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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2018-01-21T18:48:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-21T18:48:35+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 pti fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A small set of fixes for the meltdown/spectre mitigations:

   - Make kprobes aware of retpolines to prevent probes in the retpoline
     thunks.

   - Make the machine check exception speculation protected. MCE used to
     issue an indirect call directly from the ASM entry code. Convert
     that to a direct call into a C-function and issue the indirect call
     from there so the compiler can add the retpoline protection,

   - Make the vmexit_fill_RSB() assembly less stupid

   - Fix a typo in the PTI documentation"

* 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/retpoline: Optimize inline assembler for vmexit_fill_RSB
  x86/pti: Document fix wrong index
  kprobes/x86: Disable optimizing on the function jumps to indirect thunk
  kprobes/x86: Blacklist indirect thunk functions for kprobes
  retpoline: Introduce start/end markers of indirect thunk
  x86/mce: Make machine check speculation protected
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Pull x86 pti fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A small set of fixes for the meltdown/spectre mitigations:

   - Make kprobes aware of retpolines to prevent probes in the retpoline
     thunks.

   - Make the machine check exception speculation protected. MCE used to
     issue an indirect call directly from the ASM entry code. Convert
     that to a direct call into a C-function and issue the indirect call
     from there so the compiler can add the retpoline protection,

   - Make the vmexit_fill_RSB() assembly less stupid

   - Fix a typo in the PTI documentation"

* 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/retpoline: Optimize inline assembler for vmexit_fill_RSB
  x86/pti: Document fix wrong index
  kprobes/x86: Disable optimizing on the function jumps to indirect thunk
  kprobes/x86: Blacklist indirect thunk functions for kprobes
  retpoline: Introduce start/end markers of indirect thunk
  x86/mce: Make machine check speculation protected
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<entry>
<title>x86/mce: Make machine check speculation protected</title>
<updated>2018-01-19T15:31:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-18T15:28:26+00:00</published>
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The machine check idtentry uses an indirect branch directly from the low
level code. This evades the speculation protection.

Replace it by a direct call into C code and issue the indirect call there
so the compiler can apply the proper speculation protection.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by:Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw@amazon.co.uk&gt;
Niced-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.20.1801181626290.1847@nanos

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The machine check idtentry uses an indirect branch directly from the low
level code. This evades the speculation protection.

Replace it by a direct call into C code and issue the indirect call there
so the compiler can apply the proper speculation protection.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by:Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw@amazon.co.uk&gt;
Niced-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.20.1801181626290.1847@nanos

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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2018-01-17T19:54:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-17T19:54:56+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=88dc7fca18001fd883e5ace775afa316b68c8f2c'/>
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Pull x86 pti bits and fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
 "This last update contains:

   - An objtool fix to prevent a segfault with the gold linker by
     changing the invocation order. That's not just for gold, it's a
     general robustness improvement.

   - An improved error message for objtool which spares tearing hairs.

   - Make KASAN fail loudly if there is not enough memory instead of
     oopsing at some random place later

   - RSB fill on context switch to prevent RSB underflow and speculation
     through other units.

   - Make the retpoline/RSB functionality work reliably for both Intel
     and AMD

   - Add retpoline to the module version magic so mismatch can be
     detected

   - A small (non-fix) update for cpufeatures which prevents cpu feature
     clashing for the upcoming extra mitigation bits to ease
     backporting"

* 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  module: Add retpoline tag to VERMAGIC
  x86/cpufeature: Move processor tracing out of scattered features
  objtool: Improve error message for bad file argument
  objtool: Fix seg fault with gold linker
  x86/retpoline: Add LFENCE to the retpoline/RSB filling RSB macros
  x86/retpoline: Fill RSB on context switch for affected CPUs
  x86/kasan: Panic if there is not enough memory to boot
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Pull x86 pti bits and fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
 "This last update contains:

   - An objtool fix to prevent a segfault with the gold linker by
     changing the invocation order. That's not just for gold, it's a
     general robustness improvement.

   - An improved error message for objtool which spares tearing hairs.

   - Make KASAN fail loudly if there is not enough memory instead of
     oopsing at some random place later

   - RSB fill on context switch to prevent RSB underflow and speculation
     through other units.

   - Make the retpoline/RSB functionality work reliably for both Intel
     and AMD

   - Add retpoline to the module version magic so mismatch can be
     detected

   - A small (non-fix) update for cpufeatures which prevents cpu feature
     clashing for the upcoming extra mitigation bits to ease
     backporting"

* 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  module: Add retpoline tag to VERMAGIC
  x86/cpufeature: Move processor tracing out of scattered features
  objtool: Improve error message for bad file argument
  objtool: Fix seg fault with gold linker
  x86/retpoline: Add LFENCE to the retpoline/RSB filling RSB macros
  x86/retpoline: Fill RSB on context switch for affected CPUs
  x86/kasan: Panic if there is not enough memory to boot
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<entry>
<title>x86/retpoline: Fill RSB on context switch for affected CPUs</title>
<updated>2018-01-14T23:32:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Woodhouse</name>
<email>dwmw@amazon.co.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-12T17:49:25+00:00</published>
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On context switch from a shallow call stack to a deeper one, as the CPU
does 'ret' up the deeper side it may encounter RSB entries (predictions for
where the 'ret' goes to) which were populated in userspace.

This is problematic if neither SMEP nor KPTI (the latter of which marks
userspace pages as NX for the kernel) are active, as malicious code in
userspace may then be executed speculatively.

Overwrite the CPU's return prediction stack with calls which are predicted
to return to an infinite loop, to "capture" speculation if this
happens. This is required both for retpoline, and also in conjunction with
IBRS for !SMEP &amp;&amp; !KPTI.

On Skylake+ the problem is slightly different, and an *underflow* of the
RSB may cause errant branch predictions to occur. So there it's not so much
overwrite, as *filling* the RSB to attempt to prevent it getting
empty. This is only a partial solution for Skylake+ since there are many
other conditions which may result in the RSB becoming empty. The full
solution on Skylake+ is to use IBRS, which will prevent the problem even
when the RSB becomes empty. With IBRS, the RSB-stuffing will not be
required on context switch.

[ tglx: Added missing vendor check and slighty massaged comments and
  	changelog ]

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw@amazon.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven &lt;arjan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: thomas.lendacky@amd.com
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Jiri Kosina &lt;jikos@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@google.com&gt;
Cc: Tim Chen &lt;tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Turner &lt;pjt@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1515779365-9032-1-git-send-email-dwmw@amazon.co.uk

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On context switch from a shallow call stack to a deeper one, as the CPU
does 'ret' up the deeper side it may encounter RSB entries (predictions for
where the 'ret' goes to) which were populated in userspace.

This is problematic if neither SMEP nor KPTI (the latter of which marks
userspace pages as NX for the kernel) are active, as malicious code in
userspace may then be executed speculatively.

Overwrite the CPU's return prediction stack with calls which are predicted
to return to an infinite loop, to "capture" speculation if this
happens. This is required both for retpoline, and also in conjunction with
IBRS for !SMEP &amp;&amp; !KPTI.

On Skylake+ the problem is slightly different, and an *underflow* of the
RSB may cause errant branch predictions to occur. So there it's not so much
overwrite, as *filling* the RSB to attempt to prevent it getting
empty. This is only a partial solution for Skylake+ since there are many
other conditions which may result in the RSB becoming empty. The full
solution on Skylake+ is to use IBRS, which will prevent the problem even
when the RSB becomes empty. With IBRS, the RSB-stuffing will not be
required on context switch.

[ tglx: Added missing vendor check and slighty massaged comments and
  	changelog ]

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw@amazon.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven &lt;arjan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: thomas.lendacky@amd.com
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Jiri Kosina &lt;jikos@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@google.com&gt;
Cc: Tim Chen &lt;tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Turner &lt;pjt@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1515779365-9032-1-git-send-email-dwmw@amazon.co.uk

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2018-01-14T17:51:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-14T17:51:25+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=40548c6b6c134275c750eb372dc2cf8ee1bbc3d4'/>
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Pull x86 pti updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "This contains:

   - a PTI bugfix to avoid setting reserved CR3 bits when PCID is
     disabled. This seems to cause issues on a virtual machine at least
     and is incorrect according to the AMD manual.

   - a PTI bugfix which disables the perf BTS facility if PTI is
     enabled. The BTS AUX buffer is not globally visible and causes the
     CPU to fault when the mapping disappears on switching CR3 to user
     space. A full fix which restores BTS on PTI is non trivial and will
     be worked on.

   - PTI bugfixes for EFI and trusted boot which make sure that the user
     space visible page table entries have the NX bit cleared

   - removal of dead code in the PTI pagetable setup functions

   - add PTI documentation

   - add a selftest for vsyscall to verify that the kernel actually
     implements what it advertises.

   - a sysfs interface to expose vulnerability and mitigation
     information so there is a coherent way for users to retrieve the
     status.

   - the initial spectre_v2 mitigations, aka retpoline:

      + The necessary ASM thunk and compiler support

      + The ASM variants of retpoline and the conversion of affected ASM
        code

      + Make LFENCE serializing on AMD so it can be used as speculation
        trap

      + The RSB fill after vmexit

   - initial objtool support for retpoline

  As I said in the status mail this is the most of the set of patches
  which should go into 4.15 except two straight forward patches still on
  hold:

   - the retpoline add on of LFENCE which waits for ACKs

   - the RSB fill after context switch

  Both should be ready to go early next week and with that we'll have
  covered the major holes of spectre_v2 and go back to normality"

* 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (28 commits)
  x86,perf: Disable intel_bts when PTI
  security/Kconfig: Correct the Documentation reference for PTI
  x86/pti: Fix !PCID and sanitize defines
  selftests/x86: Add test_vsyscall
  x86/retpoline: Fill return stack buffer on vmexit
  x86/retpoline/irq32: Convert assembler indirect jumps
  x86/retpoline/checksum32: Convert assembler indirect jumps
  x86/retpoline/xen: Convert Xen hypercall indirect jumps
  x86/retpoline/hyperv: Convert assembler indirect jumps
  x86/retpoline/ftrace: Convert ftrace assembler indirect jumps
  x86/retpoline/entry: Convert entry assembler indirect jumps
  x86/retpoline/crypto: Convert crypto assembler indirect jumps
  x86/spectre: Add boot time option to select Spectre v2 mitigation
  x86/retpoline: Add initial retpoline support
  objtool: Allow alternatives to be ignored
  objtool: Detect jumps to retpoline thunks
  x86/pti: Make unpoison of pgd for trusted boot work for real
  x86/alternatives: Fix optimize_nops() checking
  sysfs/cpu: Fix typos in vulnerability documentation
  x86/cpu/AMD: Use LFENCE_RDTSC in preference to MFENCE_RDTSC
  ...
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Pull x86 pti updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "This contains:

   - a PTI bugfix to avoid setting reserved CR3 bits when PCID is
     disabled. This seems to cause issues on a virtual machine at least
     and is incorrect according to the AMD manual.

   - a PTI bugfix which disables the perf BTS facility if PTI is
     enabled. The BTS AUX buffer is not globally visible and causes the
     CPU to fault when the mapping disappears on switching CR3 to user
     space. A full fix which restores BTS on PTI is non trivial and will
     be worked on.

   - PTI bugfixes for EFI and trusted boot which make sure that the user
     space visible page table entries have the NX bit cleared

   - removal of dead code in the PTI pagetable setup functions

   - add PTI documentation

   - add a selftest for vsyscall to verify that the kernel actually
     implements what it advertises.

   - a sysfs interface to expose vulnerability and mitigation
     information so there is a coherent way for users to retrieve the
     status.

   - the initial spectre_v2 mitigations, aka retpoline:

      + The necessary ASM thunk and compiler support

      + The ASM variants of retpoline and the conversion of affected ASM
        code

      + Make LFENCE serializing on AMD so it can be used as speculation
        trap

      + The RSB fill after vmexit

   - initial objtool support for retpoline

  As I said in the status mail this is the most of the set of patches
  which should go into 4.15 except two straight forward patches still on
  hold:

   - the retpoline add on of LFENCE which waits for ACKs

   - the RSB fill after context switch

  Both should be ready to go early next week and with that we'll have
  covered the major holes of spectre_v2 and go back to normality"

* 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (28 commits)
  x86,perf: Disable intel_bts when PTI
  security/Kconfig: Correct the Documentation reference for PTI
  x86/pti: Fix !PCID and sanitize defines
  selftests/x86: Add test_vsyscall
  x86/retpoline: Fill return stack buffer on vmexit
  x86/retpoline/irq32: Convert assembler indirect jumps
  x86/retpoline/checksum32: Convert assembler indirect jumps
  x86/retpoline/xen: Convert Xen hypercall indirect jumps
  x86/retpoline/hyperv: Convert assembler indirect jumps
  x86/retpoline/ftrace: Convert ftrace assembler indirect jumps
  x86/retpoline/entry: Convert entry assembler indirect jumps
  x86/retpoline/crypto: Convert crypto assembler indirect jumps
  x86/spectre: Add boot time option to select Spectre v2 mitigation
  x86/retpoline: Add initial retpoline support
  objtool: Allow alternatives to be ignored
  objtool: Detect jumps to retpoline thunks
  x86/pti: Make unpoison of pgd for trusted boot work for real
  x86/alternatives: Fix optimize_nops() checking
  sysfs/cpu: Fix typos in vulnerability documentation
  x86/cpu/AMD: Use LFENCE_RDTSC in preference to MFENCE_RDTSC
  ...
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<entry>
<title>x86/pti: Fix !PCID and sanitize defines</title>
<updated>2018-01-14T09:45:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-13T23:23:57+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=f10ee3dcc9f0aba92a5c4c064628be5200765dc2'/>
<id>f10ee3dcc9f0aba92a5c4c064628be5200765dc2</id>
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The switch to the user space page tables in the low level ASM code sets
unconditionally bit 12 and bit 11 of CR3. Bit 12 is switching the base
address of the page directory to the user part, bit 11 is switching the
PCID to the PCID associated with the user page tables.

This fails on a machine which lacks PCID support because bit 11 is set in
CR3. Bit 11 is reserved when PCID is inactive.

While the Intel SDM claims that the reserved bits are ignored when PCID is
disabled, the AMD APM states that they should be cleared.

This went unnoticed as the AMD APM was not checked when the code was
developed and reviewed and test systems with Intel CPUs never failed to
boot. The report is against a Centos 6 host where the guest fails to boot,
so it's not yet clear whether this is a virt issue or can happen on real
hardware too, but thats irrelevant as the AMD APM clearly ask for clearing
the reserved bits.

Make sure that on non PCID machines bit 11 is not set by the page table
switching code.

Andy suggested to rename the related bits and masks so they are clearly
describing what they should be used for, which is done as well for clarity.

That split could have been done with alternatives but the macro hell is
horrible and ugly. This can be done on top if someone cares to remove the
extra orq. For now it's a straight forward fix.

Fixes: 6fd166aae78c ("x86/mm: Use/Fix PCID to optimize user/kernel switches")
Reported-by: Laura Abbott &lt;labbott@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: stable &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&gt;
Cc: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw@amazon.co.uk&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.20.1801140009150.2371@nanos

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The switch to the user space page tables in the low level ASM code sets
unconditionally bit 12 and bit 11 of CR3. Bit 12 is switching the base
address of the page directory to the user part, bit 11 is switching the
PCID to the PCID associated with the user page tables.

This fails on a machine which lacks PCID support because bit 11 is set in
CR3. Bit 11 is reserved when PCID is inactive.

While the Intel SDM claims that the reserved bits are ignored when PCID is
disabled, the AMD APM states that they should be cleared.

This went unnoticed as the AMD APM was not checked when the code was
developed and reviewed and test systems with Intel CPUs never failed to
boot. The report is against a Centos 6 host where the guest fails to boot,
so it's not yet clear whether this is a virt issue or can happen on real
hardware too, but thats irrelevant as the AMD APM clearly ask for clearing
the reserved bits.

Make sure that on non PCID machines bit 11 is not set by the page table
switching code.

Andy suggested to rename the related bits and masks so they are clearly
describing what they should be used for, which is done as well for clarity.

That split could have been done with alternatives but the macro hell is
horrible and ugly. This can be done on top if someone cares to remove the
extra orq. For now it's a straight forward fix.

Fixes: 6fd166aae78c ("x86/mm: Use/Fix PCID to optimize user/kernel switches")
Reported-by: Laura Abbott &lt;labbott@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: stable &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&gt;
Cc: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw@amazon.co.uk&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.20.1801140009150.2371@nanos

</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/retpoline/entry: Convert entry assembler indirect jumps</title>
<updated>2018-01-11T23:14:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Woodhouse</name>
<email>dwmw@amazon.co.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-11T21:46:28+00:00</published>
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Convert indirect jumps in core 32/64bit entry assembler code to use
non-speculative sequences when CONFIG_RETPOLINE is enabled.

Don't use CALL_NOSPEC in entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath because the return
address after the 'call' instruction must be *precisely* at the
.Lentry_SYSCALL_64_after_fastpath label for stub_ptregs_64 to work,
and the use of alternatives will mess that up unless we play horrid
games to prepend with NOPs and make the variants the same length. It's
not worth it; in the case where we ALTERNATIVE out the retpoline, the
first instruction at __x86.indirect_thunk.rax is going to be a bare
jmp *%rax anyway.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw@amazon.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven &lt;arjan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: thomas.lendacky@amd.com
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Jiri Kosina &lt;jikos@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@google.com&gt;
Cc: Tim Chen &lt;tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Turner &lt;pjt@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1515707194-20531-7-git-send-email-dwmw@amazon.co.uk

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Convert indirect jumps in core 32/64bit entry assembler code to use
non-speculative sequences when CONFIG_RETPOLINE is enabled.

Don't use CALL_NOSPEC in entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath because the return
address after the 'call' instruction must be *precisely* at the
.Lentry_SYSCALL_64_after_fastpath label for stub_ptregs_64 to work,
and the use of alternatives will mess that up unless we play horrid
games to prepend with NOPs and make the variants the same length. It's
not worth it; in the case where we ALTERNATIVE out the retpoline, the
first instruction at __x86.indirect_thunk.rax is going to be a bare
jmp *%rax anyway.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw@amazon.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven &lt;arjan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: thomas.lendacky@amd.com
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Jiri Kosina &lt;jikos@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@google.com&gt;
Cc: Tim Chen &lt;tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Turner &lt;pjt@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1515707194-20531-7-git-send-email-dwmw@amazon.co.uk

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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2018-01-04T00:41:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-04T00:41:07+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 page table isolation fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A couple of urgent fixes for PTI:

   - Fix a PTE mismatch between user and kernel visible mapping of the
     cpu entry area (differs vs. the GLB bit) and causes a TLB mismatch
     MCE on older AMD K8 machines

   - Fix the misplaced CR3 switch in the SYSCALL compat entry code which
     causes access to unmapped kernel memory resulting in double faults.

   - Fix the section mismatch of the cpu_tss_rw percpu storage caused by
     using a different mechanism for declaration and definition.

   - Two fixes for dumpstack which help to decode entry stack issues
     better

   - Enable PTI by default in Kconfig. We should have done that earlier,
     but it slipped through the cracks.

   - Exclude AMD from the PTI enforcement. Not necessarily a fix, but if
     AMD is so confident that they are not affected, then we should not
     burden users with the overhead"

* 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/process: Define cpu_tss_rw in same section as declaration
  x86/pti: Switch to kernel CR3 at early in entry_SYSCALL_compat()
  x86/dumpstack: Print registers for first stack frame
  x86/dumpstack: Fix partial register dumps
  x86/pti: Make sure the user/kernel PTEs match
  x86/cpu, x86/pti: Do not enable PTI on AMD processors
  x86/pti: Enable PTI by default
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Pull x86 page table isolation fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A couple of urgent fixes for PTI:

   - Fix a PTE mismatch between user and kernel visible mapping of the
     cpu entry area (differs vs. the GLB bit) and causes a TLB mismatch
     MCE on older AMD K8 machines

   - Fix the misplaced CR3 switch in the SYSCALL compat entry code which
     causes access to unmapped kernel memory resulting in double faults.

   - Fix the section mismatch of the cpu_tss_rw percpu storage caused by
     using a different mechanism for declaration and definition.

   - Two fixes for dumpstack which help to decode entry stack issues
     better

   - Enable PTI by default in Kconfig. We should have done that earlier,
     but it slipped through the cracks.

   - Exclude AMD from the PTI enforcement. Not necessarily a fix, but if
     AMD is so confident that they are not affected, then we should not
     burden users with the overhead"

* 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/process: Define cpu_tss_rw in same section as declaration
  x86/pti: Switch to kernel CR3 at early in entry_SYSCALL_compat()
  x86/dumpstack: Print registers for first stack frame
  x86/dumpstack: Fix partial register dumps
  x86/pti: Make sure the user/kernel PTEs match
  x86/cpu, x86/pti: Do not enable PTI on AMD processors
  x86/pti: Enable PTI by default
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/pti: Switch to kernel CR3 at early in entry_SYSCALL_compat()</title>
<updated>2018-01-03T22:19:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-03T18:52:04+00:00</published>
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The preparation for PTI which added CR3 switching to the entry code
misplaced the CR3 switch in entry_SYSCALL_compat().

With PTI enabled the entry code tries to access a per cpu variable after
switching to kernel GS. This fails because that variable is not mapped to
user space. This results in a double fault and in the worst case a kernel
crash.

Move the switch ahead of the access and clobber RSP which has been saved
already.

Fixes: 8a09317b895f ("x86/mm/pti: Prepare the x86/entry assembly code for entry/exit CR3 switching")
Reported-by: Lars Wendler &lt;wendler.lars@web.de&gt;
Reported-by: Laura Abbott &lt;labbott@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Borislav Betkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;, 
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;, 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;, 
Cc: Greg KH &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;, , 
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;, 
Cc: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.20.1801031949200.1957@nanos

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The preparation for PTI which added CR3 switching to the entry code
misplaced the CR3 switch in entry_SYSCALL_compat().

With PTI enabled the entry code tries to access a per cpu variable after
switching to kernel GS. This fails because that variable is not mapped to
user space. This results in a double fault and in the worst case a kernel
crash.

Move the switch ahead of the access and clobber RSP which has been saved
already.

Fixes: 8a09317b895f ("x86/mm/pti: Prepare the x86/entry assembly code for entry/exit CR3 switching")
Reported-by: Lars Wendler &lt;wendler.lars@web.de&gt;
Reported-by: Laura Abbott &lt;labbott@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Borislav Betkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;, 
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;, 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;, 
Cc: Greg KH &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;, , 
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;, 
Cc: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.20.1801031949200.1957@nanos

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2017-12-30T01:02:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-12-30T01:02:49+00:00</published>
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<id>5aa90a84589282b87666f92b6c3c917c8080a9bf</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull x86 page table isolation updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "This is the final set of enabling page table isolation on x86:

   - Infrastructure patches for handling the extra page tables.

   - Patches which map the various bits and pieces which are required to
     get in and out of user space into the user space visible page
     tables.

   - The required changes to have CR3 switching in the entry/exit code.

   - Optimizations for the CR3 switching along with documentation how
     the ASID/PCID mechanism works.

   - Updates to dump pagetables to cover the user space page tables for
     W+X scans and extra debugfs files to analyze both the kernel and
     the user space visible page tables

  The whole functionality is compile time controlled via a config switch
  and can be turned on/off on the command line as well"

* 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (32 commits)
  x86/ldt: Make the LDT mapping RO
  x86/mm/dump_pagetables: Allow dumping current pagetables
  x86/mm/dump_pagetables: Check user space page table for WX pages
  x86/mm/dump_pagetables: Add page table directory to the debugfs VFS hierarchy
  x86/mm/pti: Add Kconfig
  x86/dumpstack: Indicate in Oops whether PTI is configured and enabled
  x86/mm: Clarify the whole ASID/kernel PCID/user PCID naming
  x86/mm: Use INVPCID for __native_flush_tlb_single()
  x86/mm: Optimize RESTORE_CR3
  x86/mm: Use/Fix PCID to optimize user/kernel switches
  x86/mm: Abstract switching CR3
  x86/mm: Allow flushing for future ASID switches
  x86/pti: Map the vsyscall page if needed
  x86/pti: Put the LDT in its own PGD if PTI is on
  x86/mm/64: Make a full PGD-entry size hole in the memory map
  x86/events/intel/ds: Map debug buffers in cpu_entry_area
  x86/cpu_entry_area: Add debugstore entries to cpu_entry_area
  x86/mm/pti: Map ESPFIX into user space
  x86/mm/pti: Share entry text PMD
  x86/entry: Align entry text section to PMD boundary
  ...
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Pull x86 page table isolation updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "This is the final set of enabling page table isolation on x86:

   - Infrastructure patches for handling the extra page tables.

   - Patches which map the various bits and pieces which are required to
     get in and out of user space into the user space visible page
     tables.

   - The required changes to have CR3 switching in the entry/exit code.

   - Optimizations for the CR3 switching along with documentation how
     the ASID/PCID mechanism works.

   - Updates to dump pagetables to cover the user space page tables for
     W+X scans and extra debugfs files to analyze both the kernel and
     the user space visible page tables

  The whole functionality is compile time controlled via a config switch
  and can be turned on/off on the command line as well"

* 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (32 commits)
  x86/ldt: Make the LDT mapping RO
  x86/mm/dump_pagetables: Allow dumping current pagetables
  x86/mm/dump_pagetables: Check user space page table for WX pages
  x86/mm/dump_pagetables: Add page table directory to the debugfs VFS hierarchy
  x86/mm/pti: Add Kconfig
  x86/dumpstack: Indicate in Oops whether PTI is configured and enabled
  x86/mm: Clarify the whole ASID/kernel PCID/user PCID naming
  x86/mm: Use INVPCID for __native_flush_tlb_single()
  x86/mm: Optimize RESTORE_CR3
  x86/mm: Use/Fix PCID to optimize user/kernel switches
  x86/mm: Abstract switching CR3
  x86/mm: Allow flushing for future ASID switches
  x86/pti: Map the vsyscall page if needed
  x86/pti: Put the LDT in its own PGD if PTI is on
  x86/mm/64: Make a full PGD-entry size hole in the memory map
  x86/events/intel/ds: Map debug buffers in cpu_entry_area
  x86/cpu_entry_area: Add debugstore entries to cpu_entry_area
  x86/mm/pti: Map ESPFIX into user space
  x86/mm/pti: Share entry text PMD
  x86/entry: Align entry text section to PMD boundary
  ...
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