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<entry>
<title>x86/entry/64: Add instruction suffix</title>
<updated>2021-06-03T06:22:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Beulich</name>
<email>JBeulich@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-26T11:11:21+00:00</published>
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commit a368d7fd2a3c6babb852fe974018dd97916bcd3b upstream.

Omitting suffixes from instructions in AT&amp;T mode is bad practice when
operand size cannot be determined by the assembler from register
operands, and is likely going to be warned about by upstream gas in the
future (mine does already). Add the single missing suffix here.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich &lt;jbeulich@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/5A93F96902000078001ABAC8@prv-mh.provo.novell.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit a368d7fd2a3c6babb852fe974018dd97916bcd3b upstream.

Omitting suffixes from instructions in AT&amp;T mode is bad practice when
operand size cannot be determined by the assembler from register
operands, and is likely going to be warned about by upstream gas in the
future (mine does already). Add the single missing suffix here.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich &lt;jbeulich@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/5A93F96902000078001ABAC8@prv-mh.provo.novell.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/paravirt: Remove the unused irq_enable_sysexit pv op</title>
<updated>2020-05-20T06:11:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Boris Ostrovsky</name>
<email>boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-19T21:55:46+00:00</published>
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commit 88c15ec90ff16880efab92b519436ee17b198477 upstream.

As result of commit "x86/xen: Avoid fast syscall path for Xen PV
guests", the irq_enable_sysexit pv op is not called by Xen PV guests
anymore and since they were the only ones who used it we can
safely remove it.

Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: david.vrabel@citrix.com
Cc: konrad.wilk@oracle.com
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1447970147-1733-3-git-send-email-boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 88c15ec90ff16880efab92b519436ee17b198477 upstream.

As result of commit "x86/xen: Avoid fast syscall path for Xen PV
guests", the irq_enable_sysexit pv op is not called by Xen PV guests
anymore and since they were the only ones who used it we can
safely remove it.

Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: david.vrabel@citrix.com
Cc: konrad.wilk@oracle.com
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1447970147-1733-3-git-send-email-boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/mitigations: Clear CPU buffers on the SYSCALL fast path</title>
<updated>2020-04-24T05:57:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov</name>
<email>bp@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2020-04-19T07:59:03+00:00</published>
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The fast SYSCALL exit path returns with SYSRET to userspace after
verifying that there's no pending work. MDS mitigation mandates that CPU
buffers must be cleared on transition from kernel to userspace so do
that here too.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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The fast SYSCALL exit path returns with SYSRET to userspace after
verifying that there's no pending work. MDS mitigation mandates that CPU
buffers must be cleared on transition from kernel to userspace so do
that here too.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/entry/32: Add missing ASM_CLAC to general_protection entry</title>
<updated>2020-04-24T05:57:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2020-02-25T21:36:37+00:00</published>
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commit 3d51507f29f2153a658df4a0674ec5b592b62085 upstream.

All exception entry points must have ASM_CLAC right at the
beginning. The general_protection entry is missing one.

Fixes: e59d1b0a2419 ("x86-32, smap: Add STAC/CLAC instructions to 32-bit kernel entry")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alexandre Chartre &lt;alexandre.chartre@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200225220216.219537887@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 3d51507f29f2153a658df4a0674ec5b592b62085 upstream.

All exception entry points must have ASM_CLAC right at the
beginning. The general_protection entry is missing one.

Fixes: e59d1b0a2419 ("x86-32, smap: Add STAC/CLAC instructions to 32-bit kernel entry")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alexandre Chartre &lt;alexandre.chartre@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200225220216.219537887@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/vdso: Provide missing include file</title>
<updated>2020-02-28T14:39:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Valdis Klētnieks</name>
<email>valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2019-12-06T02:36:07+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit bff47c2302cc249bcd550b17067f8dddbd4b6f77 ]

When building with C=1, sparse issues a warning:

  CHECK   arch/x86/entry/vdso/vdso32-setup.c
  arch/x86/entry/vdso/vdso32-setup.c:28:28: warning: symbol 'vdso32_enabled' was not declared. Should it be static?

Provide the missing header file.

Signed-off-by: Valdis Kletnieks &lt;valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: x86-ml &lt;x86@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/36224.1575599767@turing-police
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit bff47c2302cc249bcd550b17067f8dddbd4b6f77 ]

When building with C=1, sparse issues a warning:

  CHECK   arch/x86/entry/vdso/vdso32-setup.c
  arch/x86/entry/vdso/vdso32-setup.c:28:28: warning: symbol 'vdso32_enabled' was not declared. Should it be static?

Provide the missing header file.

Signed-off-by: Valdis Kletnieks &lt;valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: x86-ml &lt;x86@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/36224.1575599767@turing-police
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/vdso: Remove direct HPET access through the vDSO</title>
<updated>2019-08-25T08:53:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andy Lutomirski</name>
<email>luto@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-04-08T00:16:59+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=d96d87834d5b870402a4a5b565706a4869ebc020'/>
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commit 1ed95e52d902035e39a715ff3a314a893a96e5b7 upstream.

Allowing user code to map the HPET is problematic.  HPET
implementations are notoriously buggy, and there are probably many
machines on which even MMIO reads from bogus HPET addresses are
problematic.

We have a report that the Dell Precision M2800 with:

  ACPI: HPET 0x00000000C8FE6238 000038 (v01 DELL   CBX3  01072009 AMI. 00000005)

is either so slow when accessing the HPET or actually hangs in some
regard, causing soft lockups to be reported if users do unexpected
things to the HPET.

The vclock HPET code has also always been a questionable speedup.
Accessing an HPET is exceedingly slow (on the order of several
microseconds), so the added overhead in requiring a syscall to read
the HPET is a small fraction of the total code of accessing it.

To avoid future problems, let's just delete the code entirely.

In the long run, this could actually be a speedup.  Waiman Long as a
patch to optimize the case where multiple CPUs contend for the HPET,
but that won't help unless all the accesses are mediated by the
kernel.

Reported-by: Rasmus Villemoes &lt;linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Waiman Long &lt;Waiman.Long@hpe.com&gt;
Cc: Waiman Long &lt;waiman.long@hpe.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/d2f90bba98db9905041cff294646d290d378f67a.1460074438.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 1ed95e52d902035e39a715ff3a314a893a96e5b7 upstream.

Allowing user code to map the HPET is problematic.  HPET
implementations are notoriously buggy, and there are probably many
machines on which even MMIO reads from bogus HPET addresses are
problematic.

We have a report that the Dell Precision M2800 with:

  ACPI: HPET 0x00000000C8FE6238 000038 (v01 DELL   CBX3  01072009 AMI. 00000005)

is either so slow when accessing the HPET or actually hangs in some
regard, causing soft lockups to be reported if users do unexpected
things to the HPET.

The vclock HPET code has also always been a questionable speedup.
Accessing an HPET is exceedingly slow (on the order of several
microseconds), so the added overhead in requiring a syscall to read
the HPET is a small fraction of the total code of accessing it.

To avoid future problems, let's just delete the code entirely.

In the long run, this could actually be a speedup.  Waiman Long as a
patch to optimize the case where multiple CPUs contend for the HPET,
but that won't help unless all the accesses are mediated by the
kernel.

Reported-by: Rasmus Villemoes &lt;linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Waiman Long &lt;Waiman.Long@hpe.com&gt;
Cc: Waiman Long &lt;waiman.long@hpe.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/d2f90bba98db9905041cff294646d290d378f67a.1460074438.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/entry/64: Use JMP instead of JMPQ</title>
<updated>2019-08-11T10:20:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Josh Poimboeuf</name>
<email>jpoimboe@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-15T16:51:39+00:00</published>
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commit 64dbc122b20f75183d8822618c24f85144a5a94d upstream.

Somehow the swapgs mitigation entry code patch ended up with a JMPQ
instruction instead of JMP, where only the short jump is needed.  Some
assembler versions apparently fail to optimize JMPQ into a two-byte JMP
when possible, instead always using a 7-byte JMP with relocation.  For
some reason that makes the entry code explode with a #GP during boot.

Change it back to "JMP" as originally intended.

Fixes: 18ec54fdd6d1 ("x86/speculation: Prepare entry code for Spectre v1 swapgs mitigations")
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 4.4: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 64dbc122b20f75183d8822618c24f85144a5a94d upstream.

Somehow the swapgs mitigation entry code patch ended up with a JMPQ
instruction instead of JMP, where only the short jump is needed.  Some
assembler versions apparently fail to optimize JMPQ into a two-byte JMP
when possible, instead always using a 7-byte JMP with relocation.  For
some reason that makes the entry code explode with a #GP during boot.

Change it back to "JMP" as originally intended.

Fixes: 18ec54fdd6d1 ("x86/speculation: Prepare entry code for Spectre v1 swapgs mitigations")
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 4.4: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/speculation: Prepare entry code for Spectre v1 swapgs mitigations</title>
<updated>2019-08-11T10:20:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Josh Poimboeuf</name>
<email>jpoimboe@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-08T16:52:25+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=e3d8c979c49d6113566acf4b3002073979cd35c3'/>
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commit 18ec54fdd6d18d92025af097cd042a75cf0ea24c upstream.

Spectre v1 isn't only about array bounds checks.  It can affect any
conditional checks.  The kernel entry code interrupt, exception, and NMI
handlers all have conditional swapgs checks.  Those may be problematic in
the context of Spectre v1, as kernel code can speculatively run with a user
GS.

For example:

	if (coming from user space)
		swapgs
	mov %gs:&lt;percpu_offset&gt;, %reg
	mov (%reg), %reg1

When coming from user space, the CPU can speculatively skip the swapgs, and
then do a speculative percpu load using the user GS value.  So the user can
speculatively force a read of any kernel value.  If a gadget exists which
uses the percpu value as an address in another load/store, then the
contents of the kernel value may become visible via an L1 side channel
attack.

A similar attack exists when coming from kernel space.  The CPU can
speculatively do the swapgs, causing the user GS to get used for the rest
of the speculative window.

The mitigation is similar to a traditional Spectre v1 mitigation, except:

  a) index masking isn't possible; because the index (percpu offset)
     isn't user-controlled; and

  b) an lfence is needed in both the "from user" swapgs path and the
     "from kernel" non-swapgs path (because of the two attacks described
     above).

The user entry swapgs paths already have SWITCH_TO_KERNEL_CR3, which has a
CR3 write when PTI is enabled.  Since CR3 writes are serializing, the
lfences can be skipped in those cases.

On the other hand, the kernel entry swapgs paths don't depend on PTI.

To avoid unnecessary lfences for the user entry case, create two separate
features for alternative patching:

  X86_FEATURE_FENCE_SWAPGS_USER
  X86_FEATURE_FENCE_SWAPGS_KERNEL

Use these features in entry code to patch in lfences where needed.

The features aren't enabled yet, so there's no functional change.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@intel.com&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 4.4:
 - Assign the CPU feature bits from word 7
 - Add FENCE_SWAPGS_KERNEL_ENTRY to NMI entry, since it does not
   use paranoid_entry
 - Include &lt;asm/cpufeatures.h&gt; in calling.h
 - Adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 18ec54fdd6d18d92025af097cd042a75cf0ea24c upstream.

Spectre v1 isn't only about array bounds checks.  It can affect any
conditional checks.  The kernel entry code interrupt, exception, and NMI
handlers all have conditional swapgs checks.  Those may be problematic in
the context of Spectre v1, as kernel code can speculatively run with a user
GS.

For example:

	if (coming from user space)
		swapgs
	mov %gs:&lt;percpu_offset&gt;, %reg
	mov (%reg), %reg1

When coming from user space, the CPU can speculatively skip the swapgs, and
then do a speculative percpu load using the user GS value.  So the user can
speculatively force a read of any kernel value.  If a gadget exists which
uses the percpu value as an address in another load/store, then the
contents of the kernel value may become visible via an L1 side channel
attack.

A similar attack exists when coming from kernel space.  The CPU can
speculatively do the swapgs, causing the user GS to get used for the rest
of the speculative window.

The mitigation is similar to a traditional Spectre v1 mitigation, except:

  a) index masking isn't possible; because the index (percpu offset)
     isn't user-controlled; and

  b) an lfence is needed in both the "from user" swapgs path and the
     "from kernel" non-swapgs path (because of the two attacks described
     above).

The user entry swapgs paths already have SWITCH_TO_KERNEL_CR3, which has a
CR3 write when PTI is enabled.  Since CR3 writes are serializing, the
lfences can be skipped in those cases.

On the other hand, the kernel entry swapgs paths don't depend on PTI.

To avoid unnecessary lfences for the user entry case, create two separate
features for alternative patching:

  X86_FEATURE_FENCE_SWAPGS_USER
  X86_FEATURE_FENCE_SWAPGS_KERNEL

Use these features in entry code to patch in lfences where needed.

The features aren't enabled yet, so there's no functional change.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@intel.com&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 4.4:
 - Assign the CPU feature bits from word 7
 - Add FENCE_SWAPGS_KERNEL_ENTRY to NMI entry, since it does not
   use paranoid_entry
 - Include &lt;asm/cpufeatures.h&gt; in calling.h
 - Adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86/entry/64: Fix context tracking state warning when load_gs_index fails</title>
<updated>2019-08-11T10:20:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Wanpeng Li</name>
<email>wanpeng.li@hotmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-09-30T01:01:06+00:00</published>
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commit 2fa5f04f85730d0c4f49f984b7efeb4f8d5bd1fc upstream.

This warning:

 WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 3331 at arch/x86/entry/common.c:45 enter_from_user_mode+0x32/0x50
 CPU: 0 PID: 3331 Comm: ldt_gdt_64 Not tainted 4.8.0-rc7+ #13
 Call Trace:
  dump_stack+0x99/0xd0
  __warn+0xd1/0xf0
  warn_slowpath_null+0x1d/0x20
  enter_from_user_mode+0x32/0x50
  error_entry+0x6d/0xc0
  ? general_protection+0x12/0x30
  ? native_load_gs_index+0xd/0x20
  ? do_set_thread_area+0x19c/0x1f0
  SyS_set_thread_area+0x24/0x30
  do_int80_syscall_32+0x7c/0x220
  entry_INT80_compat+0x38/0x50

... can be reproduced by running the GS testcase of the ldt_gdt test unit in
the x86 selftests.

do_int80_syscall_32() will call enter_form_user_mode() to convert context
tracking state from user state to kernel state. The load_gs_index() call
can fail with user gsbase, gsbase will be fixed up and proceed if this
happen.

However, enter_from_user_mode() will be called again in the fixed up path
though it is context tracking kernel state currently.

This patch fixes it by just fixing up gsbase and telling lockdep that IRQs
are off once load_gs_index() failed with user gsbase.

Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li &lt;wanpeng.li@hotmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1475197266-3440-1-git-send-email-wanpeng.li@hotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 2fa5f04f85730d0c4f49f984b7efeb4f8d5bd1fc upstream.

This warning:

 WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 3331 at arch/x86/entry/common.c:45 enter_from_user_mode+0x32/0x50
 CPU: 0 PID: 3331 Comm: ldt_gdt_64 Not tainted 4.8.0-rc7+ #13
 Call Trace:
  dump_stack+0x99/0xd0
  __warn+0xd1/0xf0
  warn_slowpath_null+0x1d/0x20
  enter_from_user_mode+0x32/0x50
  error_entry+0x6d/0xc0
  ? general_protection+0x12/0x30
  ? native_load_gs_index+0xd/0x20
  ? do_set_thread_area+0x19c/0x1f0
  SyS_set_thread_area+0x24/0x30
  do_int80_syscall_32+0x7c/0x220
  entry_INT80_compat+0x38/0x50

... can be reproduced by running the GS testcase of the ldt_gdt test unit in
the x86 selftests.

do_int80_syscall_32() will call enter_form_user_mode() to convert context
tracking state from user state to kernel state. The load_gs_index() call
can fail with user gsbase, gsbase will be fixed up and proceed if this
happen.

However, enter_from_user_mode() will be called again in the fixed up path
though it is context tracking kernel state currently.

This patch fixes it by just fixing up gsbase and telling lockdep that IRQs
are off once load_gs_index() failed with user gsbase.

Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li &lt;wanpeng.li@hotmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1475197266-3440-1-git-send-email-wanpeng.li@hotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/speculation/mds: Clear CPU buffers on exit to user</title>
<updated>2019-05-16T17:45:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-02-18T22:42:51+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=a41a2dee403d99e6c13d35b935a310b0609b8e6a'/>
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commit 04dcbdb8057827b043b3c71aa397c4c63e67d086 upstream.

Add a static key which controls the invocation of the CPU buffer clear
mechanism on exit to user space and add the call into
prepare_exit_to_usermode() and do_nmi() right before actually returning.

Add documentation which kernel to user space transition this covers and
explain why some corner cases are not mitigated.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jon Masters &lt;jcm@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Jon Masters &lt;jcm@redhat.com&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 4.4: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 04dcbdb8057827b043b3c71aa397c4c63e67d086 upstream.

Add a static key which controls the invocation of the CPU buffer clear
mechanism on exit to user space and add the call into
prepare_exit_to_usermode() and do_nmi() right before actually returning.

Add documentation which kernel to user space transition this covers and
explain why some corner cases are not mitigated.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jon Masters &lt;jcm@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Jon Masters &lt;jcm@redhat.com&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 4.4: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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