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<entry>
<title>x86/setup: Fix low identity map for &gt;= 2GB kernel range</title>
<updated>2015-12-09T19:03:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Krzysztof Mazur</name>
<email>krzysiek@podlesie.net</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-06T13:18:36+00:00</published>
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commit 68accac392d859d24adcf1be3a90e41f978bd54c upstream.

The commit f5f3497cad8c extended the low identity mapping. However, if
the kernel uses more than 2 GB (VMSPLIT_2G_OPT or VMSPLIT_1G memory
split), the normal memory mapping is overwritten by the low identity
mapping causing a crash. To avoid overwritting, limit the low identity
map to cover only memory before kernel range (PAGE_OFFSET).

Fixes: f5f3497cad8c "x86/setup: Extend low identity map to cover whole kernel range
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Mazur &lt;krzysiek@podlesie.net&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Laszlo Ersek &lt;lersek@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Matt Fleming &lt;matt.fleming@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1446815916-22105-1-git-send-email-krzysiek@podlesie.net
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 68accac392d859d24adcf1be3a90e41f978bd54c upstream.

The commit f5f3497cad8c extended the low identity mapping. However, if
the kernel uses more than 2 GB (VMSPLIT_2G_OPT or VMSPLIT_1G memory
split), the normal memory mapping is overwritten by the low identity
mapping causing a crash. To avoid overwritting, limit the low identity
map to cover only memory before kernel range (PAGE_OFFSET).

Fixes: f5f3497cad8c "x86/setup: Extend low identity map to cover whole kernel range
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Mazur &lt;krzysiek@podlesie.net&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Laszlo Ersek &lt;lersek@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Matt Fleming &lt;matt.fleming@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1446815916-22105-1-git-send-email-krzysiek@podlesie.net
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/setup: Extend low identity map to cover whole kernel range</title>
<updated>2015-12-09T19:03:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Bonzini</name>
<email>pbonzini@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-14T11:30:45+00:00</published>
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commit f5f3497cad8c8416a74b9aaceb127908755d020a upstream.

On 32-bit systems, the initial_page_table is reused by
efi_call_phys_prolog as an identity map to call
SetVirtualAddressMap.  efi_call_phys_prolog takes care of
converting the current CPU's GDT to a physical address too.

For PAE kernels the identity mapping is achieved by aliasing the
first PDPE for the kernel memory mapping into the first PDPE
of initial_page_table.  This makes the EFI stub's trick "just work".

However, for non-PAE kernels there is no guarantee that the identity
mapping in the initial_page_table extends as far as the GDT; in this
case, accesses to the GDT will cause a page fault (which quickly becomes
a triple fault).  Fix this by copying the kernel mappings from
swapper_pg_dir to initial_page_table twice, both at PAGE_OFFSET and at
identity mapping.

For some reason, this is only reproducible with QEMU's dynamic translation
mode, and not for example with KVM.  However, even under KVM one can clearly
see that the page table is bogus:

    $ qemu-system-i386 -pflash OVMF.fd -M q35 vmlinuz0 -s -S -daemonize
    $ gdb
    (gdb) target remote localhost:1234
    (gdb) hb *0x02858f6f
    Hardware assisted breakpoint 1 at 0x2858f6f
    (gdb) c
    Continuing.

    Breakpoint 1, 0x02858f6f in ?? ()
    (gdb) monitor info registers
    ...
    GDT=     0724e000 000000ff
    IDT=     fffbb000 000007ff
    CR0=0005003b CR2=ff896000 CR3=032b7000 CR4=00000690
    ...

The page directory is sane:

    (gdb) x/4wx 0x32b7000
    0x32b7000:	0x03398063	0x03399063	0x0339a063	0x0339b063
    (gdb) x/4wx 0x3398000
    0x3398000:	0x00000163	0x00001163	0x00002163	0x00003163
    (gdb) x/4wx 0x3399000
    0x3399000:	0x00400003	0x00401003	0x00402003	0x00403003

but our particular page directory entry is empty:

    (gdb) x/1wx 0x32b7000 + (0x724e000 &gt;&gt; 22) * 4
    0x32b7070:	0x00000000

[ It appears that you can skate past this issue if you don't receive
  any interrupts while the bogus GDT pointer is loaded, or if you avoid
  reloading the segment registers in general.

  Andy Lutomirski provides some additional insight:

   "AFAICT it's entirely permissible for the GDTR and/or LDT
    descriptor to point to unmapped memory.  Any attempt to use them
    (segment loads, interrupts, IRET, etc) will try to access that memory
    as if the access came from CPL 0 and, if the access fails, will
    generate a valid page fault with CR2 pointing into the GDT or
    LDT."

  Up until commit 23a0d4e8fa6d ("efi: Disable interrupts around EFI
  calls, not in the epilog/prolog calls") interrupts were disabled
  around the prolog and epilog calls, and the functional GDT was
  re-installed before interrupts were re-enabled.

  Which explains why no one has hit this issue until now. ]

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-by: Laszlo Ersek &lt;lersek@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt.fleming@intel.com&gt;
[ Updated changelog. ]
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit f5f3497cad8c8416a74b9aaceb127908755d020a upstream.

On 32-bit systems, the initial_page_table is reused by
efi_call_phys_prolog as an identity map to call
SetVirtualAddressMap.  efi_call_phys_prolog takes care of
converting the current CPU's GDT to a physical address too.

For PAE kernels the identity mapping is achieved by aliasing the
first PDPE for the kernel memory mapping into the first PDPE
of initial_page_table.  This makes the EFI stub's trick "just work".

However, for non-PAE kernels there is no guarantee that the identity
mapping in the initial_page_table extends as far as the GDT; in this
case, accesses to the GDT will cause a page fault (which quickly becomes
a triple fault).  Fix this by copying the kernel mappings from
swapper_pg_dir to initial_page_table twice, both at PAGE_OFFSET and at
identity mapping.

For some reason, this is only reproducible with QEMU's dynamic translation
mode, and not for example with KVM.  However, even under KVM one can clearly
see that the page table is bogus:

    $ qemu-system-i386 -pflash OVMF.fd -M q35 vmlinuz0 -s -S -daemonize
    $ gdb
    (gdb) target remote localhost:1234
    (gdb) hb *0x02858f6f
    Hardware assisted breakpoint 1 at 0x2858f6f
    (gdb) c
    Continuing.

    Breakpoint 1, 0x02858f6f in ?? ()
    (gdb) monitor info registers
    ...
    GDT=     0724e000 000000ff
    IDT=     fffbb000 000007ff
    CR0=0005003b CR2=ff896000 CR3=032b7000 CR4=00000690
    ...

The page directory is sane:

    (gdb) x/4wx 0x32b7000
    0x32b7000:	0x03398063	0x03399063	0x0339a063	0x0339b063
    (gdb) x/4wx 0x3398000
    0x3398000:	0x00000163	0x00001163	0x00002163	0x00003163
    (gdb) x/4wx 0x3399000
    0x3399000:	0x00400003	0x00401003	0x00402003	0x00403003

but our particular page directory entry is empty:

    (gdb) x/1wx 0x32b7000 + (0x724e000 &gt;&gt; 22) * 4
    0x32b7070:	0x00000000

[ It appears that you can skate past this issue if you don't receive
  any interrupts while the bogus GDT pointer is loaded, or if you avoid
  reloading the segment registers in general.

  Andy Lutomirski provides some additional insight:

   "AFAICT it's entirely permissible for the GDTR and/or LDT
    descriptor to point to unmapped memory.  Any attempt to use them
    (segment loads, interrupts, IRET, etc) will try to access that memory
    as if the access came from CPL 0 and, if the access fails, will
    generate a valid page fault with CR2 pointing into the GDT or
    LDT."

  Up until commit 23a0d4e8fa6d ("efi: Disable interrupts around EFI
  calls, not in the epilog/prolog calls") interrupts were disabled
  around the prolog and epilog calls, and the functional GDT was
  re-installed before interrupts were re-enabled.

  Which explains why no one has hit this issue until now. ]

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-by: Laszlo Ersek &lt;lersek@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt.fleming@intel.com&gt;
[ Updated changelog. ]
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2015-04-13T20:31:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-13T20:31:32+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=6cf78d4b3766bcd25348d72377796f9566ac8e1a'/>
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Pull x86 mm changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle were:

   - reduce the x86/32 PAE per task PGD allocation overhead from 4K to
     0.032k (Fenghua Yu)

   - early_ioremap/memunmap() usage cleanups (Juergen Gross)

   - gbpages support cleanups (Luis R Rodriguez)

   - improve AMD Bulldozer (family 0x15) ASLR I$ aliasing workaround to
     increase randomization by 3 bits (per bootup) (Hector
     Marco-Gisbert)

   - misc fixlets"

* 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/mm: Improve AMD Bulldozer ASLR workaround
  x86/mm/pat: Initialize __cachemode2pte_tbl[] and __pte2cachemode_tbl[] in a bit more readable fashion
  init.h: Clean up the __setup()/early_param() macros
  x86/mm: Simplify probe_page_size_mask()
  x86/mm: Further simplify 1 GB kernel linear mappings handling
  x86/mm: Use early_param_on_off() for direct_gbpages
  init.h: Add early_param_on_off()
  x86/mm: Simplify enabling direct_gbpages
  x86/mm: Use IS_ENABLED() for direct_gbpages
  x86/mm: Unexport set_memory_ro() and set_memory_rw()
  x86/mm, efi: Use early_ioremap() in arch/x86/platform/efi/efi-bgrt.c
  x86/mm: Use early_memunmap() instead of early_iounmap()
  x86/mm/pat: Ensure different messages in STRICT_DEVMEM and PAT cases
  x86/mm: Reduce PAE-mode per task pgd allocation overhead from 4K to 32 bytes
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Pull x86 mm changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle were:

   - reduce the x86/32 PAE per task PGD allocation overhead from 4K to
     0.032k (Fenghua Yu)

   - early_ioremap/memunmap() usage cleanups (Juergen Gross)

   - gbpages support cleanups (Luis R Rodriguez)

   - improve AMD Bulldozer (family 0x15) ASLR I$ aliasing workaround to
     increase randomization by 3 bits (per bootup) (Hector
     Marco-Gisbert)

   - misc fixlets"

* 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/mm: Improve AMD Bulldozer ASLR workaround
  x86/mm/pat: Initialize __cachemode2pte_tbl[] and __pte2cachemode_tbl[] in a bit more readable fashion
  init.h: Clean up the __setup()/early_param() macros
  x86/mm: Simplify probe_page_size_mask()
  x86/mm: Further simplify 1 GB kernel linear mappings handling
  x86/mm: Use early_param_on_off() for direct_gbpages
  init.h: Add early_param_on_off()
  x86/mm: Simplify enabling direct_gbpages
  x86/mm: Use IS_ENABLED() for direct_gbpages
  x86/mm: Unexport set_memory_ro() and set_memory_rw()
  x86/mm, efi: Use early_ioremap() in arch/x86/platform/efi/efi-bgrt.c
  x86/mm: Use early_memunmap() instead of early_iounmap()
  x86/mm/pat: Ensure different messages in STRICT_DEVMEM and PAT cases
  x86/mm: Reduce PAE-mode per task pgd allocation overhead from 4K to 32 bytes
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/mm/KASLR: Propagate KASLR status to kernel proper</title>
<updated>2015-04-03T13:26:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov</name>
<email>bp@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-01T10:49:52+00:00</published>
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Commit:

  e2b32e678513 ("x86, kaslr: randomize module base load address")

made module base address randomization unconditional and didn't regard
disabled KKASLR due to CONFIG_HIBERNATION and command line option
"nokaslr". For more info see (now reverted) commit:

  f47233c2d34f ("x86/mm/ASLR: Propagate base load address calculation")

In order to propagate KASLR status to kernel proper, we need a single bit
in boot_params.hdr.loadflags and we've chosen bit 1 thus leaving the
top-down allocated bits for bits supposed to be used by the bootloader.

Originally-From: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
Suggested-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Commit:

  e2b32e678513 ("x86, kaslr: randomize module base load address")

made module base address randomization unconditional and didn't regard
disabled KKASLR due to CONFIG_HIBERNATION and command line option
"nokaslr". For more info see (now reverted) commit:

  f47233c2d34f ("x86/mm/ASLR: Propagate base load address calculation")

In order to propagate KASLR status to kernel proper, we need a single bit
in boot_params.hdr.loadflags and we've chosen bit 1 thus leaving the
top-down allocated bits for bits supposed to be used by the bootloader.

Originally-From: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
Suggested-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Revert "x86/mm/ASLR: Propagate base load address calculation"</title>
<updated>2015-03-16T10:18:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov</name>
<email>bp@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-16T10:06:28+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=69797dafe35541bfff1989c0b37c66ed785faf0e'/>
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This reverts commit:

  f47233c2d34f ("x86/mm/ASLR: Propagate base load address calculation")

The main reason for the revert is that the new boot flag does not work
at all currently, and in order to make this work, we need non-trivial
changes to the x86 boot code which we didn't manage to get done in
time for merging.

And even if we did, they would've been too risky so instead of
rushing things and break booting 4.1 on boxes left and right, we
will be very strict and conservative and will take our time with
this to fix and test it properly.

Reported-by: Yinghai Lu &lt;yinghai@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Baoquan He &lt;bhe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com
Cc: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Josh Triplett &lt;josh@joshtriplett.org&gt;
Cc: Junjie Mao &lt;eternal.n08@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Matt Fleming &lt;matt.fleming@intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150316100628.GD22995@pd.tnic
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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This reverts commit:

  f47233c2d34f ("x86/mm/ASLR: Propagate base load address calculation")

The main reason for the revert is that the new boot flag does not work
at all currently, and in order to make this work, we need non-trivial
changes to the x86 boot code which we didn't manage to get done in
time for merging.

And even if we did, they would've been too risky so instead of
rushing things and break booting 4.1 on boxes left and right, we
will be very strict and conservative and will take our time with
this to fix and test it properly.

Reported-by: Yinghai Lu &lt;yinghai@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Baoquan He &lt;bhe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com
Cc: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Josh Triplett &lt;josh@joshtriplett.org&gt;
Cc: Junjie Mao &lt;eternal.n08@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Matt Fleming &lt;matt.fleming@intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150316100628.GD22995@pd.tnic
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/mm: Use early_memunmap() instead of early_iounmap()</title>
<updated>2015-02-24T14:58:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Juergen Gross</name>
<email>jgross@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-24T09:13:28+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=8d4a40bc0651ea51c196a3d3016d041c41ec19a2'/>
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Memory mapped via early_memremap() should be unmapped with
early_memunmap() instead of early_iounmap().

Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Cc: matt.fleming@intel.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1424769211-11378-2-git-send-email-jgross@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Memory mapped via early_memremap() should be unmapped with
early_memunmap() instead of early_iounmap().

Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Cc: matt.fleming@intel.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1424769211-11378-2-git-send-email-jgross@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2015-02-21T18:41:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-21T18:41:29+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=5fbe4c224ce3e2e62bd487158dfd1e89f9ae3e11'/>
<id>5fbe4c224ce3e2e62bd487158dfd1e89f9ae3e11</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull misc x86 fixes from Ingo Molnar:
 "This contains:

   - EFI fixes
   - a boot printout fix
   - ASLR/kASLR fixes
   - intel microcode driver fixes
   - other misc fixes

  Most of the linecount comes from an EFI revert"

* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/mm/ASLR: Avoid PAGE_SIZE redefinition for UML subarch
  x86/microcode/intel: Handle truncated microcode images more robustly
  x86/microcode/intel: Guard against stack overflow in the loader
  x86, mm/ASLR: Fix stack randomization on 64-bit systems
  x86/mm/init: Fix incorrect page size in init_memory_mapping() printks
  x86/mm/ASLR: Propagate base load address calculation
  Documentation/x86: Fix path in zero-page.txt
  x86/apic: Fix the devicetree build in certain configs
  Revert "efi/libstub: Call get_memory_map() to obtain map and desc sizes"
  x86/efi: Avoid triple faults during EFI mixed mode calls
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Pull misc x86 fixes from Ingo Molnar:
 "This contains:

   - EFI fixes
   - a boot printout fix
   - ASLR/kASLR fixes
   - intel microcode driver fixes
   - other misc fixes

  Most of the linecount comes from an EFI revert"

* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/mm/ASLR: Avoid PAGE_SIZE redefinition for UML subarch
  x86/microcode/intel: Handle truncated microcode images more robustly
  x86/microcode/intel: Guard against stack overflow in the loader
  x86, mm/ASLR: Fix stack randomization on 64-bit systems
  x86/mm/init: Fix incorrect page size in init_memory_mapping() printks
  x86/mm/ASLR: Propagate base load address calculation
  Documentation/x86: Fix path in zero-page.txt
  x86/apic: Fix the devicetree build in certain configs
  Revert "efi/libstub: Call get_memory_map() to obtain map and desc sizes"
  x86/efi: Avoid triple faults during EFI mixed mode calls
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<title>Merge branch 'tip-x86-kaslr' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bp/bp into x86/urgent</title>
<updated>2015-02-19T11:31:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-19T11:06:04+00:00</published>
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Pull ASLR and kASLR fixes from Borislav Petkov:

  - Add a global flag announcing KASLR state so that relevant code can do
    informed decisions based on its setting. (Jiri Kosina)

  - Fix a stack randomization entropy decrease bug. (Hector Marco-Gisbert)

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Pull ASLR and kASLR fixes from Borislav Petkov:

  - Add a global flag announcing KASLR state so that relevant code can do
    informed decisions based on its setting. (Jiri Kosina)

  - Fix a stack randomization entropy decrease bug. (Hector Marco-Gisbert)

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>x86/mm/ASLR: Propagate base load address calculation</title>
<updated>2015-02-19T10:38:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Kosina</name>
<email>jkosina@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-13T15:04:55+00:00</published>
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Commit:

  e2b32e678513 ("x86, kaslr: randomize module base load address")

makes the base address for module to be unconditionally randomized in
case when CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is defined and "nokaslr" option isn't
present on the commandline.

This is not consistent with how choose_kernel_location() decides whether
it will randomize kernel load base.

Namely, CONFIG_HIBERNATION disables kASLR (unless "kaslr" option is
explicitly specified on kernel commandline), which makes the state space
larger than what module loader is looking at. IOW CONFIG_HIBERNATION &amp;&amp;
CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is a valid config option, kASLR wouldn't be applied
by default in that case, but module loader is not aware of that.

Instead of fixing the logic in module.c, this patch takes more generic
aproach. It introduces a new bootparam setup data_type SETUP_KASLR and
uses that to pass the information whether kaslr has been applied during
kernel decompression, and sets a global 'kaslr_enabled' variable
accordingly, so that any kernel code (module loading, livepatching, ...)
can make decisions based on its value.

x86 module loader is converted to make use of this flag.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LNX.2.00.1502101411280.10719@pobox.suse.cz
[ Always dump correct kaslr status when panicking ]
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
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Commit:

  e2b32e678513 ("x86, kaslr: randomize module base load address")

makes the base address for module to be unconditionally randomized in
case when CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is defined and "nokaslr" option isn't
present on the commandline.

This is not consistent with how choose_kernel_location() decides whether
it will randomize kernel load base.

Namely, CONFIG_HIBERNATION disables kASLR (unless "kaslr" option is
explicitly specified on kernel commandline), which makes the state space
larger than what module loader is looking at. IOW CONFIG_HIBERNATION &amp;&amp;
CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is a valid config option, kASLR wouldn't be applied
by default in that case, but module loader is not aware of that.

Instead of fixing the logic in module.c, this patch takes more generic
aproach. It introduces a new bootparam setup data_type SETUP_KASLR and
uses that to pass the information whether kaslr has been applied during
kernel decompression, and sets a global 'kaslr_enabled' variable
accordingly, so that any kernel code (module loading, livepatching, ...)
can make decisions based on its value.

x86 module loader is converted to make use of this flag.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LNX.2.00.1502101411280.10719@pobox.suse.cz
[ Always dump correct kaslr status when panicking ]
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2015-02-16T22:58:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-16T22:58:12+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 perf updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "This series tightens up RDPMC permissions: currently even highly
  sandboxed x86 execution environments (such as seccomp) have permission
  to execute RDPMC, which may leak various perf events / PMU state such
  as timing information and other CPU execution details.

  This 'all is allowed' RDPMC mode is still preserved as the
  (non-default) /sys/devices/cpu/rdpmc=2 setting.  The new default is
  that RDPMC access is only allowed if a perf event is mmap-ed (which is
  needed to correctly interpret RDPMC counter values in any case).

  As a side effect of these changes CR4 handling is cleaned up in the
  x86 code and a shadow copy of the CR4 value is added.

  The extra CR4 manipulation adds ~ &lt;50ns to the context switch cost
  between rdpmc-capable and rdpmc-non-capable mms"

* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  perf/x86: Add /sys/devices/cpu/rdpmc=2 to allow rdpmc for all tasks
  perf/x86: Only allow rdpmc if a perf_event is mapped
  perf: Pass the event to arch_perf_update_userpage()
  perf: Add pmu callbacks to track event mapping and unmapping
  x86: Add a comment clarifying LDT context switching
  x86: Store a per-cpu shadow copy of CR4
  x86: Clean up cr4 manipulation
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Pull x86 perf updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "This series tightens up RDPMC permissions: currently even highly
  sandboxed x86 execution environments (such as seccomp) have permission
  to execute RDPMC, which may leak various perf events / PMU state such
  as timing information and other CPU execution details.

  This 'all is allowed' RDPMC mode is still preserved as the
  (non-default) /sys/devices/cpu/rdpmc=2 setting.  The new default is
  that RDPMC access is only allowed if a perf event is mmap-ed (which is
  needed to correctly interpret RDPMC counter values in any case).

  As a side effect of these changes CR4 handling is cleaned up in the
  x86 code and a shadow copy of the CR4 value is added.

  The extra CR4 manipulation adds ~ &lt;50ns to the context switch cost
  between rdpmc-capable and rdpmc-non-capable mms"

* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  perf/x86: Add /sys/devices/cpu/rdpmc=2 to allow rdpmc for all tasks
  perf/x86: Only allow rdpmc if a perf_event is mapped
  perf: Pass the event to arch_perf_update_userpage()
  perf: Add pmu callbacks to track event mapping and unmapping
  x86: Add a comment clarifying LDT context switching
  x86: Store a per-cpu shadow copy of CR4
  x86: Clean up cr4 manipulation
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