linux/arch/x86/include, branch v3.2.46

KVM: x86: Convert MSR_KVM_SYSTEM_TIME to use gfn_to_hva_cache functions (CVE-2013-1797)

2013-04-25T19:25:50Z

commit 0b79459b482e85cb7426aa7da683a9f2c97aeae1 upstream. There is a potential use after free issue with the handling of MSR_KVM_SYSTEM_TIME. If the guest specifies a GPA in a movable or removable memory such as frame buffers then KVM might continue to write to that address even after it's removed via KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION. KVM pins the page in memory so it's unlikely to cause an issue, but if the user space component re-purposes the memory previously used for the guest, then the guest will be able to corrupt that memory. Tested: Tested against kvmclock unit test Signed-off-by: Andrew Honig Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti [bwh: Backported to 3.2: - Adjust context - We do not implement the PVCLOCK_GUEST_STOPPED flag] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

x86, mm: Patch out arch_flush_lazy_mmu_mode() when running on bare metal

2013-04-25T19:25:37Z

commit 511ba86e1d386f671084b5d0e6f110bb30b8eeb2 upstream. Invoking arch_flush_lazy_mmu_mode() results in calls to preempt_enable()/disable() which may have performance impact. Since lazy MMU is not used on bare metal we can patch away arch_flush_lazy_mmu_mode() so that it is never called in such environment. [ hpa: the previous patch "Fix vmalloc_fault oops during lazy MMU updates" may cause a minor performance regression on bare metal. This patch resolves that performance regression. It is somewhat unclear to me if this is a good -stable candidate. ] Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1364045796-10720-2-git-send-email-konrad.wilk@oracle.com Tested-by: Josh Boyer Tested-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Acked-by: Borislav Petkov Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

signal: Define __ARCH_HAS_SA_RESTORER so we know whether to clear sa_restorer

2013-03-27T02:41:25Z

flush_signal_handlers() needs to know whether sigaction::sa_restorer is defined, not whether SA_RESTORER is defined. Define the __ARCH_HAS_SA_RESTORER macro to indicate this. Vaguely based on upstream commit 574c4866e33d 'consolidate kernel-side struct sigaction declarations'. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings Cc: Al Viro

x86/mm: Check if PUD is large when validating a kernel address

2013-03-06T03:23:56Z

commit 0ee364eb316348ddf3e0dfcd986f5f13f528f821 upstream. A user reported the following oops when a backup process reads /proc/kcore: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffbb00ff33b000 IP: [] kern_addr_valid+0xbe/0x110 [...] Call Trace: [] read_kcore+0x17a/0x370 [] proc_reg_read+0x77/0xc0 [] vfs_read+0xc7/0x130 [] sys_read+0x53/0xa0 [] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b Investigation determined that the bug triggered when reading system RAM at the 4G mark. On this system, that was the first address using 1G pages for the virt->phys direct mapping so the PUD is pointing to a physical address, not a PMD page. The problem is that the page table walker in kern_addr_valid() is not checking pud_large() and treats the physical address as if it was a PMD. If it happens to look like pmd_none then it'll silently fail, probably returning zeros instead of real data. If the data happens to look like a present PMD though, it will be walked resulting in the oops above. This patch adds the necessary pud_large() check. Unfortunately the problem was not readily reproducible and now they are running the backup program without accessing /proc/kcore so the patch has not been validated but I think it makes sense. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130211145236.GX21389@suse.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

x86: Use enum instead of literals for trap values

2013-02-06T04:33:54Z

commit c94082656dac74257f63e91f78d5d458ac781fa5 upstream. The traps are referred to by their numbers and it can be difficult to understand them while reading the code without context. This patch adds enumeration of the trap numbers and replaces the numbers with the correct enum for x86. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120310000710.GA32667@www.outflux.net Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin Cherry-picked-for: v2.3.37 Signed-off-by: John Kacur Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

efi: Make 'efi_enabled' a function to query EFI facilities

2013-02-06T04:33:50Z

commit 83e68189745ad931c2afd45d8ee3303929233e7f upstream. Originally 'efi_enabled' indicated whether a kernel was booted from EFI firmware. Over time its semantics have changed, and it now indicates whether or not we are booted on an EFI machine with bit-native firmware, e.g. 64-bit kernel with 64-bit firmware. The immediate motivation for this patch is the bug report at, https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-cdimage/+bug/1040557 which details how running a platform driver on an EFI machine that is designed to run under BIOS can cause the machine to become bricked. Also, the following report, https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47121 details how running said driver can also cause Machine Check Exceptions. Drivers need a new means of detecting whether they're running on an EFI machine, as sadly the expression, if (!efi_enabled) hasn't been a sufficient condition for quite some time. Users actually want to query 'efi_enabled' for different reasons - what they really want access to is the list of available EFI facilities. For instance, the x86 reboot code needs to know whether it can invoke the ResetSystem() function provided by the EFI runtime services, while the ACPI OSL code wants to know whether the EFI config tables were mapped successfully. There are also checks in some of the platform driver code to simply see if they're running on an EFI machine (which would make it a bad idea to do BIOS-y things). This patch is a prereq for the samsung-laptop fix patch. Cc: David Airlie Cc: Corentin Chary Cc: Matthew Garrett Cc: Dave Jiang Cc: Olof Johansson Cc: Peter Jones Cc: Colin Ian King Cc: Steve Langasek Cc: Tony Luck Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin [bwh: Backported to 3.2: - Adjust context (a lot) - Add efi_is_native() function from commit 5189c2a7c776 ('x86: efi: Turn off efi_enabled after setup on mixed fw/kernel') - Make efi_init() bail out when booted non-native, as it would previously not be called in this case - Drop inapplicable changes to start_kernel()] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

x86-32: Fix invalid stack address while in softirq

2012-12-06T11:20:30Z

commit 1022623842cb72ee4d0dbf02f6937f38c92c3f41 upstream. In 32 bit the stack address provided by kernel_stack_pointer() may point to an invalid range causing NULL pointer access or page faults while in NMI (see trace below). This happens if called in softirq context and if the stack is empty. The address at ®s->sp is then out of range. Fixing this by checking if regs and ®s->sp are in the same stack context. Otherwise return the previous stack pointer stored in struct thread_info. If that address is invalid too, return address of regs. BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000a IP: [] print_context_stack+0x6e/0x8d *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP Modules linked in: Pid: 4434, comm: perl Not tainted 3.6.0-rc3-oprofile-i386-standard-g4411a05 #4 Hewlett-Packard HP xw9400 Workstation/0A1Ch EIP: 0060:[] EFLAGS: 00010093 CPU: 0 EIP is at print_context_stack+0x6e/0x8d EAX: ffffe000 EBX: 0000000a ECX: f4435f94 EDX: 0000000a ESI: f4435f94 EDI: f4435f94 EBP: f5409ec0 ESP: f5409ea0 DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0033 SS: 0068 CR0: 8005003b CR2: 0000000a CR3: 34ac9000 CR4: 000007d0 DR0: 00000000 DR1: 00000000 DR2: 00000000 DR3: 00000000 DR6: ffff0ff0 DR7: 00000400 Process perl (pid: 4434, ti=f5408000 task=f5637850 task.ti=f4434000) Stack: 000003e8 ffffe000 00001ffc f4e39b00 00000000 0000000a f4435f94 c155198c f5409ef0 c1003723 c155198c f5409f04 00000000 f5409edc 00000000 00000000 f5409ee8 f4435f94 f5409fc4 00000001 f5409f1c c12dce1c 00000000 c155198c Call Trace: [] dump_trace+0x7b/0xa1 [] x86_backtrace+0x40/0x88 [] ? oprofile_add_sample+0x56/0x84 [] oprofile_add_sample+0x75/0x84 [] op_amd_check_ctrs+0x46/0x260 [] profile_exceptions_notify+0x23/0x4c [] nmi_handle+0x31/0x4a [] ? ftrace_define_fields_irq_handler_entry+0x45/0x45 [] do_nmi+0xa0/0x2ff [] ? ftrace_define_fields_irq_handler_entry+0x45/0x45 [] nmi_stack_correct+0x28/0x2d [] ? ftrace_define_fields_irq_handler_entry+0x45/0x45 [] ? do_softirq+0x4b/0x7f [] irq_exit+0x35/0x5b [] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x6c/0x7a [] apic_timer_interrupt+0x2a/0x30 Code: 89 fe eb 08 31 c9 8b 45 0c ff 55 ec 83 c3 04 83 7d 10 00 74 0c 3b 5d 10 73 26 3b 5d e4 73 0c eb 1f 3b 5d f0 76 1a 3b 5d e8 73 15 <8b> 13 89 d0 89 55 e0 e8 ad 42 03 00 85 c0 8b 55 e0 75 a6 eb cc EIP: [] print_context_stack+0x6e/0x8d SS:ESP 0068:f5409ea0 CR2: 000000000000000a ---[ end trace 62afee3481b00012 ]--- Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt V2: * add comments to kernel_stack_pointer() * always return a valid stack address by falling back to the address of regs Reported-by: Yang Wei Signed-off-by: Robert Richter Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120912135059.GZ8285@erda.amd.com Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Jun Zhang Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

x86: Remove the ancient and deprecated disable_hlt() and enable_hlt() facility

2012-11-16T16:46:46Z

commit f6365201d8a21fb347260f89d6e9b3e718d63c70 upstream. The X86_32-only disable_hlt/enable_hlt mechanism was used by the 32-bit floppy driver. Its effect was to replace the use of the HLT instruction inside default_idle() with cpu_relax() - essentially it turned off the use of HLT. This workaround was commented in the code as: "disable hlt during certain critical i/o operations" "This halt magic was a workaround for ancient floppy DMA wreckage. It should be safe to remove." H. Peter Anvin additionally adds: "To the best of my knowledge, no-hlt only existed because of flaky power distributions on 386/486 systems which were sold to run DOS. Since DOS did no power management of any kind, including HLT, the power draw was fairly uniform; when exposed to the much hhigher noise levels you got when Linux used HLT caused some of these systems to fail. They were by far in the minority even back then." Alan Cox further says: "Also for the Cyrix 5510 which tended to go castors up if a HLT occurred during a DMA cycle and on a few other boxes HLT during DMA tended to go astray. Do we care ? I doubt it. The 5510 was pretty obscure, the 5520 fixed it, the 5530 is probably the oldest still in any kind of use." So, let's finally drop this. Signed-off-by: Len Brown Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Acked-by: "H. Peter Anvin" Acked-by: Alan Cox Cc: Stephen Hemminger Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-3rhk9bzf0x9rljkv488tloib@git.kernel.org [ If anyone cares then alternative instruction patching could be used to replace HLT with a one-byte NOP instruction. Much simpler. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar [bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust filename, context] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

mm: thp: fix pmd_present for split_huge_page and PROT_NONE with THP

2012-10-17T02:49:45Z

commit 027ef6c87853b0a9df53175063028edb4950d476 upstream. In many places !pmd_present has been converted to pmd_none. For pmds that's equivalent and pmd_none is quicker so using pmd_none is better. However (unless we delete pmd_present) we should provide an accurate pmd_present too. This will avoid the risk of code thinking the pmd is non present because it's under __split_huge_page_map, see the pmd_mknotpresent there and the comment above it. If the page has been mprotected as PROT_NONE, it would also lead to a pmd_present false negative in the same way as the race with split_huge_page. Because the PSE bit stays on at all times (both during split_huge_page and when the _PAGE_PROTNONE bit get set), we could only check for the PSE bit, but checking the PROTNONE bit too is still good to remember pmd_present must always keep PROT_NONE into account. This explains a not reproducible BUG_ON that was seldom reported on the lists. The same issue is in pmd_large, it would go wrong with both PROT_NONE and if it races with split_huge_page. Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli Acked-by: Rik van Riel Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Mel Gorman Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

x86: Simplify code by removing a !SMP #ifdefs from 'struct cpuinfo_x86'

2012-08-04T15:31:12Z

commit 141168c36cdee3ff23d9c7700b0edc47cb65479f and commit 3f806e50981825fa56a7f1938f24c0680816be45 upstream. Several fields in struct cpuinfo_x86 were not defined for the !SMP case, likely to save space. However, those fields still have some meaning for UP, and keeping them allows some #ifdef removal from other files. The additional size of the UP kernel from this change is not significant enough to worry about keeping up the distinction: text data bss dec hex filename 4737168 506459 972040 6215667 5ed7f3 vmlinux.o.before 4737444 506459 972040 6215943 5ed907 vmlinux.o.after for a difference of 276 bytes for an example UP config. If someone wants those 276 bytes back badly then it should be implemented in a cleaner way. Signed-off-by: Kevin Winchester Cc: Steffen Persvold Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1324428742-12498-1-git-send-email-kjwinchester@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings