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<title>kernel.git/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c, branch linux-5.19.y</title>
<subtitle>Hosts the 0x221E linux distro kernel.
</subtitle>
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<updated>2022-10-05T08:40:54Z</updated>
<entry>
<title>x86/alternative: Fix race in try_get_desc()</title>
<updated>2022-10-05T08:40:54Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Nadav Amit</name>
</author>
<published>2022-09-21T18:09:32Z</published>
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commit efd608fa7403ba106412b437f873929e2c862e28 upstream.

I encountered some occasional crashes of poke_int3_handler() when
kprobes are set, while accessing desc-&gt;vec.

The text poke mechanism claims to have an RCU-like behavior, but it
does not appear that there is any quiescent state to ensure that
nobody holds reference to desc. As a result, the following race
appears to be possible, which can lead to memory corruption.

  CPU0					CPU1
  ----					----
  text_poke_bp_batch()
  -&gt; smp_store_release(&amp;bp_desc, &amp;desc)

  [ notice that desc is on
    the stack			]

					poke_int3_handler()

					[ int3 might be kprobe's
					  so sync events are do not
					  help ]

					-&gt; try_get_desc(descp=&amp;bp_desc)
					   desc = __READ_ONCE(bp_desc)

					   if (!desc) [false, success]
  WRITE_ONCE(bp_desc, NULL);
  atomic_dec_and_test(&amp;desc.refs)

  [ success, desc space on the stack
    is being reused and might have
    non-zero value. ]
					arch_atomic_inc_not_zero(&amp;desc-&gt;refs)

					[ might succeed since desc points to
					  stack memory that was freed and might
					  be reused. ]

Fix this issue with small backportable patch. Instead of trying to
make RCU-like behavior for bp_desc, just eliminate the unnecessary
level of indirection of bp_desc, and hold the whole descriptor as a
global.  Anyhow, there is only a single descriptor at any given
moment.

Fixes: 1f676247f36a4 ("x86/alternatives: Implement a better poke_int3_handler() completion scheme")
Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit &lt;namit@vmware.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220920224743.3089-1-namit@vmware.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/alternative: Report missing return thunk details</title>
<updated>2022-07-20T17:24:53Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
</author>
<published>2022-07-13T21:38:19Z</published>
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Debugging missing return thunks is easier if we can see where they're
happening.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/Ys66hwtFcGbYmoiZ@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net/
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/retbleed: Add fine grained Kconfig knobs</title>
<updated>2022-06-29T15:43:41Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
</author>
<published>2022-06-27T22:21:17Z</published>
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Do fine-grained Kconfig for all the various retbleed parts.

NOTE: if your compiler doesn't support return thunks this will
silently 'upgrade' your mitigation to IBPB, you might not like this.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86,static_call: Use alternative RET encoding</title>
<updated>2022-06-27T08:33:58Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
</author>
<published>2022-06-14T21:15:39Z</published>
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In addition to teaching static_call about the new way to spell 'RET',
there is an added complication in that static_call() is allowed to
rewrite text before it is known which particular spelling is required.

In order to deal with this; have a static_call specific fixup in the
apply_return() 'alternative' patching routine that will rewrite the
static_call trampoline to match the definite sequence.

This in turn creates the problem of uniquely identifying static call
trampolines. Currently trampolines are 8 bytes, the first 5 being the
jmp.d32/ret sequence and the final 3 a byte sequence that spells out
'SCT'.

This sequence is used in __static_call_validate() to ensure it is
patching a trampoline and not a random other jmp.d32. That is,
false-positives shouldn't be plenty, but aren't a big concern.

OTOH the new __static_call_fixup() must not have false-positives, and
'SCT' decodes to the somewhat weird but semi plausible sequence:

  push %rbx
  rex.XB push %r12

Additionally, there are SLS concerns with immediate jumps. Combined it
seems like a good moment to change the signature to a single 3 byte
trap instruction that is unique to this usage and will not ever get
generated by accident.

As such, change the signature to: '0x0f, 0xb9, 0xcc', which decodes
to:

  ud1 %esp, %ecx

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86: Undo return-thunk damage</title>
<updated>2022-06-27T08:33:58Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
</author>
<published>2022-06-14T21:15:37Z</published>
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Introduce X86_FEATURE_RETHUNK for those afflicted with needing this.

  [ bp: Do only INT3 padding - simpler. ]

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'net-next-5.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next</title>
<updated>2022-05-25T19:22:58Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
</author>
<published>2022-05-25T19:22:58Z</published>
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Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
 "Core
  ----

   - Support TCPv6 segmentation offload with super-segments larger than
     64k bytes using the IPv6 Jumbogram extension header (AKA BIG TCP).

   - Generalize skb freeing deferral to per-cpu lists, instead of
     per-socket lists.

   - Add a netdev statistic for packets dropped due to L2 address
     mismatch (rx_otherhost_dropped).

   - Continue work annotating skb drop reasons.

   - Accept alternative netdev names (ALT_IFNAME) in more netlink
     requests.

   - Add VLAN support for AF_PACKET SOCK_RAW GSO.

   - Allow receiving skb mark from the socket as a cmsg.

   - Enable memcg accounting for veth queues, sysctl tables and IPv6.

  BPF
  ---

   - Add libbpf support for User Statically-Defined Tracing (USDTs).

   - Speed up symbol resolution for kprobes multi-link attachments.

   - Support storing typed pointers to referenced and unreferenced
     objects in BPF maps.

   - Add support for BPF link iterator.

   - Introduce access to remote CPU map elements in BPF per-cpu map.

   - Allow middle-of-the-road settings for the
     kernel.unprivileged_bpf_disabled sysctl.

   - Implement basic types of dynamic pointers e.g. to allow for
     dynamically sized ringbuf reservations without extra memory copies.

  Protocols
  ---------

   - Retire port only listening_hash table, add a second bind table
     hashed by port and address. Avoid linear list walk when binding to
     very popular ports (e.g. 443).

   - Add bridge FDB bulk flush filtering support allowing user space to
     remove all FDB entries matching a condition.

   - Introduce accept_unsolicited_na sysctl for IPv6 to implement
     router-side changes for RFC9131.

   - Support for MPTCP path manager in user space.

   - Add MPTCP support for fallback to regular TCP for connections that
     have never connected additional subflows or transmitted
     out-of-sequence data (partial support for RFC8684 fallback).

   - Avoid races in MPTCP-level window tracking, stabilize and improve
     throughput.

   - Support lockless operation of GRE tunnels with seq numbers enabled.

   - WiFi support for host based BSS color collision detection.

   - Add support for SO_TXTIME/SCM_TXTIME on CAN sockets.

   - Support transmission w/o flow control in CAN ISOTP (ISO 15765-2).

   - Support zero-copy Tx with TLS 1.2 crypto offload (sendfile).

   - Allow matching on the number of VLAN tags via tc-flower.

   - Add tracepoint for tcp_set_ca_state().

  Driver API
  ----------

   - Improve error reporting from classifier and action offload.

   - Add support for listing line cards in switches (devlink).

   - Add helpers for reporting page pool statistics with ethtool -S.

   - Add support for reading clock cycles when using PTP virtual clocks,
     instead of having the driver convert to time before reporting. This
     makes it possible to report time from different vclocks.

   - Support configuring low-latency Tx descriptor push via ethtool.

   - Separate Clause 22 and Clause 45 MDIO accesses more explicitly.

  New hardware / drivers
  ----------------------

   - Ethernet:
      - Marvell's Octeon NIC PCI Endpoint support (octeon_ep)
      - Sunplus SP7021 SoC (sp7021_emac)
      - Add support for Renesas RZ/V2M (in ravb)
      - Add support for MediaTek mt7986 switches (in mtk_eth_soc)

   - Ethernet PHYs:
      - ADIN1100 industrial PHYs (w/ 10BASE-T1L and SQI reporting)
      - TI DP83TD510 PHY
      - Microchip LAN8742/LAN88xx PHYs

   - WiFi:
      - Driver for pureLiFi X, XL, XC devices (plfxlc)
      - Driver for Silicon Labs devices (wfx)
      - Support for WCN6750 (in ath11k)
      - Support Realtek 8852ce devices (in rtw89)

   - Mobile:
      - MediaTek T700 modems (Intel 5G 5000 M.2 cards)

   - CAN:
      - ctucanfd: add support for CTU CAN FD open-source IP core from
        Czech Technical University in Prague

  Drivers
  -------

   - Delete a number of old drivers still using virt_to_bus().

   - Ethernet NICs:
      - intel: support TSO on tunnels MPLS
      - broadcom: support multi-buffer XDP
      - nfp: support VF rate limiting
      - sfc: use hardware tx timestamps for more than PTP
      - mlx5: multi-port eswitch support
      - hyper-v: add support for XDP_REDIRECT
      - atlantic: XDP support (including multi-buffer)
      - macb: improve real-time perf by deferring Tx processing to NAPI

   - High-speed Ethernet switches:
      - mlxsw: implement basic line card information querying
      - prestera: add support for traffic policing on ingress and egress

   - Embedded Ethernet switches:
      - lan966x: add support for packet DMA (FDMA)
      - lan966x: add support for PTP programmable pins
      - ti: cpsw_new: enable bc/mc storm prevention

   - Qualcomm 802.11ax WiFi (ath11k):
      - Wake-on-WLAN support for QCA6390 and WCN6855
      - device recovery (firmware restart) support
      - support setting Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) for WCN6855
      - read country code from SMBIOS for WCN6855/QCA6390
      - enable keep-alive during WoWLAN suspend
      - implement remain-on-channel support

   - MediaTek WiFi (mt76):
      - support Wireless Ethernet Dispatch offloading packet movement
        between the Ethernet switch and WiFi interfaces
      - non-standard VHT MCS10-11 support
      - mt7921 AP mode support
      - mt7921 IPv6 NS offload support

   - Ethernet PHYs:
      - micrel: ksz9031/ksz9131: cabletest support
      - lan87xx: SQI support for T1 PHYs
      - lan937x: add interrupt support for link detection"

* tag 'net-next-5.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1809 commits)
  ptp: ocp: Add firmware header checks
  ptp: ocp: fix PPS source selector debugfs reporting
  ptp: ocp: add .init function for sma_op vector
  ptp: ocp: vectorize the sma accessor functions
  ptp: ocp: constify selectors
  ptp: ocp: parameterize input/output sma selectors
  ptp: ocp: revise firmware display
  ptp: ocp: add Celestica timecard PCI ids
  ptp: ocp: Remove #ifdefs around PCI IDs
  ptp: ocp: 32-bit fixups for pci start address
  Revert "net/smc: fix listen processing for SMC-Rv2"
  ath6kl: Use cc-disable-warning to disable -Wdangling-pointer
  selftests/bpf: Dynptr tests
  bpf: Add dynptr data slices
  bpf: Add bpf_dynptr_read and bpf_dynptr_write
  bpf: Dynptr support for ring buffers
  bpf: Add bpf_dynptr_from_mem for local dynptrs
  bpf: Add verifier support for dynptrs
  bpf: Suppress 'passing zero to PTR_ERR' warning
  bpf: Introduce bpf_arch_text_invalidate for bpf_prog_pack
  ...
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<entry>
<title>x86/alternative: Introduce text_poke_set</title>
<updated>2022-05-23T21:07:38Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Song Liu</name>
</author>
<published>2022-05-20T23:57:52Z</published>
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Introduce a memset like API for text_poke. This will be used to fill the
unused RX memory with illegal instructions.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Song Liu &lt;song@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20220520235758.1858153-3-song@kernel.org
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>objtool: Add CONFIG_OBJTOOL</title>
<updated>2022-04-22T10:32:03Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Josh Poimboeuf</name>
</author>
<published>2022-04-18T16:50:36Z</published>
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Now that stack validation is an optional feature of objtool, add
CONFIG_OBJTOOL and replace most usages of CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION with
it.

CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION can now be considered to be frame-pointer
specific.  CONFIG_UNWINDER_ORC is already inherently valid for live
patching, so no need to "validate" it.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes &lt;mbenes@suse.cz&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/939bf3d85604b2a126412bf11af6e3bd3b872bcb.1650300597.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'x86_core_for_5.18_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2022-03-27T17:17:23Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
</author>
<published>2022-03-27T17:17:23Z</published>
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Pull x86 CET-IBT (Control-Flow-Integrity) support from Peter Zijlstra:
 "Add support for Intel CET-IBT, available since Tigerlake (11th gen),
  which is a coarse grained, hardware based, forward edge
  Control-Flow-Integrity mechanism where any indirect CALL/JMP must
  target an ENDBR instruction or suffer #CP.

  Additionally, since Alderlake (12th gen)/Sapphire-Rapids, speculation
  is limited to 2 instructions (and typically fewer) on branch targets
  not starting with ENDBR. CET-IBT also limits speculation of the next
  sequential instruction after the indirect CALL/JMP [1].

  CET-IBT is fundamentally incompatible with retpolines, but provides,
  as described above, speculation limits itself"

[1] https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/technical/software-security-guidance/technical-documentation/branch-history-injection.html

* tag 'x86_core_for_5.18_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (53 commits)
  kvm/emulate: Fix SETcc emulation for ENDBR
  x86/Kconfig: Only allow CONFIG_X86_KERNEL_IBT with ld.lld &gt;= 14.0.0
  x86/Kconfig: Only enable CONFIG_CC_HAS_IBT for clang &gt;= 14.0.0
  kbuild: Fixup the IBT kbuild changes
  x86/Kconfig: Do not allow CONFIG_X86_X32_ABI=y with llvm-objcopy
  x86: Remove toolchain check for X32 ABI capability
  x86/alternative: Use .ibt_endbr_seal to seal indirect calls
  objtool: Find unused ENDBR instructions
  objtool: Validate IBT assumptions
  objtool: Add IBT/ENDBR decoding
  objtool: Read the NOENDBR annotation
  x86: Annotate idtentry_df()
  x86,objtool: Move the ASM_REACHABLE annotation to objtool.h
  x86: Annotate call_on_stack()
  objtool: Rework ASM_REACHABLE
  x86: Mark __invalid_creds() __noreturn
  exit: Mark do_group_exit() __noreturn
  x86: Mark stop_this_cpu() __noreturn
  objtool: Ignore extra-symbol code
  objtool: Rename --duplicate to --lto
  ...
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/alternative: Use .ibt_endbr_seal to seal indirect calls</title>
<updated>2022-03-15T09:32:47Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
</author>
<published>2022-03-08T15:30:56Z</published>
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<content type='text'>
Objtool's --ibt option generates .ibt_endbr_seal which lists
superfluous ENDBR instructions. That is those instructions for which
the function is never indirectly called.

Overwrite these ENDBR instructions with a NOP4 such that these
function can never be indirect called, reducing the number of viable
ENDBR targets in the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220308154319.822545231@infradead.org
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