Maintaining the current CFI annotations written in R'lyehian is
difficult for most of us. Translate them to something a little
closer to English.
This will remove the CFI data for kernels built with extremely
old versions of binutils. I think this is a fair tradeoff for
the ability for mortals to edit the asm.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ae3ff4ff5278b4bfc1e1dab368823469866d4b71.1444091584.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
For the vDSO, user code wants runtime unwind info. Make sure
that, if we use .cfi directives, we generate it.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/16e29ad8855e6508197000d8c41f56adb00d7580.1444091584.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Commit:
131484c8da ("x86/debug: Remove perpetually broken, unmaintainable dwarf annotations")
removed all the manual DWARF annotations outside the vDSO. It also removed
the macros we used for the manual annotations.
Re-add these macros so that we can clean up the vDSO annotations.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4c70bb98a8b773c8ccfaabf6745e569ff43e7f65.1444091584.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
32-bit userspace will now always see the same vDSO, which is
exactly what used to be the int80 vDSO. Subsequent patches will
clean it up and make it support SYSENTER and SYSCALL using
alternatives.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e7e6b3526fa442502e6125fe69486aab50813c32.1444091584.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
We eventually want to make it all the way into C code before
enabling interrupts. We need to rework our flags handling
slightly to delay enabling interrupts.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/35d24d2a9305da3182eab7b2cdfd32902e90962c.1444091584.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Rather than worrying about exactly where LOCKDEP_SYS_EXIT should
go in the asm code, add it to prepare_exit_from_usermode() and
remove all of the asm calls that are followed by
prepare_exit_to_usermode().
LOCKDEP_SYS_EXIT now appears only in the syscall fast paths.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1736ebe948b845e68120b86b89091f3ec27f5e8e.1444091584.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Clearing NT is part of the prologue, whereas loading up arg6
makes more sense to think about as part of syscall processing.
Reorder them.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/19eb235828b2d2a52c53459e09f2974e15e65a35.1444091584.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
This should improve code quality a bit. It also shrinks the kernel text:
Before:
text data bss dec filename
21828379 5194760 1277952 28301091 vmlinux
After:
text data bss dec filename
21827997 5194760 1277952 28300709 vmlinux
... by 382 bytes.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/f427b8002d932e5deab9055e0074bb4e7e80ee39.1444091584.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
GCC doesn't realize that get_user(), put_user(), and their __
variants are unlikely to fail. Tell it.
I noticed this while playing with the C entry code.
Before:
text data bss dec filename
21828763 5194760 1277952 28301475 vmlinux.baseline
After:
text data bss dec filename
21828379 5194760 1277952 28301091 vmlinux.new
The generated code shrunk by 384 bytes.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/dc37bed7024319c3004d950d57151fca6aeacf97.1444091584.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
- Fix VM save performance regression with x86 PV guests.
- Make kexec work in x86 PVHVM guests (if Xen has the soft-reset ABI).
- Other minor fixes.
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Merge tag 'for-linus-4.3b-rc4-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip
Pull xen bug fixes from David Vrabel:
- Fix VM save performance regression with x86 PV guests
- Make kexec work in x86 PVHVM guests (if Xen has the soft-reset ABI)
- Other minor fixes.
* tag 'for-linus-4.3b-rc4-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip:
x86/xen/p2m: hint at the last populated P2M entry
x86/xen: Do not clip xen_e820_map to xen_e820_map_entries when sanitizing map
x86/xen: Support kexec/kdump in HVM guests by doing a soft reset
xen/x86: Don't try to write syscall-related MSRs for PV guests
xen: use correct type for HYPERVISOR_memory_op()
With commit 633d6f17cd (x86/xen: prepare
p2m list for memory hotplug) the P2M may be sized to accomdate a much
larger amount of memory than the domain currently has.
When saving a domain, the toolstack must scan all the P2M looking for
populated pages. This results in a performance regression due to the
unnecessary scanning.
Instead of reporting (via shared_info) the maximum possible size of
the P2M, hint at the last PFN which might be populated. This hint is
increased as new leaves are added to the P2M (in the expectation that
they will be used for populated entries).
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.0+
Pull x86 fixes from Ingo Molnar:
"Fixes all around the map: W+X kernel mapping fix, WCHAN fixes, two
build failure fixes for corner case configs, x32 header fix and a
speling fix"
* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/headers/uapi: Fix __BITS_PER_LONG value for x32 builds
x86/mm: Set NX on gap between __ex_table and rodata
x86/kexec: Fix kexec crash in syscall kexec_file_load()
x86/process: Unify 32bit and 64bit implementations of get_wchan()
x86/process: Add proper bound checks in 64bit get_wchan()
x86, efi, kasan: Fix build failure on !KASAN && KMEMCHECK=y kernels
x86/hyperv: Fix the build in the !CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE case
x86/cpufeatures: Correct spelling of the HWP_NOTIFY flag
Pull EFI fixes from Ingo Molnar:
"Two EFI fixes: one for x86, one for ARM, fixing a boot crash bug that
can trigger under newer EFI firmware"
* 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
arm64/efi: Fix boot crash by not padding between EFI_MEMORY_RUNTIME regions
x86/efi: Fix boot crash by mapping EFI memmap entries bottom-up at runtime, instead of top-down
On x32, gcc predefines __x86_64__ but long is only 32-bit. Use
__ILP32__ to distinguish x32.
Fixes this compiler error in perf:
tools/include/asm-generic/bitops/__ffs.h: In function '__ffs':
tools/include/asm-generic/bitops/__ffs.h:19:8: error: right shift count >= width of type [-Werror=shift-count-overflow]
word >>= 32;
^
This isn't sufficient to build perf for x32, though.
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1443660043.2730.15.camel@decadent.org.uk
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Unused space between the end of __ex_table and the start of
rodata can be left W+x in the kernel page tables. Extend the
setting of the NX bit to cover this gap by starting from
text_end rather than rodata_start.
Before:
---[ High Kernel Mapping ]---
0xffffffff80000000-0xffffffff81000000 16M pmd
0xffffffff81000000-0xffffffff81600000 6M ro PSE GLB x pmd
0xffffffff81600000-0xffffffff81754000 1360K ro GLB x pte
0xffffffff81754000-0xffffffff81800000 688K RW GLB x pte
0xffffffff81800000-0xffffffff81a00000 2M ro PSE GLB NX pmd
0xffffffff81a00000-0xffffffff81b3b000 1260K ro GLB NX pte
0xffffffff81b3b000-0xffffffff82000000 4884K RW GLB NX pte
0xffffffff82000000-0xffffffff82200000 2M RW PSE GLB NX pmd
0xffffffff82200000-0xffffffffa0000000 478M pmd
After:
---[ High Kernel Mapping ]---
0xffffffff80000000-0xffffffff81000000 16M pmd
0xffffffff81000000-0xffffffff81600000 6M ro PSE GLB x pmd
0xffffffff81600000-0xffffffff81754000 1360K ro GLB x pte
0xffffffff81754000-0xffffffff81800000 688K RW GLB NX pte
0xffffffff81800000-0xffffffff81a00000 2M ro PSE GLB NX pmd
0xffffffff81a00000-0xffffffff81b3b000 1260K ro GLB NX pte
0xffffffff81b3b000-0xffffffff82000000 4884K RW GLB NX pte
0xffffffff82000000-0xffffffff82200000 2M RW PSE GLB NX pmd
0xffffffff82200000-0xffffffffa0000000 478M pmd
Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1443704662-3138-1-git-send-email-sds@tycho.nsa.gov
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
The original bug is a page fault crash that sometimes happens
on big machines when preparing ELF headers:
BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffc90613fc9000
IP: [<ffffffff8103d645>] prepare_elf64_ram_headers_callback+0x165/0x260
The bug is caused by us under-counting the number of memory ranges
and subsequently not allocating enough ELF header space for them.
The bug is typically masked on smaller systems, because the ELF header
allocation is rounded up to the next page.
This patch modifies the code in fill_up_crash_elf_data() by using
walk_system_ram_res() instead of walk_system_ram_range() to correctly
count the max number of crash memory ranges. That's because the
walk_system_ram_range() filters out small memory regions that
reside in the same page, but walk_system_ram_res() does not.
Here's how I found the bug:
After tracing prepare_elf64_headers() and prepare_elf64_ram_headers_callback(),
the code uses walk_system_ram_res() to fill-in crash memory regions information
to the program header, so it counts those small memory regions that
reside in a page area.
But, when the kernel was using walk_system_ram_range() in
fill_up_crash_elf_data() to count the number of crash memory regions,
it filters out small regions.
I printed those small memory regions, for example:
kexec: Get nr_ram ranges. vaddr=0xffff880077592258 paddr=0x77592258, sz=0xdc0
Based on the code in walk_system_ram_range(), this memory region
will be filtered out:
pfn = (0x77592258 + 0x1000 - 1) >> 12 = 0x77593
end_pfn = (0x77592258 + 0xfc0 -1 + 1) >> 12 = 0x77593
end_pfn - pfn = 0x77593 - 0x77593 = 0 <=== if (end_pfn > pfn) is FALSE
So, the max_nr_ranges that's counted by the kernel doesn't include
small memory regions - causing us to under-allocate the required space.
That causes the page fault crash that happens in a later code path
when preparing ELF headers.
This bug is not easy to reproduce on small machines that have few
CPUs, because the allocated page aligned ELF buffer has more free
space to cover those small memory regions' PT_LOAD headers.
Signed-off-by: Lee, Chun-Yi <jlee@suse.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1443531537-29436-1-git-send-email-jlee@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Merge misc fixes from Andrew Morton:
"12 fixes"
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>:
dmapool: fix overflow condition in pool_find_page()
thermal: avoid division by zero in power allocator
memcg: remove pcp_counter_lock
kprobes: use _do_fork() in samples to make them work again
drivers/input/joystick/Kconfig: zhenhua.c needs BITREVERSE
memcg: make mem_cgroup_read_stat() unsigned
memcg: fix dirty page migration
dax: fix NULL pointer in __dax_pmd_fault()
mm: hugetlbfs: skip shared VMAs when unmapping private pages to satisfy a fault
mm/slab: fix unexpected index mapping result of kmalloc_size(INDEX_NODE+1)
userfaultfd: remove kernel header include from uapi header
arch/x86/include/asm/efi.h: fix build failure
Bugs have trickled in for a new feature in 4.2 (MTRR support in guests)
so I'm reverting it all; let's not make this -rc period busier for KVM
than it's been so far. This covers the four reverts from me.
The fifth patch is being reverted because Radim found a bug in the
implementation of stable scheduler clock, *but* also managed to implement
the feature entirely without hypervisor support. So instead of fixing
the hypervisor side we can remove it completely; 4.4 will get the new
implementation.
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Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm
Pull KVM fixes from Paolo Bonzini:
"(Relatively) a lot of reverts, mostly.
Bugs have trickled in for a new feature in 4.2 (MTRR support in
guests) so I'm reverting it all; let's not make this -rc period busier
for KVM than it's been so far. This covers the four reverts from me.
The fifth patch is being reverted because Radim found a bug in the
implementation of stable scheduler clock, *but* also managed to
implement the feature entirely without hypervisor support. So instead
of fixing the hypervisor side we can remove it completely; 4.4 will
get the new implementation"
* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm:
Use WARN_ON_ONCE for missing X86_FEATURE_NRIPS
Update KVM homepage Url
Revert "KVM: SVM: use NPT page attributes"
Revert "KVM: svm: handle KVM_X86_QUIRK_CD_NW_CLEARED in svm_get_mt_mask"
Revert "KVM: SVM: Sync g_pat with guest-written PAT value"
Revert "KVM: x86: apply guest MTRR virtualization on host reserved pages"
Revert "KVM: x86: zero kvmclock_offset when vcpu0 initializes kvmclock system MSR"
The cpu feature flags are not ever going to change, so warning
everytime can cause a lot of kernel log spam
(in our case more than 10GB/hour).
The warning seems to only occur when nested virtualization is
enabled, so it's probably triggered by a KVM bug. This is a
sensible and safe change anyway, and the KVM bug fix might not
be suitable for stable releases anyway.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
This reverts commit 3c2e7f7de3.
Initializing the mapping from MTRR to PAT values was reported to
fail nondeterministically, and it also caused extremely slow boot
(due to caching getting disabled---bug 103321) with assigned devices.
Reported-by: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
Reported-by: Sebastian Schuette <dracon@ewetel.net>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.2+
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
This reverts commit 5492830370.
It builds on the commit that is being reverted next.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.2+
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
This reverts commit e098223b78,
which has a dependency on other commits being reverted.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.2+
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
This reverts commit fd717f1101.
It was reported to cause Machine Check Exceptions (bug 104091).
Reported-by: harn-solo@gmx.de
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.2+
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Beginning with UEFI v2.5 EFI_PROPERTIES_TABLE was introduced
that signals that the firmware PE/COFF loader supports splitting
code and data sections of PE/COFF images into separate EFI
memory map entries. This allows the kernel to map those regions
with strict memory protections, e.g. EFI_MEMORY_RO for code,
EFI_MEMORY_XP for data, etc.
Unfortunately, an unwritten requirement of this new feature is
that the regions need to be mapped with the same offsets
relative to each other as observed in the EFI memory map. If
this is not done crashes like this may occur,
BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at fffffffefe6086dd
IP: [<fffffffefe6086dd>] 0xfffffffefe6086dd
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff8104c90e>] efi_call+0x7e/0x100
[<ffffffff81602091>] ? virt_efi_set_variable+0x61/0x90
[<ffffffff8104c583>] efi_delete_dummy_variable+0x63/0x70
[<ffffffff81f4e4aa>] efi_enter_virtual_mode+0x383/0x392
[<ffffffff81f37e1b>] start_kernel+0x38a/0x417
[<ffffffff81f37495>] x86_64_start_reservations+0x2a/0x2c
[<ffffffff81f37582>] x86_64_start_kernel+0xeb/0xef
Here 0xfffffffefe6086dd refers to an address the firmware
expects to be mapped but which the OS never claimed was mapped.
The issue is that included in these regions are relative
addresses to other regions which were emitted by the firmware
toolchain before the "splitting" of sections occurred at
runtime.
Needless to say, we don't satisfy this unwritten requirement on
x86_64 and instead map the EFI memory map entries in reverse
order. The above crash is almost certainly triggerable with any
kernel newer than v3.13 because that's when we rewrote the EFI
runtime region mapping code, in commit d2f7cbe7b2 ("x86/efi:
Runtime services virtual mapping"). For kernel versions before
v3.13 things may work by pure luck depending on the
fragmentation of the kernel virtual address space at the time we
map the EFI regions.
Instead of mapping the EFI memory map entries in reverse order,
where entry N has a higher virtual address than entry N+1, map
them in the same order as they appear in the EFI memory map to
preserve this relative offset between regions.
This patch has been kept as small as possible with the intention
that it should be applied aggressively to stable and
distribution kernels. It is very much a bugfix rather than
support for a new feature, since when EFI_PROPERTIES_TABLE is
enabled we must map things as outlined above to even boot - we
have no way of asking the firmware not to split the code/data
regions.
In fact, this patch doesn't even make use of the more strict
memory protections available in UEFI v2.5. That will come later.
Suggested-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Reported-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Chun-Yi <jlee@suse.com>
Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Odin.com>
Cc: Lee, Chun-Yi <jlee@suse.com>
Cc: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1443218539-7610-2-git-send-email-matt@codeblueprint.co.uk
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Dmitry Vyukov reported the following using trinity and the memory
error detector AddressSanitizer
(https://code.google.com/p/address-sanitizer/wiki/AddressSanitizerForKernel).
[ 124.575597] ERROR: AddressSanitizer: heap-buffer-overflow on
address ffff88002e280000
[ 124.576801] ffff88002e280000 is located 131938492886538 bytes to
the left of 28857600-byte region [ffffffff81282e0a, ffffffff82e0830a)
[ 124.578633] Accessed by thread T10915:
[ 124.579295] inlined in describe_heap_address
./arch/x86/mm/asan/report.c:164
[ 124.579295] #0 ffffffff810dd277 in asan_report_error
./arch/x86/mm/asan/report.c:278
[ 124.580137] #1 ffffffff810dc6a0 in asan_check_region
./arch/x86/mm/asan/asan.c:37
[ 124.581050] #2 ffffffff810dd423 in __tsan_read8 ??:0
[ 124.581893] #3 ffffffff8107c093 in get_wchan
./arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c:444
The address checks in the 64bit implementation of get_wchan() are
wrong in several ways:
- The lower bound of the stack is not the start of the stack
page. It's the start of the stack page plus sizeof (struct
thread_info)
- The upper bound must be:
top_of_stack - TOP_OF_KERNEL_STACK_PADDING - 2 * sizeof(unsigned long).
The 2 * sizeof(unsigned long) is required because the stack pointer
points at the frame pointer. The layout on the stack is: ... IP FP
... IP FP. So we need to make sure that both IP and FP are in the
bounds.
Fix the bound checks and get rid of the mix of numeric constants, u64
and unsigned long. Making all unsigned long allows us to use the same
function for 32bit as well.
Use READ_ONCE() when accessing the stack. This does not prevent a
concurrent wakeup of the task and the stack changing, but at least it
avoids TOCTOU.
Also check task state at the end of the loop. Again that does not
prevent concurrent changes, but it avoids walking for nothing.
Add proper comments while at it.
Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Reported-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Based-on-patch-from: Wolfram Gloger <wmglo@dent.med.uni-muenchen.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
Cc: Kostya Serebryany <kcc@google.com>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: kasan-dev <kasan-dev@googlegroups.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Wolfram Gloger <wmglo@dent.med.uni-muenchen.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150930083302.694788319@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Recent changes in the Hyper-V driver:
b4370df2b1 ("Drivers: hv: vmbus: add special crash handler")
broke the build when CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE is not set:
arch/x86/built-in.o: In function `hv_machine_crash_shutdown':
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mshyperv.c:112: undefined reference to `native_machine_crash_shutdown'
Decorate all kexec related code with #ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE.
Reported-by: Jim Davis <jim.epost@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: devel@linuxdriverproject.org
Cc: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1443002577-25370-1-git-send-email-vkuznets@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Sanitizing the e820 map may produce extra E820 entries which would result in
the topmost E820 entries being removed. The removed entries would typically
include the top E820 usable RAM region and thus result in the domain having
signicantly less RAM available to it.
Fix by allowing sanitize_e820_map to use the full size of the allocated E820
array.
Signed-off-by: Malcolm Crossley <malcolm.crossley@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Currently there is a number of issues preventing PVHVM Xen guests from
doing successful kexec/kdump:
- Bound event channels.
- Registered vcpu_info.
- PIRQ/emuirq mappings.
- shared_info frame after XENMAPSPACE_shared_info operation.
- Active grant mappings.
Basically, newly booted kernel stumbles upon already set up Xen
interfaces and there is no way to reestablish them. In Xen-4.7 a new
feature called 'soft reset' is coming. A guest performing kexec/kdump
operation is supposed to call SCHEDOP_shutdown hypercall with
SHUTDOWN_soft_reset reason before jumping to new kernel. Hypervisor
(with some help from toolstack) will do full domain cleanup (but
keeping its memory and vCPU contexts intact) returning the guest to
the state it had when it was first booted and thus allowing it to
start over.
Doing SHUTDOWN_soft_reset on Xen hypervisors which don't support it is
probably OK as by default all unknown shutdown reasons cause domain
destroy with a message in toolstack log: 'Unknown shutdown reason code
5. Destroying domain.' which gives a clue to what the problem is and
eliminates false expectations.
Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
For PV guests these registers are set up by hypervisor and thus
should not be written by the guest. The comment in xen_write_msr_safe()
says so but we still write the MSRs, causing the hypervisor to
print a warning.
Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
HYPERVISOR_memory_op() is defined to return an "int" value. This is
wrong, as the Xen hypervisor will return "long".
The sub-function XENMEM_maximum_reservation returns the maximum
number of pages for the current domain. An int will overflow for a
domain configured with 8TB of memory or more.
Correct this by using the correct type.
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Shifting pvclock_vcpu_time_info.system_time on write to KVM system time
MSR is a change of ABI. Probably only 2.6.16 based SLES 10 breaks due
to its custom enhancements to kvmclock, but KVM never declared the MSR
only for one-shot initialization. (Doc says that only one write is
needed.)
This reverts commit b7e60c5aed.
And adds a note to the definition of PVCLOCK_COUNTS_FROM_ZERO.
Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Pull perf fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
"Another pile of fixes for perf:
- Plug overflows and races in the core code
- Sanitize the flow of the perf syscall so we error out before
handling the more complex and hard to undo setups
- Improve and fix Broadwell and Skylake hardware support
- Revert a fix which broke what it tried to fix in perf tools
- A couple of smaller fixes in various places of perf tools"
* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
perf tools: Fix copying of /proc/kcore
perf intel-pt: Remove no_force_psb from documentation
perf probe: Use existing routine to look for a kernel module by dso->short_name
perf/x86: Change test_aperfmperf() and test_intel() to static
tools lib traceevent: Fix string handling in heterogeneous arch environments
perf record: Avoid infinite loop at buildid processing with no samples
perf: Fix races in computing the header sizes
perf: Fix u16 overflows
perf: Restructure perf syscall point of no return
perf/x86/intel: Fix Skylake FRONTEND MSR extrareg mask
perf/x86/intel/pebs: Add PEBS frontend profiling for Skylake
perf/x86/intel: Make the CYCLE_ACTIVITY.* constraint on Broadwell more specific
perf tools: Bool functions shouldn't return -1
tools build: Add test for presence of __get_cpuid() gcc builtin
tools build: Add test for presence of numa_num_possible_cpus() in libnuma
Revert "perf symbols: Fix mismatched declarations for elf_getphdrnum"
perf stat: Fix per-pkg event reporting bug
Pull x86 fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
"Two bugfixes from Andy addressing at least some of the subtle NMI
related wreckage which has been reported by Sasha Levin"
* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/nmi/64: Fix a paravirt stack-clobbering bug in the NMI code
x86/paravirt: Replace the paravirt nop with a bona fide empty function
Resource management
- Revert pci_read_bridge_bases() unification (Bjorn Helgaas)
- Clear IORESOURCE_UNSET when clipping a bridge window (Bjorn Helgaas)
MSI
- Fix MSI IRQ domains for VFs on virtual buses (Alex Williamson)
Renesas R-Car host bridge driver
- Add R8A7794 support (Sergei Shtylyov)
Miscellaneous
- Fix devfn for VPD access through function 0 (Alex Williamson)
- Use function 0 VPD only for identical functions (Alex Williamson)
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Merge tag 'pci-v4.3-fixes-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/helgaas/pci
Pull PCI fixes from Bjorn Helgaas:
"These are fixes for things we merged for v4.3 (VPD, MSI, and bridge
window management), and a new Renesas R8A7794 SoC device ID.
Details:
Resource management:
- Revert pci_read_bridge_bases() unification (Bjorn Helgaas)
- Clear IORESOURCE_UNSET when clipping a bridge window (Bjorn
Helgaas)
MSI:
- Fix MSI IRQ domains for VFs on virtual buses (Alex Williamson)
Renesas R-Car host bridge driver:
- Add R8A7794 support (Sergei Shtylyov)
Miscellaneous:
- Fix devfn for VPD access through function 0 (Alex Williamson)
- Use function 0 VPD only for identical functions (Alex Williamson)"
* tag 'pci-v4.3-fixes-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/helgaas/pci:
PCI: rcar: Add R8A7794 support
PCI: Use function 0 VPD for identical functions, regular VPD for others
PCI: Fix devfn for VPD access through function 0
PCI/MSI: Fix MSI IRQ domains for VFs on virtual buses
PCI: Clear IORESOURCE_UNSET when clipping a bridge window
PCI: Revert "PCI: Call pci_read_bridge_bases() from core instead of arch code"
and a few PPC bug fixes too.
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Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm
Pull KVM fixes from Paolo Bonzini:
"AMD fixes for bugs introduced in the 4.2 merge window, and a few PPC
bug fixes too"
* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm:
KVM: disable halt_poll_ns as default for s390x
KVM: x86: fix off-by-one in reserved bits check
KVM: x86: use correct page table format to check nested page table reserved bits
KVM: svm: do not call kvm_set_cr0 from init_vmcb
KVM: x86: trap AMD MSRs for the TSeg base and mask
KVM: PPC: Book3S: Take the kvm->srcu lock in kvmppc_h_logical_ci_load/store()
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Pass the correct trap argument to kvmhv_commence_exit
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix handling of interrupted VCPUs
kvm: svm: reset mmu on VCPU reset
We observed some performance degradation on s390x with dynamic
halt polling. Until we can provide a proper fix, let's enable
halt_poll_ns as default only for supported architectures.
Architectures are now free to set their own halt_poll_ns
default value.
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <dahi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Intel CPUID on AMD host or vice versa is a weird case, but it can
happen. Handle it by checking the host CPU vendor instead of the
guest's in reset_tdp_shadow_zero_bits_mask. For speed, the
check uses the fact that Intel EPT has an X (executable) bit while
AMD NPT has NX.
Reported-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Tested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
kvm_set_cr0 may want to call kvm_zap_gfn_range and thus access the
memslots array (SRCU protected). Using a mini SRCU critical section
is ugly, and adding it to kvm_arch_vcpu_create doesn't work because
the VMX vcpu_create callback calls synchronize_srcu.
Fixes this lockdep splat:
===============================
[ INFO: suspicious RCU usage. ]
4.3.0-rc1+ #1 Not tainted
-------------------------------
include/linux/kvm_host.h:488 suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage!
other info that might help us debug this:
rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 0
1 lock held by qemu-system-i38/17000:
#0: (&(&kvm->mmu_lock)->rlock){+.+...}, at: kvm_zap_gfn_range+0x24/0x1a0 [kvm]
[...]
Call Trace:
dump_stack+0x4e/0x84
lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0xfd/0x130
kvm_zap_gfn_range+0x188/0x1a0 [kvm]
kvm_set_cr0+0xde/0x1e0 [kvm]
init_vmcb+0x760/0xad0 [kvm_amd]
svm_create_vcpu+0x197/0x250 [kvm_amd]
kvm_arch_vcpu_create+0x47/0x70 [kvm]
kvm_vm_ioctl+0x302/0x7e0 [kvm]
? __lock_is_held+0x51/0x70
? __fget+0x101/0x210
do_vfs_ioctl+0x2f4/0x560
? __fget_light+0x29/0x90
SyS_ioctl+0x4c/0x90
entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x16/0x73
Reported-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
On x86, cpu_relax() simply calls rep_nop(), which generates one
instruction, PAUSE (aka REP NOP).
With this config:
http://busybox.net/~vda/kernel_config_OPTIMIZE_INLINING_and_Os
gcc-4.7.2 does not always inline rep_nop(): it generates several
copies of this:
<rep_nop> (16 copies, 194 calls):
55 push %rbp
48 89 e5 mov %rsp,%rbp
f3 90 pause
5d pop %rbp
c3 retq
See: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=66122
This patch fixes this via s/inline/__always_inline/
on rep_nop() and cpu_relax().
( Forcing inlining only on rep_nop() causes GCC to
deinline cpu_relax(), with almost no change in generated code).
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Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1443096149-27291-1-git-send-email-dvlasenk@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Fixes the following sparse warnings:
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_msr.c:13:6: warning: symbol
'test_aperfmperf' was not declared. Should it be static?
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_msr.c:18:6: warning: symbol
'test_intel' was not declared. Should it be static?
Signed-off-by: Geliang Tang <geliangtang@163.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4588e8ab09638458f2451af572827108be3b4a36.1443123796.git.geliangtang@163.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
This reinstates the following commit:
2c7577a758 ("sched/x86_64: Don't save flags on context switch")
which was reverted in:
512255a2ad ("Revert 'sched/x86_64: Don't save flags on context switch'")
Historically, Linux has always saved and restored EFLAGS across
context switches. As far as I know, the only reason to do this
is because of the NT flag. In particular, if something calls
switch_to() with the NT flag set, then we don't want to leak the
NT flag into a different task that might try to IRET and fail
because NT is set.
Before this commit:
8c7aa698ba ("x86_64, entry: Filter RFLAGS.NT on entry from userspace")
we could run system call bodies with NT set. This would be a DoS or possibly
privilege escalation hole if scheduling in such a system call would leak
NT into a different task.
Importantly, we don't need to worry about NT being set while
preemptible or across page faults. The only way we can schedule
due to preemption or a page fault is in an interrupt entry that
nests inside the SYSENTER prologue. The CPU will clear NT when
entering through an interrupt gate, so we won't schedule with NT
set.
The only other interesting flags are IOPL and AC. Allowing
switch_to() to change IOPL has no effect, as the value loaded
during kernel execution doesn't matter at all except between a
SYSENTER entry and the subsequent PUSHF, and anythign that
interrupts in that window will restore IOPL on return.
If we call __switch_to() with AC set, we have bigger problems.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/d4440fdc2a89247bffb7c003d2a9a2952bd46827.1441146105.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
