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<updated>2024-07-27T08:40:21Z</updated>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/pseries: Whitelist dtl slub object for copying to userspace</title>
<updated>2024-07-27T08:40:21Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Anjali K</name>
</author>
<published>2024-06-14T17:38:44Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit 1a14150e1656f7a332a943154fc486504db4d586 ]

Reading the dispatch trace log from /sys/kernel/debug/powerpc/dtl/cpu-*
results in a BUG() when the config CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY is enabled as
shown below.

    kernel BUG at mm/usercopy.c:102!
    Oops: Exception in kernel mode, sig: 5 [#1]
    LE PAGE_SIZE=64K MMU=Radix SMP NR_CPUS=2048 NUMA pSeries
    Modules linked in: xfs libcrc32c dm_service_time sd_mod t10_pi sg ibmvfc
    scsi_transport_fc ibmveth pseries_wdt dm_multipath dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod fuse
    CPU: 27 PID: 1815 Comm: python3 Not tainted 6.10.0-rc3 #85
    Hardware name: IBM,9040-MRX POWER10 (raw) 0x800200 0xf000006 of:IBM,FW1060.00 (NM1060_042) hv:phyp pSeries
    NIP:  c0000000005d23d4 LR: c0000000005d23d0 CTR: 00000000006ee6f8
    REGS: c000000120c078c0 TRAP: 0700   Not tainted  (6.10.0-rc3)
    MSR:  8000000000029033 &lt;SF,EE,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE&gt;  CR: 2828220f  XER: 0000000e
    CFAR: c0000000001fdc80 IRQMASK: 0
    [ ... GPRs omitted ... ]
    NIP [c0000000005d23d4] usercopy_abort+0x78/0xb0
    LR [c0000000005d23d0] usercopy_abort+0x74/0xb0
    Call Trace:
     usercopy_abort+0x74/0xb0 (unreliable)
     __check_heap_object+0xf8/0x120
     check_heap_object+0x218/0x240
     __check_object_size+0x84/0x1a4
     dtl_file_read+0x17c/0x2c4
     full_proxy_read+0x8c/0x110
     vfs_read+0xdc/0x3a0
     ksys_read+0x84/0x144
     system_call_exception+0x124/0x330
     system_call_vectored_common+0x15c/0x2ec
    --- interrupt: 3000 at 0x7fff81f3ab34

Commit 6d07d1cd300f ("usercopy: Restrict non-usercopy caches to size 0")
requires that only whitelisted areas in slab/slub objects can be copied to
userspace when usercopy hardening is enabled using CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY.
Dtl contains hypervisor dispatch events which are expected to be read by
privileged users. Hence mark this safe for user access.
Specify useroffset=0 and usersize=DISPATCH_LOG_BYTES to whitelist the
entire object.

Co-developed-by: Vishal Chourasia &lt;vishalc@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vishal Chourasia &lt;vishalc@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Anjali K &lt;anjalik@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Srikar Dronamraju &lt;srikar@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://msgid.link/20240614173844.746818-1-anjalik@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/pseries: Rework lppaca_shared_proc() to avoid DEBUG_PREEMPT</title>
<updated>2023-09-19T10:20:15Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell Currey</name>
</author>
<published>2023-08-23T05:53:17Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit eac030b22ea12cdfcbb2e941c21c03964403c63f ]

lppaca_shared_proc() takes a pointer to the lppaca which is typically
accessed through get_lppaca().  With DEBUG_PREEMPT enabled, this leads
to checking if preemption is enabled, for example:

  BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: grep/10693
  caller is lparcfg_data+0x408/0x19a0
  CPU: 4 PID: 10693 Comm: grep Not tainted 6.5.0-rc3 #2
  Call Trace:
    dump_stack_lvl+0x154/0x200 (unreliable)
    check_preemption_disabled+0x214/0x220
    lparcfg_data+0x408/0x19a0
    ...

This isn't actually a problem however, as it does not matter which
lppaca is accessed, the shared proc state will be the same.
vcpudispatch_stats_procfs_init() already works around this by disabling
preemption, but the lparcfg code does not, erroring any time
/proc/powerpc/lparcfg is accessed with DEBUG_PREEMPT enabled.

Instead of disabling preemption on the caller side, rework
lppaca_shared_proc() to not take a pointer and instead directly access
the lppaca, bypassing any potential preemption checks.

Fixes: f13c13a00512 ("powerpc: Stop using non-architected shared_proc field in lppaca")
Signed-off-by: Russell Currey &lt;ruscur@russell.cc&gt;
[mpe: Rework to avoid needing a definition in paca.h and lppaca.h]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://msgid.link/20230823055317.751786-4-mpe@ellerman.id.au
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/pseries: wire up rng during setup_arch()</title>
<updated>2022-06-29T06:59:54Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason A. Donenfeld</name>
</author>
<published>2022-06-11T15:10:15Z</published>
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commit e561e472a3d441753bd012333b057f48fef1045b upstream.

The platform's RNG must be available before random_init() in order to be
useful for initial seeding, which in turn means that it needs to be
called from setup_arch(), rather than from an init call. Fortunately,
each platform already has a setup_arch function pointer, which means
it's easy to wire this up. This commit also removes some noisy log
messages that don't add much.

Fixes: a489043f4626 ("powerpc/pseries: Implement arch_get_random_long() based on H_RANDOM")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.13+
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220611151015.548325-4-Jason@zx2c4.com
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/pseries: Get entry and uaccess flush required bits from H_GET_CPU_CHARACTERISTICS</title>
<updated>2022-01-20T08:17:52Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
</author>
<published>2021-05-03T13:02:40Z</published>
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commit 65c7d070850e109a8a75a431f5a7f6eb4c007b77 upstream.

This allows the hypervisor / firmware to describe these workarounds to
the guest.

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/20210503130243.891868-2-npiggin@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/pseries: Fix regression while building external modules</title>
<updated>2021-08-04T10:46:45Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Srikar Dronamraju</name>
</author>
<published>2021-07-29T06:04:49Z</published>
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commit 333cf507465fbebb3727f5b53e77538467df312a upstream.

With commit c9f3401313a5 ("powerpc: Always enable queued spinlocks for
64s, disable for others") CONFIG_PPC_QUEUED_SPINLOCKS is always
enabled on ppc64le, external modules that use spinlock APIs are
failing.

  ERROR: modpost: GPL-incompatible module XXX.ko uses GPL-only symbol 'shared_processor'

Before the above commit, modules were able to build without any
issues. Also this problem is not seen on other architectures. This
problem can be workaround if CONFIG_UNINLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK is enabled in
the config. However CONFIG_UNINLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK is not enabled by
default and only enabled in certain conditions like
CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCKS is set in the kernel config.

  #include &lt;linux/module.h&gt;
  spinlock_t spLock;

  static int __init spinlock_test_init(void)
  {
          spin_lock_init(&amp;spLock);
          spin_lock(&amp;spLock);
          spin_unlock(&amp;spLock);
          return 0;
  }

  static void __exit spinlock_test_exit(void)
  {
  	printk("spinlock_test unloaded\n");
  }
  module_init(spinlock_test_init);
  module_exit(spinlock_test_exit);

  MODULE_DESCRIPTION ("spinlock_test");
  MODULE_LICENSE ("non-GPL");
  MODULE_AUTHOR ("Srikar Dronamraju");

Given that spin locks are one of the basic facilities for module code,
this effectively makes it impossible to build/load almost any non GPL
modules on ppc64le.

This was first reported at https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/11172

Currently shared_processor is exported as GPL only symbol.
Fix this for parity with other architectures by exposing
shared_processor to non-GPL modules too.

Fixes: 14c73bd344da ("powerpc/vcpu: Assume dedicated processors as non-preempt")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.5+
Reported-by: marc.c.dionne@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju &lt;srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210729060449.292780-1-srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/64s: rename pnv|pseries_setup_rfi_flush to _setup_security_mitigations</title>
<updated>2020-11-19T12:47:25Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Axtens</name>
</author>
<published>2020-11-17T05:59:16Z</published>
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pseries|pnv_setup_rfi_flush already does the count cache flush setup, and
we just added entry and uaccess flushes. So the name is not very accurate
any more. In both platforms we then also immediately setup the STF flush.

Rename them to _setup_security_mitigations and fold the STF flush in.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens &lt;dja@axtens.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/64s: flush L1D after user accesses</title>
<updated>2020-11-19T12:47:18Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
</author>
<published>2020-11-17T05:59:13Z</published>
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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: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/64s: flush L1D on kernel entry</title>
<updated>2020-11-19T12:47:15Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
</author>
<published>2020-11-17T05:59:12Z</published>
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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: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/pseries: add new branch prediction security bits for link stack</title>
<updated>2020-10-06T12:22:23Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
</author>
<published>2020-08-25T07:56:12Z</published>
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The hypervisor interface has defined branch prediction security bits for
handling the link stack. Wire them up.

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/20200825075612.224656-1-npiggin@gmail.com
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'powerpc-5.9-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux</title>
<updated>2020-08-07T17:33:50Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
</author>
<published>2020-08-07T17:33:50Z</published>
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Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:

 - Add support for (optionally) using queued spinlocks &amp; rwlocks.

 - Support for a new faster system call ABI using the scv instruction on
   Power9 or later.

 - Drop support for the PROT_SAO mmap/mprotect flag as it will be
   unsupported on Power10 and future processors, leaving us with no way
   to implement the functionality it requests. This risks breaking
   userspace, though we believe it is unused in practice.

 - A bug fix for, and then the removal of, our custom stack expansion
   checking. We now allow stack expansion up to the rlimit, like other
   architectures.

 - Remove the remnants of our (previously disabled) topology update
   code, which tried to react to NUMA layout changes on virtualised
   systems, but was prone to crashes and other problems.

 - Add PMU support for Power10 CPUs.

 - A change to our signal trampoline so that we don't unbalance the link
   stack (branch return predictor) in the signal delivery path.

 - Lots of other cleanups, refactorings, smaller features and so on as
   usual.

Thanks to: Abhishek Goel, Alastair D'Silva, Alexander A. Klimov, Alexey
Kardashevskiy, Alistair Popple, Andrew Donnellan, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Anju
T Sudhakar, Anton Blanchard, Arnd Bergmann, Athira Rajeev, Balamuruhan
S, Bharata B Rao, Bill Wendling, Bin Meng, Cédric Le Goater, Chris
Packham, Christophe Leroy, Christoph Hellwig, Daniel Axtens, Dan
Williams, David Lamparter, Desnes A. Nunes do Rosario, Erhard F., Finn
Thain, Frederic Barrat, Ganesh Goudar, Gautham R. Shenoy, Geoff Levand,
Greg Kurz, Gustavo A. R. Silva, Hari Bathini, Harish, Imre Kaloz, Joel
Stanley, Joe Perches, John Crispin, Jordan Niethe, Kajol Jain, Kamalesh
Babulal, Kees Cook, Laurent Dufour, Leonardo Bras, Li RongQing, Madhavan
Srinivasan, Mahesh Salgaonkar, Mark Cave-Ayland, Michal Suchanek, Milton
Miller, Mimi Zohar, Murilo Opsfelder Araujo, Nathan Chancellor, Nathan
Lynch, Naveen N. Rao, Nayna Jain, Nicholas Piggin, Oliver O'Halloran,
Palmer Dabbelt, Pedro Miraglia Franco de Carvalho, Philippe Bergheaud,
Pingfan Liu, Pratik Rajesh Sampat, Qian Cai, Qinglang Miao, Randy
Dunlap, Ravi Bangoria, Sachin Sant, Sam Bobroff, Sandipan Das, Santosh
Sivaraj, Satheesh Rajendran, Shirisha Ganta, Sourabh Jain, Srikar
Dronamraju, Stan Johnson, Stephen Rothwell, Thadeu Lima de Souza
Cascardo, Thiago Jung Bauermann, Tom Lane, Vaibhav Jain, Vladis Dronov,
Wei Yongjun, Wen Xiong, YueHaibing.

* tag 'powerpc-5.9-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (337 commits)
  selftests/powerpc: Fix pkey syscall redefinitions
  powerpc: Fix circular dependency between percpu.h and mmu.h
  powerpc/powernv/sriov: Fix use of uninitialised variable
  selftests/powerpc: Skip vmx/vsx/tar/etc tests on older CPUs
  powerpc/40x: Fix assembler warning about r0
  powerpc/papr_scm: Add support for fetching nvdimm 'fuel-gauge' metric
  powerpc/papr_scm: Fetch nvdimm performance stats from PHYP
  cpuidle: pseries: Fixup exit latency for CEDE(0)
  cpuidle: pseries: Add function to parse extended CEDE records
  cpuidle: pseries: Set the latency-hint before entering CEDE
  selftests/powerpc: Fix online CPU selection
  powerpc/perf: Consolidate perf_callchain_user_[64|32]()
  powerpc/pseries/hotplug-cpu: Remove double free in error path
  powerpc/pseries/mobility: Add pr_debug() for device tree changes
  powerpc/pseries/mobility: Set pr_fmt()
  powerpc/cacheinfo: Warn if cache object chain becomes unordered
  powerpc/cacheinfo: Improve diagnostics about malformed cache lists
  powerpc/cacheinfo: Use name@unit instead of full DT path in debug messages
  powerpc/cacheinfo: Set pr_fmt()
  powerpc: fix function annotations to avoid section mismatch warnings with gcc-10
  ...
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