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<subtitle>Hosts the 0x221E linux distro kernel.
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<entry>
<title>x86/mce: Defer processing of early errors</title>
<updated>2021-09-15T08:00:34Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov</name>
</author>
<published>2021-08-24T00:31:29Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit 3bff147b187d5dfccfca1ee231b0761a89f1eff5 ]

When a fatal machine check results in a system reset, Linux does not
clear the error(s) from machine check bank(s) - hardware preserves the
machine check banks across a warm reset.

During initialization of the kernel after the reboot, Linux reads, logs,
and clears all machine check banks.

But there is a problem. In:

  5de97c9f6d85 ("x86/mce: Factor out and deprecate the /dev/mcelog driver")

the call to mce_register_decode_chain() moved later in the boot
sequence. This means that /dev/mcelog doesn't see those early error
logs.

This was partially fixed by:

  cd9c57cad3fe ("x86/MCE: Dump MCE to dmesg if no consumers")

which made sure that the logs were not lost completely by printing
to the console. But parsing console logs is error prone. Users of
/dev/mcelog should expect to find any early errors logged to standard
places.

Add a new flag MCP_QUEUE_LOG to machine_check_poll() to be used in early
machine check initialization to indicate that any errors found should
just be queued to genpool. When mcheck_late_init() is called it will
call mce_schedule_work() to actually log and flush any errors queued in
the genpool.

 [ Based on an original patch, commit message by and completely
   productized by Tony Luck. ]

Fixes: 5de97c9f6d85 ("x86/mce: Factor out and deprecate the /dev/mcelog driver")
Reported-by: Sumanth Kamatala &lt;skamatala@juniper.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210824003129.GA1642753@agluck-desk2.amr.corp.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>KVM: nSVM: avoid picking up unsupported bits from L2 in int_ctl (CVE-2021-3653)</title>
<updated>2021-08-18T07:07:08Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Maxim Levitsky</name>
</author>
<published>2021-07-14T22:56:24Z</published>
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commit 0f923e07124df069ba68d8bb12324398f4b6b709 upstream.

* Invert the mask of bits that we pick from L2 in
  nested_vmcb02_prepare_control

* Invert and explicitly use VIRQ related bits bitmask in svm_clear_vintr

This fixes a security issue that allowed a malicious L1 to run L2 with
AVIC enabled, which allowed the L2 to exploit the uninitialized and enabled
AVIC to read/write the host physical memory at some offsets.

Fixes: 3d6368ef580a ("KVM: SVM: Add VMRUN handler")
Signed-off-by: Maxim Levitsky &lt;mlevitsk@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>KVM: x86/mmu: Protect marking SPs unsync when using TDP MMU with spinlock</title>
<updated>2021-08-18T07:07:07Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Sean Christopherson</name>
</author>
<published>2021-08-12T18:18:15Z</published>
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commit ce25681d59ffc4303321e555a2d71b1946af07da upstream.

Add yet another spinlock for the TDP MMU and take it when marking indirect
shadow pages unsync.  When using the TDP MMU and L1 is running L2(s) with
nested TDP, KVM may encounter shadow pages for the TDP entries managed by
L1 (controlling L2) when handling a TDP MMU page fault.  The unsync logic
is not thread safe, e.g. the kvm_mmu_page fields are not atomic, and
misbehaves when a shadow page is marked unsync via a TDP MMU page fault,
which runs with mmu_lock held for read, not write.

Lack of a critical section manifests most visibly as an underflow of
unsync_children in clear_unsync_child_bit() due to unsync_children being
corrupted when multiple CPUs write it without a critical section and
without atomic operations.  But underflow is the best case scenario.  The
worst case scenario is that unsync_children prematurely hits '0' and
leads to guest memory corruption due to KVM neglecting to properly sync
shadow pages.

Use an entirely new spinlock even though piggybacking tdp_mmu_pages_lock
would functionally be ok.  Usurping the lock could degrade performance when
building upper level page tables on different vCPUs, especially since the
unsync flow could hold the lock for a comparatively long time depending on
the number of indirect shadow pages and the depth of the paging tree.

For simplicity, take the lock for all MMUs, even though KVM could fairly
easily know that mmu_lock is held for write.  If mmu_lock is held for
write, there cannot be contention for the inner spinlock, and marking
shadow pages unsync across multiple vCPUs will be slow enough that
bouncing the kvm_arch cacheline should be in the noise.

Note, even though L2 could theoretically be given access to its own EPT
entries, a nested MMU must hold mmu_lock for write and thus cannot race
against a TDP MMU page fault.  I.e. the additional spinlock only _needs_ to
be taken by the TDP MMU, as opposed to being taken by any MMU for a VM
that is running with the TDP MMU enabled.  Holding mmu_lock for read also
prevents the indirect shadow page from being freed.  But as above, keep
it simple and always take the lock.

Alternative #1, the TDP MMU could simply pass "false" for can_unsync and
effectively disable unsync behavior for nested TDP.  Write protecting leaf
shadow pages is unlikely to noticeably impact traditional L1 VMMs, as such
VMMs typically don't modify TDP entries, but the same may not hold true for
non-standard use cases and/or VMMs that are migrating physical pages (from
L1's perspective).

Alternative #2, the unsync logic could be made thread safe.  In theory,
simply converting all relevant kvm_mmu_page fields to atomics and using
atomic bitops for the bitmap would suffice.  However, (a) an in-depth audit
would be required, (b) the code churn would be substantial, and (c) legacy
shadow paging would incur additional atomic operations in performance
sensitive paths for no benefit (to legacy shadow paging).

Fixes: a2855afc7ee8 ("KVM: x86/mmu: Allow parallel page faults for the TDP MMU")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Ben Gardon &lt;bgardon@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;20210812181815.3378104-1-seanjc@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86/fpu: Return proper error codes from user access functions</title>
<updated>2021-07-20T14:00:25Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
</author>
<published>2021-06-23T12:02:30Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit aee8c67a4faa40a8df4e79316dbfc92d123989c1 ]

When *RSTOR from user memory raises an exception, there is no way to
differentiate them. That's bad because it forces the slow path even when
the failure was not a fault. If the operation raised eg. #GP then going
through the slow path is pointless.

Use _ASM_EXTABLE_FAULT() which stores the trap number and let the exception
fixup return the negated trap number as error.

This allows to separate the fast path and let it handle faults directly and
avoid the slow path for all other exceptions.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210623121457.601480369@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86/sev: Split up runtime #VC handler for correct state tracking</title>
<updated>2021-07-14T15:06:48Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Joerg Roedel</name>
</author>
<published>2021-06-18T11:54:09Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit be1a5408868af341f61f93c191b5e346ee88c82a ]

Split up the #VC handler code into a from-user and a from-kernel part.
This allows clean and correct state tracking, as the #VC handler needs
to enter NMI-state when raised from kernel mode and plain IRQ state when
raised from user-mode.

Fixes: 62441a1fb532 ("x86/sev-es: Correctly track IRQ states in runtime #VC handler")
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel &lt;jroedel@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210618115409.22735-3-joro@8bytes.org
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>KVM: nVMX: Sync all PGDs on nested transition with shadow paging</title>
<updated>2021-07-14T15:06:46Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Sean Christopherson</name>
</author>
<published>2021-06-09T23:42:21Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit 07ffaf343e34b555c9e7ea39a9c81c439a706f13 ]

Trigger a full TLB flush on behalf of the guest on nested VM-Enter and
VM-Exit when VPID is disabled for L2.  kvm_mmu_new_pgd() syncs only the
current PGD, which can theoretically leave stale, unsync'd entries in a
previous guest PGD, which could be consumed if L2 is allowed to load CR3
with PCID_NOFLUSH=1.

Rename KVM_REQ_HV_TLB_FLUSH to KVM_REQ_TLB_FLUSH_GUEST so that it can
be utilized for its obvious purpose of emulating a guest TLB flush.

Note, there is no change the actual TLB flush executed by KVM, even
though the fast PGD switch uses KVM_REQ_TLB_FLUSH_CURRENT.  When VPID is
disabled for L2, vpid02 is guaranteed to be '0', and thus
nested_get_vpid02() will return the VPID that is shared by L1 and L2.

Generate the request outside of kvm_mmu_new_pgd(), as getting the common
helper to correctly identify which requested is needed is quite painful.
E.g. using KVM_REQ_TLB_FLUSH_GUEST when nested EPT is in play is wrong as
a TLB flush from the L1 kernel's perspective does not invalidate EPT
mappings.  And, by using KVM_REQ_TLB_FLUSH_GUEST, nVMX can do future
simplification by moving the logic into nested_vmx_transition_tlb_flush().

Fixes: 41fab65e7c44 ("KVM: nVMX: Skip MMU sync on nested VMX transition when possible")
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;20210609234235.1244004-2-seanjc@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86/elf: Use _BITUL() macro in UAPI headers</title>
<updated>2021-07-14T15:06:41Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Joe Richey</name>
</author>
<published>2021-05-21T08:58:42Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit d06aca989c243dd9e5d3e20aa4e5c2ecfdd07050 ]

Replace BIT() in x86's UAPI header with _BITUL(). BIT() is not defined
in the UAPI headers and its usage may cause userspace build errors.

Fixes: 742c45c3ecc9 ("x86/elf: Enumerate kernel FSGSBASE capability in AT_HWCAP2")
Signed-off-by: Joe Richey &lt;joerichey@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210521085849.37676-2-joerichey94@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>perf/x86: Reset the dirty counter to prevent the leak for an RDPMC task</title>
<updated>2021-07-14T15:06:27Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Kan Liang</name>
</author>
<published>2021-06-14T17:59:42Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit 5471eea5d3bf850316f1064a6f57b34c444bce67 ]

The counter value of a perf task may leak to another RDPMC task.
For example, a perf stat task as below is running on CPU 0.

    perf stat -e 'branches,cycles' -- taskset -c 0 ./workload

In the meantime, an RDPMC task, which is also running on CPU 0, may read
the GP counters periodically. (The RDPMC task creates a fixed event,
but read four GP counters.)

    $./rdpmc_read_all_counters
    index 0x0 value 0x8001e5970f99
    index 0x1 value 0x8005d750edb6
    index 0x2 value 0x0
    index 0x3 value 0x0

    index 0x0 value 0x8002358e48a5
    index 0x1 value 0x8006bd1e3bc9
    index 0x2 value 0x0
    index 0x3 value 0x0

It is a potential security issue. Once the attacker knows what the other
thread is counting. The PerfMon counter can be used as a side-channel to
attack cryptosystems.

The counter value of the perf stat task leaks to the RDPMC task because
perf never clears the counter when it's stopped.

Three methods were considered to address the issue.

 - Unconditionally reset the counter in x86_pmu_del(). It can bring extra
   overhead even when there is no RDPMC task running.

 - Only reset the un-assigned dirty counters when the RDPMC task is
   scheduled in via sched_task(). It fails for the below case.

	Thread A			Thread B

	clone(CLONE_THREAD) ---&gt;
	set_affine(0)
					set_affine(1)
					while (!event-enabled)
						;
	event = perf_event_open()
	mmap(event)
	ioctl(event, IOC_ENABLE); ---&gt;
					RDPMC

   Counters are still leaked to the thread B.

 - Only reset the un-assigned dirty counters before updating the CR4.PCE
   bit. The method is implemented here.

The dirty counter is a counter, on which the assigned event has been
deleted, but the counter is not reset. To track the dirty counters,
add a 'dirty' variable in the struct cpu_hw_events.

The security issue can only be found with an RDPMC task. To enable the
RDMPC, the CR4.PCE bit has to be updated. Add a
perf_clear_dirty_counters() right before updating the CR4.PCE bit to
clear the existing dirty counters. Only the current un-assigned dirty
counters are reset, because the RDPMC assigned dirty counters will be
updated soon.

After applying the patch,

        $ ./rdpmc_read_all_counters
        index 0x0 value 0x0
        index 0x1 value 0x0
        index 0x2 value 0x0
        index 0x3 value 0x0

        index 0x0 value 0x0
        index 0x1 value 0x0
        index 0x2 value 0x0
        index 0x3 value 0x0

Performance

The performance of a context switch only be impacted when there are two
or more perf users and one of the users must be an RDPMC user. In other
cases, there is no performance impact.

The worst-case occurs when there are two users: the RDPMC user only
uses one counter; while the other user uses all available counters.
When the RDPMC task is scheduled in, all the counters, other than the
RDPMC assigned one, have to be reset.

Test results for the worst-case, using a modified lat_ctx as measured
on an Ice Lake platform, which has 8 GP and 3 FP counters (ignoring
SLOTS).

    lat_ctx -s 128K -N 1000 processes 2

Without the patch:
  The context switch time is 4.97 us

With the patch:
  The context switch time is 5.16 us

There is ~4% performance drop for the context switching time in the
worst-case.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang &lt;kan.liang@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1623693582-187370-1-git-send-email-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>sched/core: Initialize the idle task with preemption disabled</title>
<updated>2021-07-14T15:06:21Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Valentin Schneider</name>
</author>
<published>2021-05-12T09:46:36Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit f1a0a376ca0c4ef1fc3d24e3e502acbb5b795674 ]

As pointed out by commit

  de9b8f5dcbd9 ("sched: Fix crash trying to dequeue/enqueue the idle thread")

init_idle() can and will be invoked more than once on the same idle
task. At boot time, it is invoked for the boot CPU thread by
sched_init(). Then smp_init() creates the threads for all the secondary
CPUs and invokes init_idle() on them.

As the hotplug machinery brings the secondaries to life, it will issue
calls to idle_thread_get(), which itself invokes init_idle() yet again.
In this case it's invoked twice more per secondary: at _cpu_up(), and at
bringup_cpu().

Given smp_init() already initializes the idle tasks for all *possible*
CPUs, no further initialization should be required. Now, removing
init_idle() from idle_thread_get() exposes some interesting expectations
with regards to the idle task's preempt_count: the secondary startup always
issues a preempt_disable(), requiring some reset of the preempt count to 0
between hot-unplug and hotplug, which is currently served by
idle_thread_get() -&gt; idle_init().

Given the idle task is supposed to have preemption disabled once and never
see it re-enabled, it seems that what we actually want is to initialize its
preempt_count to PREEMPT_DISABLED and leave it there. Do that, and remove
init_idle() from idle_thread_get().

Secondary startups were patched via coccinelle:

  @begone@
  @@

  -preempt_disable();
  ...
  cpu_startup_entry(CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_IDLE);

Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider &lt;valentin.schneider@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210512094636.2958515-1-valentin.schneider@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>KVM: x86: Force all MMUs to reinitialize if guest CPUID is modified</title>
<updated>2021-07-14T15:06:13Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Sean Christopherson</name>
</author>
<published>2021-06-22T17:56:51Z</published>
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commit 49c6f8756cdffeb9af1fbcb86bacacced26465d7 upstream.

Invalidate all MMUs' roles after a CPUID update to force reinitizliation
of the MMU context/helpers.  Despite the efforts of commit de3ccd26fafc
("KVM: MMU: record maximum physical address width in kvm_mmu_extended_role"),
there are still a handful of CPUID-based properties that affect MMU
behavior but are not incorporated into mmu_role.  E.g. 1gb hugepage
support, AMD vs. Intel handling of bit 8, and SEV's C-Bit location all
factor into the guest's reserved PTE bits.

The obvious alternative would be to add all such properties to mmu_role,
but doing so provides no benefit over simply forcing a reinitialization
on every CPUID update, as setting guest CPUID is a rare operation.

Note, reinitializing all MMUs after a CPUID update does not fix all of
KVM's woes.  Specifically, kvm_mmu_page_role doesn't track the CPUID
properties, which means that a vCPU can reuse shadow pages that should
not exist for the new vCPU model, e.g. that map GPAs that are now illegal
(due to MAXPHYADDR changes) or that set bits that are now reserved
(PAGE_SIZE for 1gb pages), etc...

Tracking the relevant CPUID properties in kvm_mmu_page_role would address
the majority of problems, but fully tracking that much state in the
shadow page role comes with an unpalatable cost as it would require a
non-trivial increase in KVM's memory footprint.  The GBPAGES case is even
worse, as neither Intel nor AMD provides a way to disable 1gb hugepage
support in the hardware page walker, i.e. it's a virtualization hole that
can't be closed when using TDP.

In other words, resetting the MMU after a CPUID update is largely a
superficial fix.  But, it will allow reverting the tracking of MAXPHYADDR
in the mmu_role, and that case in particular needs to mostly work because
KVM's shadow_root_level depends on guest MAXPHYADDR when 5-level paging
is supported.  For cases where KVM botches guest behavior, the damage is
limited to that guest.  But for the shadow_root_level, a misconfigured
MMU can cause KVM to incorrectly access memory, e.g. due to walking off
the end of its shadow page tables.

Fixes: 7dcd57552008 ("x86/kvm/mmu: check if tdp/shadow MMU reconfiguration is needed")
Cc: Yu Zhang &lt;yu.c.zhang@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;20210622175739.3610207-7-seanjc@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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