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<subtitle>Hosts the 0x221E linux distro kernel.
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<entry>
<title>x86/bugs: Flush IBP in ib_prctl_set()</title>
<updated>2023-01-12T11:00:45Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Rodrigo Branco</name>
</author>
<published>2023-01-03T20:17:51Z</published>
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commit a664ec9158eeddd75121d39c9a0758016097fa96 upstream.

We missed the window between the TIF flag update and the next reschedule.

Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Branco &lt;bsdaemon@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86/microcode/intel: Do not retry microcode reloading on the APs</title>
<updated>2023-01-07T10:15:51Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Ashok Raj</name>
</author>
<published>2022-11-29T21:08:27Z</published>
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commit be1b670f61443aa5d0d01782e9b8ea0ee825d018 upstream.

The retries in load_ucode_intel_ap() were in place to support systems
with mixed steppings. Mixed steppings are no longer supported and there is
only one microcode image at a time. Any retries will simply reattempt to
apply the same image over and over without making progress.

  [ bp: Zap the circumstantial reasoning from the commit message. ]

Fixes: 06b8534cb728 ("x86/microcode: Rework microcode loading")
Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj &lt;ashok.raj@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221129210832.107850-3-ashok.raj@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86/MCE/AMD: Clear DFR errors found in THR handler</title>
<updated>2023-01-07T10:15:46Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Yazen Ghannam</name>
</author>
<published>2022-06-21T15:59:43Z</published>
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commit bc1b705b0eee4c645ad8b3bbff3c8a66e9688362 upstream.

AMD's MCA Thresholding feature counts errors of all severity levels, not
just correctable errors. If a deferred error causes the threshold limit
to be reached (it was the error that caused the overflow), then both a
deferred error interrupt and a thresholding interrupt will be triggered.

The order of the interrupts is not guaranteed. If the threshold
interrupt handler is executed first, then it will clear MCA_STATUS for
the error. It will not check or clear MCA_DESTAT which also holds a copy
of the deferred error. When the deferred error interrupt handler runs it
will not find an error in MCA_STATUS, but it will find the error in
MCA_DESTAT. This will cause two errors to be logged.

Check for deferred errors when handling a threshold interrupt. If a bank
contains a deferred error, then clear the bank's MCA_DESTAT register.

Define a new helper function to do the deferred error check and clearing
of MCA_DESTAT.

  [ bp: Simplify, convert comment to passive voice. ]

Fixes: 37d43acfd79f ("x86/mce/AMD: Redo error logging from APIC LVT interrupt handlers")
Signed-off-by: Yazen Ghannam &lt;yazen.ghannam@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220621155943.33623-1-yazen.ghannam@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86/split_lock: Add sysctl to control the misery mode</title>
<updated>2022-12-31T12:25:42Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Guilherme G. Piccoli</name>
</author>
<published>2022-10-24T20:02:54Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit 727209376f4998bc84db1d5d8af15afea846a92b ]

Commit b041b525dab9 ("x86/split_lock: Make life miserable for split lockers")
changed the way the split lock detector works when in "warn" mode;
basically, it not only shows the warn message, but also intentionally
introduces a slowdown through sleeping plus serialization mechanism
on such task. Based on discussions in [0], seems the warning alone
wasn't enough motivation for userspace developers to fix their
applications.

This slowdown is enough to totally break some proprietary (aka.
unfixable) userspace[1].

Happens that originally the proposal in [0] was to add a new mode
which would warns + slowdown the "split locking" task, keeping the
old warn mode untouched. In the end, that idea was discarded and
the regular/default "warn" mode now slows down the applications. This
is quite aggressive with regards proprietary/legacy programs that
basically are unable to properly run in kernel with this change.
While it is understandable that a malicious application could DoS
by split locking, it seems unacceptable to regress old/proprietary
userspace programs through a default configuration that previously
worked. An example of such breakage was reported in [1].

Add a sysctl to allow controlling the "misery mode" behavior, as per
Thomas suggestion on [2]. This way, users running legacy and/or
proprietary software are allowed to still execute them with a decent
performance while still observing the warning messages on kernel log.

[0] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220217012721.9694-1-tony.luck@intel.com/
[1] https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/issues/2938
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/87pmf4bter.ffs@tglx/

[ dhansen: minor changelog tweaks, including clarifying the actual
  	   problem ]

Fixes: b041b525dab9 ("x86/split_lock: Make life miserable for split lockers")
Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli &lt;gpiccoli@igalia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Andre Almeida &lt;andrealmeid@igalia.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20221024200254.635256-1-gpiccoli%40igalia.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86/sgx: Reduce delay and interference of enclave release</title>
<updated>2022-12-31T12:25:42Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Reinette Chatre</name>
</author>
<published>2022-10-31T17:29:58Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit 7b72c823ddf8aaaec4e9fb28e6fbe4d511e7dad1 ]

commit 8795359e35bc ("x86/sgx: Silence softlockup detection when
releasing large enclaves") introduced a cond_resched() during enclave
release where the EREMOVE instruction is applied to every 4k enclave
page. Giving other tasks an opportunity to run while tearing down a
large enclave placates the soft lockup detector but Iqbal found
that the fix causes a 25% performance degradation of a workload
run using Gramine.

Gramine maintains a 1:1 mapping between processes and SGX enclaves.
That means if a workload in an enclave creates a subprocess then
Gramine creates a duplicate enclave for that subprocess to run in.
The consequence is that the release of the enclave used to run
the subprocess can impact the performance of the workload that is
run in the original enclave, especially in large enclaves when
SGX2 is not in use.

The workload run by Iqbal behaves as follows:
Create enclave (enclave "A")
/* Initialize workload in enclave "A" */
Create enclave (enclave "B")
/* Run subprocess in enclave "B" and send result to enclave "A" */
Release enclave (enclave "B")
/* Run workload in enclave "A" */
Release enclave (enclave "A")

The performance impact of releasing enclave "B" in the above scenario
is amplified when there is a lot of SGX memory and the enclave size
matches the SGX memory. When there is 128GB SGX memory and an enclave
size of 128GB, from the time enclave "B" starts the 128GB SGX memory
is oversubscribed with a combined demand for 256GB from the two
enclaves.

Before commit 8795359e35bc ("x86/sgx: Silence softlockup detection when
releasing large enclaves") enclave release was done in a tight loop
without giving other tasks a chance to run. Even though the system
experienced soft lockups the workload (run in enclave "A") obtained
good performance numbers because when the workload started running
there was no interference.

Commit 8795359e35bc ("x86/sgx: Silence softlockup detection when
releasing large enclaves") gave other tasks opportunity to run while an
enclave is released. The impact of this in this scenario is that while
enclave "B" is released and needing to access each page that belongs
to it in order to run the SGX EREMOVE instruction on it, enclave "A"
is attempting to run the workload needing to access the enclave
pages that belong to it. This causes a lot of swapping due to the
demand for the oversubscribed SGX memory. Longer latencies are
experienced by the workload in enclave "A" while enclave "B" is
released.

Improve the performance of enclave release while still avoiding the
soft lockup detector with two enhancements:
- Only call cond_resched() after XA_CHECK_SCHED iterations.
- Use the xarray advanced API to keep the xarray locked for
  XA_CHECK_SCHED iterations instead of locking and unlocking
  at every iteration.

This batching solution is copied from sgx_encl_may_map() that
also iterates through all enclave pages using this technique.

With this enhancement the workload experiences a 5%
performance degradation when compared to a kernel without
commit 8795359e35bc ("x86/sgx: Silence softlockup detection when
releasing large enclaves"), an improvement to the reported 25%
degradation, while still placating the soft lockup detector.

Scenarios with poor performance are still possible even with these
enhancements. For example, short workloads creating sub processes
while running in large enclaves. Further performance improvements
are pursued in user space through avoiding to create duplicate enclaves
for certain sub processes, and using SGX2 that will do lazy allocation
of pages as needed so enclaves created for sub processes start quickly
and release quickly.

Fixes: 8795359e35bc ("x86/sgx: Silence softlockup detection when releasing large enclaves")
Reported-by: Md Iqbal Hossain &lt;md.iqbal.hossain@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre &lt;reinette.chatre@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Md Iqbal Hossain &lt;md.iqbal.hossain@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/00efa80dd9e35dc85753e1c5edb0344ac07bb1f0.1667236485.git.reinette.chatre%40intel.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>x86/bugs: Make sure MSR_SPEC_CTRL is updated properly upon resume from S3</title>
<updated>2022-12-08T10:30:19Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Pawan Gupta</name>
</author>
<published>2022-11-30T15:25:51Z</published>
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commit 66065157420c5b9b3f078f43d313c153e1ff7f83 upstream.

The "force" argument to write_spec_ctrl_current() is currently ambiguous
as it does not guarantee the MSR write. This is due to the optimization
that writes to the MSR happen only when the new value differs from the
cached value.

This is fine in most cases, but breaks for S3 resume when the cached MSR
value gets out of sync with the hardware MSR value due to S3 resetting
it.

When x86_spec_ctrl_current is same as x86_spec_ctrl_base, the MSR write
is skipped. Which results in SPEC_CTRL mitigations not getting restored.

Move the MSR write from write_spec_ctrl_current() to a new function that
unconditionally writes to the MSR. Update the callers accordingly and
rename functions.

  [ bp: Rework a bit. ]

Fixes: caa0ff24d5d0 ("x86/bugs: Keep a per-CPU IA32_SPEC_CTRL value")
Suggested-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta &lt;pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/806d39b0bfec2fe8f50dc5446dff20f5bb24a959.1669821572.git.pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86/tsx: Add a feature bit for TSX control MSR support</title>
<updated>2022-12-02T16:43:13Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Pawan Gupta</name>
</author>
<published>2022-11-15T19:17:05Z</published>
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commit aaa65d17eec372c6a9756833f3964ba05b05ea14 upstream.

Support for the TSX control MSR is enumerated in MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.
This is different from how other CPU features are enumerated i.e. via
CPUID. Currently, a call to tsx_ctrl_is_supported() is required for
enumerating the feature. In the absence of a feature bit for TSX control,
any code that relies on checking feature bits directly will not work.

In preparation for adding a feature bit check in MSR save/restore
during suspend/resume, set a new feature bit X86_FEATURE_TSX_CTRL when
MSR_IA32_TSX_CTRL is present. Also make tsx_ctrl_is_supported() use the
new feature bit to avoid any overhead of reading the MSR.

  [ bp: Remove tsx_ctrl_is_supported(), add room for two more feature
    bits in word 11 which are coming up in the next merge window. ]

Suggested-by: Andrew Cooper &lt;andrew.cooper3@citrix.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta &lt;pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/de619764e1d98afbb7a5fa58424f1278ede37b45.1668539735.git.pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86/sgx: Add overflow check in sgx_validate_offset_length()</title>
<updated>2022-11-26T08:27:51Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Borys Popławski</name>
</author>
<published>2022-10-04T22:59:03Z</published>
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commit f0861f49bd946ff94fce4f82509c45e167f63690 upstream.

sgx_validate_offset_length() function verifies "offset" and "length"
arguments provided by userspace, but was missing an overflow check on
their addition. Add it.

Fixes: c6d26d370767 ("x86/sgx: Add SGX_IOC_ENCLAVE_ADD_PAGES")
Signed-off-by: Borys Popławski &lt;borysp@invisiblethingslab.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen &lt;jarkko@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.11+
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/0d91ac79-6d84-abed-5821-4dbe59fa1a38@invisiblethingslab.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: SVM: move MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL save/restore to assembly</title>
<updated>2022-11-26T08:27:23Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Bonzini</name>
</author>
<published>2022-09-30T18:24:40Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit 9f2febf3f04daebdaaa5a43cfa20e3844905c0f9 ]

Restoration of the host IA32_SPEC_CTRL value is probably too late
with respect to the return thunk training sequence.

With respect to the user/kernel boundary, AMD says, "If software chooses
to toggle STIBP (e.g., set STIBP on kernel entry, and clear it on kernel
exit), software should set STIBP to 1 before executing the return thunk
training sequence." I assume the same requirements apply to the guest/host
boundary. The return thunk training sequence is in vmenter.S, quite close
to the VM-exit. On hosts without V_SPEC_CTRL, however, the host's
IA32_SPEC_CTRL value is not restored until much later.

To avoid this, move the restoration of host SPEC_CTRL to assembly and,
for consistency, move the restoration of the guest SPEC_CTRL as well.
This is not particularly difficult, apart from some care to cover both
32- and 64-bit, and to share code between SEV-ES and normal vmentry.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: a149180fbcf3 ("x86: Add magic AMD return-thunk")
Suggested-by: Jim Mattson &lt;jmattson@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/cpu: Restore AMD's DE_CFG MSR after resume</title>
<updated>2022-11-16T09:04:14Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov</name>
</author>
<published>2022-11-14T11:44:01Z</published>
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commit 2632daebafd04746b4b96c2f26a6021bc38f6209 upstream.

DE_CFG contains the LFENCE serializing bit, restore it on resume too.
This is relevant to older families due to the way how they do S3.

Unify and correct naming while at it.

Fixes: e4d0e84e4907 ("x86/cpu/AMD: Make LFENCE a serializing instruction")
Reported-by: Andrew Cooper &lt;Andrew.Cooper3@citrix.com&gt;
Reported-by: Pawan Gupta &lt;pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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