kernel.git/arch/x86/include/asm/clocksource.h, branch linux-4.6.y

x86/vdso: Disallow vvar access to vclock IO for never-used vclocks

2016-01-12T10:59:35Z

It makes me uncomfortable that even modern systems grant every process direct read access to the HPET. While fixing this for real without regressing anything is a mess (unmapping the HPET is tricky because we don't adequately track all the mappings), we can do almost as well by tracking which vclocks have ever been used and only allowing pages associated with used vclocks to be faulted in. This will cause rogue programs that try to peek at the HPET to get SIGBUS instead on most systems. We can't restrict faults to vclock pages that are associated with the currently selected vclock due to a race: a process could start to access the HPET for the first time and race against a switch away from the HPET as the current clocksource. We can't segfault the process trying to peek at the HPET in this case, even though the process isn't going to do anything useful with the data. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski Reviewed-by: Kees Cook Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Fenghua Yu Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Quentin Casasnovas Cc: Thomas Gleixner Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e79d06295625c02512277737ab55085a498ac5d8.1451446564.git.luto@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

x86, vdso: Make vsyscall_gtod_data handling x86 generic

2014-03-18T19:51:52Z

This patch move the vsyscall_gtod_data handling out of vsyscall_64.c into an additonal file vsyscall_gtod.c to make the functionality available for x86 32 bit kernel. It also adds a new vsyscall_32.c which setup the VVAR page. Reviewed-by: Andy Lutomirski Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1395094933-14252-2-git-send-email-stefani@seibold.net Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin

x86: pvclock: generic pvclock vsyscall initialization

2012-11-28T01:29:09Z

Originally from Jeremy Fitzhardinge. Introduce generic, non hypervisor specific, pvclock initialization routines. Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti

clocksource: Change __ARCH_HAS_CLOCKSOURCE_DATA to a CONFIG option

2011-07-21T20:34:05Z

The machinery for __ARCH_HAS_CLOCKSOURCE_DATA assumed a file in asm-generic would be the default for architectures without their own file in asm/, but that is not how it works. Replace it with a Kconfig option instead. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4E288AA6.7090804@zytor.com Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Tony Luck

x86-64: Move vread_tsc and vread_hpet into the vDSO

2011-07-15T00:57:05Z

The vsyscall page now consists entirely of trap instructions. Cc: John Stultz Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/637648f303f2ef93af93bae25186e9a1bea093f5.1310639973.git.luto@mit.edu Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin

clocksource: Replace vread with generic arch data

2011-07-13T18:23:12Z

The vread field was bloating struct clocksource everywhere except x86_64, and I want to change the way this works on x86_64, so let's split it out into per-arch data. Cc: x86@kernel.org Cc: Clemens Ladisch Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Cc: Tony Luck Cc: Fenghua Yu Cc: John Stultz Cc: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/3ae5ec76a168eaaae63f08a2a1060b91aa0b7759.1310563276.git.luto@mit.edu Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin