linux-stable.git/arch/x86, branch v3.8

Merge tag 'stable/for-linus-3.8-rc7-tag-two' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen

2013-02-15T20:12:55+00:00

Pull xen fixes from Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk:
 "Two fixes:

   - A simple bug-fix for redundant NULL check.

   - CVE-2013-0228/XSA-42: x86/xen: don't assume %ds is usable in
     xen_iret for 32-bit PVOPS

  and two reverts:

   - Revert the PVonHVM kexec.  The patch introduces a regression with
     older hypervisor stacks, such as Xen 4.1."

* tag 'stable/for-linus-3.8-rc7-tag-two' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen:
  Revert "xen PVonHVM: use E820_Reserved area for shared_info"
  Revert "xen/PVonHVM: fix compile warning in init_hvm_pv_info"
  xen: remove redundant NULL check before unregister_and_remove_pcpu().
  x86/xen: don't assume %ds is usable in xen_iret for 32-bit PVOPS.

Revert "xen PVonHVM: use E820_Reserved area for shared_info"

2013-02-15T02:29:31+00:00

This reverts commit 9d02b43dee0d7fb18dfb13a00915550b1a3daa9f.

We are doing this b/c on 32-bit PVonHVM with older hypervisors
(Xen 4.1) it ends up bothing up the start_info. This is bad b/c
we use it for the time keeping, and the timekeeping code loops
forever - as the version field never changes. Olaf says to
revert it, so lets do that.

Acked-by: Olaf Hering 
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk

Revert "xen/PVonHVM: fix compile warning in init_hvm_pv_info"

2013-02-15T02:29:27+00:00

This reverts commit a7be94ac8d69c037d08f0fd94b45a593f1d45176.

Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk

efi: Clear EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES rather than EFI_BOOT by "noefi" boot parameter

2013-02-14T01:24:11+00:00

There was a serious problem in samsung-laptop that its platform driver is
designed to run under BIOS and running under EFI can cause the machine to
become bricked or can cause Machine Check Exceptions.

    Discussion about this problem:
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-cdimage/+bug/1040557
    https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47121

    The patches to fix this problem:
    efi: Make 'efi_enabled' a function to query EFI facilities
    83e68189745ad931c2afd45d8ee3303929233e7f

    samsung-laptop: Disable on EFI hardware
    e0094244e41c4d0c7ad69920681972fc45d8ce34

Unfortunately this problem comes back again if users specify "noefi" option.
This parameter clears EFI_BOOT and that driver continues to run even if running
under EFI. Refer to the document, this parameter should clear
EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES instead.

Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt:
===============================================================================
...
	noefi		[X86] Disable EFI runtime services support.
...
===============================================================================

Documentation/x86/x86_64/uefi.txt:
===============================================================================
...
- If some or all EFI runtime services don't work, you can try following
  kernel command line parameters to turn off some or all EFI runtime
  services.
	noefi		turn off all EFI runtime services
...
===============================================================================

Signed-off-by: Satoru Takeuchi 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/511C2C04.2070108@jp.fujitsu.com
Cc: Matt Fleming 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin

x86/xen: don't assume %ds is usable in xen_iret for 32-bit PVOPS.

2013-02-13T20:40:30+00:00

This fixes CVE-2013-0228 / XSA-42

Drew Jones while working on CVE-2013-0190 found that that unprivileged guest user
in 32bit PV guest can use to crash the > guest with the panic like this:

-------------
general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP
last sysfs file: /sys/devices/vbd-51712/block/xvda/dev
Modules linked in: sunrpc ipt_REJECT nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_defrag_ipv4
iptable_filter ip_tables ip6t_REJECT nf_conntrack_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv6
xt_state nf_conntrack ip6table_filter ip6_tables ipv6 xen_netfront ext4
mbcache jbd2 xen_blkfront dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod [last
unloaded: scsi_wait_scan]

Pid: 1250, comm: r Not tainted 2.6.32-356.el6.i686 #1
EIP: 0061:[] EFLAGS: 00010086 CPU: 0
EIP is at xen_iret+0x12/0x2b
EAX: eb8d0000 EBX: 00000001 ECX: 08049860 EDX: 00000010
ESI: 00000000 EDI: 003d0f00 EBP: b77f8388 ESP: eb8d1fe0
 DS: 0000 ES: 007b FS: 0000 GS: 00e0 SS: 0069
Process r (pid: 1250, ti=eb8d0000 task=c2953550 task.ti=eb8d0000)
Stack:
 00000000 0027f416 00000073 00000206 b77f8364 0000007b 00000000 00000000
Call Trace:
Code: c3 8b 44 24 18 81 4c 24 38 00 02 00 00 8d 64 24 30 e9 03 00 00 00
8d 76 00 f7 44 24 08 00 00 02 80 75 33 50 b8 00 e0 ff ff 21 e0 <8b> 40
10 8b 04 85 a0 f6 ab c0 8b 80 0c b0 b3 c0 f6 44 24 0d 02
EIP: [] xen_iret+0x12/0x2b SS:ESP 0069:eb8d1fe0
general protection fault: 0000 [#2]
---[ end trace ab0d29a492dcd330 ]---
Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception
Pid: 1250, comm: r Tainted: G      D    ---------------
2.6.32-356.el6.i686 #1
Call Trace:
 [] ? panic+0x6e/0x122
 [] ? oops_end+0xbc/0xd0
 [] ? do_general_protection+0x0/0x210
 [] ? error_code+0x73/
-------------

Petr says: "
 I've analysed the bug and I think that xen_iret() cannot cope with
 mangled DS, in this case zeroed out (null selector/descriptor) by either
 xen_failsafe_callback() or RESTORE_REGS because the corresponding LDT
 entry was invalidated by the reproducer. "

Jan took a look at the preliminary patch and came up a fix that solves
this problem:

"This code gets called after all registers other than those handled by
IRET got already restored, hence a null selector in %ds or a non-null
one that got loaded from a code or read-only data descriptor would
cause a kernel mode fault (with the potential of crashing the kernel
as a whole, if panic_on_oops is set)."

The way to fix this is to realize that the we can only relay on the
registers that IRET restores. The two that are guaranteed are the
%cs and %ss as they are always fixed GDT selectors. Also they are
inaccessible from user mode - so they cannot be altered. This is
the approach taken in this patch.

Another alternative option suggested by Jan would be to relay on
the subtle realization that using the %ebp or %esp relative references uses
the %ss segment.  In which case we could switch from using %eax to %ebp and
would not need the %ss over-rides. That would also require one extra
instruction to compensate for the one place where the register is used
as scaled index. However Andrew pointed out that is too subtle and if
further work was to be done in this code-path it could escape folks attention
and lead to accidents.

Reviewed-by: Petr Matousek 
Reported-by: Petr Matousek 
Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper 
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich 
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk

x86/mm: Check if PUD is large when validating a kernel address

2013-02-13T09:02:55+00:00

A user reported the following oops when a backup process reads
/proc/kcore:

 BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffbb00ff33b000
 IP: [] kern_addr_valid+0xbe/0x110
 [...]

 Call Trace:
  [] read_kcore+0x17a/0x370
  [] proc_reg_read+0x77/0xc0
  [] vfs_read+0xc7/0x130
  [] sys_read+0x53/0xa0
  [] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

Investigation determined that the bug triggered when reading
system RAM at the 4G mark. On this system, that was the first
address using 1G pages for the virt->phys direct mapping so the
PUD is pointing to a physical address, not a PMD page.

The problem is that the page table walker in kern_addr_valid() is
not checking pud_large() and treats the physical address as if
it was a PMD.  If it happens to look like pmd_none then it'll
silently fail, probably returning zeros instead of real data. If
the data happens to look like a present PMD though, it will be
walked resulting in the oops above.

This patch adds the necessary pud_large() check.

Unfortunately the problem was not readily reproducible and now
they are running the backup program without accessing
/proc/kcore so the patch has not been validated but I think it
makes sense.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman 
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel 
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko 
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130211145236.GX21389@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

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

2013-02-11T10:13:00+00:00

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 
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1360263182-16226-1-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

x86: Do not leak kernel page mapping locations

2013-02-07T18:57:44+00:00

Without this patch, it is trivial to determine kernel page
mappings by examining the error code reported to dmesg[1].
Instead, declare the entire kernel memory space as a violation
of a present page.

Additionally, since show_unhandled_signals is enabled by
default, switch branch hinting to the more realistic
expectation, and unobfuscate the setting of the PF_PROT bit to
improve readability.

[1] http://vulnfactory.org/blog/2013/02/06/a-linux-memory-trick/

Reported-by: Dan Rosenberg 
Suggested-by: Brad Spengler 
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Paul E. McKenney 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Eric W. Biederman 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130207174413.GA12485@www.outflux.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge tag 'ras_for_3.8' into x86/urgent

2013-02-06T22:18:53+00:00

Retract MCE-specific UAPI exports which are unused and shouldn't be
used.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin

Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2013-02-04T20:59:44+00:00

Pull x86 fixes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Three small fixlets"

* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/intel/cacheinfo: Shut up annoying warning
  x86, doc: Boot protocol 2.12 is in 3.8
  x86-64: Replace left over sti/cli in ia32 audit exit code