linux-stable.git/arch/x86/kernel, branch linux-3.7.y

x86: Hyper-V: register clocksource only if its advertised

2013-02-27T17:20:55+00:00

commit 32068f6527b8f1822a30671dedaf59c567325026 upstream.

Enable hyperv_clocksource only if its advertised as a feature.
XenServer 6 returns the signature which is checked in
ms_hyperv_platform(), but it does not offer all features. Currently the
clocksource is enabled unconditionally in ms_hyperv_init_platform(), and
the result is a hanging guest.

Hyper-V spec Bit 1 indicates the availability of Partition Reference
Counter.  Register the clocksource only if this bit is set.

The guest in question prints this in dmesg:
 [    0.000000] Hypervisor detected: Microsoft HyperV
 [    0.000000] HyperV: features 0x70, hints 0x0

This bug can be reproduced easily be setting 'viridian=1' in a HVM domU
.cfg file. A workaround without this patch is to boot the HVM guest with
'clocksource=jiffies'.

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1359940959-32168-1-git-send-email-kys@microsoft.com
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan 
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86/apic: Work around boot failure on HP ProLiant DL980 G7 Server systems

2013-02-17T18:53:12+00:00

commit cb214ede7657db458fd0b2a25ea0b28dbf900ebc upstream.

When a HP ProLiant DL980 G7 Server boots a regular kernel,
there will be intermittent lost interrupts which could
result in a hang or (in extreme cases) data loss.

The reason is that this system only supports x2apic physical
mode, while the kernel boots with a logical-cluster default
setting.

This bug can be worked around by specifying the "x2apic_phys" or
"nox2apic" boot option, but we want to handle this system
without requiring manual workarounds.

The BIOS sets ACPI_FADT_APIC_PHYSICAL in FADT table.
As all apicids are smaller than 255, BIOS need to pass the
control to the OS with xapic mode, according to x2apic-spec,
chapter 2.9.

Current code handle x2apic when BIOS pass with xapic mode
enabled:

When user specifies x2apic_phys, or FADT indicates PHYSICAL:

1. During madt oem check, apic driver is set with xapic logical
   or xapic phys driver at first.

2. enable_IR_x2apic() will enable x2apic_mode.

3. if user specifies x2apic_phys on the boot line, x2apic_phys_probe()
   will install the correct x2apic phys driver and use x2apic phys mode.
   Otherwise it will skip the driver will let x2apic_cluster_probe to
   take over to install x2apic cluster driver (wrong one) even though FADT
   indicates PHYSICAL, because x2apic_phys_probe does not check
   FADT PHYSICAL.

Add checking x2apic_fadt_phys in x2apic_phys_probe() to fix the
problem.

Signed-off-by: Stoney Wang 
[ updated the changelog and simplified the code ]
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1360263182-16226-1-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86/Sandy Bridge: Sandy Bridge workaround depends on CONFIG_PCI

2013-02-04T00:27:07+00:00

commit e43b3cec711a61edf047adf6204d542f3a659ef8 upstream.

early_pci_allowed() and read_pci_config_16() are only available if
CONFIG_PCI is defined.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Jesse Barnes 
Signed-off-by: Abdallah Chatila

efi: Make 'efi_enabled' a function to query EFI facilities

2013-02-04T00:27:05+00:00

commit 83e68189745ad931c2afd45d8ee3303929233e7f upstream.

Originally 'efi_enabled' indicated whether a kernel was booted from
EFI firmware. Over time its semantics have changed, and it now
indicates whether or not we are booted on an EFI machine with
bit-native firmware, e.g. 64-bit kernel with 64-bit firmware.

The immediate motivation for this patch is the bug report at,

    https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-cdimage/+bug/1040557

which details how running a platform driver on an EFI machine that is
designed to run under BIOS can cause the machine to become
bricked. Also, the following report,

    https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47121

details how running said driver can also cause Machine Check
Exceptions. Drivers need a new means of detecting whether they're
running on an EFI machine, as sadly the expression,

    if (!efi_enabled)

hasn't been a sufficient condition for quite some time.

Users actually want to query 'efi_enabled' for different reasons -
what they really want access to is the list of available EFI
facilities.

For instance, the x86 reboot code needs to know whether it can invoke
the ResetSystem() function provided by the EFI runtime services, while
the ACPI OSL code wants to know whether the EFI config tables were
mapped successfully. There are also checks in some of the platform
driver code to simply see if they're running on an EFI machine (which
would make it a bad idea to do BIOS-y things).

This patch is a prereq for the samsung-laptop fix patch.

Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming 
Cc: David Airlie 
Cc: Corentin Chary 
Cc: Matthew Garrett 
Cc: Dave Jiang 
Cc: Olof Johansson 
Cc: Peter Jones 
Cc: Colin Ian King 
Cc: Steve Langasek 
Cc: Tony Luck 
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki 
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86/msr: Add capabilities check

2013-02-04T00:27:05+00:00

commit c903f0456bc69176912dee6dd25c6a66ee1aed00 upstream.

At the moment the MSR driver only relies upon file system
checks. This means that anything as root with any capability set
can write to MSRs. Historically that wasn't very interesting but
on modern processors the MSRs are such that writing to them
provides several ways to execute arbitary code in kernel space.
Sample code and documentation on doing this is circulating and
MSR attacks are used on Windows 64bit rootkits already.

In the Linux case you still need to be able to open the device
file so the impact is fairly limited and reduces the security of
some capability and security model based systems down towards
that of a generic "root owns the box" setup.

Therefore they should require CAP_SYS_RAWIO to prevent an
elevation of capabilities. The impact of this is fairly minimal
on most setups because they don't have heavy use of
capabilities. Those using SELinux, SMACK or AppArmor rules might
want to consider if their rulesets on the MSR driver could be
tighter.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ptrace: ensure arch_ptrace/ptrace_request can never race with SIGKILL

2013-01-28T04:49:00+00:00

commit 9899d11f654474d2d54ea52ceaa2a1f4db3abd68 upstream.

putreg() assumes that the tracee is not running and pt_regs_access() can
safely play with its stack.  However a killed tracee can return from
ptrace_stop() to the low-level asm code and do RESTORE_REST, this means
that debugger can actually read/modify the kernel stack until the tracee
does SAVE_REST again.

set_task_blockstep() can race with SIGKILL too and in some sense this
race is even worse, the very fact the tracee can be woken up breaks the
logic.

As Linus suggested we can clear TASK_WAKEKILL around the arch_ptrace()
call, this ensures that nobody can ever wakeup the tracee while the
debugger looks at it.  Not only this fixes the mentioned problems, we
can do some cleanups/simplifications in arch_ptrace() paths.

Probably ptrace_unfreeze_traced() needs more callers, for example it
makes sense to make the tracee killable for oom-killer before
access_process_vm().

While at it, add the comment into may_ptrace_stop() to explain why
ptrace_stop() still can't rely on SIGKILL and signal_pending_state().

Reported-by: Salman Qazi 
Reported-by: Suleiman Souhlal 
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

perf x86: revert 20b279 - require exclude_guest to use PEBS - kernel side

2013-01-28T04:49:00+00:00

commit a706d965dcfdff73bf2bad1c300f8119900714c7 upstream.

This patch is brought to you by the letter 'H'.

Commit 20b279 breaks compatiblity with older perf binaries when run with
precise modifier (:p or :pp) by requiring the exclude_guest attribute to be
set. Older binaries default exclude_guest to 0 (ie., wanting guest-based
samples) unless host only profiling is requested (:H modifier). The workaround
for older binaries is to add H to the modifier list (e.g., -e cycles:ppH -
toggles exclude_guest to 1). This was deemed unacceptable by Linus:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/12/570

Between family in town and the fresh snow in Breckenridge there is no time left
to be working on the proper fix for this over the holidays. In the New Year I
have more pressing problems to resolve -- like some memory leaks in perf which
are proving to be elusive -- although the aforementioned snow is probably why
they are proving to be elusive. Either way I do not have any spare time to work
on this and from the time I have managed to spend on it the solution is more
difficult than just moving to a new exclude_guest flag (does not work) or
flipping the logic to include_guest (which is not as trivial as one would
think).

So, two options: silently force exclude_guest on as suggested by Gleb which
means no impact to older perf binaries or revert the original patch which
caused the breakage.

This patch does the latter -- reverts the original patch that introduced the
regression. The problem can be revisited in the future as time allows.

Signed-off-by: David Ahern 
Cc: Avi Kivity 
Cc: Gleb Natapov 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Robert Richter 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1356749767-17322-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

xen: Fix stack corruption in xen_failsafe_callback for 32bit PVOPS guests.

2013-01-21T19:44:45+00:00

commit 9174adbee4a9a49d0139f5d71969852b36720809 upstream.

This fixes CVE-2013-0190 / XSA-40

There has been an error on the xen_failsafe_callback path for failed
iret, which causes the stack pointer to be wrong when entering the
iret_exc error path.  This can result in the kernel crashing.

In the classic kernel case, the relevant code looked a little like:

        popl %eax      # Error code from hypervisor
        jz 5f
        addl $16,%esp
        jmp iret_exc   # Hypervisor said iret fault
5:      addl $16,%esp
                       # Hypervisor said segment selector fault

Here, there are two identical addls on either option of a branch which
appears to have been optimised by hoisting it above the jz, and
converting it to an lea, which leaves the flags register unaffected.

In the PVOPS case, the code looks like:

        popl_cfi %eax         # Error from the hypervisor
        lea 16(%esp),%esp     # Add $16 before choosing fault path
        CFI_ADJUST_CFA_OFFSET -16
        jz 5f
        addl $16,%esp         # Incorrectly adjust %esp again
        jmp iret_exc

It is possible unprivileged userspace applications to cause this
behaviour, for example by loading an LDT code selector, then changing
the code selector to be not-present.  At this point, there is a race
condition where it is possible for the hypervisor to return back to
userspace from an interrupt, fault on its own iret, and inject a
failsafe_callback into the kernel.

This bug has been present since the introduction of Xen PVOPS support
in commit 5ead97c84 (xen: Core Xen implementation), in 2.6.23.

Signed-off-by: Frediano Ziglio 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper 
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86/Sandy Bridge: reserve pages when integrated graphics is present

2013-01-21T19:44:34+00:00

commit a9acc5365dbda29f7be2884efb63771dc24bd815 upstream.

SNB graphics devices have a bug that prevent them from accessing certain
memory ranges, namely anything below 1M and in the pages listed in the
table.  So reserve those at boot if set detect a SNB gfx device on the
CPU to avoid GPU hangs.

Stephane Marchesin had a similar patch to the page allocator awhile
back, but rather than reserving pages up front, it leaked them at
allocation time.

[ hpa: made a number of stylistic changes, marked arrays as static
  const, and made less verbose; use "memblock=debug" for full
  verbosity. ]

Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes 
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: CAI Qian 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86: hpet: Fix masking of MSI interrupts

2012-12-17T19:06:53+00:00

commit 6acf5a8c931da9d26c8dd77d784daaf07fa2bff0 upstream.

HPET_TN_FSB is not a proper mask bit; it merely toggles between MSI and
legacy interrupt delivery. The proper mask bit is HPET_TN_ENABLE, so
use both bits when (un)masking the interrupt.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5093E09002000078000A60E6@nat28.tlf.novell.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman