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<title>KVM: x86: Don't (re)check L1 intercepts when completing userspace I/O</title>
<updated>2025-10-29T12:59:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sean Christopherson</name>
<email>seanjc@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-13T19:30:09+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit e750f85391286a4c8100275516973324b621a269 ]

When completing emulation of instruction that generated a userspace exit
for I/O, don't recheck L1 intercepts as KVM has already finished that
phase of instruction execution, i.e. has already committed to allowing L2
to perform I/O.  If L1 (or host userspace) modifies the I/O permission
bitmaps during the exit to userspace,  KVM will treat the access as being
intercepted despite already having emulated the I/O access.

Pivot on EMULTYPE_NO_DECODE to detect that KVM is completing emulation.
Of the three users of EMULTYPE_NO_DECODE, only complete_emulated_io() (the
intended "recipient") can reach the code in question.  gp_interception()'s
use is mutually exclusive with is_guest_mode(), and
complete_emulated_insn_gp() unconditionally pairs EMULTYPE_NO_DECODE with
EMULTYPE_SKIP.

The bad behavior was detected by a syzkaller program that toggles port I/O
interception during the userspace I/O exit, ultimately resulting in a WARN
on vcpu-&gt;arch.pio.count being non-zero due to KVM no completing emulation
of the I/O instruction.

  WARNING: CPU: 23 PID: 1083 at arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:8039 emulator_pio_in_out+0x154/0x170 [kvm]
  Modules linked in: kvm_intel kvm irqbypass
  CPU: 23 UID: 1000 PID: 1083 Comm: repro Not tainted 6.16.0-rc5-c1610d2d66b1-next-vm #74 NONE
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015
  RIP: 0010:emulator_pio_in_out+0x154/0x170 [kvm]
  PKRU: 55555554
  Call Trace:
   &lt;TASK&gt;
   kvm_fast_pio+0xd6/0x1d0 [kvm]
   vmx_handle_exit+0x149/0x610 [kvm_intel]
   kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0xda8/0x1ac0 [kvm]
   kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x244/0x8c0 [kvm]
   __x64_sys_ioctl+0x8a/0xd0
   do_syscall_64+0x5d/0xc60
   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53
   &lt;/TASK&gt;

Reported-by: syzbot+cc2032ba16cc2018ca25@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/68790db4.a00a0220.3af5df.0020.GAE@google.com
Fixes: 8a76d7f25f8f ("KVM: x86: Add x86 callback for intercept check")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jim Mattson &lt;jmattson@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250715190638.1899116-1-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
[ is_guest_mode() was open coded ]
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit e750f85391286a4c8100275516973324b621a269 ]

When completing emulation of instruction that generated a userspace exit
for I/O, don't recheck L1 intercepts as KVM has already finished that
phase of instruction execution, i.e. has already committed to allowing L2
to perform I/O.  If L1 (or host userspace) modifies the I/O permission
bitmaps during the exit to userspace,  KVM will treat the access as being
intercepted despite already having emulated the I/O access.

Pivot on EMULTYPE_NO_DECODE to detect that KVM is completing emulation.
Of the three users of EMULTYPE_NO_DECODE, only complete_emulated_io() (the
intended "recipient") can reach the code in question.  gp_interception()'s
use is mutually exclusive with is_guest_mode(), and
complete_emulated_insn_gp() unconditionally pairs EMULTYPE_NO_DECODE with
EMULTYPE_SKIP.

The bad behavior was detected by a syzkaller program that toggles port I/O
interception during the userspace I/O exit, ultimately resulting in a WARN
on vcpu-&gt;arch.pio.count being non-zero due to KVM no completing emulation
of the I/O instruction.

  WARNING: CPU: 23 PID: 1083 at arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:8039 emulator_pio_in_out+0x154/0x170 [kvm]
  Modules linked in: kvm_intel kvm irqbypass
  CPU: 23 UID: 1000 PID: 1083 Comm: repro Not tainted 6.16.0-rc5-c1610d2d66b1-next-vm #74 NONE
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015
  RIP: 0010:emulator_pio_in_out+0x154/0x170 [kvm]
  PKRU: 55555554
  Call Trace:
   &lt;TASK&gt;
   kvm_fast_pio+0xd6/0x1d0 [kvm]
   vmx_handle_exit+0x149/0x610 [kvm_intel]
   kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0xda8/0x1ac0 [kvm]
   kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x244/0x8c0 [kvm]
   __x64_sys_ioctl+0x8a/0xd0
   do_syscall_64+0x5d/0xc60
   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53
   &lt;/TASK&gt;

Reported-by: syzbot+cc2032ba16cc2018ca25@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/68790db4.a00a0220.3af5df.0020.GAE@google.com
Fixes: 8a76d7f25f8f ("KVM: x86: Add x86 callback for intercept check")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jim Mattson &lt;jmattson@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250715190638.1899116-1-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
[ is_guest_mode() was open coded ]
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/vdso: Fix output operand size of RDPID</title>
<updated>2025-10-29T12:59:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Uros Bizjak</name>
<email>ubizjak@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-06-16T09:52:57+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit ac9c408ed19d535289ca59200dd6a44a6a2d6036 ]

RDPID instruction outputs to a word-sized register (64-bit on x86_64 and
32-bit on x86_32). Use an unsigned long variable to store the correct size.

LSL outputs to 32-bit register, use %k operand prefix to always print the
32-bit name of the register.

Use RDPID insn mnemonic while at it as the minimum binutils version of
2.30 supports it.

  [ bp: Merge two patches touching the same function into a single one. ]

Fixes: ffebbaedc861 ("x86/vdso: Introduce helper functions for CPU and node number")
Signed-off-by: Uros Bizjak &lt;ubizjak@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250616095315.230620-1-ubizjak@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit ac9c408ed19d535289ca59200dd6a44a6a2d6036 ]

RDPID instruction outputs to a word-sized register (64-bit on x86_64 and
32-bit on x86_32). Use an unsigned long variable to store the correct size.

LSL outputs to 32-bit register, use %k operand prefix to always print the
32-bit name of the register.

Use RDPID insn mnemonic while at it as the minimum binutils version of
2.30 supports it.

  [ bp: Merge two patches touching the same function into a single one. ]

Fixes: ffebbaedc861 ("x86/vdso: Introduce helper functions for CPU and node number")
Signed-off-by: Uros Bizjak &lt;ubizjak@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250616095315.230620-1-ubizjak@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/nmi: Add an emergency handler in nmi_desc &amp; use it in nmi_shootdown_cpus()</title>
<updated>2025-06-04T12:32:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Waiman Long</name>
<email>longman@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-06T19:18:44+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit fe37c699ae3eed6e02ee55fbf5cb9ceb7fcfd76c ]

Depending on the type of panics, it was found that the
__register_nmi_handler() function can be called in NMI context from
nmi_shootdown_cpus() leading to a lockdep splat:

  WARNING: inconsistent lock state
  inconsistent {INITIAL USE} -&gt; {IN-NMI} usage.

   lock(&amp;nmi_desc[0].lock);
   &lt;Interrupt&gt;
     lock(&amp;nmi_desc[0].lock);

  Call Trace:
    _raw_spin_lock_irqsave
    __register_nmi_handler
    nmi_shootdown_cpus
    kdump_nmi_shootdown_cpus
    native_machine_crash_shutdown
    __crash_kexec

In this particular case, the following panic message was printed before:

  Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal hardware error!

This message seemed to be given out from __ghes_panic() running in
NMI context.

The __register_nmi_handler() function which takes the nmi_desc lock
with irq disabled shouldn't be called from NMI context as this can
lead to deadlock.

The nmi_shootdown_cpus() function can only be invoked once. After the
first invocation, all other CPUs should be stuck in the newly added
crash_nmi_callback() and cannot respond to a second NMI.

Fix it by adding a new emergency NMI handler to the nmi_desc
structure and provide a new set_emergency_nmi_handler() helper to set
crash_nmi_callback() in any context. The new emergency handler will
preempt other handlers in the linked list. That will eliminate the need
to take any lock and serve the panic in NMI use case.

Signed-off-by: Waiman Long &lt;longman@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@surriel.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250206191844.131700-1-longman@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit fe37c699ae3eed6e02ee55fbf5cb9ceb7fcfd76c ]

Depending on the type of panics, it was found that the
__register_nmi_handler() function can be called in NMI context from
nmi_shootdown_cpus() leading to a lockdep splat:

  WARNING: inconsistent lock state
  inconsistent {INITIAL USE} -&gt; {IN-NMI} usage.

   lock(&amp;nmi_desc[0].lock);
   &lt;Interrupt&gt;
     lock(&amp;nmi_desc[0].lock);

  Call Trace:
    _raw_spin_lock_irqsave
    __register_nmi_handler
    nmi_shootdown_cpus
    kdump_nmi_shootdown_cpus
    native_machine_crash_shutdown
    __crash_kexec

In this particular case, the following panic message was printed before:

  Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal hardware error!

This message seemed to be given out from __ghes_panic() running in
NMI context.

The __register_nmi_handler() function which takes the nmi_desc lock
with irq disabled shouldn't be called from NMI context as this can
lead to deadlock.

The nmi_shootdown_cpus() function can only be invoked once. After the
first invocation, all other CPUs should be stuck in the newly added
crash_nmi_callback() and cannot respond to a second NMI.

Fix it by adding a new emergency NMI handler to the nmi_desc
structure and provide a new set_emergency_nmi_handler() helper to set
crash_nmi_callback() in any context. The new emergency handler will
preempt other handlers in the linked list. That will eliminate the need
to take any lock and serve the panic in NMI use case.

Signed-off-by: Waiman Long &lt;longman@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@surriel.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250206191844.131700-1-longman@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/mm: Fix flush_tlb_range() when used for zapping normal PMDs</title>
<updated>2025-04-10T12:29:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jann Horn</name>
<email>jannh@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-03T18:39:38+00:00</published>
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commit 3ef938c3503563bfc2ac15083557f880d29c2e64 upstream.

On the following path, flush_tlb_range() can be used for zapping normal
PMD entries (PMD entries that point to page tables) together with the PTE
entries in the pointed-to page table:

    collapse_pte_mapped_thp
      pmdp_collapse_flush
        flush_tlb_range

The arm64 version of flush_tlb_range() has a comment describing that it can
be used for page table removal, and does not use any last-level
invalidation optimizations. Fix the X86 version by making it behave the
same way.

Currently, X86 only uses this information for the following two purposes,
which I think means the issue doesn't have much impact:

 - In native_flush_tlb_multi() for checking if lazy TLB CPUs need to be
   IPI'd to avoid issues with speculative page table walks.
 - In Hyper-V TLB paravirtualization, again for lazy TLB stuff.

The patch "x86/mm: only invalidate final translations with INVLPGB" which
is currently under review (see
&lt;https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241230175550.4046587-13-riel@surriel.com/&gt;)
would probably be making the impact of this a lot worse.

Fixes: 016c4d92cd16 ("x86/mm/tlb: Add freed_tables argument to flush_tlb_mm_range")
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250103-x86-collapse-flush-fix-v1-1-3c521856cfa6@google.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 3ef938c3503563bfc2ac15083557f880d29c2e64 upstream.

On the following path, flush_tlb_range() can be used for zapping normal
PMD entries (PMD entries that point to page tables) together with the PTE
entries in the pointed-to page table:

    collapse_pte_mapped_thp
      pmdp_collapse_flush
        flush_tlb_range

The arm64 version of flush_tlb_range() has a comment describing that it can
be used for page table removal, and does not use any last-level
invalidation optimizations. Fix the X86 version by making it behave the
same way.

Currently, X86 only uses this information for the following two purposes,
which I think means the issue doesn't have much impact:

 - In native_flush_tlb_multi() for checking if lazy TLB CPUs need to be
   IPI'd to avoid issues with speculative page table walks.
 - In Hyper-V TLB paravirtualization, again for lazy TLB stuff.

The patch "x86/mm: only invalidate final translations with INVLPGB" which
is currently under review (see
&lt;https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241230175550.4046587-13-riel@surriel.com/&gt;)
would probably be making the impact of this a lot worse.

Fixes: 016c4d92cd16 ("x86/mm/tlb: Add freed_tables argument to flush_tlb_mm_range")
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250103-x86-collapse-flush-fix-v1-1-3c521856cfa6@google.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/amd_nb: Fix compile-testing without CONFIG_AMD_NB</title>
<updated>2024-12-14T18:44:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2024-10-29T09:23:20+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit fce9642c765a18abd1db0339a7d832c29b68456a ]

node_to_amd_nb() is defined to NULL in non-AMD configs:

  drivers/platform/x86/amd/hsmp/plat.c: In function 'init_platform_device':
  drivers/platform/x86/amd/hsmp/plat.c:165:68: error: dereferencing 'void *' pointer [-Werror]
    165 |                 sock-&gt;root                      = node_to_amd_nb(i)-&gt;root;
        |                                                                    ^~
  drivers/platform/x86/amd/hsmp/plat.c:165:68: error: request for member 'root' in something not a structure or union

Users of the interface who also allow COMPILE_TEST will cause the above build
error so provide an inline stub to fix that.

  [ bp: Massage commit message. ]

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ilpo Järvinen &lt;ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241029092329.3857004-1-arnd@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit fce9642c765a18abd1db0339a7d832c29b68456a ]

node_to_amd_nb() is defined to NULL in non-AMD configs:

  drivers/platform/x86/amd/hsmp/plat.c: In function 'init_platform_device':
  drivers/platform/x86/amd/hsmp/plat.c:165:68: error: dereferencing 'void *' pointer [-Werror]
    165 |                 sock-&gt;root                      = node_to_amd_nb(i)-&gt;root;
        |                                                                    ^~
  drivers/platform/x86/amd/hsmp/plat.c:165:68: error: request for member 'root' in something not a structure or union

Users of the interface who also allow COMPILE_TEST will cause the above build
error so provide an inline stub to fix that.

  [ bp: Massage commit message. ]

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ilpo Järvinen &lt;ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241029092329.3857004-1-arnd@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/cpufeatures: Define X86_FEATURE_AMD_IBPB_RET</title>
<updated>2024-11-08T15:20:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jim Mattson</name>
<email>jmattson@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-09-13T17:32:27+00:00</published>
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commit ff898623af2ed564300752bba83a680a1e4fec8d upstream.

AMD's initial implementation of IBPB did not clear the return address
predictor. Beginning with Zen4, AMD's IBPB *does* clear the return address
predictor. This behavior is enumerated by CPUID.80000008H:EBX.IBPB_RET[30].

Define X86_FEATURE_AMD_IBPB_RET for use in KVM_GET_SUPPORTED_CPUID,
when determining cross-vendor capabilities.

Suggested-by: Venkatesh Srinivas &lt;venkateshs@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jim Mattson &lt;jmattson@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Tom Lendacky &lt;thomas.lendacky@amd.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit ff898623af2ed564300752bba83a680a1e4fec8d upstream.

AMD's initial implementation of IBPB did not clear the return address
predictor. Beginning with Zen4, AMD's IBPB *does* clear the return address
predictor. This behavior is enumerated by CPUID.80000008H:EBX.IBPB_RET[30].

Define X86_FEATURE_AMD_IBPB_RET for use in KVM_GET_SUPPORTED_CPUID,
when determining cross-vendor capabilities.

Suggested-by: Venkatesh Srinivas &lt;venkateshs@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jim Mattson &lt;jmattson@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Tom Lendacky &lt;thomas.lendacky@amd.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/syscall: Avoid memcpy() for ia32 syscall_get_arguments()</title>
<updated>2024-11-08T15:20:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>kees@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-08T20:22:06+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit d19d638b1e6cf746263ef60b7d0dee0204d8216a ]

Modern (fortified) memcpy() prefers to avoid writing (or reading) beyond
the end of the addressed destination (or source) struct member:

In function ‘fortify_memcpy_chk’,
    inlined from ‘syscall_get_arguments’ at ./arch/x86/include/asm/syscall.h:85:2,
    inlined from ‘populate_seccomp_data’ at kernel/seccomp.c:258:2,
    inlined from ‘__seccomp_filter’ at kernel/seccomp.c:1231:3:
./include/linux/fortify-string.h:580:25: error: call to ‘__read_overflow2_field’ declared with attribute warning: detected read beyond size of field (2nd parameter); maybe use struct_group()? [-Werror=attribute-warning]
  580 |                         __read_overflow2_field(q_size_field, size);
      |                         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

As already done for x86_64 and compat mode, do not use memcpy() to
extract syscall arguments from struct pt_regs but rather just perform
direct assignments. Binary output differences are negligible, and actually
ends up using less stack space:

-       sub    $0x84,%esp
+       sub    $0x6c,%esp

and less text size:

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  10794     252       0   11046    2b26 gcc-32b/kernel/seccomp.o.stock
  10714     252       0   10966    2ad6 gcc-32b/kernel/seccomp.o.after

Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/9b69fb14-df89-4677-9c82-056ea9e706f5@gmail.com/
Reported-by: Mirsad Todorovac &lt;mtodorovac69@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva &lt;gustavoars@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Mirsad Todorovac &lt;mtodorovac69@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240708202202.work.477-kees%40kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit d19d638b1e6cf746263ef60b7d0dee0204d8216a ]

Modern (fortified) memcpy() prefers to avoid writing (or reading) beyond
the end of the addressed destination (or source) struct member:

In function ‘fortify_memcpy_chk’,
    inlined from ‘syscall_get_arguments’ at ./arch/x86/include/asm/syscall.h:85:2,
    inlined from ‘populate_seccomp_data’ at kernel/seccomp.c:258:2,
    inlined from ‘__seccomp_filter’ at kernel/seccomp.c:1231:3:
./include/linux/fortify-string.h:580:25: error: call to ‘__read_overflow2_field’ declared with attribute warning: detected read beyond size of field (2nd parameter); maybe use struct_group()? [-Werror=attribute-warning]
  580 |                         __read_overflow2_field(q_size_field, size);
      |                         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

As already done for x86_64 and compat mode, do not use memcpy() to
extract syscall arguments from struct pt_regs but rather just perform
direct assignments. Binary output differences are negligible, and actually
ends up using less stack space:

-       sub    $0x84,%esp
+       sub    $0x6c,%esp

and less text size:

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  10794     252       0   11046    2b26 gcc-32b/kernel/seccomp.o.stock
  10714     252       0   10966    2ad6 gcc-32b/kernel/seccomp.o.after

Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/9b69fb14-df89-4677-9c82-056ea9e706f5@gmail.com/
Reported-by: Mirsad Todorovac &lt;mtodorovac69@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva &lt;gustavoars@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Mirsad Todorovac &lt;mtodorovac69@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240708202202.work.477-kees%40kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<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>
<entry>
<title>x86/apic: Force native_apic_mem_read() to use the MOV instruction</title>
<updated>2024-05-02T14:18:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Adam Dunlap</name>
<email>acdunlap@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-18T23:09:27+00:00</published>
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commit 5ce344beaca688f4cdea07045e0b8f03dc537e74 upstream.

When done from a virtual machine, instructions that touch APIC memory
must be emulated. By convention, MMIO accesses are typically performed
via io.h helpers such as readl() or writeq() to simplify instruction
emulation/decoding (ex: in KVM hosts and SEV guests) [0].

Currently, native_apic_mem_read() does not follow this convention,
allowing the compiler to emit instructions other than the MOV
instruction generated by readl(). In particular, when the kernel is
compiled with clang and run as a SEV-ES or SEV-SNP guest, the compiler
would emit a TESTL instruction which is not supported by the SEV-ES
emulator, causing a boot failure in that environment. It is likely the
same problem would happen in a TDX guest as that uses the same
instruction emulator as SEV-ES.

To make sure all emulators can emulate APIC memory reads via MOV, use
the readl() function in native_apic_mem_read(). It is expected that any
emulator would support MOV in any addressing mode as it is the most
generic and is what is usually emitted currently.

The TESTL instruction is emitted when native_apic_mem_read() is inlined
into apic_mem_wait_icr_idle(). The emulator comes from
insn_decode_mmio() in arch/x86/lib/insn-eval.c. It's not worth it to
extend insn_decode_mmio() to support more instructions since, in theory,
the compiler could choose to output nearly any instruction for such
reads which would bloat the emulator beyond reason.

  [0] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220405232939.73860-12-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com/

  [ bp: Massage commit message, fix typos. ]

Signed-off-by: Adam Dunlap &lt;acdunlap@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Kevin Loughlin &lt;kevinloughlin@google.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240318230927.2191933-1-acdunlap@google.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 5ce344beaca688f4cdea07045e0b8f03dc537e74 upstream.

When done from a virtual machine, instructions that touch APIC memory
must be emulated. By convention, MMIO accesses are typically performed
via io.h helpers such as readl() or writeq() to simplify instruction
emulation/decoding (ex: in KVM hosts and SEV guests) [0].

Currently, native_apic_mem_read() does not follow this convention,
allowing the compiler to emit instructions other than the MOV
instruction generated by readl(). In particular, when the kernel is
compiled with clang and run as a SEV-ES or SEV-SNP guest, the compiler
would emit a TESTL instruction which is not supported by the SEV-ES
emulator, causing a boot failure in that environment. It is likely the
same problem would happen in a TDX guest as that uses the same
instruction emulator as SEV-ES.

To make sure all emulators can emulate APIC memory reads via MOV, use
the readl() function in native_apic_mem_read(). It is expected that any
emulator would support MOV in any addressing mode as it is the most
generic and is what is usually emitted currently.

The TESTL instruction is emitted when native_apic_mem_read() is inlined
into apic_mem_wait_icr_idle(). The emulator comes from
insn_decode_mmio() in arch/x86/lib/insn-eval.c. It's not worth it to
extend insn_decode_mmio() to support more instructions since, in theory,
the compiler could choose to output nearly any instruction for such
reads which would bloat the emulator beyond reason.

  [0] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220405232939.73860-12-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com/

  [ bp: Massage commit message, fix typos. ]

Signed-off-by: Adam Dunlap &lt;acdunlap@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Kevin Loughlin &lt;kevinloughlin@google.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240318230927.2191933-1-acdunlap@google.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86/alternative: Don't call text_poke() in lazy TLB mode</title>
<updated>2024-04-13T10:51:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Juergen Gross</name>
<email>jgross@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-10-09T14:42:25+00:00</published>
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commit abee7c494d8c41bb388839bccc47e06247f0d7de upstream.

When running in lazy TLB mode the currently active page tables might
be the ones of a previous process, e.g. when running a kernel thread.

This can be problematic in case kernel code is being modified via
text_poke() in a kernel thread, and on another processor exit_mmap()
is active for the process which was running on the first cpu before
the kernel thread.

As text_poke() is using a temporary address space and the former
address space (obtained via cpu_tlbstate.loaded_mm) is restored
afterwards, there is a race possible in case the cpu on which
exit_mmap() is running wants to make sure there are no stale
references to that address space on any cpu active (this e.g. is
required when running as a Xen PV guest, where this problem has been
observed and analyzed).

In order to avoid that, drop off TLB lazy mode before switching to the
temporary address space.

Fixes: cefa929c034eb5d ("x86/mm: Introduce temporary mm structs")
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201009144225.12019-1-jgross@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit abee7c494d8c41bb388839bccc47e06247f0d7de upstream.

When running in lazy TLB mode the currently active page tables might
be the ones of a previous process, e.g. when running a kernel thread.

This can be problematic in case kernel code is being modified via
text_poke() in a kernel thread, and on another processor exit_mmap()
is active for the process which was running on the first cpu before
the kernel thread.

As text_poke() is using a temporary address space and the former
address space (obtained via cpu_tlbstate.loaded_mm) is restored
afterwards, there is a race possible in case the cpu on which
exit_mmap() is running wants to make sure there are no stale
references to that address space on any cpu active (this e.g. is
required when running as a Xen PV guest, where this problem has been
observed and analyzed).

In order to avoid that, drop off TLB lazy mode before switching to the
temporary address space.

Fixes: cefa929c034eb5d ("x86/mm: Introduce temporary mm structs")
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201009144225.12019-1-jgross@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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