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<title>kernel.git/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c, branch linux-5.8.y</title>
<subtitle>Hosts the 0x221E linux distro kernel.
</subtitle>
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<updated>2020-10-29T09:08:17Z</updated>
<entry>
<title>x86/asm: Replace __force_order with a memory clobber</title>
<updated>2020-10-29T09:08:17Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Arvind Sankar</name>
</author>
<published>2020-09-02T23:21:52Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit aa5cacdc29d76a005cbbee018a47faa6e724dd2d ]

The CRn accessor functions use __force_order as a dummy operand to
prevent the compiler from reordering CRn reads/writes with respect to
each other.

The fact that the asm is volatile should be enough to prevent this:
volatile asm statements should be executed in program order. However GCC
4.9.x and 5.x have a bug that might result in reordering. This was fixed
in 8.1, 7.3 and 6.5. Versions prior to these, including 5.x and 4.9.x,
may reorder volatile asm statements with respect to each other.

There are some issues with __force_order as implemented:
- It is used only as an input operand for the write functions, and hence
  doesn't do anything additional to prevent reordering writes.
- It allows memory accesses to be cached/reordered across write
  functions, but CRn writes affect the semantics of memory accesses, so
  this could be dangerous.
- __force_order is not actually defined in the kernel proper, but the
  LLVM toolchain can in some cases require a definition: LLVM (as well
  as GCC 4.9) requires it for PIE code, which is why the compressed
  kernel has a definition, but also the clang integrated assembler may
  consider the address of __force_order to be significant, resulting in
  a reference that requires a definition.

Fix this by:
- Using a memory clobber for the write functions to additionally prevent
  caching/reordering memory accesses across CRn writes.
- Using a dummy input operand with an arbitrary constant address for the
  read functions, instead of a global variable. This will prevent reads
  from being reordered across writes, while allowing memory loads to be
  cached/reordered across CRn reads, which should be safe.

Signed-off-by: Arvind Sankar &lt;nivedita@alum.mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek &lt;sedat.dilek@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=82602
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200527135329.1172644-1-arnd@arndb.de/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200902232152.3709896-1-nivedita@alum.mit.edu
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/cpu: Use pinning mask for CR4 bits needing to be 0</title>
<updated>2020-06-18T09:41:32Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
</author>
<published>2020-06-09T03:15:09Z</published>
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The X86_CR4_FSGSBASE bit of CR4 should not change after boot[1]. Older
kernels should enforce this bit to zero, and newer kernels need to
enforce it depending on boot-time configuration (e.g. "nofsgsbase").
To support a pinned bit being either 1 or 0, use an explicit mask in
combination with the expected pinned bit values.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200527103147.GI325280@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/202006082013.71E29A42@keescook

</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/entry: Remove debug IDT frobbing</title>
<updated>2020-06-11T13:15:23Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
</author>
<published>2020-05-29T21:27:37Z</published>
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This is all unused now.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200529213321.245019500@infradead.org



</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/nmi: Protect NMI entry against instrumentation</title>
<updated>2020-06-11T13:14:58Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
</author>
<published>2020-04-06T13:55:06Z</published>
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Mark all functions in the fragile code parts noinstr or force inlining so
they can't be instrumented.

Also make the hardware latency tracer invocation explicit outside of
non-instrumentable section.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alexandre Chartre &lt;alexandre.chartre@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200505135314.716186134@linutronix.de




</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)</title>
<updated>2020-06-09T16:54:46Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
</author>
<published>2020-06-09T16:54:46Z</published>
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Merge even more updates from Andrew Morton:

 - a kernel-wide sweep of show_stack()

 - pagetable cleanups

 - abstract out accesses to mmap_sem - prep for mmap_sem scalability work

 - hch's user acess work

Subsystems affected by this patch series: debug, mm/pagemap, mm/maccess,
mm/documentation.

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (93 commits)
  include/linux/cache.h: expand documentation over __read_mostly
  maccess: return -ERANGE when probe_kernel_read() fails
  x86: use non-set_fs based maccess routines
  maccess: allow architectures to provide kernel probing directly
  maccess: move user access routines together
  maccess: always use strict semantics for probe_kernel_read
  maccess: remove strncpy_from_unsafe
  tracing/kprobes: handle mixed kernel/userspace probes better
  bpf: rework the compat kernel probe handling
  bpf:bpf_seq_printf(): handle potentially unsafe format string better
  bpf: handle the compat string in bpf_trace_copy_string better
  bpf: factor out a bpf_trace_copy_string helper
  maccess: unify the probe kernel arch hooks
  maccess: remove probe_read_common and probe_write_common
  maccess: rename strnlen_unsafe_user to strnlen_user_nofault
  maccess: rename strncpy_from_unsafe_strict to strncpy_from_kernel_nofault
  maccess: rename strncpy_from_unsafe_user to strncpy_from_user_nofault
  maccess: update the top of file comment
  maccess: clarify kerneldoc comments
  maccess: remove duplicate kerneldoc comments
  ...
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: reorder includes after introduction of linux/pgtable.h</title>
<updated>2020-06-09T16:39:13Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Rapoport</name>
</author>
<published>2020-06-09T04:32:42Z</published>
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The replacement of &lt;asm/pgrable.h&gt; with &lt;linux/pgtable.h&gt; made the include
of the latter in the middle of asm includes.  Fix this up with the aid of
the below script and manual adjustments here and there.

	import sys
	import re

	if len(sys.argv) is not 3:
	    print "USAGE: %s &lt;file&gt; &lt;header&gt;" % (sys.argv[0])
	    sys.exit(1)

	hdr_to_move="#include &lt;linux/%s&gt;" % sys.argv[2]
	moved = False
	in_hdrs = False

	with open(sys.argv[1], "r") as f:
	    lines = f.readlines()
	    for _line in lines:
		line = _line.rstrip('
')
		if line == hdr_to_move:
		    continue
		if line.startswith("#include &lt;linux/"):
		    in_hdrs = True
		elif not moved and in_hdrs:
		    moved = True
		    print hdr_to_move
		print line

Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Cain &lt;bcain@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Zankel &lt;chris@zankel.net&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Greentime Hu &lt;green.hu@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Ungerer &lt;gerg@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Guan Xuetao &lt;gxt@pku.edu.cn&gt;
Cc: Guo Ren &lt;guoren@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Ley Foon Tan &lt;ley.foon.tan@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Salter &lt;msalter@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Cc: Nick Hu &lt;nickhu@andestech.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Walmsley &lt;paul.walmsley@sifive.com&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Cc: Rich Felker &lt;dalias@libc.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Stafford Horne &lt;shorne@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Vincent Chen &lt;deanbo422@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Yoshinori Sato &lt;ysato@users.sourceforge.jp&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200514170327.31389-4-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: introduce include/linux/pgtable.h</title>
<updated>2020-06-09T16:39:13Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Rapoport</name>
</author>
<published>2020-06-09T04:32:38Z</published>
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The include/linux/pgtable.h is going to be the home of generic page table
manipulation functions.

Start with moving asm-generic/pgtable.h to include/linux/pgtable.h and
make the latter include asm/pgtable.h.

Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Cain &lt;bcain@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Zankel &lt;chris@zankel.net&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Greentime Hu &lt;green.hu@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Ungerer &lt;gerg@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Guan Xuetao &lt;gxt@pku.edu.cn&gt;
Cc: Guo Ren &lt;guoren@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Ley Foon Tan &lt;ley.foon.tan@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Salter &lt;msalter@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Cc: Nick Hu &lt;nickhu@andestech.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Walmsley &lt;paul.walmsley@sifive.com&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Cc: Rich Felker &lt;dalias@libc.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Stafford Horne &lt;shorne@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Vincent Chen &lt;deanbo422@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Yoshinori Sato &lt;ysato@users.sourceforge.jp&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200514170327.31389-3-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86/srbds' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2020-06-09T16:30:21Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
</author>
<published>2020-06-09T16:30:21Z</published>
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Pull x86 srbds fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
 "The 9th episode of the dime novel "The performance killer" with the
  subtitle "Slow Randomizing Boosts Denial of Service".

  SRBDS is an MDS-like speculative side channel that can leak bits from
  the random number generator (RNG) across cores and threads. New
  microcode serializes the processor access during the execution of
  RDRAND and RDSEED. This ensures that the shared buffer is overwritten
  before it is released for reuse. This is equivalent to a full bus
  lock, which means that many threads running the RNG instructions in
  parallel have the same effect as the same amount of threads issuing a
  locked instruction targeting an address which requires locking of two
  cachelines at once.

  The mitigation support comes with the usual pile of unpleasant
  ingredients:

   - command line options

   - sysfs file

   - microcode checks

   - a list of vulnerable CPUs identified by model and stepping this
     time which requires stepping match support for the cpu match logic.

   - the inevitable slowdown of affected CPUs"

* branch 'x86/srbds' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/speculation: Add Ivy Bridge to affected list
  x86/speculation: Add SRBDS vulnerability and mitigation documentation
  x86/speculation: Add Special Register Buffer Data Sampling (SRBDS) mitigation
  x86/cpu: Add 'table' argument to cpu_matches()
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'x86-mm-2020-06-05' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2020-06-05T18:18:53Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
</author>
<published>2020-06-05T18:18:53Z</published>
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Pull x86 mm updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Misc changes:

   - Unexport various PAT primitives

   - Unexport per-CPU tlbstate and uninline TLB helpers"

* tag 'x86-mm-2020-06-05' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (23 commits)
  x86/tlb/uv: Add a forward declaration for struct flush_tlb_info
  x86/cpu: Export native_write_cr4() only when CONFIG_LKTDM=m
  x86/tlb: Restrict access to tlbstate
  xen/privcmd: Remove unneeded asm/tlb.h include
  x86/tlb: Move PCID helpers where they are used
  x86/tlb: Uninline nmi_uaccess_okay()
  x86/tlb: Move cr4_set_bits_and_update_boot() to the usage site
  x86/tlb: Move paravirt_tlb_remove_table() to the usage site
  x86/tlb: Move __flush_tlb_all() out of line
  x86/tlb: Move flush_tlb_others() out of line
  x86/tlb: Move __flush_tlb_one_kernel() out of line
  x86/tlb: Move __flush_tlb_one_user() out of line
  x86/tlb: Move __flush_tlb_global() out of line
  x86/tlb: Move __flush_tlb() out of line
  x86/alternatives: Move temporary_mm helpers into C
  x86/cr4: Sanitize CR4.PCE update
  x86/cpu: Uninline CR4 accessors
  x86/tlb: Uninline __get_current_cr3_fast()
  x86/mm: Use pgprotval_t in protval_4k_2_large() and protval_large_2_4k()
  x86/mm: Unexport __cachemode2pte_tbl
  ...
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/resctrl: Query LLC monitoring properties once during boot</title>
<updated>2020-05-06T15:58:08Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Reinette Chatre</name>
</author>
<published>2020-05-05T22:36:15Z</published>
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Cache and memory bandwidth monitoring are features that are part of
x86 CPU resource control that is supported by the resctrl subsystem.
The monitoring properties are obtained via CPUID from every CPU
and only used within the resctrl subsystem where the properties are
only read from boot_cpu_data.

Obtain the monitoring properties once, placed in boot_cpu_data, via the
-&gt;c_bsp_init() helpers of the vendors that support X86_FEATURE_CQM_LLC.

Suggested-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre &lt;reinette.chatre@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/6d74a6ac3e69f4b7a8b4115835f9455faf0f468d.1588715690.git.reinette.chatre@intel.com
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