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<title>linux.git/arch/x86/kernel, branch v5.11</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<title>Merge tag 'x86_urgent_for_v5.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2021-02-14T19:10:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-02-14T19:10:55+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 fixes from Borislav Petkov:
 "I kinda knew while typing 'I hope this is the last batch of x86/urgent
  updates' last week, Murphy was reading too and uttered 'Hold my
  beer!'.

  So here's more fixes... Thanks Murphy.

  Anyway, three more x86/urgent fixes for 5.11 final. We should be
  finally ready (famous last words). :-)

   - An SGX use after free fix

   - A fix for the fix to disable CET instrumentation generation for
     kernel code. We forgot 32-bit, which we seem to do very often
     nowadays

   - A Xen PV fix to irqdomain init ordering"

* tag 'x86_urgent_for_v5.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/pci: Create PCI/MSI irqdomain after x86_init.pci.arch_init()
  x86/build: Disable CET instrumentation in the kernel for 32-bit too
  x86/sgx: Maintain encl-&gt;refcount for each encl-&gt;mm_list entry
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Pull x86 fixes from Borislav Petkov:
 "I kinda knew while typing 'I hope this is the last batch of x86/urgent
  updates' last week, Murphy was reading too and uttered 'Hold my
  beer!'.

  So here's more fixes... Thanks Murphy.

  Anyway, three more x86/urgent fixes for 5.11 final. We should be
  finally ready (famous last words). :-)

   - An SGX use after free fix

   - A fix for the fix to disable CET instrumentation generation for
     kernel code. We forgot 32-bit, which we seem to do very often
     nowadays

   - A Xen PV fix to irqdomain init ordering"

* tag 'x86_urgent_for_v5.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/pci: Create PCI/MSI irqdomain after x86_init.pci.arch_init()
  x86/build: Disable CET instrumentation in the kernel for 32-bit too
  x86/sgx: Maintain encl-&gt;refcount for each encl-&gt;mm_list entry
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<title>x86/sgx: Maintain encl-&gt;refcount for each encl-&gt;mm_list entry</title>
<updated>2021-02-08T18:11:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jarkko Sakkinen</name>
<email>jarkko@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-02-07T22:14:01+00:00</published>
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This has been shown in tests:

[  +0.000008] WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 7620 at kernel/rcu/srcutree.c:374 cleanup_srcu_struct+0xed/0x100

This is essentially a use-after free, although SRCU notices it as
an SRCU cleanup in an invalid context.

== Background ==

SGX has a data structure (struct sgx_encl_mm) which keeps per-mm SGX
metadata.  This is separate from struct sgx_encl because, in theory,
an enclave can be mapped from more than one mm.  sgx_encl_mm includes
a pointer back to the sgx_encl.

This means that sgx_encl must have a longer lifetime than all of the
sgx_encl_mm's that point to it.  That's usually the case: sgx_encl_mm
is freed only after the mmu_notifier is unregistered in sgx_release().

However, there's a race.  If the process is exiting,
sgx_mmu_notifier_release() can be called in parallel with sgx_release()
instead of being called *by* it.  The mmu_notifier path keeps encl_mm
alive past when sgx_encl can be freed.  This inverts the lifetime rules
and means that sgx_mmu_notifier_release() can access a freed sgx_encl.

== Fix ==

Increase encl-&gt;refcount when encl_mm-&gt;encl is established. Release
this reference when encl_mm is freed. This ensures that encl outlives
encl_mm.

 [ bp: Massage commit message. ]

Fixes: 1728ab54b4be ("x86/sgx: Add a page reclaimer")
Reported-by: Haitao Huang &lt;haitao.huang@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen &lt;jarkko@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210207221401.29933-1-jarkko@kernel.org
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This has been shown in tests:

[  +0.000008] WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 7620 at kernel/rcu/srcutree.c:374 cleanup_srcu_struct+0xed/0x100

This is essentially a use-after free, although SRCU notices it as
an SRCU cleanup in an invalid context.

== Background ==

SGX has a data structure (struct sgx_encl_mm) which keeps per-mm SGX
metadata.  This is separate from struct sgx_encl because, in theory,
an enclave can be mapped from more than one mm.  sgx_encl_mm includes
a pointer back to the sgx_encl.

This means that sgx_encl must have a longer lifetime than all of the
sgx_encl_mm's that point to it.  That's usually the case: sgx_encl_mm
is freed only after the mmu_notifier is unregistered in sgx_release().

However, there's a race.  If the process is exiting,
sgx_mmu_notifier_release() can be called in parallel with sgx_release()
instead of being called *by* it.  The mmu_notifier path keeps encl_mm
alive past when sgx_encl can be freed.  This inverts the lifetime rules
and means that sgx_mmu_notifier_release() can access a freed sgx_encl.

== Fix ==

Increase encl-&gt;refcount when encl_mm-&gt;encl is established. Release
this reference when encl_mm is freed. This ensures that encl outlives
encl_mm.

 [ bp: Massage commit message. ]

Fixes: 1728ab54b4be ("x86/sgx: Add a page reclaimer")
Reported-by: Haitao Huang &lt;haitao.huang@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen &lt;jarkko@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210207221401.29933-1-jarkko@kernel.org
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<entry>
<title>cpufreq: ACPI: Update arch scale-invariance max perf ratio if CPPC is not there</title>
<updated>2021-02-08T12:45:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-02-04T17:34:32+00:00</published>
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If the maximum performance level taken for computing the
arch_max_freq_ratio value used in the x86 scale-invariance code is
higher than the one corresponding to the cpuinfo.max_freq value
coming from the acpi_cpufreq driver, the scale-invariant utilization
falls below 100% even if the CPU runs at cpuinfo.max_freq or slightly
faster, which causes the schedutil governor to select a frequency
below cpuinfo.max_freq.  That frequency corresponds to a frequency
table entry below the maximum performance level necessary to get to
the "boost" range of CPU frequencies which prevents "boost"
frequencies from being used in some workloads.

While this issue is related to scale-invariance, it may be amplified
by commit db865272d9c4 ("cpufreq: Avoid configuring old governors as
default with intel_pstate") from the 5.10 development cycle which
made it extremely easy to default to schedutil even if the preferred
driver is acpi_cpufreq as long as intel_pstate is built too, because
the mere presence of the latter effectively removes the ondemand
governor from the defaults.  Distro kernels are likely to include
both intel_pstate and acpi_cpufreq on x86, so their users who cannot
use intel_pstate or choose to use acpi_cpufreq may easily be
affectecd by this issue.

If CPPC is available, it can be used to address this issue by
extending the frequency tables created by acpi_cpufreq to cover the
entire available frequency range (including "boost" frequencies) for
each CPU, but if CPPC is not there, acpi_cpufreq has no idea what
the maximum "boost" frequency is and the frequency tables created by
it cannot be extended in a meaningful way, so in that case make it
ask the arch scale-invariance code to to use the "nominal" performance
level for CPU utilization scaling in order to avoid the issue at hand.

Fixes: db865272d9c4 ("cpufreq: Avoid configuring old governors as default with intel_pstate")
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Giovanni Gherdovich &lt;ggherdovich@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
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If the maximum performance level taken for computing the
arch_max_freq_ratio value used in the x86 scale-invariance code is
higher than the one corresponding to the cpuinfo.max_freq value
coming from the acpi_cpufreq driver, the scale-invariant utilization
falls below 100% even if the CPU runs at cpuinfo.max_freq or slightly
faster, which causes the schedutil governor to select a frequency
below cpuinfo.max_freq.  That frequency corresponds to a frequency
table entry below the maximum performance level necessary to get to
the "boost" range of CPU frequencies which prevents "boost"
frequencies from being used in some workloads.

While this issue is related to scale-invariance, it may be amplified
by commit db865272d9c4 ("cpufreq: Avoid configuring old governors as
default with intel_pstate") from the 5.10 development cycle which
made it extremely easy to default to schedutil even if the preferred
driver is acpi_cpufreq as long as intel_pstate is built too, because
the mere presence of the latter effectively removes the ondemand
governor from the defaults.  Distro kernels are likely to include
both intel_pstate and acpi_cpufreq on x86, so their users who cannot
use intel_pstate or choose to use acpi_cpufreq may easily be
affectecd by this issue.

If CPPC is available, it can be used to address this issue by
extending the frequency tables created by acpi_cpufreq to cover the
entire available frequency range (including "boost" frequencies) for
each CPU, but if CPPC is not there, acpi_cpufreq has no idea what
the maximum "boost" frequency is and the frequency tables created by
it cannot be extended in a meaningful way, so in that case make it
ask the arch scale-invariance code to to use the "nominal" performance
level for CPU utilization scaling in order to avoid the issue at hand.

Fixes: db865272d9c4 ("cpufreq: Avoid configuring old governors as default with intel_pstate")
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Giovanni Gherdovich &lt;ggherdovich@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'core_urgent_for_v5.11_rc7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2021-02-07T18:16:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-02-07T18:16:24+00:00</published>
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Pull syscall entry fixes from Borislav Petkov:

 - For syscall user dispatch, separate prctl operation from syscall
   redirection range specification before the API has been made official
   in 5.11.

 - Ensure tasks using the generic syscall code do trap after returning
   from a syscall when single-stepping is requested.

* tag 'core_urgent_for_v5.11_rc7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  entry: Use different define for selector variable in SUD
  entry: Ensure trap after single-step on system call return
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Pull syscall entry fixes from Borislav Petkov:

 - For syscall user dispatch, separate prctl operation from syscall
   redirection range specification before the API has been made official
   in 5.11.

 - Ensure tasks using the generic syscall code do trap after returning
   from a syscall when single-stepping is requested.

* tag 'core_urgent_for_v5.11_rc7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  entry: Use different define for selector variable in SUD
  entry: Ensure trap after single-step on system call return
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'x86_urgent_for_v5.11_rc7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2021-02-07T17:40:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-02-07T17:40:47+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=e24f9c5f6e3127a0679d5ba5575a181b80f219c9'/>
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Pull x86 fixes from Borislav Petkov:
 "I hope this is the last batch of x86/urgent updates for this round:

   - Remove superfluous EFI PGD range checks which lead to those
     assertions failing with certain kernel configs and LLVM.

   - Disable setting breakpoints on facilities involved in #DB exception
     handling to avoid infinite loops.

   - Add extra serialization to non-serializing MSRs (IA32_TSC_DEADLINE
     and x2 APIC MSRs) to adhere to SDM's recommendation and avoid any
     theoretical issues.

   - Re-add the EPB MSR reading on turbostat so that it works on older
     kernels which don't have the corresponding EPB sysfs file.

   - Add Alder Lake to the list of CPUs which support split lock.

   - Fix %dr6 register handling in order to be able to set watchpoints
     with gdb again.

   - Disable CET instrumentation in the kernel so that gcc doesn't add
     ENDBR64 to kernel code and thus confuse tracing"

* tag 'x86_urgent_for_v5.11_rc7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/efi: Remove EFI PGD build time checks
  x86/debug: Prevent data breakpoints on cpu_dr7
  x86/debug: Prevent data breakpoints on __per_cpu_offset
  x86/apic: Add extra serialization for non-serializing MSRs
  tools/power/turbostat: Fallback to an MSR read for EPB
  x86/split_lock: Enable the split lock feature on another Alder Lake CPU
  x86/debug: Fix DR6 handling
  x86/build: Disable CET instrumentation in the kernel
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Pull x86 fixes from Borislav Petkov:
 "I hope this is the last batch of x86/urgent updates for this round:

   - Remove superfluous EFI PGD range checks which lead to those
     assertions failing with certain kernel configs and LLVM.

   - Disable setting breakpoints on facilities involved in #DB exception
     handling to avoid infinite loops.

   - Add extra serialization to non-serializing MSRs (IA32_TSC_DEADLINE
     and x2 APIC MSRs) to adhere to SDM's recommendation and avoid any
     theoretical issues.

   - Re-add the EPB MSR reading on turbostat so that it works on older
     kernels which don't have the corresponding EPB sysfs file.

   - Add Alder Lake to the list of CPUs which support split lock.

   - Fix %dr6 register handling in order to be able to set watchpoints
     with gdb again.

   - Disable CET instrumentation in the kernel so that gcc doesn't add
     ENDBR64 to kernel code and thus confuse tracing"

* tag 'x86_urgent_for_v5.11_rc7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/efi: Remove EFI PGD build time checks
  x86/debug: Prevent data breakpoints on cpu_dr7
  x86/debug: Prevent data breakpoints on __per_cpu_offset
  x86/apic: Add extra serialization for non-serializing MSRs
  tools/power/turbostat: Fallback to an MSR read for EPB
  x86/split_lock: Enable the split lock feature on another Alder Lake CPU
  x86/debug: Fix DR6 handling
  x86/build: Disable CET instrumentation in the kernel
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<entry>
<title>entry: Ensure trap after single-step on system call return</title>
<updated>2021-02-05T23:21:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gabriel Krisman Bertazi</name>
<email>krisman@collabora.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-02-03T18:00:48+00:00</published>
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Commit 299155244770 ("entry: Drop usage of TIF flags in the generic syscall
code") introduced a bug on architectures using the generic syscall entry
code, in which processes stopped by PTRACE_SYSCALL do not trap on syscall
return after receiving a TIF_SINGLESTEP.

The reason is that the meaning of TIF_SINGLESTEP flag is overloaded to
cause the trap after a system call is executed, but since the above commit,
the syscall call handler only checks for the SYSCALL_WORK flags on the exit
work.

Split the meaning of TIF_SINGLESTEP such that it only means single-step
mode, and create a new type of SYSCALL_WORK to request a trap immediately
after a syscall in single-step mode.  In the current implementation, the
SYSCALL_WORK flag shadows the TIF_SINGLESTEP flag for simplicity.

Update x86 to flip this bit when a tracer enables single stepping.

Fixes: 299155244770 ("entry: Drop usage of TIF flags in the generic syscall code")
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi &lt;krisman@collabora.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Tested-by: Kyle Huey &lt;me@kylehuey.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/87h7mtc9pr.fsf_-_@collabora.com

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Commit 299155244770 ("entry: Drop usage of TIF flags in the generic syscall
code") introduced a bug on architectures using the generic syscall entry
code, in which processes stopped by PTRACE_SYSCALL do not trap on syscall
return after receiving a TIF_SINGLESTEP.

The reason is that the meaning of TIF_SINGLESTEP flag is overloaded to
cause the trap after a system call is executed, but since the above commit,
the syscall call handler only checks for the SYSCALL_WORK flags on the exit
work.

Split the meaning of TIF_SINGLESTEP such that it only means single-step
mode, and create a new type of SYSCALL_WORK to request a trap immediately
after a syscall in single-step mode.  In the current implementation, the
SYSCALL_WORK flag shadows the TIF_SINGLESTEP flag for simplicity.

Update x86 to flip this bit when a tracer enables single stepping.

Fixes: 299155244770 ("entry: Drop usage of TIF flags in the generic syscall code")
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi &lt;krisman@collabora.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Tested-by: Kyle Huey &lt;me@kylehuey.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/87h7mtc9pr.fsf_-_@collabora.com

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/debug: Prevent data breakpoints on cpu_dr7</title>
<updated>2021-02-05T19:13:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lai Jiangshan</name>
<email>laijs@linux.alibaba.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-02-04T15:27:07+00:00</published>
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local_db_save() is called at the start of exc_debug_kernel(), reads DR7 and
disables breakpoints to prevent recursion.

When running in a guest (X86_FEATURE_HYPERVISOR), local_db_save() reads the
per-cpu variable cpu_dr7 to check whether a breakpoint is active or not
before it accesses DR7.

A data breakpoint on cpu_dr7 therefore results in infinite #DB recursion.

Disallow data breakpoints on cpu_dr7 to prevent that.

Fixes: 84b6a3491567a("x86/entry: Optimize local_db_save() for virt")
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan &lt;laijs@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210204152708.21308-2-jiangshanlai@gmail.com

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local_db_save() is called at the start of exc_debug_kernel(), reads DR7 and
disables breakpoints to prevent recursion.

When running in a guest (X86_FEATURE_HYPERVISOR), local_db_save() reads the
per-cpu variable cpu_dr7 to check whether a breakpoint is active or not
before it accesses DR7.

A data breakpoint on cpu_dr7 therefore results in infinite #DB recursion.

Disallow data breakpoints on cpu_dr7 to prevent that.

Fixes: 84b6a3491567a("x86/entry: Optimize local_db_save() for virt")
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan &lt;laijs@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210204152708.21308-2-jiangshanlai@gmail.com

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/debug: Prevent data breakpoints on __per_cpu_offset</title>
<updated>2021-02-05T19:13:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lai Jiangshan</name>
<email>laijs@linux.alibaba.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-02-04T15:27:06+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=c4bed4b96918ff1d062ee81fdae4d207da4fa9b0'/>
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When FSGSBASE is enabled, paranoid_entry() fetches the per-CPU GSBASE value
via __per_cpu_offset or pcpu_unit_offsets.

When a data breakpoint is set on __per_cpu_offset[cpu] (read-write
operation), the specific CPU will be stuck in an infinite #DB loop.

RCU will try to send an NMI to the specific CPU, but it is not working
either since NMI also relies on paranoid_entry(). Which means it's
undebuggable.

Fixes: eaad981291ee3("x86/entry/64: Introduce the FIND_PERCPU_BASE macro")
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan &lt;laijs@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210204152708.21308-1-jiangshanlai@gmail.com

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When FSGSBASE is enabled, paranoid_entry() fetches the per-CPU GSBASE value
via __per_cpu_offset or pcpu_unit_offsets.

When a data breakpoint is set on __per_cpu_offset[cpu] (read-write
operation), the specific CPU will be stuck in an infinite #DB loop.

RCU will try to send an NMI to the specific CPU, but it is not working
either since NMI also relies on paranoid_entry(). Which means it's
undebuggable.

Fixes: eaad981291ee3("x86/entry/64: Introduce the FIND_PERCPU_BASE macro")
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan &lt;laijs@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210204152708.21308-1-jiangshanlai@gmail.com

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<entry>
<title>x86/apic: Add extra serialization for non-serializing MSRs</title>
<updated>2021-02-04T18:36:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dave Hansen</name>
<email>dave.hansen@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-03-05T17:47:08+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=25a068b8e9a4eb193d755d58efcb3c98928636e0'/>
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Jan Kiszka reported that the x2apic_wrmsr_fence() function uses a plain
MFENCE while the Intel SDM (10.12.3 MSR Access in x2APIC Mode) calls for
MFENCE; LFENCE.

Short summary: we have special MSRs that have weaker ordering than all
the rest. Add fencing consistent with current SDM recommendations.

This is not known to cause any issues in practice, only in theory.

Longer story below:

The reason the kernel uses a different semantic is that the SDM changed
(roughly in late 2017). The SDM changed because folks at Intel were
auditing all of the recommended fences in the SDM and realized that the
x2apic fences were insufficient.

Why was the pain MFENCE judged insufficient?

WRMSR itself is normally a serializing instruction. No fences are needed
because the instruction itself serializes everything.

But, there are explicit exceptions for this serializing behavior written
into the WRMSR instruction documentation for two classes of MSRs:
IA32_TSC_DEADLINE and the X2APIC MSRs.

Back to x2apic: WRMSR is *not* serializing in this specific case.
But why is MFENCE insufficient? MFENCE makes writes visible, but
only affects load/store instructions. WRMSR is unfortunately not a
load/store instruction and is unaffected by MFENCE. This means that a
non-serializing WRMSR could be reordered by the CPU to execute before
the writes made visible by the MFENCE have even occurred in the first
place.

This means that an x2apic IPI could theoretically be triggered before
there is any (visible) data to process.

Does this affect anything in practice? I honestly don't know. It seems
quite possible that by the time an interrupt gets to consume the (not
yet) MFENCE'd data, it has become visible, mostly by accident.

To be safe, add the SDM-recommended fences for all x2apic WRMSRs.

This also leaves open the question of the _other_ weakly-ordered WRMSR:
MSR_IA32_TSC_DEADLINE. While it has the same ordering architecture as
the x2APIC MSRs, it seems substantially less likely to be a problem in
practice. While writes to the in-memory Local Vector Table (LVT) might
theoretically be reordered with respect to a weakly-ordered WRMSR like
TSC_DEADLINE, the SDM has this to say:

  In x2APIC mode, the WRMSR instruction is used to write to the LVT
  entry. The processor ensures the ordering of this write and any
  subsequent WRMSR to the deadline; no fencing is required.

But, that might still leave xAPIC exposed. The safest thing to do for
now is to add the extra, recommended LFENCE.

 [ bp: Massage commit message, fix typos, drop accidentally added
   newline to tools/arch/x86/include/asm/barrier.h. ]

Reported-by: Jan Kiszka &lt;jan.kiszka@siemens.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200305174708.F77040DD@viggo.jf.intel.com
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Jan Kiszka reported that the x2apic_wrmsr_fence() function uses a plain
MFENCE while the Intel SDM (10.12.3 MSR Access in x2APIC Mode) calls for
MFENCE; LFENCE.

Short summary: we have special MSRs that have weaker ordering than all
the rest. Add fencing consistent with current SDM recommendations.

This is not known to cause any issues in practice, only in theory.

Longer story below:

The reason the kernel uses a different semantic is that the SDM changed
(roughly in late 2017). The SDM changed because folks at Intel were
auditing all of the recommended fences in the SDM and realized that the
x2apic fences were insufficient.

Why was the pain MFENCE judged insufficient?

WRMSR itself is normally a serializing instruction. No fences are needed
because the instruction itself serializes everything.

But, there are explicit exceptions for this serializing behavior written
into the WRMSR instruction documentation for two classes of MSRs:
IA32_TSC_DEADLINE and the X2APIC MSRs.

Back to x2apic: WRMSR is *not* serializing in this specific case.
But why is MFENCE insufficient? MFENCE makes writes visible, but
only affects load/store instructions. WRMSR is unfortunately not a
load/store instruction and is unaffected by MFENCE. This means that a
non-serializing WRMSR could be reordered by the CPU to execute before
the writes made visible by the MFENCE have even occurred in the first
place.

This means that an x2apic IPI could theoretically be triggered before
there is any (visible) data to process.

Does this affect anything in practice? I honestly don't know. It seems
quite possible that by the time an interrupt gets to consume the (not
yet) MFENCE'd data, it has become visible, mostly by accident.

To be safe, add the SDM-recommended fences for all x2apic WRMSRs.

This also leaves open the question of the _other_ weakly-ordered WRMSR:
MSR_IA32_TSC_DEADLINE. While it has the same ordering architecture as
the x2APIC MSRs, it seems substantially less likely to be a problem in
practice. While writes to the in-memory Local Vector Table (LVT) might
theoretically be reordered with respect to a weakly-ordered WRMSR like
TSC_DEADLINE, the SDM has this to say:

  In x2APIC mode, the WRMSR instruction is used to write to the LVT
  entry. The processor ensures the ordering of this write and any
  subsequent WRMSR to the deadline; no fencing is required.

But, that might still leave xAPIC exposed. The safest thing to do for
now is to add the extra, recommended LFENCE.

 [ bp: Massage commit message, fix typos, drop accidentally added
   newline to tools/arch/x86/include/asm/barrier.h. ]

Reported-by: Jan Kiszka &lt;jan.kiszka@siemens.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200305174708.F77040DD@viggo.jf.intel.com
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Revert "x86/setup: don't remove E820_TYPE_RAM for pfn 0"</title>
<updated>2021-02-04T18:26:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Rapoport</name>
<email>rppt@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-02-04T18:12:37+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=5c279c4cf206e03995e04fd3404fa95ffd243a97'/>
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This reverts commit bde9cfa3afe4324ec251e4af80ebf9b7afaf7afe.

Changing the first memory page type from E820_TYPE_RESERVED to
E820_TYPE_RAM makes it a part of "System RAM" resource rather than a
reserved resource and this in turn causes devmem_is_allowed() to treat
is as area that can be accessed but it is filled with zeroes instead of
the actual data as previously.

The change in /dev/mem output causes lilo to fail as was reported at
slakware users forum, and probably other legacy applications will
experience similar problems.

Link: https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/slackware-current-lilo-vesa-warnings-after-recent-updates-4175689617/#post6214439
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This reverts commit bde9cfa3afe4324ec251e4af80ebf9b7afaf7afe.

Changing the first memory page type from E820_TYPE_RESERVED to
E820_TYPE_RAM makes it a part of "System RAM" resource rather than a
reserved resource and this in turn causes devmem_is_allowed() to treat
is as area that can be accessed but it is filled with zeroes instead of
the actual data as previously.

The change in /dev/mem output causes lilo to fail as was reported at
slakware users forum, and probably other legacy applications will
experience similar problems.

Link: https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/slackware-current-lilo-vesa-warnings-after-recent-updates-4175689617/#post6214439
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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