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<title>Merge tag 'x86_cpu_for_v6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2022-12-13T22:56:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-13T22:56:56+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 cpu updates from Borislav Petkov:

 - Split MTRR and PAT init code to accomodate at least Xen PV and TDX
   guests which do not get MTRRs exposed but only PAT. (TDX guests do
   not support the cache disabling dance when setting up MTRRs so they
   fall under the same category)

   This is a cleanup work to remove all the ugly workarounds for such
   guests and init things separately (Juergen Gross)

 - Add two new Intel CPUs to the list of CPUs with "normal" Energy
   Performance Bias, leading to power savings

 - Do not do bus master arbitration in C3 (ARB_DISABLE) on modern
   Centaur CPUs

* tag 'x86_cpu_for_v6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (26 commits)
  x86/mtrr: Make message for disabled MTRRs more descriptive
  x86/pat: Handle TDX guest PAT initialization
  x86/cpuid: Carve out all CPUID functionality
  x86/cpu: Switch to cpu_feature_enabled() for X86_FEATURE_XENPV
  x86/cpu: Remove X86_FEATURE_XENPV usage in setup_cpu_entry_area()
  x86/cpu: Drop 32-bit Xen PV guest code in update_task_stack()
  x86/cpu: Remove unneeded 64-bit dependency in arch_enter_from_user_mode()
  x86/cpufeatures: Add X86_FEATURE_XENPV to disabled-features.h
  x86/acpi/cstate: Optimize ARB_DISABLE on Centaur CPUs
  x86/mtrr: Simplify mtrr_ops initialization
  x86/cacheinfo: Switch cache_ap_init() to hotplug callback
  x86: Decouple PAT and MTRR handling
  x86/mtrr: Add a stop_machine() handler calling only cache_cpu_init()
  x86/mtrr: Let cache_aps_delayed_init replace mtrr_aps_delayed_init
  x86/mtrr: Get rid of __mtrr_enabled bool
  x86/mtrr: Simplify mtrr_bp_init()
  x86/mtrr: Remove set_all callback from struct mtrr_ops
  x86/mtrr: Disentangle MTRR init from PAT init
  x86/mtrr: Move cache control code to cacheinfo.c
  x86/mtrr: Split MTRR-specific handling from cache dis/enabling
  ...
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Pull x86 cpu updates from Borislav Petkov:

 - Split MTRR and PAT init code to accomodate at least Xen PV and TDX
   guests which do not get MTRRs exposed but only PAT. (TDX guests do
   not support the cache disabling dance when setting up MTRRs so they
   fall under the same category)

   This is a cleanup work to remove all the ugly workarounds for such
   guests and init things separately (Juergen Gross)

 - Add two new Intel CPUs to the list of CPUs with "normal" Energy
   Performance Bias, leading to power savings

 - Do not do bus master arbitration in C3 (ARB_DISABLE) on modern
   Centaur CPUs

* tag 'x86_cpu_for_v6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (26 commits)
  x86/mtrr: Make message for disabled MTRRs more descriptive
  x86/pat: Handle TDX guest PAT initialization
  x86/cpuid: Carve out all CPUID functionality
  x86/cpu: Switch to cpu_feature_enabled() for X86_FEATURE_XENPV
  x86/cpu: Remove X86_FEATURE_XENPV usage in setup_cpu_entry_area()
  x86/cpu: Drop 32-bit Xen PV guest code in update_task_stack()
  x86/cpu: Remove unneeded 64-bit dependency in arch_enter_from_user_mode()
  x86/cpufeatures: Add X86_FEATURE_XENPV to disabled-features.h
  x86/acpi/cstate: Optimize ARB_DISABLE on Centaur CPUs
  x86/mtrr: Simplify mtrr_ops initialization
  x86/cacheinfo: Switch cache_ap_init() to hotplug callback
  x86: Decouple PAT and MTRR handling
  x86/mtrr: Add a stop_machine() handler calling only cache_cpu_init()
  x86/mtrr: Let cache_aps_delayed_init replace mtrr_aps_delayed_init
  x86/mtrr: Get rid of __mtrr_enabled bool
  x86/mtrr: Simplify mtrr_bp_init()
  x86/mtrr: Remove set_all callback from struct mtrr_ops
  x86/mtrr: Disentangle MTRR init from PAT init
  x86/mtrr: Move cache control code to cacheinfo.c
  x86/mtrr: Split MTRR-specific handling from cache dis/enabling
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'x86_boot_for_v6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2022-12-13T22:45:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-13T22:45:29+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 boot updates from Borislav Petkov:
 "A  of early boot cleanups and fixes.

   - Do some spring cleaning to the compressed boot code by moving the
     EFI mixed-mode code to a separate compilation unit, the AMD memory
     encryption early code where it belongs and fixing up build
     dependencies. Make the deprecated EFI handover protocol optional
     with the goal of removing it at some point (Ard Biesheuvel)

   - Skip realmode init code on Xen PV guests as it is not needed there

   - Remove an old 32-bit PIC code compiler workaround"

* tag 'x86_boot_for_v6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/boot: Remove x86_32 PIC using %ebx workaround
  x86/boot: Skip realmode init code when running as Xen PV guest
  x86/efi: Make the deprecated EFI handover protocol optional
  x86/boot/compressed: Only build mem_encrypt.S if AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT=y
  x86/boot/compressed: Adhere to calling convention in get_sev_encryption_bit()
  x86/boot/compressed: Move startup32_check_sev_cbit() out of head_64.S
  x86/boot/compressed: Move startup32_check_sev_cbit() into .text
  x86/boot/compressed: Move startup32_load_idt() out of head_64.S
  x86/boot/compressed: Move startup32_load_idt() into .text section
  x86/boot/compressed: Pull global variable reference into startup32_load_idt()
  x86/boot/compressed: Avoid touching ECX in startup32_set_idt_entry()
  x86/boot/compressed: Simplify IDT/GDT preserve/restore in the EFI thunk
  x86/boot/compressed, efi: Merge multiple definitions of image_offset into one
  x86/boot/compressed: Move efi32_pe_entry() out of head_64.S
  x86/boot/compressed: Move efi32_entry out of head_64.S
  x86/boot/compressed: Move efi32_pe_entry into .text section
  x86/boot/compressed: Move bootargs parsing out of 32-bit startup code
  x86/boot/compressed: Move 32-bit entrypoint code into .text section
  x86/boot/compressed: Rename efi_thunk_64.S to efi-mixed.S
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<pre>
Pull x86 boot updates from Borislav Petkov:
 "A  of early boot cleanups and fixes.

   - Do some spring cleaning to the compressed boot code by moving the
     EFI mixed-mode code to a separate compilation unit, the AMD memory
     encryption early code where it belongs and fixing up build
     dependencies. Make the deprecated EFI handover protocol optional
     with the goal of removing it at some point (Ard Biesheuvel)

   - Skip realmode init code on Xen PV guests as it is not needed there

   - Remove an old 32-bit PIC code compiler workaround"

* tag 'x86_boot_for_v6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/boot: Remove x86_32 PIC using %ebx workaround
  x86/boot: Skip realmode init code when running as Xen PV guest
  x86/efi: Make the deprecated EFI handover protocol optional
  x86/boot/compressed: Only build mem_encrypt.S if AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT=y
  x86/boot/compressed: Adhere to calling convention in get_sev_encryption_bit()
  x86/boot/compressed: Move startup32_check_sev_cbit() out of head_64.S
  x86/boot/compressed: Move startup32_check_sev_cbit() into .text
  x86/boot/compressed: Move startup32_load_idt() out of head_64.S
  x86/boot/compressed: Move startup32_load_idt() into .text section
  x86/boot/compressed: Pull global variable reference into startup32_load_idt()
  x86/boot/compressed: Avoid touching ECX in startup32_set_idt_entry()
  x86/boot/compressed: Simplify IDT/GDT preserve/restore in the EFI thunk
  x86/boot/compressed, efi: Merge multiple definitions of image_offset into one
  x86/boot/compressed: Move efi32_pe_entry() out of head_64.S
  x86/boot/compressed: Move efi32_entry out of head_64.S
  x86/boot/compressed: Move efi32_pe_entry into .text section
  x86/boot/compressed: Move bootargs parsing out of 32-bit startup code
  x86/boot/compressed: Move 32-bit entrypoint code into .text section
  x86/boot/compressed: Rename efi_thunk_64.S to efi-mixed.S
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<entry>
<title>x86/boot: Skip realmode init code when running as Xen PV guest</title>
<updated>2022-11-25T11:05:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Juergen Gross</name>
<email>jgross@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-11-23T11:45:23+00:00</published>
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When running as a Xen PV guest there is no need for setting up the
realmode trampoline, as realmode isn't supported in this environment.

Trying to setup the trampoline has been proven to be problematic in
some cases, especially when trying to debug early boot problems with
Xen requiring to keep the EFI boot-services memory mapped (some
firmware variants seem to claim basically all memory below 1Mb for boot
services).

Introduce new x86_platform_ops operations for that purpose, which can
be set to a NOP by the Xen PV specific kernel boot code.

  [ bp: s/call_init_real_mode/do_init_real_mode/ ]

Fixes: 084ee1c641a0 ("x86, realmode: Relocator for realmode code")
Suggested-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221123114523.3467-1-jgross@suse.com
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When running as a Xen PV guest there is no need for setting up the
realmode trampoline, as realmode isn't supported in this environment.

Trying to setup the trampoline has been proven to be problematic in
some cases, especially when trying to debug early boot problems with
Xen requiring to keep the EFI boot-services memory mapped (some
firmware variants seem to claim basically all memory below 1Mb for boot
services).

Introduce new x86_platform_ops operations for that purpose, which can
be set to a NOP by the Xen PV specific kernel boot code.

  [ bp: s/call_init_real_mode/do_init_real_mode/ ]

Fixes: 084ee1c641a0 ("x86, realmode: Relocator for realmode code")
Suggested-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221123114523.3467-1-jgross@suse.com
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>efi: memmap: Move EFI fake memmap support into x86 arch tree</title>
<updated>2022-11-18T08:14:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ardb@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-01T16:38:15+00:00</published>
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The EFI fake memmap support is specific to x86, which manipulates the
EFI memory map in various different ways after receiving it from the EFI
stub. On other architectures, we have managed to push back on this, and
the EFI memory map is kept pristine.

So let's move the fake memmap code into the x86 arch tree, where it
arguably belongs.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
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The EFI fake memmap support is specific to x86, which manipulates the
EFI memory map in various different ways after receiving it from the EFI
stub. On other architectures, we have managed to push back on this, and
the EFI memory map is kept pristine.

So let's move the fake memmap code into the x86 arch tree, where it
arguably belongs.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86: Decouple PAT and MTRR handling</title>
<updated>2022-11-10T12:12:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Juergen Gross</name>
<email>jgross@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-11-02T07:47:10+00:00</published>
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Today, PAT is usable only with MTRR being active, with some nasty tweaks
to make PAT usable when running as a Xen PV guest which doesn't support
MTRR.

The reason for this coupling is that both PAT MSR changes and MTRR
changes require a similar sequence and so full PAT support was added
using the already available MTRR handling.

Xen PV PAT handling can work without MTRR, as it just needs to consume
the PAT MSR setting done by the hypervisor without the ability and need
to change it. This in turn has resulted in a convoluted initialization
sequence and wrong decisions regarding cache mode availability due to
misguiding PAT availability flags.

Fix all of that by allowing to use PAT without MTRR and by reworking
the current PAT initialization sequence to match better with the newly
introduced generic cache initialization.

This removes the need of the recently added pat_force_disabled flag, so
remove the remnants of the patch adding it.

Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221102074713.21493-14-jgross@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
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Today, PAT is usable only with MTRR being active, with some nasty tweaks
to make PAT usable when running as a Xen PV guest which doesn't support
MTRR.

The reason for this coupling is that both PAT MSR changes and MTRR
changes require a similar sequence and so full PAT support was added
using the already available MTRR handling.

Xen PV PAT handling can work without MTRR, as it just needs to consume
the PAT MSR setting done by the hypervisor without the ability and need
to change it. This in turn has resulted in a convoluted initialization
sequence and wrong decisions regarding cache mode availability due to
misguiding PAT availability flags.

Fix all of that by allowing to use PAT without MTRR and by reworking
the current PAT initialization sequence to match better with the newly
introduced generic cache initialization.

This removes the need of the recently added pat_force_disabled flag, so
remove the remnants of the patch adding it.

Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221102074713.21493-14-jgross@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/mtrr: Add a stop_machine() handler calling only cache_cpu_init()</title>
<updated>2022-11-10T12:12:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Juergen Gross</name>
<email>jgross@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-11-02T07:47:09+00:00</published>
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Instead of having a stop_machine() handler for either a specific
MTRR register or all state at once, add a handler just for calling
cache_cpu_init() if appropriate.

Add functions for calling stop_machine() with this handler as well.

Add a generic replacement for mtrr_bp_restore() and a wrapper for
mtrr_bp_init().

Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221102074713.21493-13-jgross@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
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Instead of having a stop_machine() handler for either a specific
MTRR register or all state at once, add a handler just for calling
cache_cpu_init() if appropriate.

Add functions for calling stop_machine() with this handler as well.

Add a generic replacement for mtrr_bp_restore() and a wrapper for
mtrr_bp_init().

Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221102074713.21493-13-jgross@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/setup: Use rng seeds from setup_data</title>
<updated>2022-07-11T07:59:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason A. Donenfeld</name>
<email>Jason@zx2c4.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-07-10T17:29:21+00:00</published>
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Currently, the only way x86 can get an early boot RNG seed is via EFI,
which is generally always used now for physical machines, but is very
rarely used in VMs, especially VMs that are optimized for starting
"instantaneously", such as Firecracker's MicroVM. For tiny fast booting
VMs, EFI is not something you generally need or want.

Rather, the image loader or firmware should be able to pass a single
random seed, exactly as device tree platforms do with the "rng-seed"
property. Additionally, this is something that bootloaders can append,
with their own seed file management, which is something every other
major OS ecosystem has that Linux does not (yet).

Add SETUP_RNG_SEED, similar to the other eight setup_data entries that
are parsed at boot. It also takes care to zero out the seed immediately
after using, in order to retain forward secrecy. This all takes about 7
trivial lines of code.

Then, on kexec_file_load(), a new fresh seed is generated and passed to
the next kernel, just as is done on device tree architectures when
using kexec. And, importantly, I've tested that QEMU is able to properly
pass SETUP_RNG_SEED as well, making this work for every step of the way.
This code too is pretty straight forward.

Together these measures ensure that VMs and nested kexec()'d kernels
always receive a proper boot time RNG seed at the earliest possible
stage from their parents:

   - Host [already has strongly initialized RNG]
     - QEMU [passes fresh seed in SETUP_RNG_SEED field]
       - Linux [uses parent's seed and gathers entropy of its own]
         - kexec [passes this in SETUP_RNG_SEED field]
           - Linux [uses parent's seed and gathers entropy of its own]
             - kexec [passes this in SETUP_RNG_SEED field]
               - Linux [uses parent's seed and gathers entropy of its own]
                 - kexec [passes this in SETUP_RNG_SEED field]
		   - ...

I've verified in several scenarios that this works quite well from a
host kernel to QEMU and down inwards, mixing and matching loaders, with
every layer providing a seed to the next.

  [ bp: Massage commit message. ]

Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220630113300.1892799-1-Jason@zx2c4.com
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Currently, the only way x86 can get an early boot RNG seed is via EFI,
which is generally always used now for physical machines, but is very
rarely used in VMs, especially VMs that are optimized for starting
"instantaneously", such as Firecracker's MicroVM. For tiny fast booting
VMs, EFI is not something you generally need or want.

Rather, the image loader or firmware should be able to pass a single
random seed, exactly as device tree platforms do with the "rng-seed"
property. Additionally, this is something that bootloaders can append,
with their own seed file management, which is something every other
major OS ecosystem has that Linux does not (yet).

Add SETUP_RNG_SEED, similar to the other eight setup_data entries that
are parsed at boot. It also takes care to zero out the seed immediately
after using, in order to retain forward secrecy. This all takes about 7
trivial lines of code.

Then, on kexec_file_load(), a new fresh seed is generated and passed to
the next kernel, just as is done on device tree architectures when
using kexec. And, importantly, I've tested that QEMU is able to properly
pass SETUP_RNG_SEED as well, making this work for every step of the way.
This code too is pretty straight forward.

Together these measures ensure that VMs and nested kexec()'d kernels
always receive a proper boot time RNG seed at the earliest possible
stage from their parents:

   - Host [already has strongly initialized RNG]
     - QEMU [passes fresh seed in SETUP_RNG_SEED field]
       - Linux [uses parent's seed and gathers entropy of its own]
         - kexec [passes this in SETUP_RNG_SEED field]
           - Linux [uses parent's seed and gathers entropy of its own]
             - kexec [passes this in SETUP_RNG_SEED field]
               - Linux [uses parent's seed and gathers entropy of its own]
                 - kexec [passes this in SETUP_RNG_SEED field]
		   - ...

I've verified in several scenarios that this works quite well from a
host kernel to QEMU and down inwards, mixing and matching loaders, with
every layer providing a seed to the next.

  [ bp: Massage commit message. ]

Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220630113300.1892799-1-Jason@zx2c4.com
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/kexec: Carry forward IMA measurement log on kexec</title>
<updated>2022-07-01T13:22:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jonathan McDowell</name>
<email>noodles@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-06-30T08:36:12+00:00</published>
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On kexec file load, the Integrity Measurement Architecture (IMA)
subsystem may verify the IMA signature of the kernel and initramfs, and
measure it. The command line parameters passed to the kernel in the
kexec call may also be measured by IMA.

A remote attestation service can verify a TPM quote based on the TPM
event log, the IMA measurement list and the TPM PCR data. This can
be achieved only if the IMA measurement log is carried over from the
current kernel to the next kernel across the kexec call.

PowerPC and ARM64 both achieve this using device tree with a
"linux,ima-kexec-buffer" node. x86 platforms generally don't make use of
device tree, so use the setup_data mechanism to pass the IMA buffer to
the new kernel.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan McDowell &lt;noodles@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mimi Zohar &lt;zohar@linux.ibm.com&gt; # IMA function definitions
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/YmKyvlF3my1yWTvK@noodles-fedora-PC23Y6EG
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On kexec file load, the Integrity Measurement Architecture (IMA)
subsystem may verify the IMA signature of the kernel and initramfs, and
measure it. The command line parameters passed to the kernel in the
kexec call may also be measured by IMA.

A remote attestation service can verify a TPM quote based on the TPM
event log, the IMA measurement list and the TPM PCR data. This can
be achieved only if the IMA measurement log is carried over from the
current kernel to the next kernel across the kexec call.

PowerPC and ARM64 both achieve this using device tree with a
"linux,ima-kexec-buffer" node. x86 platforms generally don't make use of
device tree, so use the setup_data mechanism to pass the IMA buffer to
the new kernel.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan McDowell &lt;noodles@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mimi Zohar &lt;zohar@linux.ibm.com&gt; # IMA function definitions
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/YmKyvlF3my1yWTvK@noodles-fedora-PC23Y6EG
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<title>x86/mm: Fix RESERVE_BRK() for older binutils</title>
<updated>2022-06-13T08:15:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Josh Poimboeuf</name>
<email>jpoimboe@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-06-09T07:17:32+00:00</published>
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With binutils 2.26, RESERVE_BRK() causes a build failure:

  /tmp/ccnGOKZ5.s: Assembler messages:
  /tmp/ccnGOKZ5.s:98: Error: missing ')'
  /tmp/ccnGOKZ5.s:98: Error: missing ')'
  /tmp/ccnGOKZ5.s:98: Error: missing ')'
  /tmp/ccnGOKZ5.s:98: Error: junk at end of line, first unrecognized
  character is `U'

The problem is this line:

  RESERVE_BRK(early_pgt_alloc, INIT_PGT_BUF_SIZE)

Specifically, the INIT_PGT_BUF_SIZE macro which (via PAGE_SIZE's use
_AC()) has a "1UL", which makes older versions of the assembler unhappy.
Unfortunately the _AC() macro doesn't work for inline asm.

Inline asm was only needed here to convince the toolchain to add the
STT_NOBITS flag.  However, if a C variable is placed in a section whose
name is prefixed with ".bss", GCC and Clang automatically set
STT_NOBITS.  In fact, ".bss..page_aligned" already relies on this trick.

So fix the build failure (and simplify the macro) by allocating the
variable in C.

Also, add NOLOAD to the ".brk" output section clause in the linker
script.  This is a failsafe in case the ".bss" prefix magic trick ever
stops working somehow.  If there's a section type mismatch, the GNU
linker will force the ".brk" output section to be STT_NOBITS.  The LLVM
linker will fail with a "section type mismatch" error.

Note this also changes the name of the variable from .brk.##name to
__brk_##name.  The variable names aren't actually used anywhere, so it's
harmless.

Fixes: a1e2c031ec39 ("x86/mm: Simplify RESERVE_BRK()")
Reported-by: Joe Damato &lt;jdamato@fastly.com&gt;
Reported-by: Byungchul Park &lt;byungchul.park@lge.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Tested-by: Joe Damato &lt;jdamato@fastly.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/22d07a44c80d8e8e1e82b9a806ddc8c6bbb2606e.1654759036.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
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With binutils 2.26, RESERVE_BRK() causes a build failure:

  /tmp/ccnGOKZ5.s: Assembler messages:
  /tmp/ccnGOKZ5.s:98: Error: missing ')'
  /tmp/ccnGOKZ5.s:98: Error: missing ')'
  /tmp/ccnGOKZ5.s:98: Error: missing ')'
  /tmp/ccnGOKZ5.s:98: Error: junk at end of line, first unrecognized
  character is `U'

The problem is this line:

  RESERVE_BRK(early_pgt_alloc, INIT_PGT_BUF_SIZE)

Specifically, the INIT_PGT_BUF_SIZE macro which (via PAGE_SIZE's use
_AC()) has a "1UL", which makes older versions of the assembler unhappy.
Unfortunately the _AC() macro doesn't work for inline asm.

Inline asm was only needed here to convince the toolchain to add the
STT_NOBITS flag.  However, if a C variable is placed in a section whose
name is prefixed with ".bss", GCC and Clang automatically set
STT_NOBITS.  In fact, ".bss..page_aligned" already relies on this trick.

So fix the build failure (and simplify the macro) by allocating the
variable in C.

Also, add NOLOAD to the ".brk" output section clause in the linker
script.  This is a failsafe in case the ".bss" prefix magic trick ever
stops working somehow.  If there's a section type mismatch, the GNU
linker will force the ".brk" output section to be STT_NOBITS.  The LLVM
linker will fail with a "section type mismatch" error.

Note this also changes the name of the variable from .brk.##name to
__brk_##name.  The variable names aren't actually used anywhere, so it's
harmless.

Fixes: a1e2c031ec39 ("x86/mm: Simplify RESERVE_BRK()")
Reported-by: Joe Damato &lt;jdamato@fastly.com&gt;
Reported-by: Byungchul Park &lt;byungchul.park@lge.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Tested-by: Joe Damato &lt;jdamato@fastly.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/22d07a44c80d8e8e1e82b9a806ddc8c6bbb2606e.1654759036.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
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<entry>
<title>x86/setup: Use strscpy() to replace deprecated strlcpy()</title>
<updated>2022-05-25T13:34:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>XueBing Chen</name>
<email>chenxuebing@jari.cn</email>
</author>
<published>2022-05-25T08:51:01+00:00</published>
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strlcpy() is marked deprecated and should not be used, because
it doesn't limit the source length.

The preferred interface for when strlcpy()'s return value is not
checked (truncation) is strscpy().

[ mingo: Tweaked the changelog ]

Signed-off-by: XueBing Chen &lt;chenxuebing@jari.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/730f0fef.a33.180fa69880f.Coremail.chenxuebing@jari.cn
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strlcpy() is marked deprecated and should not be used, because
it doesn't limit the source length.

The preferred interface for when strlcpy()'s return value is not
checked (truncation) is strscpy().

[ mingo: Tweaked the changelog ]

Signed-off-by: XueBing Chen &lt;chenxuebing@jari.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/730f0fef.a33.180fa69880f.Coremail.chenxuebing@jari.cn
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