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<title>x86/microcode: Fix again accessing initrd after having been freed</title>
<updated>2018-01-24T12:00:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov</name>
<email>bp@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-23T10:41:33+00:00</published>
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Commit 24c2503255d3 ("x86/microcode: Do not access the initrd after it has
been freed") fixed attempts to access initrd from the microcode loader
after it has been freed. However, a similar KASAN warning was reported
(stack trace edited):

  smpboot: Booting Node 0 Processor 1 APIC 0x11
  ==================================================================
  BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in find_cpio_data+0x9b5/0xa50
  Read of size 1 at addr ffff880035ffd000 by task swapper/1/0

  CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 4.14.8-slack #7
  Hardware name: System manufacturer System Product Name/A88X-PLUS, BIOS 3003 03/10/2016
  Call Trace:
   dump_stack
   print_address_description
   kasan_report
   ? find_cpio_data
   __asan_report_load1_noabort
   find_cpio_data
   find_microcode_in_initrd
   __load_ucode_amd
   load_ucode_amd_ap
      load_ucode_ap

After some investigation, it turned out that a merge was done using the
wrong side to resolve, leading to picking up the previous state, before
the 24c2503255d3 fix. Therefore the Fixes tag below contains a merge
commit.

Revert the mismerge by catching the save_microcode_in_initrd_amd()
retval and thus letting the function exit with the last return statement
so that initrd_gone can be set to true.

Fixes: f26483eaedec ("Merge branch 'x86/urgent' into x86/microcode, to resolve conflicts")
Reported-by: &lt;higuita@gmx.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198295
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180123104133.918-2-bp@alien8.de

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Commit 24c2503255d3 ("x86/microcode: Do not access the initrd after it has
been freed") fixed attempts to access initrd from the microcode loader
after it has been freed. However, a similar KASAN warning was reported
(stack trace edited):

  smpboot: Booting Node 0 Processor 1 APIC 0x11
  ==================================================================
  BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in find_cpio_data+0x9b5/0xa50
  Read of size 1 at addr ffff880035ffd000 by task swapper/1/0

  CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 4.14.8-slack #7
  Hardware name: System manufacturer System Product Name/A88X-PLUS, BIOS 3003 03/10/2016
  Call Trace:
   dump_stack
   print_address_description
   kasan_report
   ? find_cpio_data
   __asan_report_load1_noabort
   find_cpio_data
   find_microcode_in_initrd
   __load_ucode_amd
   load_ucode_amd_ap
      load_ucode_ap

After some investigation, it turned out that a merge was done using the
wrong side to resolve, leading to picking up the previous state, before
the 24c2503255d3 fix. Therefore the Fixes tag below contains a merge
commit.

Revert the mismerge by catching the save_microcode_in_initrd_amd()
retval and thus letting the function exit with the last return statement
so that initrd_gone can be set to true.

Fixes: f26483eaedec ("Merge branch 'x86/urgent' into x86/microcode, to resolve conflicts")
Reported-by: &lt;higuita@gmx.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198295
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180123104133.918-2-bp@alien8.de

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/microcode/intel: Extend BDW late-loading further with LLC size check</title>
<updated>2018-01-24T12:00:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jia Zhang</name>
<email>zhang.jia@linux.alibaba.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-23T10:41:32+00:00</published>
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Commit b94b73733171 ("x86/microcode/intel: Extend BDW late-loading with a
revision check") reduced the impact of erratum BDF90 for Broadwell model
79.

The impact can be reduced further by checking the size of the last level
cache portion per core.

Tony: "The erratum says the problem only occurs on the large-cache SKUs.
So we only need to avoid the update if we are on a big cache SKU that is
also running old microcode."

For more details, see erratum BDF90 in document #334165 (Intel Xeon
Processor E7-8800/4800 v4 Product Family Specification Update) from
September 2017.

Fixes: b94b73733171 ("x86/microcode/intel: Extend BDW late-loading with a revision check")
Signed-off-by: Jia Zhang &lt;zhang.jia@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1516321542-31161-1-git-send-email-zhang.jia@linux.alibaba.com

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Commit b94b73733171 ("x86/microcode/intel: Extend BDW late-loading with a
revision check") reduced the impact of erratum BDF90 for Broadwell model
79.

The impact can be reduced further by checking the size of the last level
cache portion per core.

Tony: "The erratum says the problem only occurs on the large-cache SKUs.
So we only need to avoid the update if we are on a big cache SKU that is
also running old microcode."

For more details, see erratum BDF90 in document #334165 (Intel Xeon
Processor E7-8800/4800 v4 Product Family Specification Update) from
September 2017.

Fixes: b94b73733171 ("x86/microcode/intel: Extend BDW late-loading with a revision check")
Signed-off-by: Jia Zhang &lt;zhang.jia@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1516321542-31161-1-git-send-email-zhang.jia@linux.alibaba.com

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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>2018-01-21T18:48:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-21T18:48:35+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=5515114211c5096987b8e622c2ca57929cebabaa'/>
<id>5515114211c5096987b8e622c2ca57929cebabaa</id>
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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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</content>
</entry>
<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>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=6f41c34d69eb005e7848716bbcafc979b35037d5'/>
<id>6f41c34d69eb005e7848716bbcafc979b35037d5</id>
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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

</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2018-01-17T20:30:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-17T20:30:06+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=1d966eb4d6326a2521073174e9710713e9846e8b'/>
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Pull x86 fixes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Misc fixes:

   - A rather involved set of memory hardware encryption fixes to
     support the early loading of microcode files via the initrd. These
     are larger than what we normally take at such a late -rc stage, but
     there are two mitigating factors: 1) much of the changes are
     limited to the SME code itself 2) being able to early load
     microcode has increased importance in the post-Meltdown/Spectre
     era.

   - An IRQ vector allocator fix

   - An Intel RDT driver use-after-free fix

   - An APIC driver bug fix/revert to make certain older systems boot
     again

   - A pkeys ABI fix

   - TSC calibration fixes

   - A kdump fix"

* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/apic/vector: Fix off by one in error path
  x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Prevent use after free
  x86/mm: Encrypt the initrd earlier for BSP microcode update
  x86/mm: Prepare sme_encrypt_kernel() for PAGE aligned encryption
  x86/mm: Centralize PMD flags in sme_encrypt_kernel()
  x86/mm: Use a struct to reduce parameters for SME PGD mapping
  x86/mm: Clean up register saving in the __enc_copy() assembly code
  x86/idt: Mark IDT tables __initconst
  Revert "x86/apic: Remove init_bsp_APIC()"
  x86/mm/pkeys: Fix fill_sig_info_pkey
  x86/tsc: Print tsc_khz, when it differs from cpu_khz
  x86/tsc: Fix erroneous TSC rate on Skylake Xeon
  x86/tsc: Future-proof native_calibrate_tsc()
  kdump: Write the correct address of mem_section into vmcoreinfo
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<pre>
Pull x86 fixes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Misc fixes:

   - A rather involved set of memory hardware encryption fixes to
     support the early loading of microcode files via the initrd. These
     are larger than what we normally take at such a late -rc stage, but
     there are two mitigating factors: 1) much of the changes are
     limited to the SME code itself 2) being able to early load
     microcode has increased importance in the post-Meltdown/Spectre
     era.

   - An IRQ vector allocator fix

   - An Intel RDT driver use-after-free fix

   - An APIC driver bug fix/revert to make certain older systems boot
     again

   - A pkeys ABI fix

   - TSC calibration fixes

   - A kdump fix"

* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/apic/vector: Fix off by one in error path
  x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Prevent use after free
  x86/mm: Encrypt the initrd earlier for BSP microcode update
  x86/mm: Prepare sme_encrypt_kernel() for PAGE aligned encryption
  x86/mm: Centralize PMD flags in sme_encrypt_kernel()
  x86/mm: Use a struct to reduce parameters for SME PGD mapping
  x86/mm: Clean up register saving in the __enc_copy() assembly code
  x86/idt: Mark IDT tables __initconst
  Revert "x86/apic: Remove init_bsp_APIC()"
  x86/mm/pkeys: Fix fill_sig_info_pkey
  x86/tsc: Print tsc_khz, when it differs from cpu_khz
  x86/tsc: Fix erroneous TSC rate on Skylake Xeon
  x86/tsc: Future-proof native_calibrate_tsc()
  kdump: Write the correct address of mem_section into vmcoreinfo
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2018-01-17T19:54:56+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'/>
<id>88dc7fca18001fd883e5ace775afa316b68c8f2c</id>
<content type='text'>
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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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Prevent use after free</title>
<updated>2018-01-17T10:56:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-16T18:59:59+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=d47924417319e3b6a728c0b690f183e75bc2a702'/>
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intel_rdt_iffline_cpu() -&gt; domain_remove_cpu() frees memory first and then
proceeds accessing it.

 BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in find_first_bit+0x1f/0x80
 Read of size 8 at addr ffff883ff7c1e780 by task cpuhp/31/195
 find_first_bit+0x1f/0x80
 has_busy_rmid+0x47/0x70
 intel_rdt_offline_cpu+0x4b4/0x510

 Freed by task 195:
 kfree+0x94/0x1a0
 intel_rdt_offline_cpu+0x17d/0x510

Do the teardown first and then free memory.

Fixes: 24247aeeabe9 ("x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Improve limbo list processing")
Reported-by: Joseph Salisbury &lt;joseph.salisbury@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ravi Shankar &lt;ravi.v.shankar@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zilstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Cc: Vikas Shivappa &lt;vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: "Roderick W. Smith" &lt;rod.smith@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: 1733662@bugs.launchpad.net
Cc: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.20.1801161957510.2366@nanos

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intel_rdt_iffline_cpu() -&gt; domain_remove_cpu() frees memory first and then
proceeds accessing it.

 BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in find_first_bit+0x1f/0x80
 Read of size 8 at addr ffff883ff7c1e780 by task cpuhp/31/195
 find_first_bit+0x1f/0x80
 has_busy_rmid+0x47/0x70
 intel_rdt_offline_cpu+0x4b4/0x510

 Freed by task 195:
 kfree+0x94/0x1a0
 intel_rdt_offline_cpu+0x17d/0x510

Do the teardown first and then free memory.

Fixes: 24247aeeabe9 ("x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Improve limbo list processing")
Reported-by: Joseph Salisbury &lt;joseph.salisbury@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ravi Shankar &lt;ravi.v.shankar@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zilstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Cc: Vikas Shivappa &lt;vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: "Roderick W. Smith" &lt;rod.smith@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: 1733662@bugs.launchpad.net
Cc: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.20.1801161957510.2366@nanos

</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/cpufeature: Move processor tracing out of scattered features</title>
<updated>2018-01-17T06:38:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Bonzini</name>
<email>pbonzini@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-16T15:42:25+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=4fdec2034b7540dda461c6ba33325dfcff345c64'/>
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Processor tracing is already enumerated in word 9 (CPUID[7,0].EBX),
so do not duplicate it in the scattered features word.

Besides being more tidy, this will be useful for KVM when it presents
processor tracing to the guests.  KVM selects host features that are
supported by both the host kernel (depending on command line options,
CPU errata, or whatever) and KVM.  Whenever a full feature word exists,
KVM's code is written in the expectation that the CPUID bit number
matches the X86_FEATURE_* bit number, but this is not the case for
X86_FEATURE_INTEL_PT.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Luwei Kang &lt;luwei.kang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Radim Krčmář &lt;rkrcmar@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1516117345-34561-1-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Processor tracing is already enumerated in word 9 (CPUID[7,0].EBX),
so do not duplicate it in the scattered features word.

Besides being more tidy, this will be useful for KVM when it presents
processor tracing to the guests.  KVM selects host features that are
supported by both the host kernel (depending on command line options,
CPU errata, or whatever) and KVM.  Whenever a full feature word exists,
KVM's code is written in the expectation that the CPUID bit number
matches the X86_FEATURE_* bit number, but this is not the case for
X86_FEATURE_INTEL_PT.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Luwei Kang &lt;luwei.kang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Radim Krčmář &lt;rkrcmar@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1516117345-34561-1-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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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>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=c995efd5a740d9cbafbf58bde4973e8b50b4d761'/>
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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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</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>2018-01-14T17:51:25+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'/>
<id>40548c6b6c134275c750eb372dc2cf8ee1bbc3d4</id>
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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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<pre>
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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