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<title>kernel.git/arch/x86/kernel/cpu, branch linux-4.18.y</title>
<subtitle>Hosts the 0x221E linux distro kernel.
</subtitle>
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<updated>2018-11-21T08:22:06Z</updated>
<entry>
<title>x86/hyper-v: Enable PIT shutdown quirk</title>
<updated>2018-11-21T08:22:06Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Kelley</name>
</author>
<published>2018-11-04T03:48:57Z</published>
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commit 1de72c706488b7be664a601cf3843bd01e327e58 upstream.

Hyper-V emulation of the PIT has a quirk such that the normal PIT shutdown
path doesn't work, because clearing the counter register restarts the
timer.

Disable the counter clearing on PIT shutdown.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kelley &lt;mikelley@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: "gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: "devel@linuxdriverproject.org" &lt;devel@linuxdriverproject.org&gt;
Cc: "daniel.lezcano@linaro.org" &lt;daniel.lezcano@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: "virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org" &lt;virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: "jgross@suse.com" &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Cc: "akataria@vmware.com" &lt;akataria@vmware.com&gt;
Cc: "olaf@aepfle.de" &lt;olaf@aepfle.de&gt;
Cc: "apw@canonical.com" &lt;apw@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: vkuznets &lt;vkuznets@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "jasowang@redhat.com" &lt;jasowang@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "marcelo.cerri@canonical.com" &lt;marcelo.cerri@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: KY Srinivasan &lt;kys@microsoft.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1541303219-11142-3-git-send-email-mikelley@microsoft.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/cpu/vmware: Do not trace vmware_sched_clock()</title>
<updated>2018-11-21T08:22:06Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (VMware)</name>
</author>
<published>2018-11-09T20:22:07Z</published>
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commit 15035388439f892017d38b05214d3cda6578af64 upstream.

When running function tracing on a Linux guest running on VMware
Workstation, the guest would crash. This is due to tracing of the
sched_clock internal call of the VMware vmware_sched_clock(), which
causes an infinite recursion within the tracing code (clock calls must
not be traced).

Make vmware_sched_clock() not traced by ftrace.

Fixes: 80e9a4f21fd7c ("x86/vmware: Add paravirt sched clock")
Reported-by: GwanYeong Kim &lt;gy741.kim@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
CC: Alok Kataria &lt;akataria@vmware.com&gt;
CC: GwanYeong Kim &lt;gy741.kim@gmail.com&gt;
CC: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
CC: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
CC: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
CC: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
CC: x86-ml &lt;x86@kernel.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181109152207.4d3e7d70@gandalf.local.home
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>acpi/nfit, x86/mce: Validate a MCE's address before using it</title>
<updated>2018-11-21T08:22:04Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Vishal Verma</name>
</author>
<published>2018-10-26T00:37:29Z</published>
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commit e8a308e5f47e545e0d41d0686c00f5f5217c5f61 upstream.

The NFIT machine check handler uses the physical address from the mce
structure, and compares it against information in the ACPI NFIT table
to determine whether that location lies on an NVDIMM. The mce-&gt;addr
field however may not always be valid, and this is indicated by the
MCI_STATUS_ADDRV bit in the status field.

Export mce_usable_address() which already performs validation for the
address, and use it in the NFIT handler.

Fixes: 6839a6d96f4e ("nfit: do an ARS scrub on hitting a latent media error")
Reported-by: Robert Elliott &lt;elliott@hpe.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vishal Verma &lt;vishal.l.verma@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
CC: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
CC: Dave Jiang &lt;dave.jiang@intel.com&gt;
CC: elliott@hpe.com
CC: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
CC: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
CC: Len Brown &lt;lenb@kernel.org&gt;
CC: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
CC: linux-edac &lt;linux-edac@vger.kernel.org&gt;
CC: linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org
CC: Qiuxu Zhuo &lt;qiuxu.zhuo@intel.com&gt;
CC: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rjw@rjwysocki.net&gt;
CC: Ross Zwisler &lt;zwisler@kernel.org&gt;
CC: stable &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
CC: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
CC: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
CC: x86-ml &lt;x86@kernel.org&gt;
CC: Yazen Ghannam &lt;yazen.ghannam@amd.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181026003729.8420-2-vishal.l.verma@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>acpi/nfit, x86/mce: Handle only uncorrectable machine checks</title>
<updated>2018-11-21T08:22:04Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Vishal Verma</name>
</author>
<published>2018-10-26T00:37:28Z</published>
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commit 5d96c9342c23ee1d084802dcf064caa67ecaa45b upstream.

The MCE handler for nfit devices is called for memory errors on a
Non-Volatile DIMM and adds the error location to a 'badblocks' list.
This list is used by the various NVDIMM drivers to avoid consuming known
poison locations during IO.

The MCE handler gets called for both corrected and uncorrectable errors.
Until now, both kinds of errors have been added to the badblocks list.
However, corrected memory errors indicate that the problem has already
been fixed by hardware, and the resulting interrupt is merely a
notification to Linux.

As far as future accesses to that location are concerned, it is
perfectly fine to use, and thus doesn't need to be included in the above
badblocks list.

Add a check in the nfit MCE handler to filter out corrected mce events,
and only process uncorrectable errors.

Fixes: 6839a6d96f4e ("nfit: do an ARS scrub on hitting a latent media error")
Reported-by: Omar Avelar &lt;omar.avelar@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vishal Verma &lt;vishal.l.verma@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
CC: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
CC: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
CC: Dave Jiang &lt;dave.jiang@intel.com&gt;
CC: elliott@hpe.com
CC: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
CC: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
CC: Len Brown &lt;lenb@kernel.org&gt;
CC: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
CC: linux-edac &lt;linux-edac@vger.kernel.org&gt;
CC: linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org
CC: Qiuxu Zhuo &lt;qiuxu.zhuo@intel.com&gt;
CC: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rjw@rjwysocki.net&gt;
CC: Ross Zwisler &lt;zwisler@kernel.org&gt;
CC: stable &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
CC: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
CC: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
CC: x86-ml &lt;x86@kernel.org&gt;
CC: Yazen Ghannam &lt;yazen.ghannam@amd.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181026003729.8420-1-vishal.l.verma@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/intel_rdt: Show missing resctrl mount options</title>
<updated>2018-11-13T19:12:22Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Xiaochen Shen</name>
</author>
<published>2018-09-12T23:48:38Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit 2cc81c6992248ea37d0241bc325977bab310bc3b ]

In resctrl filesystem, mount options exist to enable L3/L2 CDP and MBA
Software Controller features if the platform supports them:

 mount -t resctrl resctrl [-o cdp[,cdpl2][,mba_MBps]] /sys/fs/resctrl

But currently only "cdp" option is displayed in /proc/mounts. "cdpl2" and
"mba_MBps" options are not shown even when they are active.

Before:
 # mount -t resctrl resctrl -o cdp,mba_MBps /sys/fs/resctrl
 # grep resctrl /proc/mounts
 /sys/fs/resctrl /sys/fs/resctrl resctrl rw,relatime,cdp 0 0

After:
 # mount -t resctrl resctrl -o cdp,mba_MBps /sys/fs/resctrl
 # grep resctrl /proc/mounts
 /sys/fs/resctrl /sys/fs/resctrl resctrl rw,relatime,cdp,mba_MBps 0 0

Signed-off-by: Xiaochen Shen &lt;xiaochen.shen@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: "H Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: "Tony Luck" &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1536796118-60135-1-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/speculation: Support Enhanced IBRS on future CPUs</title>
<updated>2018-11-13T19:12:15Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Sai Praneeth</name>
</author>
<published>2018-08-01T18:42:25Z</published>
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commit 706d51681d636a0c4a5ef53395ec3b803e45ed4d upstream.

Future Intel processors will support "Enhanced IBRS" which is an "always
on" mode i.e. IBRS bit in SPEC_CTRL MSR is enabled once and never
disabled.

From the specification [1]:

 "With enhanced IBRS, the predicted targets of indirect branches
  executed cannot be controlled by software that was executed in a less
  privileged predictor mode or on another logical processor. As a
  result, software operating on a processor with enhanced IBRS need not
  use WRMSR to set IA32_SPEC_CTRL.IBRS after every transition to a more
  privileged predictor mode. Software can isolate predictor modes
  effectively simply by setting the bit once. Software need not disable
  enhanced IBRS prior to entering a sleep state such as MWAIT or HLT."

If Enhanced IBRS is supported by the processor then use it as the
preferred spectre v2 mitigation mechanism instead of Retpoline. Intel's
Retpoline white paper [2] states:

 "Retpoline is known to be an effective branch target injection (Spectre
  variant 2) mitigation on Intel processors belonging to family 6
  (enumerated by the CPUID instruction) that do not have support for
  enhanced IBRS. On processors that support enhanced IBRS, it should be
  used for mitigation instead of retpoline."

The reason why Enhanced IBRS is the recommended mitigation on processors
which support it is that these processors also support CET which
provides a defense against ROP attacks. Retpoline is very similar to ROP
techniques and might trigger false positives in the CET defense.

If Enhanced IBRS is selected as the mitigation technique for spectre v2,
the IBRS bit in SPEC_CTRL MSR is set once at boot time and never
cleared. Kernel also has to make sure that IBRS bit remains set after
VMEXIT because the guest might have cleared the bit. This is already
covered by the existing x86_spec_ctrl_set_guest() and
x86_spec_ctrl_restore_host() speculation control functions.

Enhanced IBRS still requires IBPB for full mitigation.

[1] Speculative-Execution-Side-Channel-Mitigations.pdf
[2] Retpoline-A-Branch-Target-Injection-Mitigation.pdf
Both documents are available at:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199511

Originally-by: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw@amazon.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sai Praneeth Prakhya &lt;sai.praneeth.prakhya@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Tim C Chen &lt;tim.c.chen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ravi Shankar &lt;ravi.v.shankar@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1533148945-24095-1-git-send-email-sai.praneeth.prakhya@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/speculation: Enable cross-hyperthread spectre v2 STIBP mitigation</title>
<updated>2018-11-13T19:12:15Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Kosina</name>
</author>
<published>2018-09-25T12:38:55Z</published>
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commit 53c613fe6349994f023245519265999eed75957f upstream.

STIBP is a feature provided by certain Intel ucodes / CPUs. This feature
(once enabled) prevents cross-hyperthread control of decisions made by
indirect branch predictors.

Enable this feature if

- the CPU is vulnerable to spectre v2
- the CPU supports SMT and has SMT siblings online
- spectre_v2 mitigation autoselection is enabled (default)

After some previous discussion, this leaves STIBP on all the time, as wrmsr
on crossing kernel boundary is a no-no. This could perhaps later be a bit
more optimized (like disabling it in NOHZ, experiment with disabling it in
idle, etc) if needed.

Note that the synchronization of the mask manipulation via newly added
spec_ctrl_mutex is currently not strictly needed, as the only updater is
already being serialized by cpu_add_remove_lock, but let's make this a
little bit more future-proof.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc:  "WoodhouseDavid" &lt;dwmw@amazon.co.uk&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Tim Chen &lt;tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc:  "SchauflerCasey" &lt;casey.schaufler@intel.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/nycvar.YFH.7.76.1809251438240.15880@cbobk.fhfr.pm
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/microcode: Update the new microcode revision unconditionally</title>
<updated>2018-09-19T20:41:23Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Filippo Sironi</name>
</author>
<published>2018-07-31T15:29:30Z</published>
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commit 8da38ebaad23fe1b0c4a205438676f6356607cfc upstream.

Handle the case where microcode gets loaded on the BSP's hyperthread
sibling first and the boot_cpu_data's microcode revision doesn't get
updated because of early exit due to the siblings sharing a microcode
engine.

For that, simply write the updated revision on all CPUs unconditionally.

Signed-off-by: Filippo Sironi &lt;sironi@amazon.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: prarit@redhat.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1533050970-14385-1-git-send-email-sironi@amazon.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/microcode: Make sure boot_cpu_data.microcode is up-to-date</title>
<updated>2018-09-19T20:41:23Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Prarit Bhargava</name>
</author>
<published>2018-07-31T11:27:39Z</published>
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commit 370a132bb2227ff76278f98370e0e701d86ff752 upstream.

When preparing an MCE record for logging, boot_cpu_data.microcode is used
to read out the microcode revision on the box.

However, on systems where late microcode update has happened, the microcode
revision output in a MCE log record is wrong because
boot_cpu_data.microcode is not updated when the microcode gets updated.

But, the microcode revision saved in boot_cpu_data's microcode member
should be kept up-to-date, regardless, for consistency.

Make it so.

Fixes: fa94d0c6e0f3 ("x86/MCE: Save microcode revision in machine check records")
Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava &lt;prarit@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: sironi@amazon.de
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180731112739.32338-1-prarit@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/speculation/l1tf: Increase l1tf memory limit for Nehalem+</title>
<updated>2018-09-05T07:29:51Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Andi Kleen</name>
</author>
<published>2018-08-24T17:03:50Z</published>
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commit cc51e5428ea54f575d49cfcede1d4cb3a72b4ec4 upstream.

On Nehalem and newer core CPUs the CPU cache internally uses 44 bits
physical address space. The L1TF workaround is limited by this internal
cache address width, and needs to have one bit free there for the
mitigation to work.

Older client systems report only 36bit physical address space so the range
check decides that L1TF is not mitigated for a 36bit phys/32GB system with
some memory holes.

But since these actually have the larger internal cache width this warning
is bogus because it would only really be needed if the system had more than
43bits of memory.

Add a new internal x86_cache_bits field. Normally it is the same as the
physical bits field reported by CPUID, but for Nehalem and newerforce it to
be at least 44bits.

Change the L1TF memory size warning to use the new cache_bits field to
avoid bogus warnings and remove the bogus comment about memory size.

Fixes: 17dbca119312 ("x86/speculation/l1tf: Add sysfs reporting for l1tf")
Reported-by: George Anchev &lt;studio@anchev.net&gt;
Reported-by: Christopher Snowhill &lt;kode54@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Michael Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: vbabka@suse.cz
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180824170351.34874-1-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</content>
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