr_restart_syscall()

Fixes: 609c19a385c8 ("x86/ptrace: Stop setting TS_COMPAT in ptrace code")
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210201174649.GA17880@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 66c1b6d74cd7035e85c426f0af4aede19e805c8a upstream.

Move TS_COMPAT back to asm/thread_info.h, close to TS_I386_REGS_POKED.

It was moved to asm/processor.h by b9d989c7218a ("x86/asm: Move the
thread_info::status field to thread_struct"), then later 37a8f7c38339
("x86/asm: Move 'status' from thread_struct to thread_info") moved the
'status' field back but TS_COMPAT was forgotten.

Preparatory patch to fix the COMPAT case for get_nr_restart_syscall()

Fixes: 609c19a385c8 ("x86/ptrace: Stop setting TS_COMPAT in ptrace code")
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210201174649.GA17880@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/entry: Increase entry_stack size to a full page</title>
<updated>2020-07-16T06:16:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-17T16:25:57+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit c7aadc09321d8f9a1d3bd1e6d8a47222ecddf6c5 ]

Marco crashed in bad_iret with a Clang11/KCSAN build due to
overflowing the stack. Now that we run C code on it, expand it to a
full page.

Suggested-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Reported-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan &lt;jiangshanlai@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200618144801.819246178@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit c7aadc09321d8f9a1d3bd1e6d8a47222ecddf6c5 ]

Marco crashed in bad_iret with a Clang11/KCSAN build due to
overflowing the stack. Now that we run C code on it, expand it to a
full page.

Suggested-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Reported-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan &lt;jiangshanlai@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200618144801.819246178@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/speculation/taa: Add mitigation for TSX Async Abort</title>
<updated>2019-10-28T07:36:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pawan Gupta</name>
<email>pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-10-23T09:30:45+00:00</published>
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TSX Async Abort (TAA) is a side channel vulnerability to the internal
buffers in some Intel processors similar to Microachitectural Data
Sampling (MDS). In this case, certain loads may speculatively pass
invalid data to dependent operations when an asynchronous abort
condition is pending in a TSX transaction.

This includes loads with no fault or assist condition. Such loads may
speculatively expose stale data from the uarch data structures as in
MDS. Scope of exposure is within the same-thread and cross-thread. This
issue affects all current processors that support TSX, but do not have
ARCH_CAP_TAA_NO (bit 8) set in MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.

On CPUs which have their IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES MSR bit MDS_NO=0,
CPUID.MD_CLEAR=1 and the MDS mitigation is clearing the CPU buffers
using VERW or L1D_FLUSH, there is no additional mitigation needed for
TAA. On affected CPUs with MDS_NO=1 this issue can be mitigated by
disabling the Transactional Synchronization Extensions (TSX) feature.

A new MSR IA32_TSX_CTRL in future and current processors after a
microcode update can be used to control the TSX feature. There are two
bits in that MSR:

* TSX_CTRL_RTM_DISABLE disables the TSX sub-feature Restricted
Transactional Memory (RTM).

* TSX_CTRL_CPUID_CLEAR clears the RTM enumeration in CPUID. The other
TSX sub-feature, Hardware Lock Elision (HLE), is unconditionally
disabled with updated microcode but still enumerated as present by
CPUID(EAX=7).EBX{bit4}.

The second mitigation approach is similar to MDS which is clearing the
affected CPU buffers on return to user space and when entering a guest.
Relevant microcode update is required for the mitigation to work.  More
details on this approach can be found here:

  https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.html

The TSX feature can be controlled by the "tsx" command line parameter.
If it is force-enabled then "Clear CPU buffers" (MDS mitigation) is
deployed. The effective mitigation state can be read from sysfs.

 [ bp:
   - massage + comments cleanup
   - s/TAA_MITIGATION_TSX_DISABLE/TAA_MITIGATION_TSX_DISABLED/g - Josh.
   - remove partial TAA mitigation in update_mds_branch_idle() - Josh.
   - s/tsx_async_abort_cmdline/tsx_async_abort_parse_cmdline/g
 ]

Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta &lt;pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;

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TSX Async Abort (TAA) is a side channel vulnerability to the internal
buffers in some Intel processors similar to Microachitectural Data
Sampling (MDS). In this case, certain loads may speculatively pass
invalid data to dependent operations when an asynchronous abort
condition is pending in a TSX transaction.

This includes loads with no fault or assist condition. Such loads may
speculatively expose stale data from the uarch data structures as in
MDS. Scope of exposure is within the same-thread and cross-thread. This
issue affects all current processors that support TSX, but do not have
ARCH_CAP_TAA_NO (bit 8) set in MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.

On CPUs which have their IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES MSR bit MDS_NO=0,
CPUID.MD_CLEAR=1 and the MDS mitigation is clearing the CPU buffers
using VERW or L1D_FLUSH, there is no additional mitigation needed for
TAA. On affected CPUs with MDS_NO=1 this issue can be mitigated by
disabling the Transactional Synchronization Extensions (TSX) feature.

A new MSR IA32_TSX_CTRL in future and current processors after a
microcode update can be used to control the TSX feature. There are two
bits in that MSR:

* TSX_CTRL_RTM_DISABLE disables the TSX sub-feature Restricted
Transactional Memory (RTM).

* TSX_CTRL_CPUID_CLEAR clears the RTM enumeration in CPUID. The other
TSX sub-feature, Hardware Lock Elision (HLE), is unconditionally
disabled with updated microcode but still enumerated as present by
CPUID(EAX=7).EBX{bit4}.

The second mitigation approach is similar to MDS which is clearing the
affected CPU buffers on return to user space and when entering a guest.
Relevant microcode update is required for the mitigation to work.  More
details on this approach can be found here:

  https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.html

The TSX feature can be controlled by the "tsx" command line parameter.
If it is force-enabled then "Clear CPU buffers" (MDS mitigation) is
deployed. The effective mitigation state can be read from sysfs.

 [ bp:
   - massage + comments cleanup
   - s/TAA_MITIGATION_TSX_DISABLE/TAA_MITIGATION_TSX_DISABLED/g - Josh.
   - remove partial TAA mitigation in update_mds_branch_idle() - Josh.
   - s/tsx_async_abort_cmdline/tsx_async_abort_parse_cmdline/g
 ]

Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta &lt;pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/asm: Move native_write_cr0/4() out of line</title>
<updated>2019-07-10T20:15:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-10T19:42:46+00:00</published>
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The pinning of sensitive CR0 and CR4 bits caused a boot crash when loading
the kvm_intel module on a kernel compiled with CONFIG_PARAVIRT=n.

The reason is that the static key which controls the pinning is marked RO
after init. The kvm_intel module contains a CR4 write which requires to
update the static key entry list. That obviously does not work when the key
is in a RO section.

With CONFIG_PARAVIRT enabled this does not happen because the CR4 write
uses the paravirt indirection and the actual write function is built in.

As the key is intended to be immutable after init, move
native_write_cr0/4() out of line.

While at it consolidate the update of the cr4 shadow variable and store the
value right away when the pinning is initialized on a booting CPU. No point
in reading it back 20 instructions later. This allows to confine the static
key and the pinning variable to cpu/common and allows to mark them static.

Fixes: 8dbec27a242c ("x86/asm: Pin sensitive CR0 bits")
Fixes: 873d50d58f67 ("x86/asm: Pin sensitive CR4 bits")
Reported-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Reported-by: Xi Ruoyao &lt;xry111@mengyan1223.wang&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Tested-by: Xi Ruoyao &lt;xry111@mengyan1223.wang&gt;
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.21.1907102140340.1758@nanos.tec.linutronix.de

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The pinning of sensitive CR0 and CR4 bits caused a boot crash when loading
the kvm_intel module on a kernel compiled with CONFIG_PARAVIRT=n.

The reason is that the static key which controls the pinning is marked RO
after init. The kvm_intel module contains a CR4 write which requires to
update the static key entry list. That obviously does not work when the key
is in a RO section.

With CONFIG_PARAVIRT enabled this does not happen because the CR4 write
uses the paravirt indirection and the actual write function is built in.

As the key is intended to be immutable after init, move
native_write_cr0/4() out of line.

While at it consolidate the update of the cr4 shadow variable and store the
value right away when the pinning is initialized on a booting CPU. No point
in reading it back 20 instructions later. This allows to confine the static
key and the pinning variable to cpu/common and allows to mark them static.

Fixes: 8dbec27a242c ("x86/asm: Pin sensitive CR0 bits")
Fixes: 873d50d58f67 ("x86/asm: Pin sensitive CR4 bits")
Reported-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Reported-by: Xi Ruoyao &lt;xry111@mengyan1223.wang&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Tested-by: Xi Ruoyao &lt;xry111@mengyan1223.wang&gt;
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.21.1907102140340.1758@nanos.tec.linutronix.de

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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-topology-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2019-07-09T01:28:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-09T01:28:44+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 topology updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Implement multi-die topology support on Intel CPUs and expose the die
  topology to user-space tooling, by Len Brown, Kan Liang and Zhang Rui.

  These changes should have no effect on the kernel's existing
  understanding of topologies, i.e. there should be no behavioral impact
  on cache, NUMA, scheduler, perf and other topologies and overall
  system performance"

* 'x86-topology-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  perf/x86/intel/rapl: Cosmetic rename internal variables in response to multi-die/pkg support
  perf/x86/intel/uncore: Cosmetic renames in response to multi-die/pkg support
  hwmon/coretemp: Cosmetic: Rename internal variables to zones from packages
  thermal/x86_pkg_temp_thermal: Cosmetic: Rename internal variables to zones from packages
  perf/x86/intel/cstate: Support multi-die/package
  perf/x86/intel/rapl: Support multi-die/package
  perf/x86/intel/uncore: Support multi-die/package
  topology: Create core_cpus and die_cpus sysfs attributes
  topology: Create package_cpus sysfs attribute
  hwmon/coretemp: Support multi-die/package
  powercap/intel_rapl: Update RAPL domain name and debug messages
  thermal/x86_pkg_temp_thermal: Support multi-die/package
  powercap/intel_rapl: Support multi-die/package
  powercap/intel_rapl: Simplify rapl_find_package()
  x86/topology: Define topology_logical_die_id()
  x86/topology: Define topology_die_id()
  cpu/topology: Export die_id
  x86/topology: Create topology_max_die_per_package()
  x86/topology: Add CPUID.1F multi-die/package support
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Pull x86 topology updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Implement multi-die topology support on Intel CPUs and expose the die
  topology to user-space tooling, by Len Brown, Kan Liang and Zhang Rui.

  These changes should have no effect on the kernel's existing
  understanding of topologies, i.e. there should be no behavioral impact
  on cache, NUMA, scheduler, perf and other topologies and overall
  system performance"

* 'x86-topology-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  perf/x86/intel/rapl: Cosmetic rename internal variables in response to multi-die/pkg support
  perf/x86/intel/uncore: Cosmetic renames in response to multi-die/pkg support
  hwmon/coretemp: Cosmetic: Rename internal variables to zones from packages
  thermal/x86_pkg_temp_thermal: Cosmetic: Rename internal variables to zones from packages
  perf/x86/intel/cstate: Support multi-die/package
  perf/x86/intel/rapl: Support multi-die/package
  perf/x86/intel/uncore: Support multi-die/package
  topology: Create core_cpus and die_cpus sysfs attributes
  topology: Create package_cpus sysfs attribute
  hwmon/coretemp: Support multi-die/package
  powercap/intel_rapl: Update RAPL domain name and debug messages
  thermal/x86_pkg_temp_thermal: Support multi-die/package
  powercap/intel_rapl: Support multi-die/package
  powercap/intel_rapl: Simplify rapl_find_package()
  x86/topology: Define topology_logical_die_id()
  x86/topology: Define topology_die_id()
  cpu/topology: Export die_id
  x86/topology: Create topology_max_die_per_package()
  x86/topology: Add CPUID.1F multi-die/package support
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<entry>
<title>x86/cpu: Create Zhaoxin processors architecture support file</title>
<updated>2019-06-22T09:45:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tony W Wang-oc</name>
<email>TonyWWang-oc@zhaoxin.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-06-18T08:37:05+00:00</published>
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Add x86 architecture support for new Zhaoxin processors.
Carve out initialization code needed by Zhaoxin processors into
a separate compilation unit.

To identify Zhaoxin CPU, add a new vendor type X86_VENDOR_ZHAOXIN
for system recognition.

Signed-off-by: Tony W Wang-oc &lt;TonyWWang-oc@zhaoxin.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: "hpa@zytor.com" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: "gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: "rjw@rjwysocki.net" &lt;rjw@rjwysocki.net&gt;
Cc: "lenb@kernel.org" &lt;lenb@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David Wang &lt;DavidWang@zhaoxin.com&gt;
Cc: "Cooper Yan(BJ-RD)" &lt;CooperYan@zhaoxin.com&gt;
Cc: "Qiyuan Wang(BJ-RD)" &lt;QiyuanWang@zhaoxin.com&gt;
Cc: "Herry Yang(BJ-RD)" &lt;HerryYang@zhaoxin.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/01042674b2f741b2aed1f797359bdffb@zhaoxin.com

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Add x86 architecture support for new Zhaoxin processors.
Carve out initialization code needed by Zhaoxin processors into
a separate compilation unit.

To identify Zhaoxin CPU, add a new vendor type X86_VENDOR_ZHAOXIN
for system recognition.

Signed-off-by: Tony W Wang-oc &lt;TonyWWang-oc@zhaoxin.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: "hpa@zytor.com" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: "gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: "rjw@rjwysocki.net" &lt;rjw@rjwysocki.net&gt;
Cc: "lenb@kernel.org" &lt;lenb@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David Wang &lt;DavidWang@zhaoxin.com&gt;
Cc: "Cooper Yan(BJ-RD)" &lt;CooperYan@zhaoxin.com&gt;
Cc: "Qiyuan Wang(BJ-RD)" &lt;QiyuanWang@zhaoxin.com&gt;
Cc: "Herry Yang(BJ-RD)" &lt;HerryYang@zhaoxin.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/01042674b2f741b2aed1f797359bdffb@zhaoxin.com

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<entry>
<title>x86/topology: Define topology_logical_die_id()</title>
<updated>2019-05-23T08:08:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Len Brown</name>
<email>len.brown@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-13T17:58:49+00:00</published>
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Define topology_logical_die_id() ala existing topology_logical_package_id()

Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Tested-by: Zhang Rui &lt;rui.zhang@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/2f3526e25ae14fbeff26fb26e877d159df8946d9.1557769318.git.len.brown@intel.com

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Define topology_logical_die_id() ala existing topology_logical_package_id()

Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Tested-by: Zhang Rui &lt;rui.zhang@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/2f3526e25ae14fbeff26fb26e877d159df8946d9.1557769318.git.len.brown@intel.com

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<entry>
<title>x86/topology: Create topology_max_die_per_package()</title>
<updated>2019-05-23T08:08:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Len Brown</name>
<email>len.brown@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-13T17:58:46+00:00</published>
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topology_max_packages() is available to size resources to cover all
packages in the system.

But now multi-die/package systems are coming up, and some resources are
per-die.

Create topology_max_die_per_package(), for detecting multi-die/package
systems, and sizing any per-die resources.

Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/e6eaf384571ae52ac7d0ca41510b7fb7d2fda0e4.1557769318.git.len.brown@intel.com

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topology_max_packages() is available to size resources to cover all
packages in the system.

But now multi-die/package systems are coming up, and some resources are
per-die.

Create topology_max_die_per_package(), for detecting multi-die/package
systems, and sizing any per-die resources.

Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/e6eaf384571ae52ac7d0ca41510b7fb7d2fda0e4.1557769318.git.len.brown@intel.com

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