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<entry>
<title>x86/speculation: Add Special Register Buffer Data Sampling (SRBDS) mitigation</title>
<updated>2020-06-11T18:05:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Gross</name>
<email>mgross@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-04-28T14:58:20+00:00</published>
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commit 7e5b3c267d256822407a22fdce6afdf9cd13f9fb upstream.

SRBDS is an MDS-like speculative side channel that can leak bits from the
random number generator (RNG) across cores and threads. New microcode
serializes the processor access during the execution of RDRAND and
RDSEED. This ensures that the shared buffer is overwritten before it is
released for reuse.

While it is present on all affected CPU models, the microcode mitigation
is not needed on models that enumerate ARCH_CAPABILITIES[MDS_NO] in the
cases where TSX is not supported or has been disabled with TSX_CTRL.

The mitigation is activated by default on affected processors and it
increases latency for RDRAND and RDSEED instructions. Among other
effects this will reduce throughput from /dev/urandom.

* Enable administrator to configure the mitigation off when desired using
  either mitigations=off or srbds=off.

* Export vulnerability status via sysfs

* Rename file-scoped macros to apply for non-whitelist table initializations.

 [ bp: Massage,
   - s/VULNBL_INTEL_STEPPING/VULNBL_INTEL_STEPPINGS/g,
   - do not read arch cap MSR a second time in tsx_fused_off() - just pass it in,
   - flip check in cpu_set_bug_bits() to save an indentation level,
   - reflow comments.
   jpoimboe: s/Mitigated/Mitigation/ in user-visible strings
   tglx: Dropped the fused off magic for now
 ]

Signed-off-by: Mark Gross &lt;mgross@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Pawan Gupta &lt;pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Neelima Krishnan &lt;neelima.krishnan@intel.com&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.16:
 - CPU feature words and bugs are numbered differently
 - Adjust filename for &lt;asm/msr-index.h&gt;]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 7e5b3c267d256822407a22fdce6afdf9cd13f9fb upstream.

SRBDS is an MDS-like speculative side channel that can leak bits from the
random number generator (RNG) across cores and threads. New microcode
serializes the processor access during the execution of RDRAND and
RDSEED. This ensures that the shared buffer is overwritten before it is
released for reuse.

While it is present on all affected CPU models, the microcode mitigation
is not needed on models that enumerate ARCH_CAPABILITIES[MDS_NO] in the
cases where TSX is not supported or has been disabled with TSX_CTRL.

The mitigation is activated by default on affected processors and it
increases latency for RDRAND and RDSEED instructions. Among other
effects this will reduce throughput from /dev/urandom.

* Enable administrator to configure the mitigation off when desired using
  either mitigations=off or srbds=off.

* Export vulnerability status via sysfs

* Rename file-scoped macros to apply for non-whitelist table initializations.

 [ bp: Massage,
   - s/VULNBL_INTEL_STEPPING/VULNBL_INTEL_STEPPINGS/g,
   - do not read arch cap MSR a second time in tsx_fused_off() - just pass it in,
   - flip check in cpu_set_bug_bits() to save an indentation level,
   - reflow comments.
   jpoimboe: s/Mitigated/Mitigation/ in user-visible strings
   tglx: Dropped the fused off magic for now
 ]

Signed-off-by: Mark Gross &lt;mgross@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Pawan Gupta &lt;pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Neelima Krishnan &lt;neelima.krishnan@intel.com&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.16:
 - CPU feature words and bugs are numbered differently
 - Adjust filename for &lt;asm/msr-index.h&gt;]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/cpu: Add 'table' argument to cpu_matches()</title>
<updated>2020-06-11T18:05:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Gross</name>
<email>mgross@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-04-28T14:58:20+00:00</published>
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commit 93920f61c2ad7edb01e63323832585796af75fc9 upstream.

To make cpu_matches() reusable for other matching tables, have it take a
pointer to a x86_cpu_id table as an argument.

 [ bp: Flip arguments order. ]

Signed-off-by: Mark Gross &lt;mgross@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 93920f61c2ad7edb01e63323832585796af75fc9 upstream.

To make cpu_matches() reusable for other matching tables, have it take a
pointer to a x86_cpu_id table as an argument.

 [ bp: Flip arguments order. ]

Signed-off-by: Mark Gross &lt;mgross@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/cpu: Add a steppings field to struct x86_cpu_id</title>
<updated>2020-06-11T18:05:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Gross</name>
<email>mgross@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-04-28T14:58:20+00:00</published>
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commit e9d7144597b10ff13ff2264c059f7d4a7fbc89ac upstream.

Intel uses the same family/model for several CPUs. Sometimes the
stepping must be checked to tell them apart.

On x86 there can be at most 16 steppings. Add a steppings bitmask to
x86_cpu_id and a X86_MATCH_VENDOR_FAMILY_MODEL_STEPPING_FEATURE macro
and support for matching against family/model/stepping.

 [ bp: Massage.
   tglx: Lightweight variant for backporting ]

Signed-off-by: Mark Gross &lt;mgross@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit e9d7144597b10ff13ff2264c059f7d4a7fbc89ac upstream.

Intel uses the same family/model for several CPUs. Sometimes the
stepping must be checked to tell them apart.

On x86 there can be at most 16 steppings. Add a steppings bitmask to
x86_cpu_id and a X86_MATCH_VENDOR_FAMILY_MODEL_STEPPING_FEATURE macro
and support for matching against family/model/stepping.

 [ bp: Massage.
   tglx: Lightweight variant for backporting ]

Signed-off-by: Mark Gross &lt;mgross@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/cpu: Rename cpu_data.x86_mask to cpu_data.x86_stepping</title>
<updated>2020-06-11T18:05:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jia Zhang</name>
<email>qianyue.zj@alibaba-inc.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-01T01:52:10+00:00</published>
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commit b399151cb48db30ad1e0e93dd40d68c6d007b637 upstream.

x86_mask is a confusing name which is hard to associate with the
processor's stepping.

Additionally, correct an indent issue in lib/cpu.c.

Signed-off-by: Jia Zhang &lt;qianyue.zj@alibaba-inc.com&gt;
[ Updated it to more recent kernels. ]
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: bp@alien8.de
Cc: tony.luck@intel.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1514771530-70829-1-git-send-email-qianyue.zj@alibaba-inc.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.16:
 - Drop changes in arch/x86/lib/cpu.c
 - Adjust filenames, context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit b399151cb48db30ad1e0e93dd40d68c6d007b637 upstream.

x86_mask is a confusing name which is hard to associate with the
processor's stepping.

Additionally, correct an indent issue in lib/cpu.c.

Signed-off-by: Jia Zhang &lt;qianyue.zj@alibaba-inc.com&gt;
[ Updated it to more recent kernels. ]
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: bp@alien8.de
Cc: tony.luck@intel.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1514771530-70829-1-git-send-email-qianyue.zj@alibaba-inc.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.16:
 - Drop changes in arch/x86/lib/cpu.c
 - Adjust filenames, context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/cpu: Update cached HLE state on write to TSX_CTRL_CPUID_CLEAR</title>
<updated>2020-05-22T20:19:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pawan Gupta</name>
<email>pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-01-10T22:50:54+00:00</published>
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commit 5efc6fa9044c3356d6046c6e1da6d02572dbed6b upstream.

/proc/cpuinfo currently reports Hardware Lock Elision (HLE) feature to
be present on boot cpu even if it was disabled during the bootup. This
is because cpuinfo_x86-&gt;x86_capability HLE bit is not updated after TSX
state is changed via the new MSR IA32_TSX_CTRL.

Update the cached HLE bit also since it is expected to change after an
update to CPUID_CLEAR bit in MSR IA32_TSX_CTRL.

Fixes: 95c5824f75f3 ("x86/cpu: Add a "tsx=" cmdline option with TSX disabled by default")
Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta &lt;pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Tested-by: Neelima Krishnan &lt;neelima.krishnan@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/2529b99546294c893dfa1c89e2b3e46da3369a59.1578685425.git.pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 5efc6fa9044c3356d6046c6e1da6d02572dbed6b upstream.

/proc/cpuinfo currently reports Hardware Lock Elision (HLE) feature to
be present on boot cpu even if it was disabled during the bootup. This
is because cpuinfo_x86-&gt;x86_capability HLE bit is not updated after TSX
state is changed via the new MSR IA32_TSX_CTRL.

Update the cached HLE bit also since it is expected to change after an
update to CPUID_CLEAR bit in MSR IA32_TSX_CTRL.

Fixes: 95c5824f75f3 ("x86/cpu: Add a "tsx=" cmdline option with TSX disabled by default")
Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta &lt;pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Tested-by: Neelima Krishnan &lt;neelima.krishnan@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/2529b99546294c893dfa1c89e2b3e46da3369a59.1578685425.git.pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/microcode/AMD: Add support for fam17h microcode loading</title>
<updated>2020-04-28T18:02:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tom Lendacky</name>
<email>thomas.lendacky@amd.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-30T22:46:40+00:00</published>
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commit f4e9b7af0cd58dd039a0fb2cd67d57cea4889abf upstream.

The size for the Microcode Patch Block (MPB) for an AMD family 17h
processor is 3200 bytes.  Add a #define for fam17h so that it does
not default to 2048 bytes and fail a microcode load/update.

Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky &lt;thomas.lendacky@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171130224640.15391.40247.stgit@tlendack-t1.amdoffice.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit f4e9b7af0cd58dd039a0fb2cd67d57cea4889abf upstream.

The size for the Microcode Patch Block (MPB) for an AMD family 17h
processor is 3200 bytes.  Add a #define for fam17h so that it does
not default to 2048 bytes and fail a microcode load/update.

Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky &lt;thomas.lendacky@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171130224640.15391.40247.stgit@tlendack-t1.amdoffice.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/speculation: Fix incorrect MDS/TAA mitigation status</title>
<updated>2020-02-11T20:03:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Waiman Long</name>
<email>longman@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-15T16:14:44+00:00</published>
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commit 64870ed1b12e235cfca3f6c6da75b542c973ff78 upstream.

For MDS vulnerable processors with TSX support, enabling either MDS or
TAA mitigations will enable the use of VERW to flush internal processor
buffers at the right code path. IOW, they are either both mitigated
or both not. However, if the command line options are inconsistent,
the vulnerabilites sysfs files may not report the mitigation status
correctly.

For example, with only the "mds=off" option:

  vulnerabilities/mds:Vulnerable; SMT vulnerable
  vulnerabilities/tsx_async_abort:Mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable

The mds vulnerabilities file has wrong status in this case. Similarly,
the taa vulnerability file will be wrong with mds mitigation on, but
taa off.

Change taa_select_mitigation() to sync up the two mitigation status
and have them turned off if both "mds=off" and "tsx_async_abort=off"
are present.

Update documentation to emphasize the fact that both "mds=off" and
"tsx_async_abort=off" have to be specified together for processors that
are affected by both TAA and MDS to be effective.

 [ bp: Massage and add kernel-parameters.txt change too. ]

Fixes: 1b42f017415b ("x86/speculation/taa: Add mitigation for TSX Async Abort")
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long &lt;longman@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Mark Gross &lt;mgross@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Pawan Gupta &lt;pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Tim Chen &lt;tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Tyler Hicks &lt;tyhicks@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: x86-ml &lt;x86@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191115161445.30809-2-longman@redhat.com
[bwh: Backported to 3.16: adjust filenames]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 64870ed1b12e235cfca3f6c6da75b542c973ff78 upstream.

For MDS vulnerable processors with TSX support, enabling either MDS or
TAA mitigations will enable the use of VERW to flush internal processor
buffers at the right code path. IOW, they are either both mitigated
or both not. However, if the command line options are inconsistent,
the vulnerabilites sysfs files may not report the mitigation status
correctly.

For example, with only the "mds=off" option:

  vulnerabilities/mds:Vulnerable; SMT vulnerable
  vulnerabilities/tsx_async_abort:Mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable

The mds vulnerabilities file has wrong status in this case. Similarly,
the taa vulnerability file will be wrong with mds mitigation on, but
taa off.

Change taa_select_mitigation() to sync up the two mitigation status
and have them turned off if both "mds=off" and "tsx_async_abort=off"
are present.

Update documentation to emphasize the fact that both "mds=off" and
"tsx_async_abort=off" have to be specified together for processors that
are affected by both TAA and MDS to be effective.

 [ bp: Massage and add kernel-parameters.txt change too. ]

Fixes: 1b42f017415b ("x86/speculation/taa: Add mitigation for TSX Async Abort")
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long &lt;longman@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Mark Gross &lt;mgross@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Pawan Gupta &lt;pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Tim Chen &lt;tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Tyler Hicks &lt;tyhicks@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: x86-ml &lt;x86@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191115161445.30809-2-longman@redhat.com
[bwh: Backported to 3.16: adjust filenames]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/ioapic: Prevent inconsistent state when moving an interrupt</title>
<updated>2020-02-11T20:03:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-10-17T10:19:01+00:00</published>
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commit df4393424af3fbdcd5c404077176082a8ce459c4 upstream.

There is an issue with threaded interrupts which are marked ONESHOT
and using the fasteoi handler:

  if (IS_ONESHOT())
    mask_irq();
  ....
  cond_unmask_eoi_irq()
    chip-&gt;irq_eoi();
      if (setaffinity_pending) {
         mask_ioapic();
         ...
	 move_affinity();
	 unmask_ioapic();
      }

So if setaffinity is pending the interrupt will be moved and then
unconditionally unmasked at the ioapic level, which is wrong in two
aspects:

 1) It should be kept masked up to the point where the threaded handler
    finished.

 2) The physical chip state and the software masked state are inconsistent

Guard both the mask and the unmask with a check for the software masked
state. If the line is marked masked then the ioapic line is also masked, so
both mask_ioapic() and unmask_ioapic() can be skipped safely.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andy.shevchenko@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Sebastian Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Fixes: 3aa551c9b4c4 ("genirq: add threaded interrupt handler support")
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191017101938.321393687@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.16: Keep using {,un}mask_iopaic_irq()]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit df4393424af3fbdcd5c404077176082a8ce459c4 upstream.

There is an issue with threaded interrupts which are marked ONESHOT
and using the fasteoi handler:

  if (IS_ONESHOT())
    mask_irq();
  ....
  cond_unmask_eoi_irq()
    chip-&gt;irq_eoi();
      if (setaffinity_pending) {
         mask_ioapic();
         ...
	 move_affinity();
	 unmask_ioapic();
      }

So if setaffinity is pending the interrupt will be moved and then
unconditionally unmasked at the ioapic level, which is wrong in two
aspects:

 1) It should be kept masked up to the point where the threaded handler
    finished.

 2) The physical chip state and the software masked state are inconsistent

Guard both the mask and the unmask with a check for the software masked
state. If the line is marked masked then the ioapic line is also masked, so
both mask_ioapic() and unmask_ioapic() can be skipped safely.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andy.shevchenko@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Sebastian Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Fixes: 3aa551c9b4c4 ("genirq: add threaded interrupt handler support")
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191017101938.321393687@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.16: Keep using {,un}mask_iopaic_irq()]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86: Treat R_X86_64_PLT32 as R_X86_64_PC32</title>
<updated>2020-02-11T20:03:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>H.J. Lu</name>
<email>hjl.tools@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-07T22:20:09+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=ad10e6d464796f2a481de4039a43b9cfca034e1c'/>
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commit b21ebf2fb4cde1618915a97cc773e287ff49173e upstream.

On i386, there are 2 types of PLTs, PIC and non-PIC.  PIE and shared
objects must use PIC PLT.  To use PIC PLT, you need to load
_GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_ into EBX first.  There is no need for that on
x86-64 since x86-64 uses PC-relative PLT.

On x86-64, for 32-bit PC-relative branches, we can generate PLT32
relocation, instead of PC32 relocation, which can also be used as
a marker for 32-bit PC-relative branches.  Linker can always reduce
PLT32 relocation to PC32 if function is defined locally.   Local
functions should use PC32 relocation.  As far as Linux kernel is
concerned, R_X86_64_PLT32 can be treated the same as R_X86_64_PC32
since Linux kernel doesn't use PLT.

R_X86_64_PLT32 for 32-bit PC-relative branches has been enabled in
binutils master branch which will become binutils 2.31.

[ hjl is working on having better documentation on this all, but a few
  more notes from him:

   "PLT32 relocation is used as marker for PC-relative branches. Because
    of EBX, it looks odd to generate PLT32 relocation on i386 when EBX
    doesn't have GOT.

    As for symbol resolution, PLT32 and PC32 relocations are almost
    interchangeable. But when linker sees PLT32 relocation against a
    protected symbol, it can resolved locally at link-time since it is
    used on a branch instruction. Linker can't do that for PC32
    relocation"

  but for the kernel use, the two are basically the same, and this
  commit gets things building and working with the current binutils
  master   - Linus ]

Signed-off-by: H.J. Lu &lt;hjl.tools@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
[Woody Suwalski: Backported to 3.16]
Signed-off-by: Woody Suwalski &lt;terraluna977@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit b21ebf2fb4cde1618915a97cc773e287ff49173e upstream.

On i386, there are 2 types of PLTs, PIC and non-PIC.  PIE and shared
objects must use PIC PLT.  To use PIC PLT, you need to load
_GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_ into EBX first.  There is no need for that on
x86-64 since x86-64 uses PC-relative PLT.

On x86-64, for 32-bit PC-relative branches, we can generate PLT32
relocation, instead of PC32 relocation, which can also be used as
a marker for 32-bit PC-relative branches.  Linker can always reduce
PLT32 relocation to PC32 if function is defined locally.   Local
functions should use PC32 relocation.  As far as Linux kernel is
concerned, R_X86_64_PLT32 can be treated the same as R_X86_64_PC32
since Linux kernel doesn't use PLT.

R_X86_64_PLT32 for 32-bit PC-relative branches has been enabled in
binutils master branch which will become binutils 2.31.

[ hjl is working on having better documentation on this all, but a few
  more notes from him:

   "PLT32 relocation is used as marker for PC-relative branches. Because
    of EBX, it looks odd to generate PLT32 relocation on i386 when EBX
    doesn't have GOT.

    As for symbol resolution, PLT32 and PC32 relocations are almost
    interchangeable. But when linker sees PLT32 relocation against a
    protected symbol, it can resolved locally at link-time since it is
    used on a branch instruction. Linker can't do that for PC32
    relocation"

  but for the kernel use, the two are basically the same, and this
  commit gets things building and working with the current binutils
  master   - Linus ]

Signed-off-by: H.J. Lu &lt;hjl.tools@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
[Woody Suwalski: Backported to 3.16]
Signed-off-by: Woody Suwalski &lt;terraluna977@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/quirks: Disable HPET on Intel Coffe Lake platforms</title>
<updated>2019-12-19T15:59:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kai-Heng Feng</name>
<email>kai.heng.feng@canonical.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-10-16T10:38:16+00:00</published>
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commit fc5db58539b49351e76f19817ed1102bf7c712d0 upstream.

Some Coffee Lake platforms have a skewed HPET timer once the SoCs entered
PC10, which in consequence marks TSC as unstable because HPET is used as
watchdog clocksource for TSC.

Harry Pan tried to work around it in the clocksource watchdog code [1]
thereby creating a circular dependency between HPET and TSC. This also
ignores the fact, that HPET is not only unsuitable as watchdog clocksource
on these systems, it becomes unusable in general.

Disable HPET on affected platforms.

Suggested-by: Feng Tang &lt;feng.tang@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kai-Heng Feng &lt;kai.heng.feng@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=203183
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190516090651.1396-1-harry.pan@intel.com/ [1]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191016103816.30650-1-kai.heng.feng@canonical.com
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit fc5db58539b49351e76f19817ed1102bf7c712d0 upstream.

Some Coffee Lake platforms have a skewed HPET timer once the SoCs entered
PC10, which in consequence marks TSC as unstable because HPET is used as
watchdog clocksource for TSC.

Harry Pan tried to work around it in the clocksource watchdog code [1]
thereby creating a circular dependency between HPET and TSC. This also
ignores the fact, that HPET is not only unsuitable as watchdog clocksource
on these systems, it becomes unusable in general.

Disable HPET on affected platforms.

Suggested-by: Feng Tang &lt;feng.tang@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kai-Heng Feng &lt;kai.heng.feng@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=203183
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190516090651.1396-1-harry.pan@intel.com/ [1]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191016103816.30650-1-kai.heng.feng@canonical.com
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
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