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<title>powerpc/64s: flush L1D after user accesses</title>
<updated>2020-11-22T09:00:24Z</updated>
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<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
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<published>2020-11-19T23:52:44Z</published>
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commit 9a32a7e78bd0cd9a9b6332cbdc345ee5ffd0c5de upstream.

IBM Power9 processors can speculatively operate on data in the L1 cache before
it has been completely validated, via a way-prediction mechanism. It is not possible
for an attacker to determine the contents of impermissible memory using this method,
since these systems implement a combination of hardware and software security measures
to prevent scenarios where protected data could be leaked.

However these measures don't address the scenario where an attacker induces
the operating system to speculatively execute instructions using data that the
attacker controls. This can be used for example to speculatively bypass "kernel
user access prevention" techniques, as discovered by Anthony Steinhauser of
Google's Safeside Project. This is not an attack by itself, but there is a possibility
it could be used in conjunction with side-channels or other weaknesses in the
privileged code to construct an attack.

This issue can be mitigated by flushing the L1 cache between privilege boundaries
of concern. This patch flushes the L1 cache after user accesses.

This is part of the fix for CVE-2020-4788.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens &lt;dja@axtens.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/64s: flush L1D on kernel entry</title>
<updated>2020-11-22T09:00:23Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
</author>
<published>2020-11-19T23:52:39Z</published>
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commit f79643787e0a0762d2409b7b8334e83f22d85695 upstream.

IBM Power9 processors can speculatively operate on data in the L1 cache before
it has been completely validated, via a way-prediction mechanism. It is not possible
for an attacker to determine the contents of impermissible memory using this method,
since these systems implement a combination of hardware and software security measures
to prevent scenarios where protected data could be leaked.

However these measures don't address the scenario where an attacker induces
the operating system to speculatively execute instructions using data that the
attacker controls. This can be used for example to speculatively bypass "kernel
user access prevention" techniques, as discovered by Anthony Steinhauser of
Google's Safeside Project. This is not an attack by itself, but there is a possibility
it could be used in conjunction with side-channels or other weaknesses in the
privileged code to construct an attack.

This issue can be mitigated by flushing the L1 cache between privilege boundaries
of concern. This patch flushes the L1 cache on kernel entry.

This is part of the fix for CVE-2020-4788.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens &lt;dja@axtens.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/64s: move some exception handlers out of line</title>
<updated>2020-11-22T09:00:23Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Axtens</name>
</author>
<published>2020-11-19T23:52:38Z</published>
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(backport only)

We're about to grow the exception handlers, which will make a bunch of them
no longer fit within the space available. We move them out of line.

This is a fiddly and error-prone business, so in the interests of reviewability
I haven't merged this in with the addition of the entry flush.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens &lt;dja@axtens.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/64s/exception: machine check use correct cfar for late handler</title>
<updated>2019-10-07T16:55:05Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
</author>
<published>2019-08-02T10:56:32Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit 0b66370c61fcf5fcc1d6901013e110284da6e2bb ]

Bare metal machine checks run an "early" handler in real mode before
running the main handler which reports the event.

The main handler runs exactly as a normal interrupt handler, after the
"windup" which sets registers back as they were at interrupt entry.
CFAR does not get restored by the windup code, so that will be wrong
when the handler is run.

Restore the CFAR to the saved value before running the late handler.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190802105709.27696-8-npiggin@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/watchpoint: Restore NV GPRs while returning from exception</title>
<updated>2019-07-31T05:28:42Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Ravi Bangoria</name>
</author>
<published>2019-06-13T03:30:14Z</published>
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commit f474c28fbcbe42faca4eb415172c07d76adcb819 upstream.

powerpc hardware triggers watchpoint before executing the instruction.
To make trigger-after-execute behavior, kernel emulates the
instruction. If the instruction is 'load something into non-volatile
register', exception handler should restore emulated register state
while returning back, otherwise there will be register state
corruption. eg, adding a watchpoint on a list can corrput the list:

  # cat /proc/kallsyms | grep kthread_create_list
  c00000000121c8b8 d kthread_create_list

Add watchpoint on kthread_create_list-&gt;prev:

  # perf record -e mem:0xc00000000121c8c0

Run some workload such that new kthread gets invoked. eg, I just
logged out from console:

  list_add corruption. next-&gt;prev should be prev (c000000001214e00), \
	but was c00000000121c8b8. (next=c00000000121c8b8).
  WARNING: CPU: 59 PID: 309 at lib/list_debug.c:25 __list_add_valid+0xb4/0xc0
  CPU: 59 PID: 309 Comm: kworker/59:0 Kdump: loaded Not tainted 5.1.0-rc7+ #69
  ...
  NIP __list_add_valid+0xb4/0xc0
  LR __list_add_valid+0xb0/0xc0
  Call Trace:
  __list_add_valid+0xb0/0xc0 (unreliable)
  __kthread_create_on_node+0xe0/0x260
  kthread_create_on_node+0x34/0x50
  create_worker+0xe8/0x260
  worker_thread+0x444/0x560
  kthread+0x160/0x1a0
  ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0x70

List corruption happened because it uses 'load into non-volatile
register' instruction:

Snippet from __kthread_create_on_node:

  c000000000136be8:     addis   r29,r2,-19
  c000000000136bec:     ld      r29,31424(r29)
        if (!__list_add_valid(new, prev, next))
  c000000000136bf0:     mr      r3,r30
  c000000000136bf4:     mr      r5,r28
  c000000000136bf8:     mr      r4,r29
  c000000000136bfc:     bl      c00000000059a2f8 &lt;__list_add_valid+0x8&gt;

Register state from WARN_ON():

  GPR00: c00000000059a3a0 c000007ff23afb50 c000000001344e00 0000000000000075
  GPR04: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000001852af8bc1 0000000000000000
  GPR08: 0000000000000001 0000000000000007 0000000000000006 00000000000004aa
  GPR12: 0000000000000000 c000007ffffeb080 c000000000137038 c000005ff62aaa00
  GPR16: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 c000007fffbe7600 c000007fffbe7370
  GPR20: c000007fffbe7320 c000007fffbe7300 c000000001373a00 0000000000000000
  GPR24: fffffffffffffef7 c00000000012e320 c000007ff23afcb0 c000000000cb8628
  GPR28: c00000000121c8b8 c000000001214e00 c000007fef5b17e8 c000007fef5b17c0

Watchpoint hit at 0xc000000000136bec.

  addis   r29,r2,-19
   =&gt; r29 = 0xc000000001344e00 + (-19 &lt;&lt; 16)
   =&gt; r29 = 0xc000000001214e00

  ld      r29,31424(r29)
   =&gt; r29 = *(0xc000000001214e00 + 31424)
   =&gt; r29 = *(0xc00000000121c8c0)

0xc00000000121c8c0 is where we placed a watchpoint and thus this
instruction was emulated by emulate_step. But because handle_dabr_fault
did not restore emulated register state, r29 still contains stale
value in above register state.

Fixes: 5aae8a5370802 ("powerpc, hw_breakpoints: Implement hw_breakpoints for 64-bit server processors")
Signed-off-by: Ravi Bangoria &lt;ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 2.6.36+
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>powerpc/64s: Make rfi_flush_fallback a little more robust</title>
<updated>2018-09-15T07:45:32Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
</author>
<published>2018-07-26T12:42:44Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit 78ee9946371f5848ddfc88ab1a43867df8f17d83 ]

Because rfi_flush_fallback runs immediately before the return to
userspace it currently runs with the user r1 (stack pointer). This
means if we oops in there we will report a bad kernel stack pointer in
the exception entry path, eg:

  Bad kernel stack pointer 7ffff7150e40 at c0000000000023b4
  Oops: Bad kernel stack pointer, sig: 6 [#1]
  LE SMP NR_CPUS=32 NUMA PowerNV
  Modules linked in:
  CPU: 0 PID: 1246 Comm: klogd Not tainted 4.18.0-rc2-gcc-7.3.1-00175-g0443f8a69ba3 #7
  NIP:  c0000000000023b4 LR: 0000000010053e00 CTR: 0000000000000040
  REGS: c0000000fffe7d40 TRAP: 4100   Not tainted  (4.18.0-rc2-gcc-7.3.1-00175-g0443f8a69ba3)
  MSR:  9000000002803031 &lt;SF,HV,VEC,VSX,FP,ME,IR,DR,LE&gt;  CR: 44000442  XER: 20000000
  CFAR: c00000000000bac8 IRQMASK: c0000000f1e66a80
  GPR00: 0000000002000000 00007ffff7150e40 00007fff93a99900 0000000000000020
  ...
  NIP [c0000000000023b4] rfi_flush_fallback+0x34/0x80
  LR [0000000010053e00] 0x10053e00

Although the NIP tells us where we were, and the TRAP number tells us
what happened, it would still be nicer if we could report the actual
exception rather than barfing about the stack pointer.

We an do that fairly simply by loading the kernel stack pointer on
entry and restoring the user value before returning. That way we see a
regular oops such as:

  Unrecoverable exception 4100 at c00000000000239c
  Oops: Unrecoverable exception, sig: 6 [#1]
  LE SMP NR_CPUS=32 NUMA PowerNV
  Modules linked in:
  CPU: 0 PID: 1251 Comm: klogd Not tainted 4.18.0-rc3-gcc-7.3.1-00097-g4ebfcac65acd-dirty #40
  NIP:  c00000000000239c LR: 0000000010053e00 CTR: 0000000000000040
  REGS: c0000000f1e17bb0 TRAP: 4100   Not tainted  (4.18.0-rc3-gcc-7.3.1-00097-g4ebfcac65acd-dirty)
  MSR:  9000000002803031 &lt;SF,HV,VEC,VSX,FP,ME,IR,DR,LE&gt;  CR: 44000442  XER: 20000000
  CFAR: c00000000000bac8 IRQMASK: 0
  ...
  NIP [c00000000000239c] rfi_flush_fallback+0x3c/0x80
  LR [0000000010053e00] 0x10053e00
  Call Trace:
  [c0000000f1e17e30] [c00000000000b9e4] system_call+0x5c/0x70 (unreliable)

Note this shouldn't make the kernel stack pointer vulnerable to a
meltdown attack, because it should be flushed from the cache before we
return to userspace. The user r1 value will be in the cache, because
we load it in the return path, but that is harmless.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/64s: Add support for a store forwarding barrier at kernel entry/exit</title>
<updated>2018-05-30T05:51:54Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
</author>
<published>2018-05-26T04:27:49Z</published>
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commit a048a07d7f4535baa4cbad6bc024f175317ab938 upstream.

On some CPUs we can prevent a vulnerability related to store-to-load
forwarding by preventing store forwarding between privilege domains,
by inserting a barrier in kernel entry and exit paths.

This is known to be the case on at least Power7, Power8 and Power9
powerpc CPUs.

Barriers must be inserted generally before the first load after moving
to a higher privilege, and after the last store before moving to a
lower privilege, HV and PR privilege transitions must be protected.

Barriers are added as patch sections, with all kernel/hypervisor entry
points patched, and the exit points to lower privilge levels patched
similarly to the RFI flush patching.

Firmware advertisement is not implemented yet, so CPU flush types
are hard coded.

Thanks to Michal Suchánek for bug fixes and review.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mauricio Faria de Oliveira &lt;mauricfo@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michal Suchánek &lt;msuchanek@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/64s: Improve RFI L1-D cache flush fallback</title>
<updated>2018-05-30T05:51:50Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
</author>
<published>2018-05-26T04:27:27Z</published>
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commit bdcb1aefc5b3f7d0f1dc8b02673602bca2ff7a4b upstream.

The fallback RFI flush is used when firmware does not provide a way
to flush the cache. It's a "displacement flush" that evicts useful
data by displacing it with an uninteresting buffer.

The flush has to take care to work with implementation specific cache
replacment policies, so the recipe has been in flux. The initial
slow but conservative approach is to touch all lines of a congruence
class, with dependencies between each load. It has since been
determined that a linear pattern of loads without dependencies is
sufficient, and is significantly faster.

Measuring the speed of a null syscall with RFI fallback flush enabled
gives the relative improvement:

P8 - 1.83x
P9 - 1.75x

The flush also becomes simpler and more adaptable to different cache
geometries.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/64s: Fix i-side SLB miss bad address handler saving nonvolatile GPRs</title>
<updated>2018-04-08T12:26:28Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
</author>
<published>2018-03-23T05:53:38Z</published>
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commit 52396500f97c53860164debc7d4f759077853423 upstream.

The SLB bad address handler's trap number fixup does not preserve the
low bit that indicates nonvolatile GPRs have not been saved. This
leads save_nvgprs to skip saving them, and subsequent functions and
return from interrupt will think they are saved.

This causes kernel branch-to-garbage debugging to not have correct
registers, can also cause userspace to have its registers clobbered
after a segfault.

Fixes: f0f558b131db ("powerpc/mm: Preserve CFAR value on SLB miss caused by access to bogus address")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.9+
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Fix DABR match on hash based systems</title>
<updated>2018-02-22T14:42:17Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Benjamin Herrenschmidt</name>
</author>
<published>2017-11-10T01:15:00Z</published>
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commit f23ab3efb1b30cc5c5ef5ae4ef294ed467f30675 upstream.

Commit 398a719d34a1 ("powerpc/mm: Update bits used to skip hash_page")
mistakenly dropped the DSISR_DABRMATCH bit from the mask of bit tested
to skip trying to hash a page.

As a result, the DABR matches would no longer be detected.

This adds it back. We open code it in the 2 places where it matters
rather than fold it into DSISR_BAD_FAULT_32S/64S because this isn't
technically a bad fault and while we would never hit it with the
current code, I prefer if page_fault_is_bad() didn't trigger on these.

Fixes: 398a719d34a1 ("powerpc/mm: Update bits used to skip hash_page")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.14
Tested-by: Pedro Miraglia Franco de Carvalho &lt;pedromfc@br.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao &lt;naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;


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