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<title>powerpc/64s: flush L1D after user accesses</title>
<updated>2020-11-22T09:14:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
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<published>2020-11-19T23:35:14+00:00</published>
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commit 9a32a7e78bd0cd9a9b6332cbdc345ee5ffd0c5de upstream.

IBM Power9 processors can speculatively operate on data in the L1 cache
before it has been completely validated, via a way-prediction mechanism. It
is not possible for an attacker to determine the contents of impermissible
memory using this method, since these systems implement a combination of
hardware and software security measures to prevent scenarios where
protected data could be leaked.

However these measures don't address the scenario where an attacker induces
the operating system to speculatively execute instructions using data that
the attacker controls. This can be used for example to speculatively bypass
"kernel user access prevention" techniques, as discovered by Anthony
Steinhauser of Google's Safeside Project. This is not an attack by itself,
but there is a possibility it could be used in conjunction with
side-channels or other weaknesses in the privileged code to construct an
attack.

This issue can be mitigated by flushing the L1 cache between privilege
boundaries of concern. This patch flushes the L1 cache after user accesses.

This is part of the fix for CVE-2020-4788.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens &lt;dja@axtens.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 9a32a7e78bd0cd9a9b6332cbdc345ee5ffd0c5de upstream.

IBM Power9 processors can speculatively operate on data in the L1 cache
before it has been completely validated, via a way-prediction mechanism. It
is not possible for an attacker to determine the contents of impermissible
memory using this method, since these systems implement a combination of
hardware and software security measures to prevent scenarios where
protected data could be leaked.

However these measures don't address the scenario where an attacker induces
the operating system to speculatively execute instructions using data that
the attacker controls. This can be used for example to speculatively bypass
"kernel user access prevention" techniques, as discovered by Anthony
Steinhauser of Google's Safeside Project. This is not an attack by itself,
but there is a possibility it could be used in conjunction with
side-channels or other weaknesses in the privileged code to construct an
attack.

This issue can be mitigated by flushing the L1 cache between privilege
boundaries of concern. This patch flushes the L1 cache after user accesses.

This is part of the fix for CVE-2020-4788.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens &lt;dja@axtens.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/64s: flush L1D on kernel entry</title>
<updated>2020-11-22T09:14:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-11-19T23:35:13+00:00</published>
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commit f79643787e0a0762d2409b7b8334e83f22d85695 upstream.

[backporting note: we need to mark some exception handlers as out-of-line
 because the flushing makes them take too much space -- dja]

IBM Power9 processors can speculatively operate on data in the L1 cache
before it has been completely validated, via a way-prediction mechanism. It
is not possible for an attacker to determine the contents of impermissible
memory using this method, since these systems implement a combination of
hardware and software security measures to prevent scenarios where
protected data could be leaked.

However these measures don't address the scenario where an attacker induces
the operating system to speculatively execute instructions using data that
the attacker controls. This can be used for example to speculatively bypass
"kernel user access prevention" techniques, as discovered by Anthony
Steinhauser of Google's Safeside Project. This is not an attack by itself,
but there is a possibility it could be used in conjunction with
side-channels or other weaknesses in the privileged code to construct an
attack.

This issue can be mitigated by flushing the L1 cache between privilege
boundaries of concern. This patch flushes the L1 cache on kernel entry.

This is part of the fix for CVE-2020-4788.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens &lt;dja@axtens.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit f79643787e0a0762d2409b7b8334e83f22d85695 upstream.

[backporting note: we need to mark some exception handlers as out-of-line
 because the flushing makes them take too much space -- dja]

IBM Power9 processors can speculatively operate on data in the L1 cache
before it has been completely validated, via a way-prediction mechanism. It
is not possible for an attacker to determine the contents of impermissible
memory using this method, since these systems implement a combination of
hardware and software security measures to prevent scenarios where
protected data could be leaked.

However these measures don't address the scenario where an attacker induces
the operating system to speculatively execute instructions using data that
the attacker controls. This can be used for example to speculatively bypass
"kernel user access prevention" techniques, as discovered by Anthony
Steinhauser of Google's Safeside Project. This is not an attack by itself,
but there is a possibility it could be used in conjunction with
side-channels or other weaknesses in the privileged code to construct an
attack.

This issue can be mitigated by flushing the L1 cache between privilege
boundaries of concern. This patch flushes the L1 cache on kernel entry.

This is part of the fix for CVE-2020-4788.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens &lt;dja@axtens.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/64s/exception: Fix machine check no-loss idle wakeup</title>
<updated>2020-06-24T15:50:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-05-08T04:33:53+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 8a5054d8cbbe03c68dcb0957c291c942132e4101 ]

The architecture allows for machine check exceptions to cause idle
wakeups which resume at the 0x200 address which has to return via
the idle wakeup code, but the early machine check handler is run
first.

The case of a no state-loss sleep is broken because the early
handler uses non-volatile register r1 , which is needed for the wakeup
protocol, but it is not restored.

Fix this by loading r1 from the MCE exception frame before returning
to the idle wakeup code. Also update the comment which has become
stale since the idle rewrite in C.

This crash was found and fix confirmed with a machine check injection
test in qemu powernv model (which is not upstream in qemu yet).

Fixes: 10d91611f426d ("powerpc/64s: Reimplement book3s idle code in C")
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200508043408.886394-2-npiggin@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 8a5054d8cbbe03c68dcb0957c291c942132e4101 ]

The architecture allows for machine check exceptions to cause idle
wakeups which resume at the 0x200 address which has to return via
the idle wakeup code, but the early machine check handler is run
first.

The case of a no state-loss sleep is broken because the early
handler uses non-volatile register r1 , which is needed for the wakeup
protocol, but it is not restored.

Fix this by loading r1 from the MCE exception frame before returning
to the idle wakeup code. Also update the comment which has become
stale since the idle rewrite in C.

This crash was found and fix confirmed with a machine check injection
test in qemu powernv model (which is not upstream in qemu yet).

Fixes: 10d91611f426d ("powerpc/64s: Reimplement book3s idle code in C")
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200508043408.886394-2-npiggin@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>powerpc/64s/exception: reduce page fault unnecessary loads</title>
<updated>2019-08-30T01:14:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-08-02T10:57:01+00:00</published>
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This avoids 3 loads in the radix page fault case, 1 load in the
hash fault case, and 2 loads in the hash miss page fault case.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190802105709.27696-37-npiggin@gmail.com

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This avoids 3 loads in the radix page fault case, 1 load in the
hash fault case, and 2 loads in the hash miss page fault case.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190802105709.27696-37-npiggin@gmail.com

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<entry>
<title>powerpc/64s/exception: Remove pointless KVM handler name bifurcation</title>
<updated>2019-08-30T01:14:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-08-02T10:57:00+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190802105709.27696-36-npiggin@gmail.com

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Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190802105709.27696-36-npiggin@gmail.com

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<entry>
<title>powerpc/64s/exception: program check handler do not branch into a macro</title>
<updated>2019-08-30T01:14:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-08-02T10:56:59+00:00</published>
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It is clever, but the small code saving is not worth the spaghetti of
jumping to a label in an expanded macro, particularly when the label
is just a number rather than a descriptive name.

So expand the INT_COMMON macro twice, once for the stack and no stack
cases, and branch to those. The slight code size increase is worth
the improved clarity of branches for this non-performance critical
code.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190802105709.27696-35-npiggin@gmail.com

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It is clever, but the small code saving is not worth the spaghetti of
jumping to a label in an expanded macro, particularly when the label
is just a number rather than a descriptive name.

So expand the INT_COMMON macro twice, once for the stack and no stack
cases, and branch to those. The slight code size increase is worth
the improved clarity of branches for this non-performance critical
code.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190802105709.27696-35-npiggin@gmail.com

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<entry>
<title>powerpc/64s/exception: move interrupt entry code above the common handler</title>
<updated>2019-08-30T01:14:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-08-02T10:56:58+00:00</published>
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This better reflects the order in which the code is executed.

No generated code change except BUG line number constants.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190802105709.27696-34-npiggin@gmail.com
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This better reflects the order in which the code is executed.

No generated code change except BUG line number constants.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190802105709.27696-34-npiggin@gmail.com
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/64s/exception: INT_COMMON add DAR, DSISR, reconcile options</title>
<updated>2019-08-30T01:14:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-08-02T10:56:57+00:00</published>
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Move DAR and DSISR saving to pt_regs into INT_COMMON. Also add an
option to expand RECONCILE_IRQ_STATE.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190802105709.27696-33-npiggin@gmail.com

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Move DAR and DSISR saving to pt_regs into INT_COMMON. Also add an
option to expand RECONCILE_IRQ_STATE.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190802105709.27696-33-npiggin@gmail.com

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<entry>
<title>powerpc/64s/exception: Expand EXCEPTION_PROLOG_COMMON_1 and 2 into caller</title>
<updated>2019-08-30T01:14:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-08-02T10:56:56+00:00</published>
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No generated code change except BUG line number constants.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190802105709.27696-32-npiggin@gmail.com

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No generated code change except BUG line number constants.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190802105709.27696-32-npiggin@gmail.com

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/64s/exception: Expand EXCEPTION_COMMON macro into caller</title>
<updated>2019-08-30T01:14:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-08-02T10:56:55+00:00</published>
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No generated code change except BUG line number constants.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190802105709.27696-31-npiggin@gmail.com

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No generated code change except BUG line number constants.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190802105709.27696-31-npiggin@gmail.com

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