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<title>linux-stable.git/arch/x86/kernel/cpu, branch v6.2</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>x86/speculation: Identify processors vulnerable to SMT RSB predictions</title>
<updated>2023-02-10T11:43:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tom Lendacky</name>
<email>thomas.lendacky@amd.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-02-09T15:22:24+00:00</published>
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Certain AMD processors are vulnerable to a cross-thread return address
predictions bug. When running in SMT mode and one of the sibling threads
transitions out of C0 state, the other sibling thread could use return
target predictions from the sibling thread that transitioned out of C0.

The Spectre v2 mitigations cover the Linux kernel, as it fills the RSB
when context switching to the idle thread. However, KVM allows a VMM to
prevent exiting guest mode when transitioning out of C0. A guest could
act maliciously in this situation, so create a new x86 BUG that can be
used to detect if the processor is vulnerable.

Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky &lt;thomas.lendacky@amd.com&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;91cec885656ca1fcd4f0185ce403a53dd9edecb7.1675956146.git.thomas.lendacky@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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Certain AMD processors are vulnerable to a cross-thread return address
predictions bug. When running in SMT mode and one of the sibling threads
transitions out of C0 state, the other sibling thread could use return
target predictions from the sibling thread that transitioned out of C0.

The Spectre v2 mitigations cover the Linux kernel, as it fills the RSB
when context switching to the idle thread. However, KVM allows a VMM to
prevent exiting guest mode when transitioning out of C0. A guest could
act maliciously in this situation, so create a new x86 BUG that can be
used to detect if the processor is vulnerable.

Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky &lt;thomas.lendacky@amd.com&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;91cec885656ca1fcd4f0185ce403a53dd9edecb7.1675956146.git.thomas.lendacky@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'sched_urgent_for_v6.2_rc6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2023-01-22T20:14:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-01-22T20:14:58+00:00</published>
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Pull scheduler fixes from Borislav Petkov:

 - Make sure the scheduler doesn't use stale frequency scaling values
   when latter get disabled due to a value error

 - Fix a NULL pointer access on UP configs

 - Use the proper locking when updating CPU capacity

* tag 'sched_urgent_for_v6.2_rc6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/aperfmperf: Erase stale arch_freq_scale values when disabling frequency invariance readings
  sched/core: Fix NULL pointer access fault in sched_setaffinity() with non-SMP configs
  sched/fair: Fixes for capacity inversion detection
  sched/uclamp: Fix a uninitialized variable warnings
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Pull scheduler fixes from Borislav Petkov:

 - Make sure the scheduler doesn't use stale frequency scaling values
   when latter get disabled due to a value error

 - Fix a NULL pointer access on UP configs

 - Use the proper locking when updating CPU capacity

* tag 'sched_urgent_for_v6.2_rc6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/aperfmperf: Erase stale arch_freq_scale values when disabling frequency invariance readings
  sched/core: Fix NULL pointer access fault in sched_setaffinity() with non-SMP configs
  sched/fair: Fixes for capacity inversion detection
  sched/uclamp: Fix a uninitialized variable warnings
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/aperfmperf: Erase stale arch_freq_scale values when disabling frequency invariance readings</title>
<updated>2023-01-16T09:19:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yair Podemsky</name>
<email>ypodemsk@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-01-10T16:02:06+00:00</published>
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Once disable_freq_invariance_work is called the scale_freq_tick function
will not compute or update the arch_freq_scale values.
However the scheduler will still read these values and use them.
The result is that the scheduler might perform unfair decisions based on stale
values.

This patch adds the step of setting the arch_freq_scale values for all
cpus to the default (max) value SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE, Once all cpus
have the same arch_freq_scale value the scaling is meaningless.

Signed-off-by: Yair Podemsky &lt;ypodemsk@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230110160206.75912-1-ypodemsk@redhat.com
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Once disable_freq_invariance_work is called the scale_freq_tick function
will not compute or update the arch_freq_scale values.
However the scheduler will still read these values and use them.
The result is that the scheduler might perform unfair decisions based on stale
values.

This patch adds the step of setting the arch_freq_scale values for all
cpus to the default (max) value SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE, Once all cpus
have the same arch_freq_scale value the scaling is meaningless.

Signed-off-by: Yair Podemsky &lt;ypodemsk@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230110160206.75912-1-ypodemsk@redhat.com
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/resctrl: Fix event counts regression in reused RMIDs</title>
<updated>2023-01-10T18:51:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Newman</name>
<email>peternewman@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-20T16:41:31+00:00</published>
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When creating a new monitoring group, the RMID allocated for it may have
been used by a group which was previously removed. In this case, the
hardware counters will have non-zero values which should be deducted
from what is reported in the new group's counts.

resctrl_arch_reset_rmid() initializes the prev_msr value for counters to
0, causing the initial count to be charged to the new group. Resurrect
__rmid_read() and use it to initialize prev_msr correctly.

Unlike before, __rmid_read() checks for error bits in the MSR read so
that callers don't need to.

Fixes: 1d81d15db39c ("x86/resctrl: Move mbm_overflow_count() into resctrl_arch_rmid_read()")
Signed-off-by: Peter Newman &lt;peternewman@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Reinette Chatre &lt;reinette.chatre@intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Babu Moger &lt;babu.moger@amd.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221220164132.443083-1-peternewman@google.com
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When creating a new monitoring group, the RMID allocated for it may have
been used by a group which was previously removed. In this case, the
hardware counters will have non-zero values which should be deducted
from what is reported in the new group's counts.

resctrl_arch_reset_rmid() initializes the prev_msr value for counters to
0, causing the initial count to be charged to the new group. Resurrect
__rmid_read() and use it to initialize prev_msr correctly.

Unlike before, __rmid_read() checks for error bits in the MSR read so
that callers don't need to.

Fixes: 1d81d15db39c ("x86/resctrl: Move mbm_overflow_count() into resctrl_arch_rmid_read()")
Signed-off-by: Peter Newman &lt;peternewman@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Reinette Chatre &lt;reinette.chatre@intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Babu Moger &lt;babu.moger@amd.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221220164132.443083-1-peternewman@google.com
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/resctrl: Fix task CLOSID/RMID update race</title>
<updated>2023-01-10T18:47:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Newman</name>
<email>peternewman@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-20T16:11:23+00:00</published>
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When the user moves a running task to a new rdtgroup using the task's
file interface or by deleting its rdtgroup, the resulting change in
CLOSID/RMID must be immediately propagated to the PQR_ASSOC MSR on the
task(s) CPUs.

x86 allows reordering loads with prior stores, so if the task starts
running between a task_curr() check that the CPU hoisted before the
stores in the CLOSID/RMID update then it can start running with the old
CLOSID/RMID until it is switched again because __rdtgroup_move_task()
failed to determine that it needs to be interrupted to obtain the new
CLOSID/RMID.

Refer to the diagram below:

CPU 0                                   CPU 1
-----                                   -----
__rdtgroup_move_task():
  curr &lt;- t1-&gt;cpu-&gt;rq-&gt;curr
                                        __schedule():
                                          rq-&gt;curr &lt;- t1
                                        resctrl_sched_in():
                                          t1-&gt;{closid,rmid} -&gt; {1,1}
  t1-&gt;{closid,rmid} &lt;- {2,2}
  if (curr == t1) // false
   IPI(t1-&gt;cpu)

A similar race impacts rdt_move_group_tasks(), which updates tasks in a
deleted rdtgroup.

In both cases, use smp_mb() to order the task_struct::{closid,rmid}
stores before the loads in task_curr().  In particular, in the
rdt_move_group_tasks() case, simply execute an smp_mb() on every
iteration with a matching task.

It is possible to use a single smp_mb() in rdt_move_group_tasks(), but
this would require two passes and a means of remembering which
task_structs were updated in the first loop. However, benchmarking
results below showed too little performance impact in the simple
approach to justify implementing the two-pass approach.

Times below were collected using `perf stat` to measure the time to
remove a group containing a 1600-task, parallel workload.

CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum P-8136 CPU @ 2.00GHz (112 threads)

  # mkdir /sys/fs/resctrl/test
  # echo $$ &gt; /sys/fs/resctrl/test/tasks
  # perf bench sched messaging -g 40 -l 100000

task-clock time ranges collected using:

  # perf stat rmdir /sys/fs/resctrl/test

Baseline:                     1.54 - 1.60 ms
smp_mb() every matching task: 1.57 - 1.67 ms

  [ bp: Massage commit message. ]

Fixes: ae28d1aae48a ("x86/resctrl: Use an IPI instead of task_work_add() to update PQR_ASSOC MSR")
Fixes: 0efc89be9471 ("x86/intel_rdt: Update task closid immediately on CPU in rmdir and unmount")
Signed-off-by: Peter Newman &lt;peternewman@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Reinette Chatre &lt;reinette.chatre@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Babu Moger &lt;babu.moger@amd.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221220161123.432120-1-peternewman@google.com
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When the user moves a running task to a new rdtgroup using the task's
file interface or by deleting its rdtgroup, the resulting change in
CLOSID/RMID must be immediately propagated to the PQR_ASSOC MSR on the
task(s) CPUs.

x86 allows reordering loads with prior stores, so if the task starts
running between a task_curr() check that the CPU hoisted before the
stores in the CLOSID/RMID update then it can start running with the old
CLOSID/RMID until it is switched again because __rdtgroup_move_task()
failed to determine that it needs to be interrupted to obtain the new
CLOSID/RMID.

Refer to the diagram below:

CPU 0                                   CPU 1
-----                                   -----
__rdtgroup_move_task():
  curr &lt;- t1-&gt;cpu-&gt;rq-&gt;curr
                                        __schedule():
                                          rq-&gt;curr &lt;- t1
                                        resctrl_sched_in():
                                          t1-&gt;{closid,rmid} -&gt; {1,1}
  t1-&gt;{closid,rmid} &lt;- {2,2}
  if (curr == t1) // false
   IPI(t1-&gt;cpu)

A similar race impacts rdt_move_group_tasks(), which updates tasks in a
deleted rdtgroup.

In both cases, use smp_mb() to order the task_struct::{closid,rmid}
stores before the loads in task_curr().  In particular, in the
rdt_move_group_tasks() case, simply execute an smp_mb() on every
iteration with a matching task.

It is possible to use a single smp_mb() in rdt_move_group_tasks(), but
this would require two passes and a means of remembering which
task_structs were updated in the first loop. However, benchmarking
results below showed too little performance impact in the simple
approach to justify implementing the two-pass approach.

Times below were collected using `perf stat` to measure the time to
remove a group containing a 1600-task, parallel workload.

CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum P-8136 CPU @ 2.00GHz (112 threads)

  # mkdir /sys/fs/resctrl/test
  # echo $$ &gt; /sys/fs/resctrl/test/tasks
  # perf bench sched messaging -g 40 -l 100000

task-clock time ranges collected using:

  # perf stat rmdir /sys/fs/resctrl/test

Baseline:                     1.54 - 1.60 ms
smp_mb() every matching task: 1.57 - 1.67 ms

  [ bp: Massage commit message. ]

Fixes: ae28d1aae48a ("x86/resctrl: Use an IPI instead of task_work_add() to update PQR_ASSOC MSR")
Fixes: 0efc89be9471 ("x86/intel_rdt: Update task closid immediately on CPU in rmdir and unmount")
Signed-off-by: Peter Newman &lt;peternewman@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Reinette Chatre &lt;reinette.chatre@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Babu Moger &lt;babu.moger@amd.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221220161123.432120-1-peternewman@google.com
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/bugs: Flush IBP in ib_prctl_set()</title>
<updated>2023-01-04T10:25:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rodrigo Branco</name>
<email>bsdaemon@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-01-03T20:17:51+00:00</published>
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We missed the window between the TIF flag update and the next reschedule.

Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Branco &lt;bsdaemon@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
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We missed the window between the TIF flag update and the next reschedule.

Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Branco &lt;bsdaemon@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'driver-core-6.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core</title>
<updated>2022-12-16T11:54:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-16T11:54:54+00:00</published>
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Pull driver core updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the set of driver core and kernfs changes for 6.2-rc1.

  The "big" change in here is the addition of a new macro,
  container_of_const() that will preserve the "const-ness" of a pointer
  passed into it.

  The "problem" of the current container_of() macro is that if you pass
  in a "const *", out of it can comes a non-const pointer unless you
  specifically ask for it. For many usages, we want to preserve the
  "const" attribute by using the same call. For a specific example, this
  series changes the kobj_to_dev() macro to use it, allowing it to be
  used no matter what the const value is. This prevents every subsystem
  from having to declare 2 different individual macros (i.e.
  kobj_const_to_dev() and kobj_to_dev()) and having the compiler enforce
  the const value at build time, which having 2 macros would not do
  either.

  The driver for all of this have been discussions with the Rust kernel
  developers as to how to properly mark driver core, and kobject,
  objects as being "non-mutable". The changes to the kobject and driver
  core in this pull request are the result of that, as there are lots of
  paths where kobjects and device pointers are not modified at all, so
  marking them as "const" allows the compiler to enforce this.

  So, a nice side affect of the Rust development effort has been already
  to clean up the driver core code to be more obvious about object
  rules.

  All of this has been bike-shedded in quite a lot of detail on lkml
  with different names and implementations resulting in the tiny version
  we have in here, much better than my original proposal. Lots of
  subsystem maintainers have acked the changes as well.

  Other than this change, included in here are smaller stuff like:

   - kernfs fixes and updates to handle lock contention better

   - vmlinux.lds.h fixes and updates

   - sysfs and debugfs documentation updates

   - device property updates

  All of these have been in the linux-next tree for quite a while with
  no problems"

* tag 'driver-core-6.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (58 commits)
  device property: Fix documentation for fwnode_get_next_parent()
  firmware_loader: fix up to_fw_sysfs() to preserve const
  usb.h: take advantage of container_of_const()
  device.h: move kobj_to_dev() to use container_of_const()
  container_of: add container_of_const() that preserves const-ness of the pointer
  driver core: fix up missed drivers/s390/char/hmcdrv_dev.c class.devnode() conversion.
  driver core: fix up missed scsi/cxlflash class.devnode() conversion.
  driver core: fix up some missing class.devnode() conversions.
  driver core: make struct class.devnode() take a const *
  driver core: make struct class.dev_uevent() take a const *
  cacheinfo: Remove of_node_put() for fw_token
  device property: Add a blank line in Kconfig of tests
  device property: Rename goto label to be more precise
  device property: Move PROPERTY_ENTRY_BOOL() a bit down
  device property: Get rid of __PROPERTY_ENTRY_ARRAY_EL*SIZE*()
  kernfs: fix all kernel-doc warnings and multiple typos
  driver core: pass a const * into of_device_uevent()
  kobject: kset_uevent_ops: make name() callback take a const *
  kobject: kset_uevent_ops: make filter() callback take a const *
  kobject: make kobject_namespace take a const *
  ...
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Pull driver core updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the set of driver core and kernfs changes for 6.2-rc1.

  The "big" change in here is the addition of a new macro,
  container_of_const() that will preserve the "const-ness" of a pointer
  passed into it.

  The "problem" of the current container_of() macro is that if you pass
  in a "const *", out of it can comes a non-const pointer unless you
  specifically ask for it. For many usages, we want to preserve the
  "const" attribute by using the same call. For a specific example, this
  series changes the kobj_to_dev() macro to use it, allowing it to be
  used no matter what the const value is. This prevents every subsystem
  from having to declare 2 different individual macros (i.e.
  kobj_const_to_dev() and kobj_to_dev()) and having the compiler enforce
  the const value at build time, which having 2 macros would not do
  either.

  The driver for all of this have been discussions with the Rust kernel
  developers as to how to properly mark driver core, and kobject,
  objects as being "non-mutable". The changes to the kobject and driver
  core in this pull request are the result of that, as there are lots of
  paths where kobjects and device pointers are not modified at all, so
  marking them as "const" allows the compiler to enforce this.

  So, a nice side affect of the Rust development effort has been already
  to clean up the driver core code to be more obvious about object
  rules.

  All of this has been bike-shedded in quite a lot of detail on lkml
  with different names and implementations resulting in the tiny version
  we have in here, much better than my original proposal. Lots of
  subsystem maintainers have acked the changes as well.

  Other than this change, included in here are smaller stuff like:

   - kernfs fixes and updates to handle lock contention better

   - vmlinux.lds.h fixes and updates

   - sysfs and debugfs documentation updates

   - device property updates

  All of these have been in the linux-next tree for quite a while with
  no problems"

* tag 'driver-core-6.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (58 commits)
  device property: Fix documentation for fwnode_get_next_parent()
  firmware_loader: fix up to_fw_sysfs() to preserve const
  usb.h: take advantage of container_of_const()
  device.h: move kobj_to_dev() to use container_of_const()
  container_of: add container_of_const() that preserves const-ness of the pointer
  driver core: fix up missed drivers/s390/char/hmcdrv_dev.c class.devnode() conversion.
  driver core: fix up missed scsi/cxlflash class.devnode() conversion.
  driver core: fix up some missing class.devnode() conversions.
  driver core: make struct class.devnode() take a const *
  driver core: make struct class.dev_uevent() take a const *
  cacheinfo: Remove of_node_put() for fw_token
  device property: Add a blank line in Kconfig of tests
  device property: Rename goto label to be more precise
  device property: Move PROPERTY_ENTRY_BOOL() a bit down
  device property: Get rid of __PROPERTY_ENTRY_ARRAY_EL*SIZE*()
  kernfs: fix all kernel-doc warnings and multiple typos
  driver core: pass a const * into of_device_uevent()
  kobject: kset_uevent_ops: make name() callback take a const *
  kobject: kset_uevent_ops: make filter() callback take a const *
  kobject: make kobject_namespace take a const *
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'x86_core_for_v6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2022-12-14T23:03:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-14T23:03:00+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=94a855111ed9106971ca2617c5d075269e6aefde'/>
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Pull x86 core updates from Borislav Petkov:

 - Add the call depth tracking mitigation for Retbleed which has been
   long in the making. It is a lighterweight software-only fix for
   Skylake-based cores where enabling IBRS is a big hammer and causes a
   significant performance impact.

   What it basically does is, it aligns all kernel functions to 16 bytes
   boundary and adds a 16-byte padding before the function, objtool
   collects all functions' locations and when the mitigation gets
   applied, it patches a call accounting thunk which is used to track
   the call depth of the stack at any time.

   When that call depth reaches a magical, microarchitecture-specific
   value for the Return Stack Buffer, the code stuffs that RSB and
   avoids its underflow which could otherwise lead to the Intel variant
   of Retbleed.

   This software-only solution brings a lot of the lost performance
   back, as benchmarks suggest:

       https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220915111039.092790446@infradead.org/

   That page above also contains a lot more detailed explanation of the
   whole mechanism

 - Implement a new control flow integrity scheme called FineIBT which is
   based on the software kCFI implementation and uses hardware IBT
   support where present to annotate and track indirect branches using a
   hash to validate them

 - Other misc fixes and cleanups

* tag 'x86_core_for_v6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (80 commits)
  x86/paravirt: Use common macro for creating simple asm paravirt functions
  x86/paravirt: Remove clobber bitmask from .parainstructions
  x86/debug: Include percpu.h in debugreg.h to get DECLARE_PER_CPU() et al
  x86/cpufeatures: Move X86_FEATURE_CALL_DEPTH from bit 18 to bit 19 of word 11, to leave space for WIP X86_FEATURE_SGX_EDECCSSA bit
  x86/Kconfig: Enable kernel IBT by default
  x86,pm: Force out-of-line memcpy()
  objtool: Fix weak hole vs prefix symbol
  objtool: Optimize elf_dirty_reloc_sym()
  x86/cfi: Add boot time hash randomization
  x86/cfi: Boot time selection of CFI scheme
  x86/ibt: Implement FineIBT
  objtool: Add --cfi to generate the .cfi_sites section
  x86: Add prefix symbols for function padding
  objtool: Add option to generate prefix symbols
  objtool: Avoid O(bloody terrible) behaviour -- an ode to libelf
  objtool: Slice up elf_create_section_symbol()
  kallsyms: Revert "Take callthunks into account"
  x86: Unconfuse CONFIG_ and X86_FEATURE_ namespaces
  x86/retpoline: Fix crash printing warning
  x86/paravirt: Fix a !PARAVIRT build warning
  ...
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<pre>
Pull x86 core updates from Borislav Petkov:

 - Add the call depth tracking mitigation for Retbleed which has been
   long in the making. It is a lighterweight software-only fix for
   Skylake-based cores where enabling IBRS is a big hammer and causes a
   significant performance impact.

   What it basically does is, it aligns all kernel functions to 16 bytes
   boundary and adds a 16-byte padding before the function, objtool
   collects all functions' locations and when the mitigation gets
   applied, it patches a call accounting thunk which is used to track
   the call depth of the stack at any time.

   When that call depth reaches a magical, microarchitecture-specific
   value for the Return Stack Buffer, the code stuffs that RSB and
   avoids its underflow which could otherwise lead to the Intel variant
   of Retbleed.

   This software-only solution brings a lot of the lost performance
   back, as benchmarks suggest:

       https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220915111039.092790446@infradead.org/

   That page above also contains a lot more detailed explanation of the
   whole mechanism

 - Implement a new control flow integrity scheme called FineIBT which is
   based on the software kCFI implementation and uses hardware IBT
   support where present to annotate and track indirect branches using a
   hash to validate them

 - Other misc fixes and cleanups

* tag 'x86_core_for_v6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (80 commits)
  x86/paravirt: Use common macro for creating simple asm paravirt functions
  x86/paravirt: Remove clobber bitmask from .parainstructions
  x86/debug: Include percpu.h in debugreg.h to get DECLARE_PER_CPU() et al
  x86/cpufeatures: Move X86_FEATURE_CALL_DEPTH from bit 18 to bit 19 of word 11, to leave space for WIP X86_FEATURE_SGX_EDECCSSA bit
  x86/Kconfig: Enable kernel IBT by default
  x86,pm: Force out-of-line memcpy()
  objtool: Fix weak hole vs prefix symbol
  objtool: Optimize elf_dirty_reloc_sym()
  x86/cfi: Add boot time hash randomization
  x86/cfi: Boot time selection of CFI scheme
  x86/ibt: Implement FineIBT
  objtool: Add --cfi to generate the .cfi_sites section
  x86: Add prefix symbols for function padding
  objtool: Add option to generate prefix symbols
  objtool: Avoid O(bloody terrible) behaviour -- an ode to libelf
  objtool: Slice up elf_create_section_symbol()
  kallsyms: Revert "Take callthunks into account"
  x86: Unconfuse CONFIG_ and X86_FEATURE_ namespaces
  x86/retpoline: Fix crash printing warning
  x86/paravirt: Fix a !PARAVIRT build warning
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mm-stable-2022-12-13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2022-12-14T03:29:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-14T03:29:45+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=e2ca6ba6ba0152361aa4fcbf6067db71b2c7a770'/>
<id>e2ca6ba6ba0152361aa4fcbf6067db71b2c7a770</id>
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - More userfaultfs work from Peter Xu

 - Several convert-to-folios series from Sidhartha Kumar and Huang Ying

 - Some filemap cleanups from Vishal Moola

 - David Hildenbrand added the ability to selftest anon memory COW
   handling

 - Some cpuset simplifications from Liu Shixin

 - Addition of vmalloc tracing support by Uladzislau Rezki

 - Some pagecache folioifications and simplifications from Matthew
   Wilcox

 - A pagemap cleanup from Kefeng Wang: we have VM_ACCESS_FLAGS, so use
   it

 - Miguel Ojeda contributed some cleanups for our use of the
   __no_sanitize_thread__ gcc keyword.

   This series should have been in the non-MM tree, my bad

 - Naoya Horiguchi improved the interaction between memory poisoning and
   memory section removal for huge pages

 - DAMON cleanups and tuneups from SeongJae Park

 - Tony Luck fixed the handling of COW faults against poisoned pages

 - Peter Xu utilized the PTE marker code for handling swapin errors

 - Hugh Dickins reworked compound page mapcount handling, simplifying it
   and making it more efficient

 - Removal of the autonuma savedwrite infrastructure from Nadav Amit and
   David Hildenbrand

 - zram support for multiple compression streams from Sergey Senozhatsky

 - David Hildenbrand reworked the GUP code's R/O long-term pinning so
   that drivers no longer need to use the FOLL_FORCE workaround which
   didn't work very well anyway

 - Mel Gorman altered the page allocator so that local IRQs can remnain
   enabled during per-cpu page allocations

 - Vishal Moola removed the try_to_release_page() wrapper

 - Stefan Roesch added some per-BDI sysfs tunables which are used to
   prevent network block devices from dirtying excessive amounts of
   pagecache

 - David Hildenbrand did some cleanup and repair work on KSM COW
   breaking

 - Nhat Pham and Johannes Weiner have implemented writeback in zswap's
   zsmalloc backend

 - Brian Foster has fixed a longstanding corner-case oddity in
   file[map]_write_and_wait_range()

 - sparse-vmemmap changes for MIPS, LoongArch and NIOS2 from Feiyang
   Chen

 - Shiyang Ruan has done some work on fsdax, to make its reflink mode
   work better under xfstests. Better, but still not perfect

 - Christoph Hellwig has removed the .writepage() method from several
   filesystems. They only need .writepages()

 - Yosry Ahmed wrote a series which fixes the memcg reclaim target
   beancounting

 - David Hildenbrand has fixed some of our MM selftests for 32-bit
   machines

 - Many singleton patches, as usual

* tag 'mm-stable-2022-12-13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (313 commits)
  mm/hugetlb: set head flag before setting compound_order in __prep_compound_gigantic_folio
  mm: mmu_gather: allow more than one batch of delayed rmaps
  mm: fix typo in struct pglist_data code comment
  kmsan: fix memcpy tests
  mm: add cond_resched() in swapin_walk_pmd_entry()
  mm: do not show fs mm pc for VM_LOCKONFAULT pages
  selftests/vm: ksm_functional_tests: fixes for 32bit
  selftests/vm: cow: fix compile warning on 32bit
  selftests/vm: madv_populate: fix missing MADV_POPULATE_(READ|WRITE) definitions
  mm/gup_test: fix PIN_LONGTERM_TEST_READ with highmem
  mm,thp,rmap: fix races between updates of subpages_mapcount
  mm: memcg: fix swapcached stat accounting
  mm: add nodes= arg to memory.reclaim
  mm: disable top-tier fallback to reclaim on proactive reclaim
  selftests: cgroup: make sure reclaim target memcg is unprotected
  selftests: cgroup: refactor proactive reclaim code to reclaim_until()
  mm: memcg: fix stale protection of reclaim target memcg
  mm/mmap: properly unaccount memory on mas_preallocate() failure
  omfs: remove -&gt;writepage
  jfs: remove -&gt;writepage
  ...
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<pre>
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - More userfaultfs work from Peter Xu

 - Several convert-to-folios series from Sidhartha Kumar and Huang Ying

 - Some filemap cleanups from Vishal Moola

 - David Hildenbrand added the ability to selftest anon memory COW
   handling

 - Some cpuset simplifications from Liu Shixin

 - Addition of vmalloc tracing support by Uladzislau Rezki

 - Some pagecache folioifications and simplifications from Matthew
   Wilcox

 - A pagemap cleanup from Kefeng Wang: we have VM_ACCESS_FLAGS, so use
   it

 - Miguel Ojeda contributed some cleanups for our use of the
   __no_sanitize_thread__ gcc keyword.

   This series should have been in the non-MM tree, my bad

 - Naoya Horiguchi improved the interaction between memory poisoning and
   memory section removal for huge pages

 - DAMON cleanups and tuneups from SeongJae Park

 - Tony Luck fixed the handling of COW faults against poisoned pages

 - Peter Xu utilized the PTE marker code for handling swapin errors

 - Hugh Dickins reworked compound page mapcount handling, simplifying it
   and making it more efficient

 - Removal of the autonuma savedwrite infrastructure from Nadav Amit and
   David Hildenbrand

 - zram support for multiple compression streams from Sergey Senozhatsky

 - David Hildenbrand reworked the GUP code's R/O long-term pinning so
   that drivers no longer need to use the FOLL_FORCE workaround which
   didn't work very well anyway

 - Mel Gorman altered the page allocator so that local IRQs can remnain
   enabled during per-cpu page allocations

 - Vishal Moola removed the try_to_release_page() wrapper

 - Stefan Roesch added some per-BDI sysfs tunables which are used to
   prevent network block devices from dirtying excessive amounts of
   pagecache

 - David Hildenbrand did some cleanup and repair work on KSM COW
   breaking

 - Nhat Pham and Johannes Weiner have implemented writeback in zswap's
   zsmalloc backend

 - Brian Foster has fixed a longstanding corner-case oddity in
   file[map]_write_and_wait_range()

 - sparse-vmemmap changes for MIPS, LoongArch and NIOS2 from Feiyang
   Chen

 - Shiyang Ruan has done some work on fsdax, to make its reflink mode
   work better under xfstests. Better, but still not perfect

 - Christoph Hellwig has removed the .writepage() method from several
   filesystems. They only need .writepages()

 - Yosry Ahmed wrote a series which fixes the memcg reclaim target
   beancounting

 - David Hildenbrand has fixed some of our MM selftests for 32-bit
   machines

 - Many singleton patches, as usual

* tag 'mm-stable-2022-12-13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (313 commits)
  mm/hugetlb: set head flag before setting compound_order in __prep_compound_gigantic_folio
  mm: mmu_gather: allow more than one batch of delayed rmaps
  mm: fix typo in struct pglist_data code comment
  kmsan: fix memcpy tests
  mm: add cond_resched() in swapin_walk_pmd_entry()
  mm: do not show fs mm pc for VM_LOCKONFAULT pages
  selftests/vm: ksm_functional_tests: fixes for 32bit
  selftests/vm: cow: fix compile warning on 32bit
  selftests/vm: madv_populate: fix missing MADV_POPULATE_(READ|WRITE) definitions
  mm/gup_test: fix PIN_LONGTERM_TEST_READ with highmem
  mm,thp,rmap: fix races between updates of subpages_mapcount
  mm: memcg: fix swapcached stat accounting
  mm: add nodes= arg to memory.reclaim
  mm: disable top-tier fallback to reclaim on proactive reclaim
  selftests: cgroup: make sure reclaim target memcg is unprotected
  selftests: cgroup: refactor proactive reclaim code to reclaim_until()
  mm: memcg: fix stale protection of reclaim target memcg
  mm/mmap: properly unaccount memory on mas_preallocate() failure
  omfs: remove -&gt;writepage
  jfs: remove -&gt;writepage
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'x86_microcode_for_v6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2022-12-13T23:05:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-13T23:05:29+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=a70210f41566131f88d31583f96e36cb7f5d2ad0'/>
<id>a70210f41566131f88d31583f96e36cb7f5d2ad0</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull x86 microcode and IFS updates from Borislav Petkov:
 "The IFS (In-Field Scan) stuff goes through tip because the IFS driver
  uses the same structures and similar functionality as the microcode
  loader and it made sense to route it all through this branch so that
  there are no conflicts.

   - Add support for multiple testing sequences to the Intel In-Field
     Scan driver in order to be able to run multiple different test
     patterns. Rework things and remove the BROKEN dependency so that
     the driver can be enabled (Jithu Joseph)

   - Remove the subsys interface usage in the microcode loader because
     it is not really needed

   - A couple of smaller fixes and cleanups"

* tag 'x86_microcode_for_v6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (24 commits)
  x86/microcode/intel: Do not retry microcode reloading on the APs
  x86/microcode/intel: Do not print microcode revision and processor flags
  platform/x86/intel/ifs: Add missing kernel-doc entry
  Revert "platform/x86/intel/ifs: Mark as BROKEN"
  Documentation/ABI: Update IFS ABI doc
  platform/x86/intel/ifs: Add current_batch sysfs entry
  platform/x86/intel/ifs: Remove reload sysfs entry
  platform/x86/intel/ifs: Add metadata validation
  platform/x86/intel/ifs: Use generic microcode headers and functions
  platform/x86/intel/ifs: Add metadata support
  x86/microcode/intel: Use a reserved field for metasize
  x86/microcode/intel: Add hdr_type to intel_microcode_sanity_check()
  x86/microcode/intel: Reuse microcode_sanity_check()
  x86/microcode/intel: Use appropriate type in microcode_sanity_check()
  x86/microcode/intel: Reuse find_matching_signature()
  platform/x86/intel/ifs: Remove memory allocation from load path
  platform/x86/intel/ifs: Remove image loading during init
  platform/x86/intel/ifs: Return a more appropriate error code
  platform/x86/intel/ifs: Remove unused selection
  x86/microcode: Drop struct ucode_cpu_info.valid
  ...
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<pre>
Pull x86 microcode and IFS updates from Borislav Petkov:
 "The IFS (In-Field Scan) stuff goes through tip because the IFS driver
  uses the same structures and similar functionality as the microcode
  loader and it made sense to route it all through this branch so that
  there are no conflicts.

   - Add support for multiple testing sequences to the Intel In-Field
     Scan driver in order to be able to run multiple different test
     patterns. Rework things and remove the BROKEN dependency so that
     the driver can be enabled (Jithu Joseph)

   - Remove the subsys interface usage in the microcode loader because
     it is not really needed

   - A couple of smaller fixes and cleanups"

* tag 'x86_microcode_for_v6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (24 commits)
  x86/microcode/intel: Do not retry microcode reloading on the APs
  x86/microcode/intel: Do not print microcode revision and processor flags
  platform/x86/intel/ifs: Add missing kernel-doc entry
  Revert "platform/x86/intel/ifs: Mark as BROKEN"
  Documentation/ABI: Update IFS ABI doc
  platform/x86/intel/ifs: Add current_batch sysfs entry
  platform/x86/intel/ifs: Remove reload sysfs entry
  platform/x86/intel/ifs: Add metadata validation
  platform/x86/intel/ifs: Use generic microcode headers and functions
  platform/x86/intel/ifs: Add metadata support
  x86/microcode/intel: Use a reserved field for metasize
  x86/microcode/intel: Add hdr_type to intel_microcode_sanity_check()
  x86/microcode/intel: Reuse microcode_sanity_check()
  x86/microcode/intel: Use appropriate type in microcode_sanity_check()
  x86/microcode/intel: Reuse find_matching_signature()
  platform/x86/intel/ifs: Remove memory allocation from load path
  platform/x86/intel/ifs: Remove image loading during init
  platform/x86/intel/ifs: Return a more appropriate error code
  platform/x86/intel/ifs: Remove unused selection
  x86/microcode: Drop struct ucode_cpu_info.valid
  ...
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