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<title>linux.git/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h, branch v4.16</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>x86/CPU: Add a microcode loader callback</title>
<updated>2018-02-17T07:43:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov</name>
<email>bp@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-16T11:26:39+00:00</published>
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Add a callback function which the microcode loader calls when microcode
has been updated to a newer revision. Do the callback only when no error
was encountered during loading.

Tested-by: Ashok Raj &lt;ashok.raj@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ashok Raj &lt;ashok.raj@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arjan van de Ven &lt;arjan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw2@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
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;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180216112640.11554-3-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Add a callback function which the microcode loader calls when microcode
has been updated to a newer revision. Do the callback only when no error
was encountered during loading.

Tested-by: Ashok Raj &lt;ashok.raj@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ashok Raj &lt;ashok.raj@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arjan van de Ven &lt;arjan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw2@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
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;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180216112640.11554-3-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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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>2018-02-15T01:02:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-15T01:02:15+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 PTI and Spectre related fixes and updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Here's the latest set of Spectre and PTI related fixes and updates:

  Spectre:
   - Add entry code register clearing to reduce the Spectre attack
     surface
   - Update the Spectre microcode blacklist
   - Inline the KVM Spectre helpers to get close to v4.14 performance
     again.
   - Fix indirect_branch_prediction_barrier()
   - Fix/improve Spectre related kernel messages
   - Fix array_index_nospec_mask() asm constraint
   - KVM: fix two MSR handling bugs

  PTI:
   - Fix a paranoid entry PTI CR3 handling bug
   - Fix comments

  objtool:
   - Fix paranoid_entry() frame pointer warning
   - Annotate WARN()-related UD2 as reachable
   - Various fixes
   - Add Add Peter Zijlstra as objtool co-maintainer

  Misc:
   - Various x86 entry code self-test fixes
   - Improve/simplify entry code stack frame generation and handling
     after recent heavy-handed PTI and Spectre changes. (There's two
     more WIP improvements expected here.)
   - Type fix for cache entries

  There's also some low risk non-fix changes I've included in this
  branch to reduce backporting conflicts:

   - rename a confusing x86_cpu field name
   - de-obfuscate the naming of single-TLB flushing primitives"

* 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (41 commits)
  x86/entry/64: Fix CR3 restore in paranoid_exit()
  x86/cpu: Change type of x86_cache_size variable to unsigned int
  x86/spectre: Fix an error message
  x86/cpu: Rename cpu_data.x86_mask to cpu_data.x86_stepping
  selftests/x86/mpx: Fix incorrect bounds with old _sigfault
  x86/mm: Rename flush_tlb_single() and flush_tlb_one() to __flush_tlb_one_[user|kernel]()
  x86/speculation: Add &lt;asm/msr-index.h&gt; dependency
  nospec: Move array_index_nospec() parameter checking into separate macro
  x86/speculation: Fix up array_index_nospec_mask() asm constraint
  x86/debug: Use UD2 for WARN()
  x86/debug, objtool: Annotate WARN()-related UD2 as reachable
  objtool: Fix segfault in ignore_unreachable_insn()
  selftests/x86: Disable tests requiring 32-bit support on pure 64-bit systems
  selftests/x86: Do not rely on "int $0x80" in single_step_syscall.c
  selftests/x86: Do not rely on "int $0x80" in test_mremap_vdso.c
  selftests/x86: Fix build bug caused by the 5lvl test which has been moved to the VM directory
  selftests/x86/pkeys: Remove unused functions
  selftests/x86: Clean up and document sscanf() usage
  selftests/x86: Fix vDSO selftest segfault for vsyscall=none
  x86/entry/64: Remove the unused 'icebp' macro
  ...
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<pre>
Pull x86 PTI and Spectre related fixes and updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Here's the latest set of Spectre and PTI related fixes and updates:

  Spectre:
   - Add entry code register clearing to reduce the Spectre attack
     surface
   - Update the Spectre microcode blacklist
   - Inline the KVM Spectre helpers to get close to v4.14 performance
     again.
   - Fix indirect_branch_prediction_barrier()
   - Fix/improve Spectre related kernel messages
   - Fix array_index_nospec_mask() asm constraint
   - KVM: fix two MSR handling bugs

  PTI:
   - Fix a paranoid entry PTI CR3 handling bug
   - Fix comments

  objtool:
   - Fix paranoid_entry() frame pointer warning
   - Annotate WARN()-related UD2 as reachable
   - Various fixes
   - Add Add Peter Zijlstra as objtool co-maintainer

  Misc:
   - Various x86 entry code self-test fixes
   - Improve/simplify entry code stack frame generation and handling
     after recent heavy-handed PTI and Spectre changes. (There's two
     more WIP improvements expected here.)
   - Type fix for cache entries

  There's also some low risk non-fix changes I've included in this
  branch to reduce backporting conflicts:

   - rename a confusing x86_cpu field name
   - de-obfuscate the naming of single-TLB flushing primitives"

* 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (41 commits)
  x86/entry/64: Fix CR3 restore in paranoid_exit()
  x86/cpu: Change type of x86_cache_size variable to unsigned int
  x86/spectre: Fix an error message
  x86/cpu: Rename cpu_data.x86_mask to cpu_data.x86_stepping
  selftests/x86/mpx: Fix incorrect bounds with old _sigfault
  x86/mm: Rename flush_tlb_single() and flush_tlb_one() to __flush_tlb_one_[user|kernel]()
  x86/speculation: Add &lt;asm/msr-index.h&gt; dependency
  nospec: Move array_index_nospec() parameter checking into separate macro
  x86/speculation: Fix up array_index_nospec_mask() asm constraint
  x86/debug: Use UD2 for WARN()
  x86/debug, objtool: Annotate WARN()-related UD2 as reachable
  objtool: Fix segfault in ignore_unreachable_insn()
  selftests/x86: Disable tests requiring 32-bit support on pure 64-bit systems
  selftests/x86: Do not rely on "int $0x80" in single_step_syscall.c
  selftests/x86: Do not rely on "int $0x80" in test_mremap_vdso.c
  selftests/x86: Fix build bug caused by the 5lvl test which has been moved to the VM directory
  selftests/x86/pkeys: Remove unused functions
  selftests/x86: Clean up and document sscanf() usage
  selftests/x86: Fix vDSO selftest segfault for vsyscall=none
  x86/entry/64: Remove the unused 'icebp' macro
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/cpu: Change type of x86_cache_size variable to unsigned int</title>
<updated>2018-02-15T00:15:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gustavo A. R. Silva</name>
<email>garsilva@embeddedor.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-13T19:22:08+00:00</published>
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Currently, x86_cache_size is of type int, which makes no sense as we
will never have a valid cache size equal or less than 0. So instead of
initializing this variable to -1, it can perfectly be initialized to 0
and use it as an unsigned variable instead.

Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva &lt;garsilva@embeddedor.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1464429
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180213192208.GA26414@embeddedor.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Currently, x86_cache_size is of type int, which makes no sense as we
will never have a valid cache size equal or less than 0. So instead of
initializing this variable to -1, it can perfectly be initialized to 0
and use it as an unsigned variable instead.

Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva &lt;garsilva@embeddedor.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1464429
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180213192208.GA26414@embeddedor.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/cpu: Rename cpu_data.x86_mask to cpu_data.x86_stepping</title>
<updated>2018-02-15T00:15:52+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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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;
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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;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Revert "x86/speculation: Simplify indirect_branch_prediction_barrier()"</title>
<updated>2018-02-13T07:59:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Woodhouse</name>
<email>dwmw@amazon.co.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-10T23:39:23+00:00</published>
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This reverts commit 64e16720ea0879f8ab4547e3b9758936d483909b.

We cannot call C functions like that, without marking all the
call-clobbered registers as, well, clobbered. We might have got away
with it for now because the __ibp_barrier() function was *fairly*
unlikely to actually use any other registers. But no. Just no.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw@amazon.co.uk&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arjan van de Ven &lt;arjan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw2@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
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: arjan.van.de.ven@intel.com
Cc: dave.hansen@intel.com
Cc: jmattson@google.com
Cc: karahmed@amazon.de
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: pbonzini@redhat.com
Cc: rkrcmar@redhat.com
Cc: sironi@amazon.de
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1518305967-31356-3-git-send-email-dwmw@amazon.co.uk
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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This reverts commit 64e16720ea0879f8ab4547e3b9758936d483909b.

We cannot call C functions like that, without marking all the
call-clobbered registers as, well, clobbered. We might have got away
with it for now because the __ibp_barrier() function was *fairly*
unlikely to actually use any other registers. But no. Just no.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw@amazon.co.uk&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arjan van de Ven &lt;arjan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw2@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
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: arjan.van.de.ven@intel.com
Cc: dave.hansen@intel.com
Cc: jmattson@google.com
Cc: karahmed@amazon.de
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: pbonzini@redhat.com
Cc: rkrcmar@redhat.com
Cc: sironi@amazon.de
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1518305967-31356-3-git-send-email-dwmw@amazon.co.uk
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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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>2018-02-04T19:45:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-04T19:45:55+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=35277995e17919ab838beae765f440674e8576eb'/>
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Pull spectre/meltdown updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "The next round of updates related to melted spectrum:

   - The initial set of spectre V1 mitigations:

       - Array index speculation blocker and its usage for syscall,
         fdtable and the n180211 driver.

       - Speculation barrier and its usage in user access functions

   - Make indirect calls in KVM speculation safe

   - Blacklisting of known to be broken microcodes so IPBP/IBSR are not
     touched.

   - The initial IBPB support and its usage in context switch

   - The exposure of the new speculation MSRs to KVM guests.

   - A fix for a regression in x86/32 related to the cpu entry area

   - Proper whitelisting for known to be safe CPUs from the mitigations.

   - objtool fixes to deal proper with retpolines and alternatives

   - Exclude __init functions from retpolines which speeds up the boot
     process.

   - Removal of the syscall64 fast path and related cleanups and
     simplifications

   - Removal of the unpatched paravirt mode which is yet another source
     of indirect unproteced calls.

   - A new and undisputed version of the module mismatch warning

   - A couple of cleanup and correctness fixes all over the place

  Yet another step towards full mitigation. There are a few things still
  missing like the RBS underflow mitigation for Skylake and other small
  details, but that's being worked on.

  That said, I'm taking a belated christmas vacation for a week and hope
  that everything is magically solved when I'm back on Feb 12th"

* 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (37 commits)
  KVM/SVM: Allow direct access to MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL
  KVM/VMX: Allow direct access to MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL
  KVM/VMX: Emulate MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES
  KVM/x86: Add IBPB support
  KVM/x86: Update the reverse_cpuid list to include CPUID_7_EDX
  x86/speculation: Fix typo IBRS_ATT, which should be IBRS_ALL
  x86/pti: Mark constant arrays as __initconst
  x86/spectre: Simplify spectre_v2 command line parsing
  x86/retpoline: Avoid retpolines for built-in __init functions
  x86/kvm: Update spectre-v1 mitigation
  KVM: VMX: make MSR bitmaps per-VCPU
  x86/paravirt: Remove 'noreplace-paravirt' cmdline option
  x86/speculation: Use Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier in context switch
  x86/cpuid: Fix up "virtual" IBRS/IBPB/STIBP feature bits on Intel
  x86/spectre: Fix spelling mistake: "vunerable"-&gt; "vulnerable"
  x86/spectre: Report get_user mitigation for spectre_v1
  nl80211: Sanitize array index in parse_txq_params
  vfs, fdtable: Prevent bounds-check bypass via speculative execution
  x86/syscall: Sanitize syscall table de-references under speculation
  x86/get_user: Use pointer masking to limit speculation
  ...
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<pre>
Pull spectre/meltdown updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "The next round of updates related to melted spectrum:

   - The initial set of spectre V1 mitigations:

       - Array index speculation blocker and its usage for syscall,
         fdtable and the n180211 driver.

       - Speculation barrier and its usage in user access functions

   - Make indirect calls in KVM speculation safe

   - Blacklisting of known to be broken microcodes so IPBP/IBSR are not
     touched.

   - The initial IBPB support and its usage in context switch

   - The exposure of the new speculation MSRs to KVM guests.

   - A fix for a regression in x86/32 related to the cpu entry area

   - Proper whitelisting for known to be safe CPUs from the mitigations.

   - objtool fixes to deal proper with retpolines and alternatives

   - Exclude __init functions from retpolines which speeds up the boot
     process.

   - Removal of the syscall64 fast path and related cleanups and
     simplifications

   - Removal of the unpatched paravirt mode which is yet another source
     of indirect unproteced calls.

   - A new and undisputed version of the module mismatch warning

   - A couple of cleanup and correctness fixes all over the place

  Yet another step towards full mitigation. There are a few things still
  missing like the RBS underflow mitigation for Skylake and other small
  details, but that's being worked on.

  That said, I'm taking a belated christmas vacation for a week and hope
  that everything is magically solved when I'm back on Feb 12th"

* 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (37 commits)
  KVM/SVM: Allow direct access to MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL
  KVM/VMX: Allow direct access to MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL
  KVM/VMX: Emulate MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES
  KVM/x86: Add IBPB support
  KVM/x86: Update the reverse_cpuid list to include CPUID_7_EDX
  x86/speculation: Fix typo IBRS_ATT, which should be IBRS_ALL
  x86/pti: Mark constant arrays as __initconst
  x86/spectre: Simplify spectre_v2 command line parsing
  x86/retpoline: Avoid retpolines for built-in __init functions
  x86/kvm: Update spectre-v1 mitigation
  KVM: VMX: make MSR bitmaps per-VCPU
  x86/paravirt: Remove 'noreplace-paravirt' cmdline option
  x86/speculation: Use Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier in context switch
  x86/cpuid: Fix up "virtual" IBRS/IBPB/STIBP feature bits on Intel
  x86/spectre: Fix spelling mistake: "vunerable"-&gt; "vulnerable"
  x86/spectre: Report get_user mitigation for spectre_v1
  nl80211: Sanitize array index in parse_txq_params
  vfs, fdtable: Prevent bounds-check bypass via speculative execution
  x86/syscall: Sanitize syscall table de-references under speculation
  x86/get_user: Use pointer masking to limit speculation
  ...
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'usercopy-v4.16-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux</title>
<updated>2018-02-04T00:25:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-04T00:25:42+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=617aebe6a97efa539cc4b8a52adccd89596e6be0'/>
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Pull hardened usercopy whitelisting from Kees Cook:
 "Currently, hardened usercopy performs dynamic bounds checking on slab
  cache objects. This is good, but still leaves a lot of kernel memory
  available to be copied to/from userspace in the face of bugs.

  To further restrict what memory is available for copying, this creates
  a way to whitelist specific areas of a given slab cache object for
  copying to/from userspace, allowing much finer granularity of access
  control.

  Slab caches that are never exposed to userspace can declare no
  whitelist for their objects, thereby keeping them unavailable to
  userspace via dynamic copy operations. (Note, an implicit form of
  whitelisting is the use of constant sizes in usercopy operations and
  get_user()/put_user(); these bypass all hardened usercopy checks since
  these sizes cannot change at runtime.)

  This new check is WARN-by-default, so any mistakes can be found over
  the next several releases without breaking anyone's system.

  The series has roughly the following sections:
   - remove %p and improve reporting with offset
   - prepare infrastructure and whitelist kmalloc
   - update VFS subsystem with whitelists
   - update SCSI subsystem with whitelists
   - update network subsystem with whitelists
   - update process memory with whitelists
   - update per-architecture thread_struct with whitelists
   - update KVM with whitelists and fix ioctl bug
   - mark all other allocations as not whitelisted
   - update lkdtm for more sensible test overage"

* tag 'usercopy-v4.16-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux: (38 commits)
  lkdtm: Update usercopy tests for whitelisting
  usercopy: Restrict non-usercopy caches to size 0
  kvm: x86: fix KVM_XEN_HVM_CONFIG ioctl
  kvm: whitelist struct kvm_vcpu_arch
  arm: Implement thread_struct whitelist for hardened usercopy
  arm64: Implement thread_struct whitelist for hardened usercopy
  x86: Implement thread_struct whitelist for hardened usercopy
  fork: Provide usercopy whitelisting for task_struct
  fork: Define usercopy region in thread_stack slab caches
  fork: Define usercopy region in mm_struct slab caches
  net: Restrict unwhitelisted proto caches to size 0
  sctp: Copy struct sctp_sock.autoclose to userspace using put_user()
  sctp: Define usercopy region in SCTP proto slab cache
  caif: Define usercopy region in caif proto slab cache
  ip: Define usercopy region in IP proto slab cache
  net: Define usercopy region in struct proto slab cache
  scsi: Define usercopy region in scsi_sense_cache slab cache
  cifs: Define usercopy region in cifs_request slab cache
  vxfs: Define usercopy region in vxfs_inode slab cache
  ufs: Define usercopy region in ufs_inode_cache slab cache
  ...
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<pre>
Pull hardened usercopy whitelisting from Kees Cook:
 "Currently, hardened usercopy performs dynamic bounds checking on slab
  cache objects. This is good, but still leaves a lot of kernel memory
  available to be copied to/from userspace in the face of bugs.

  To further restrict what memory is available for copying, this creates
  a way to whitelist specific areas of a given slab cache object for
  copying to/from userspace, allowing much finer granularity of access
  control.

  Slab caches that are never exposed to userspace can declare no
  whitelist for their objects, thereby keeping them unavailable to
  userspace via dynamic copy operations. (Note, an implicit form of
  whitelisting is the use of constant sizes in usercopy operations and
  get_user()/put_user(); these bypass all hardened usercopy checks since
  these sizes cannot change at runtime.)

  This new check is WARN-by-default, so any mistakes can be found over
  the next several releases without breaking anyone's system.

  The series has roughly the following sections:
   - remove %p and improve reporting with offset
   - prepare infrastructure and whitelist kmalloc
   - update VFS subsystem with whitelists
   - update SCSI subsystem with whitelists
   - update network subsystem with whitelists
   - update process memory with whitelists
   - update per-architecture thread_struct with whitelists
   - update KVM with whitelists and fix ioctl bug
   - mark all other allocations as not whitelisted
   - update lkdtm for more sensible test overage"

* tag 'usercopy-v4.16-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux: (38 commits)
  lkdtm: Update usercopy tests for whitelisting
  usercopy: Restrict non-usercopy caches to size 0
  kvm: x86: fix KVM_XEN_HVM_CONFIG ioctl
  kvm: whitelist struct kvm_vcpu_arch
  arm: Implement thread_struct whitelist for hardened usercopy
  arm64: Implement thread_struct whitelist for hardened usercopy
  x86: Implement thread_struct whitelist for hardened usercopy
  fork: Provide usercopy whitelisting for task_struct
  fork: Define usercopy region in thread_stack slab caches
  fork: Define usercopy region in mm_struct slab caches
  net: Restrict unwhitelisted proto caches to size 0
  sctp: Copy struct sctp_sock.autoclose to userspace using put_user()
  sctp: Define usercopy region in SCTP proto slab cache
  caif: Define usercopy region in caif proto slab cache
  ip: Define usercopy region in IP proto slab cache
  net: Define usercopy region in struct proto slab cache
  scsi: Define usercopy region in scsi_sense_cache slab cache
  cifs: Define usercopy region in cifs_request slab cache
  vxfs: Define usercopy region in vxfs_inode slab cache
  ufs: Define usercopy region in ufs_inode_cache slab cache
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/asm: Move 'status' from thread_struct to thread_info</title>
<updated>2018-01-30T14:30:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andy Lutomirski</name>
<email>luto@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-28T18:38:50+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=37a8f7c38339b22b69876d6f5a0ab851565284e3'/>
<id>37a8f7c38339b22b69876d6f5a0ab851565284e3</id>
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The TS_COMPAT bit is very hot and is accessed from code paths that mostly
also touch thread_info::flags.  Move it into struct thread_info to improve
cache locality.

The only reason it was in thread_struct is that there was a brief period
during which arch-specific fields were not allowed in struct thread_info.

Linus suggested further changing:

  ti-&gt;status &amp;= ~(TS_COMPAT|TS_I386_REGS_POKED);

to:

  if (unlikely(ti-&gt;status &amp; (TS_COMPAT|TS_I386_REGS_POKED)))
          ti-&gt;status &amp;= ~(TS_COMPAT|TS_I386_REGS_POKED);

on the theory that frequently dirtying the cacheline even in pure 64-bit
code that never needs to modify status hurts performance.  That could be a
reasonable followup patch, but I suspect it matters less on top of this
patch.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Kernel Hardening &lt;kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/03148bcc1b217100e6e8ecf6a5468c45cf4304b6.1517164461.git.luto@kernel.org

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<pre>
The TS_COMPAT bit is very hot and is accessed from code paths that mostly
also touch thread_info::flags.  Move it into struct thread_info to improve
cache locality.

The only reason it was in thread_struct is that there was a brief period
during which arch-specific fields were not allowed in struct thread_info.

Linus suggested further changing:

  ti-&gt;status &amp;= ~(TS_COMPAT|TS_I386_REGS_POKED);

to:

  if (unlikely(ti-&gt;status &amp; (TS_COMPAT|TS_I386_REGS_POKED)))
          ti-&gt;status &amp;= ~(TS_COMPAT|TS_I386_REGS_POKED);

on the theory that frequently dirtying the cacheline even in pure 64-bit
code that never needs to modify status hurts performance.  That could be a
reasonable followup patch, but I suspect it matters less on top of this
patch.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Kernel Hardening &lt;kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/03148bcc1b217100e6e8ecf6a5468c45cf4304b6.1517164461.git.luto@kernel.org

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'v4.15' into x86/pti, to be able to merge dependent changes</title>
<updated>2018-01-30T14:08:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-30T14:08:27+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=7e86548e2cc8d308cb75439480f428137151b0de'/>
<id>7e86548e2cc8d308cb75439480f428137151b0de</id>
<content type='text'>
Time has come to switch PTI development over to a v4.15 base - we'll still
try to make sure that all PTI fixes backport cleanly to v4.14 and earlier.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
Time has come to switch PTI development over to a v4.15 base - we'll still
try to make sure that all PTI fixes backport cleanly to v4.14 and earlier.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2018-01-30T03:08:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-30T03:08:02+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=6304672b7f0a5c010002e63a075160856dc4f88d'/>
<id>6304672b7f0a5c010002e63a075160856dc4f88d</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull x86/pti updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "Another set of melted spectrum related changes:

   - Code simplifications and cleanups for RSB and retpolines.

   - Make the indirect calls in KVM speculation safe.

   - Whitelist CPUs which are known not to speculate from Meltdown and
     prepare for the new CPUID flag which tells the kernel that a CPU is
     not affected.

   - A less rigorous variant of the module retpoline check which merily
     warns when a non-retpoline protected module is loaded and reflects
     that fact in the sysfs file.

   - Prepare for Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier support.

   - Prepare for exposure of the Speculation Control MSRs to guests, so
     guest OSes which depend on those "features" can use them. Includes
     a blacklist of the broken microcodes. The actual exposure of the
     MSRs through KVM is still being worked on"

* 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/speculation: Simplify indirect_branch_prediction_barrier()
  x86/retpoline: Simplify vmexit_fill_RSB()
  x86/cpufeatures: Clean up Spectre v2 related CPUID flags
  x86/cpu/bugs: Make retpoline module warning conditional
  x86/bugs: Drop one "mitigation" from dmesg
  x86/nospec: Fix header guards names
  x86/alternative: Print unadorned pointers
  x86/speculation: Add basic IBPB (Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier) support
  x86/cpufeature: Blacklist SPEC_CTRL/PRED_CMD on early Spectre v2 microcodes
  x86/pti: Do not enable PTI on CPUs which are not vulnerable to Meltdown
  x86/msr: Add definitions for new speculation control MSRs
  x86/cpufeatures: Add AMD feature bits for Speculation Control
  x86/cpufeatures: Add Intel feature bits for Speculation Control
  x86/cpufeatures: Add CPUID_7_EDX CPUID leaf
  module/retpoline: Warn about missing retpoline in module
  KVM: VMX: Make indirect call speculation safe
  KVM: x86: Make indirect calls in emulator speculation safe
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull x86/pti updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "Another set of melted spectrum related changes:

   - Code simplifications and cleanups for RSB and retpolines.

   - Make the indirect calls in KVM speculation safe.

   - Whitelist CPUs which are known not to speculate from Meltdown and
     prepare for the new CPUID flag which tells the kernel that a CPU is
     not affected.

   - A less rigorous variant of the module retpoline check which merily
     warns when a non-retpoline protected module is loaded and reflects
     that fact in the sysfs file.

   - Prepare for Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier support.

   - Prepare for exposure of the Speculation Control MSRs to guests, so
     guest OSes which depend on those "features" can use them. Includes
     a blacklist of the broken microcodes. The actual exposure of the
     MSRs through KVM is still being worked on"

* 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/speculation: Simplify indirect_branch_prediction_barrier()
  x86/retpoline: Simplify vmexit_fill_RSB()
  x86/cpufeatures: Clean up Spectre v2 related CPUID flags
  x86/cpu/bugs: Make retpoline module warning conditional
  x86/bugs: Drop one "mitigation" from dmesg
  x86/nospec: Fix header guards names
  x86/alternative: Print unadorned pointers
  x86/speculation: Add basic IBPB (Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier) support
  x86/cpufeature: Blacklist SPEC_CTRL/PRED_CMD on early Spectre v2 microcodes
  x86/pti: Do not enable PTI on CPUs which are not vulnerable to Meltdown
  x86/msr: Add definitions for new speculation control MSRs
  x86/cpufeatures: Add AMD feature bits for Speculation Control
  x86/cpufeatures: Add Intel feature bits for Speculation Control
  x86/cpufeatures: Add CPUID_7_EDX CPUID leaf
  module/retpoline: Warn about missing retpoline in module
  KVM: VMX: Make indirect call speculation safe
  KVM: x86: Make indirect calls in emulator speculation safe
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