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<title>Merge branch 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2018-02-26T17:34:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-26T17:34:21+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
 "Yet another pile of melted spectrum related changes:

   - sanitize the array_index_nospec protection mechanism: Remove the
     overengineered array_index_nospec_mask_check() magic and allow
     const-qualified types as index to avoid temporary storage in a
     non-const local variable.

   - make the microcode loader more robust by properly propagating error
     codes. Provide information about new feature bits after micro code
     was updated so administrators can act upon.

   - optimizations of the entry ASM code which reduce code footprint and
     make the code simpler and faster.

   - fix the {pmd,pud}_{set,clear}_flags() implementations to work
     properly on paravirt kernels by removing the address translation
     operations.

   - revert the harmful vmexit_fill_RSB() optimization

   - use IBRS around firmware calls

   - teach objtool about retpolines and add annotations for indirect
     jumps and calls.

   - explicitly disable jumplabel patching in __init code and handle
     patching failures properly instead of silently ignoring them.

   - remove indirect paravirt calls for writing the speculation control
     MSR as these calls are obviously proving the same attack vector
     which is tried to be mitigated.

   - a few small fixes which address build issues with recent compiler
     and assembler versions"

* 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (38 commits)
  KVM/VMX: Optimize vmx_vcpu_run() and svm_vcpu_run() by marking the RDMSR path as unlikely()
  KVM/x86: Remove indirect MSR op calls from SPEC_CTRL
  objtool, retpolines: Integrate objtool with retpoline support more closely
  x86/entry/64: Simplify ENCODE_FRAME_POINTER
  extable: Make init_kernel_text() global
  jump_label: Warn on failed jump_label patching attempt
  jump_label: Explicitly disable jump labels in __init code
  x86/entry/64: Open-code switch_to_thread_stack()
  x86/entry/64: Move ASM_CLAC to interrupt_entry()
  x86/entry/64: Remove 'interrupt' macro
  x86/entry/64: Move the switch_to_thread_stack() call to interrupt_entry()
  x86/entry/64: Move ENTER_IRQ_STACK from interrupt macro to interrupt_entry
  x86/entry/64: Move PUSH_AND_CLEAR_REGS from interrupt macro to helper function
  x86/speculation: Move firmware_restrict_branch_speculation_*() from C to CPP
  objtool: Add module specific retpoline rules
  objtool: Add retpoline validation
  objtool: Use existing global variables for options
  x86/mm/sme, objtool: Annotate indirect call in sme_encrypt_execute()
  x86/boot, objtool: Annotate indirect jump in secondary_startup_64()
  x86/paravirt, objtool: Annotate indirect calls
  ...
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Pull x86 fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
 "Yet another pile of melted spectrum related changes:

   - sanitize the array_index_nospec protection mechanism: Remove the
     overengineered array_index_nospec_mask_check() magic and allow
     const-qualified types as index to avoid temporary storage in a
     non-const local variable.

   - make the microcode loader more robust by properly propagating error
     codes. Provide information about new feature bits after micro code
     was updated so administrators can act upon.

   - optimizations of the entry ASM code which reduce code footprint and
     make the code simpler and faster.

   - fix the {pmd,pud}_{set,clear}_flags() implementations to work
     properly on paravirt kernels by removing the address translation
     operations.

   - revert the harmful vmexit_fill_RSB() optimization

   - use IBRS around firmware calls

   - teach objtool about retpolines and add annotations for indirect
     jumps and calls.

   - explicitly disable jumplabel patching in __init code and handle
     patching failures properly instead of silently ignoring them.

   - remove indirect paravirt calls for writing the speculation control
     MSR as these calls are obviously proving the same attack vector
     which is tried to be mitigated.

   - a few small fixes which address build issues with recent compiler
     and assembler versions"

* 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (38 commits)
  KVM/VMX: Optimize vmx_vcpu_run() and svm_vcpu_run() by marking the RDMSR path as unlikely()
  KVM/x86: Remove indirect MSR op calls from SPEC_CTRL
  objtool, retpolines: Integrate objtool with retpoline support more closely
  x86/entry/64: Simplify ENCODE_FRAME_POINTER
  extable: Make init_kernel_text() global
  jump_label: Warn on failed jump_label patching attempt
  jump_label: Explicitly disable jump labels in __init code
  x86/entry/64: Open-code switch_to_thread_stack()
  x86/entry/64: Move ASM_CLAC to interrupt_entry()
  x86/entry/64: Remove 'interrupt' macro
  x86/entry/64: Move the switch_to_thread_stack() call to interrupt_entry()
  x86/entry/64: Move ENTER_IRQ_STACK from interrupt macro to interrupt_entry
  x86/entry/64: Move PUSH_AND_CLEAR_REGS from interrupt macro to helper function
  x86/speculation: Move firmware_restrict_branch_speculation_*() from C to CPP
  objtool: Add module specific retpoline rules
  objtool: Add retpoline validation
  objtool: Use existing global variables for options
  x86/mm/sme, objtool: Annotate indirect call in sme_encrypt_execute()
  x86/boot, objtool: Annotate indirect jump in secondary_startup_64()
  x86/paravirt, objtool: Annotate indirect calls
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Revert "x86/retpoline: Simplify vmexit_fill_RSB()"</title>
<updated>2018-02-20T08:38:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Woodhouse</name>
<email>dwmw@amazon.co.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-19T10:50:56+00:00</published>
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This reverts commit 1dde7415e99933bb7293d6b2843752cbdb43ec11. By putting
the RSB filling out of line and calling it, we waste one RSB slot for
returning from the function itself, which means one fewer actual function
call we can make if we're doing the Skylake abomination of call-depth
counting.

It also changed the number of RSB stuffings we do on vmexit from 32,
which was correct, to 16. Let's just stop with the bikeshedding; it
didn't actually *fix* anything anyway.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw@amazon.co.uk&gt;
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: arjan.van.de.ven@intel.com
Cc: bp@alien8.de
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
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1519037457-7643-4-git-send-email-dwmw@amazon.co.uk
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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This reverts commit 1dde7415e99933bb7293d6b2843752cbdb43ec11. By putting
the RSB filling out of line and calling it, we waste one RSB slot for
returning from the function itself, which means one fewer actual function
call we can make if we're doing the Skylake abomination of call-depth
counting.

It also changed the number of RSB stuffings we do on vmexit from 32,
which was correct, to 16. Let's just stop with the bikeshedding; it
didn't actually *fix* anything anyway.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw@amazon.co.uk&gt;
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: arjan.van.de.ven@intel.com
Cc: bp@alien8.de
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
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1519037457-7643-4-git-send-email-dwmw@amazon.co.uk
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2018-02-15T01:31:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-15T01:31:51+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 fixes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Misc fixes all across the map:

   - /proc/kcore vsyscall related fixes
   - LTO fix
   - build warning fix
   - CPU hotplug fix
   - Kconfig NR_CPUS cleanups
   - cpu_has() cleanups/robustification
   - .gitignore fix
   - memory-failure unmapping fix
   - UV platform fix"

* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/mm, mm/hwpoison: Don't unconditionally unmap kernel 1:1 pages
  x86/error_inject: Make just_return_func() globally visible
  x86/platform/UV: Fix GAM Range Table entries less than 1GB
  x86/build: Add arch/x86/tools/insn_decoder_test to .gitignore
  x86/smpboot: Fix uncore_pci_remove() indexing bug when hot-removing a physical CPU
  x86/mm/kcore: Add vsyscall page to /proc/kcore conditionally
  vfs/proc/kcore, x86/mm/kcore: Fix SMAP fault when dumping vsyscall user page
  x86/Kconfig: Further simplify the NR_CPUS config
  x86/Kconfig: Simplify NR_CPUS config
  x86/MCE: Fix build warning introduced by "x86: do not use print_symbol()"
  x86/cpufeature: Update _static_cpu_has() to use all named variables
  x86/cpufeature: Reindent _static_cpu_has()
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Pull x86 fixes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Misc fixes all across the map:

   - /proc/kcore vsyscall related fixes
   - LTO fix
   - build warning fix
   - CPU hotplug fix
   - Kconfig NR_CPUS cleanups
   - cpu_has() cleanups/robustification
   - .gitignore fix
   - memory-failure unmapping fix
   - UV platform fix"

* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/mm, mm/hwpoison: Don't unconditionally unmap kernel 1:1 pages
  x86/error_inject: Make just_return_func() globally visible
  x86/platform/UV: Fix GAM Range Table entries less than 1GB
  x86/build: Add arch/x86/tools/insn_decoder_test to .gitignore
  x86/smpboot: Fix uncore_pci_remove() indexing bug when hot-removing a physical CPU
  x86/mm/kcore: Add vsyscall page to /proc/kcore conditionally
  vfs/proc/kcore, x86/mm/kcore: Fix SMAP fault when dumping vsyscall user page
  x86/Kconfig: Further simplify the NR_CPUS config
  x86/Kconfig: Simplify NR_CPUS config
  x86/MCE: Fix build warning introduced by "x86: do not use print_symbol()"
  x86/cpufeature: Update _static_cpu_has() to use all named variables
  x86/cpufeature: Reindent _static_cpu_has()
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2018-02-15T01:02:15+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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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>
<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;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/error_inject: Make just_return_func() globally visible</title>
<updated>2018-02-13T13:33:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-02T14:56:19+00:00</published>
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With link time optimizations enabled, I get a link failure:

  ./ccLbOEHX.ltrans19.ltrans.o: In function `override_function_with_return':
  &lt;artificial&gt;:(.text+0x7f3): undefined reference to `just_return_func'

Marking the symbol .globl makes it work as expected.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Josef Bacik &lt;jbacik@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nico@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Fixes: 540adea3809f ("error-injection: Separate error-injection from kprobe")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180202145634.200291-3-arnd@arndb.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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With link time optimizations enabled, I get a link failure:

  ./ccLbOEHX.ltrans19.ltrans.o: In function `override_function_with_return':
  &lt;artificial&gt;:(.text+0x7f3): undefined reference to `just_return_func'

Marking the symbol .globl makes it work as expected.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Josef Bacik &lt;jbacik@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nico@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Fixes: 540adea3809f ("error-injection: Separate error-injection from kprobe")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180202145634.200291-3-arnd@arndb.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>2018-02-04T19:45:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-04T19:45:55+00:00</published>
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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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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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<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next</title>
<updated>2018-01-31T22:31:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-31T22:31:10+00:00</published>
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Pull networking updates from David Miller:

 1) Significantly shrink the core networking routing structures. Result
    of http://vger.kernel.org/~davem/seoul2017_netdev_keynote.pdf

 2) Add netdevsim driver for testing various offloads, from Jakub
    Kicinski.

 3) Support cross-chip FDB operations in DSA, from Vivien Didelot.

 4) Add a 2nd listener hash table for TCP, similar to what was done for
    UDP. From Martin KaFai Lau.

 5) Add eBPF based queue selection to tun, from Jason Wang.

 6) Lockless qdisc support, from John Fastabend.

 7) SCTP stream interleave support, from Xin Long.

 8) Smoother TCP receive autotuning, from Eric Dumazet.

 9) Lots of erspan tunneling enhancements, from William Tu.

10) Add true function call support to BPF, from Alexei Starovoitov.

11) Add explicit support for GRO HW offloading, from Michael Chan.

12) Support extack generation in more netlink subsystems. From Alexander
    Aring, Quentin Monnet, and Jakub Kicinski.

13) Add 1000BaseX, flow control, and EEE support to mvneta driver. From
    Russell King.

14) Add flow table abstraction to netfilter, from Pablo Neira Ayuso.

15) Many improvements and simplifications to the NFP driver bpf JIT,
    from Jakub Kicinski.

16) Support for ipv6 non-equal cost multipath routing, from Ido
    Schimmel.

17) Add resource abstration to devlink, from Arkadi Sharshevsky.

18) Packet scheduler classifier shared filter block support, from Jiri
    Pirko.

19) Avoid locking in act_csum, from Davide Caratti.

20) devinet_ioctl() simplifications from Al viro.

21) More TCP bpf improvements from Lawrence Brakmo.

22) Add support for onlink ipv6 route flag, similar to ipv4, from David
    Ahern.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1925 commits)
  tls: Add support for encryption using async offload accelerator
  ip6mr: fix stale iterator
  net/sched: kconfig: Remove blank help texts
  openvswitch: meter: Use 64-bit arithmetic instead of 32-bit
  tcp_nv: fix potential integer overflow in tcpnv_acked
  r8169: fix RTL8168EP take too long to complete driver initialization.
  qmi_wwan: Add support for Quectel EP06
  rtnetlink: enable IFLA_IF_NETNSID for RTM_NEWLINK
  ipmr: Fix ptrdiff_t print formatting
  ibmvnic: Wait for device response when changing MAC
  qlcnic: fix deadlock bug
  tcp: release sk_frag.page in tcp_disconnect
  ipv4: Get the address of interface correctly.
  net_sched: gen_estimator: fix lockdep splat
  net: macb: Handle HRESP error
  net/mlx5e: IPoIB, Fix copy-paste bug in flow steering refactoring
  ipv6: addrconf: break critical section in addrconf_verify_rtnl()
  ipv6: change route cache aging logic
  i40e/i40evf: Update DESC_NEEDED value to reflect larger value
  bnxt_en: cleanup DIM work on device shutdown
  ...
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Pull networking updates from David Miller:

 1) Significantly shrink the core networking routing structures. Result
    of http://vger.kernel.org/~davem/seoul2017_netdev_keynote.pdf

 2) Add netdevsim driver for testing various offloads, from Jakub
    Kicinski.

 3) Support cross-chip FDB operations in DSA, from Vivien Didelot.

 4) Add a 2nd listener hash table for TCP, similar to what was done for
    UDP. From Martin KaFai Lau.

 5) Add eBPF based queue selection to tun, from Jason Wang.

 6) Lockless qdisc support, from John Fastabend.

 7) SCTP stream interleave support, from Xin Long.

 8) Smoother TCP receive autotuning, from Eric Dumazet.

 9) Lots of erspan tunneling enhancements, from William Tu.

10) Add true function call support to BPF, from Alexei Starovoitov.

11) Add explicit support for GRO HW offloading, from Michael Chan.

12) Support extack generation in more netlink subsystems. From Alexander
    Aring, Quentin Monnet, and Jakub Kicinski.

13) Add 1000BaseX, flow control, and EEE support to mvneta driver. From
    Russell King.

14) Add flow table abstraction to netfilter, from Pablo Neira Ayuso.

15) Many improvements and simplifications to the NFP driver bpf JIT,
    from Jakub Kicinski.

16) Support for ipv6 non-equal cost multipath routing, from Ido
    Schimmel.

17) Add resource abstration to devlink, from Arkadi Sharshevsky.

18) Packet scheduler classifier shared filter block support, from Jiri
    Pirko.

19) Avoid locking in act_csum, from Davide Caratti.

20) devinet_ioctl() simplifications from Al viro.

21) More TCP bpf improvements from Lawrence Brakmo.

22) Add support for onlink ipv6 route flag, similar to ipv4, from David
    Ahern.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1925 commits)
  tls: Add support for encryption using async offload accelerator
  ip6mr: fix stale iterator
  net/sched: kconfig: Remove blank help texts
  openvswitch: meter: Use 64-bit arithmetic instead of 32-bit
  tcp_nv: fix potential integer overflow in tcpnv_acked
  r8169: fix RTL8168EP take too long to complete driver initialization.
  qmi_wwan: Add support for Quectel EP06
  rtnetlink: enable IFLA_IF_NETNSID for RTM_NEWLINK
  ipmr: Fix ptrdiff_t print formatting
  ibmvnic: Wait for device response when changing MAC
  qlcnic: fix deadlock bug
  tcp: release sk_frag.page in tcp_disconnect
  ipv4: Get the address of interface correctly.
  net_sched: gen_estimator: fix lockdep splat
  net: macb: Handle HRESP error
  net/mlx5e: IPoIB, Fix copy-paste bug in flow steering refactoring
  ipv6: addrconf: break critical section in addrconf_verify_rtnl()
  ipv6: change route cache aging logic
  i40e/i40evf: Update DESC_NEEDED value to reflect larger value
  bnxt_en: cleanup DIM work on device shutdown
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-cleanups-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2018-01-30T21:01:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-30T21:01:09+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 cleanups from Ingo Molnar:
 "Misc cleanups"

* 'x86-cleanups-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86: Remove unused IOMMU_STRESS Kconfig
  x86/extable: Mark exception handler functions visible
  x86/timer: Don't inline __const_udelay
  x86/headers: Remove duplicate #includes
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Pull x86 cleanups from Ingo Molnar:
 "Misc cleanups"

* 'x86-cleanups-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86: Remove unused IOMMU_STRESS Kconfig
  x86/extable: Mark exception handler functions visible
  x86/timer: Don't inline __const_udelay
  x86/headers: Remove duplicate #includes
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<entry>
<title>x86/get_user: Use pointer masking to limit speculation</title>
<updated>2018-01-30T20:54:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-30T01:02:54+00:00</published>
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Quoting Linus:

    I do think that it would be a good idea to very expressly document
    the fact that it's not that the user access itself is unsafe. I do
    agree that things like "get_user()" want to be protected, but not
    because of any direct bugs or problems with get_user() and friends,
    but simply because get_user() is an excellent source of a pointer
    that is obviously controlled from a potentially attacking user
    space. So it's a prime candidate for then finding _subsequent_
    accesses that can then be used to perturb the cache.

Unlike the __get_user() case get_user() includes the address limit check
near the pointer de-reference. With that locality the speculation can be
mitigated with pointer narrowing rather than a barrier, i.e.
array_index_nospec(). Where the narrowing is performed by:

	cmp %limit, %ptr
	sbb %mask, %mask
	and %mask, %ptr

With respect to speculation the value of %ptr is either less than %limit
or NULL.

Co-developed-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com
Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Cc: alan@linux.intel.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/151727417469.33451.11804043010080838495.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com

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Quoting Linus:

    I do think that it would be a good idea to very expressly document
    the fact that it's not that the user access itself is unsafe. I do
    agree that things like "get_user()" want to be protected, but not
    because of any direct bugs or problems with get_user() and friends,
    but simply because get_user() is an excellent source of a pointer
    that is obviously controlled from a potentially attacking user
    space. So it's a prime candidate for then finding _subsequent_
    accesses that can then be used to perturb the cache.

Unlike the __get_user() case get_user() includes the address limit check
near the pointer de-reference. With that locality the speculation can be
mitigated with pointer narrowing rather than a barrier, i.e.
array_index_nospec(). Where the narrowing is performed by:

	cmp %limit, %ptr
	sbb %mask, %mask
	and %mask, %ptr

With respect to speculation the value of %ptr is either less than %limit
or NULL.

Co-developed-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com
Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Cc: alan@linux.intel.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/151727417469.33451.11804043010080838495.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com

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