Pull timekeeping updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"A set of timekeeping/VDSO updates:
- Preparatory work to allow S390 to switch over to the generic VDSO
implementation.
S390 requires that the VDSO data pointer is handed in to the
counter read function when time namespace support is enabled.
Adding the pointer is a NOOP for all other architectures because
the compiler is supposed to optimize that out when it is unused in
the architecture specific inline. The change also solved a similar
problem for MIPS which fortunately has time namespaces not yet
enabled.
S390 needs to update clock related VDSO data independent of the
timekeeping updates. This was solved so far with yet another
sequence counter in the S390 implementation. A better solution is
to utilize the already existing VDSO sequence count for this. The
core code now exposes helper functions which allow to serialize
against the timekeeper code and against concurrent readers.
S390 needs extra data for their clock readout function. The initial
common VDSO data structure did not provide a way to add that. It
now has an embedded architecture specific struct embedded which
defaults to an empty struct.
Doing this now avoids tree dependencies and conflicts post rc1 and
allows all other architectures which work on generic VDSO support
to work from a common upstream base.
- A trivial comment fix"
* tag 'timers-urgent-2020-08-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
time: Delete repeated words in comments
lib/vdso: Allow to add architecture-specific vdso data
timekeeping/vsyscall: Provide vdso_update_begin/end()
vdso/treewide: Add vdso_data pointer argument to __arch_get_hw_counter()
Pull more xen updates from Juergen Gross:
- Remove support for running as 32-bit Xen PV-guest.
32-bit PV guests are rarely used, are lacking security fixes for
Meltdown, and can be easily replaced by PVH mode. Another series for
doing more cleanup will follow soon (removal of 32-bit-only pvops
functionality).
- Fixes and additional features for the Xen display frontend driver.
* tag 'for-linus-5.9-rc1b-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip:
drm/xen-front: Pass dumb buffer data offset to the backend
xen: Sync up with the canonical protocol definition in Xen
drm/xen-front: Add YUYV to supported formats
drm/xen-front: Fix misused IS_ERR_OR_NULL checks
xen/gntdev: Fix dmabuf import with non-zero sgt offset
x86/xen: drop tests for highmem in pv code
x86/xen: eliminate xen-asm_64.S
x86/xen: remove 32-bit Xen PV guest support
Pull hyper-v fixes from Wei Liu:
- fix oops reporting on Hyper-V
- make objtool happy
* tag 'hyperv-fixes-signed' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hyperv/linux:
x86/hyperv: Make hv_setup_sched_clock inline
Drivers: hv: vmbus: Only notify Hyper-V for die events that are oops
Merge more updates from Andrew Morton:
- most of the rest of MM (memcg, hugetlb, vmscan, proc, compaction,
mempolicy, oom-kill, hugetlbfs, migration, thp, cma, util,
memory-hotplug, cleanups, uaccess, migration, gup, pagemap),
- various other subsystems (alpha, misc, sparse, bitmap, lib, bitops,
checkpatch, autofs, minix, nilfs, ufs, fat, signals, kmod, coredump,
exec, kdump, rapidio, panic, kcov, kgdb, ipc).
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (164 commits)
mm/gup: remove task_struct pointer for all gup code
mm: clean up the last pieces of page fault accountings
mm/xtensa: use general page fault accounting
mm/x86: use general page fault accounting
mm/sparc64: use general page fault accounting
mm/sparc32: use general page fault accounting
mm/sh: use general page fault accounting
mm/s390: use general page fault accounting
mm/riscv: use general page fault accounting
mm/powerpc: use general page fault accounting
mm/parisc: use general page fault accounting
mm/openrisc: use general page fault accounting
mm/nios2: use general page fault accounting
mm/nds32: use general page fault accounting
mm/mips: use general page fault accounting
mm/microblaze: use general page fault accounting
mm/m68k: use general page fault accounting
mm/ia64: use general page fault accounting
mm/hexagon: use general page fault accounting
mm/csky: use general page fault accounting
...
Pull iommu updates from Joerg Roedel:
- Remove of the dev->archdata.iommu (or similar) pointers from most
architectures. Only Sparc is left, but this is private to Sparc as
their drivers don't use the IOMMU-API.
- ARM-SMMU updates from Will Deacon:
- Support for SMMU-500 implementation in Marvell Armada-AP806 SoC
- Support for SMMU-500 implementation in NVIDIA Tegra194 SoC
- DT compatible string updates
- Remove unused IOMMU_SYS_CACHE_ONLY flag
- Move ARM-SMMU drivers into their own subdirectory
- Intel VT-d updates from Lu Baolu:
- Misc tweaks and fixes for vSVA
- Report/response page request events
- Cleanups
- Move the Kconfig and Makefile bits for the AMD and Intel drivers into
their respective subdirectory.
- MT6779 IOMMU Support
- Support for new chipsets in the Renesas IOMMU driver
- Other misc cleanups and fixes (e.g. to improve compile test coverage)
* tag 'iommu-updates-v5.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/iommu: (77 commits)
iommu/amd: Move Kconfig and Makefile bits down into amd directory
iommu/vt-d: Move Kconfig and Makefile bits down into intel directory
iommu/arm-smmu: Move Arm SMMU drivers into their own subdirectory
iommu/vt-d: Skip TE disabling on quirky gfx dedicated iommu
iommu: Add gfp parameter to io_pgtable_ops->map()
iommu: Mark __iommu_map_sg() as static
iommu/vt-d: Rename intel-pasid.h to pasid.h
iommu/vt-d: Add page response ops support
iommu/vt-d: Report page request faults for guest SVA
iommu/vt-d: Add a helper to get svm and sdev for pasid
iommu/vt-d: Refactor device_to_iommu() helper
iommu/vt-d: Disable multiple GPASID-dev bind
iommu/vt-d: Warn on out-of-range invalidation address
iommu/vt-d: Fix devTLB flush for vSVA
iommu/vt-d: Handle non-page aligned address
iommu/vt-d: Fix PASID devTLB invalidation
iommu/vt-d: Remove global page support in devTLB flush
iommu/vt-d: Enforce PASID devTLB field mask
iommu: Make some functions static
iommu/amd: Remove double zero check
...
Xen is requiring 64-bit machines today and since Xen 4.14 it can be
built without 32-bit PV guest support. There is no need to carry the
burden of 32-bit PV guest support in the kernel any longer, as new
guests can be either HVM or PVH, or they can use a 64 bit kernel.
Remove the 32-bit Xen PV support from the kernel.
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Pull locking updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"A set of locking fixes and updates:
- Untangle the header spaghetti which causes build failures in
various situations caused by the lockdep additions to seqcount to
validate that the write side critical sections are non-preemptible.
- The seqcount associated lock debug addons which were blocked by the
above fallout.
seqcount writers contrary to seqlock writers must be externally
serialized, which usually happens via locking - except for strict
per CPU seqcounts. As the lock is not part of the seqcount, lockdep
cannot validate that the lock is held.
This new debug mechanism adds the concept of associated locks.
sequence count has now lock type variants and corresponding
initializers which take a pointer to the associated lock used for
writer serialization. If lockdep is enabled the pointer is stored
and write_seqcount_begin() has a lockdep assertion to validate that
the lock is held.
Aside of the type and the initializer no other code changes are
required at the seqcount usage sites. The rest of the seqcount API
is unchanged and determines the type at compile time with the help
of _Generic which is possible now that the minimal GCC version has
been moved up.
Adding this lockdep coverage unearthed a handful of seqcount bugs
which have been addressed already independent of this.
While generally useful this comes with a Trojan Horse twist: On RT
kernels the write side critical section can become preemtible if
the writers are serialized by an associated lock, which leads to
the well known reader preempts writer livelock. RT prevents this by
storing the associated lock pointer independent of lockdep in the
seqcount and changing the reader side to block on the lock when a
reader detects that a writer is in the write side critical section.
- Conversion of seqcount usage sites to associated types and
initializers"
* tag 'locking-urgent-2020-08-10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (25 commits)
locking/seqlock, headers: Untangle the spaghetti monster
locking, arch/ia64: Reduce <asm/smp.h> header dependencies by moving XTP bits into the new <asm/xtp.h> header
x86/headers: Remove APIC headers from <asm/smp.h>
seqcount: More consistent seqprop names
seqcount: Compress SEQCNT_LOCKNAME_ZERO()
seqlock: Fold seqcount_LOCKNAME_init() definition
seqlock: Fold seqcount_LOCKNAME_t definition
seqlock: s/__SEQ_LOCKDEP/__SEQ_LOCK/g
hrtimer: Use sequence counter with associated raw spinlock
kvm/eventfd: Use sequence counter with associated spinlock
userfaultfd: Use sequence counter with associated spinlock
NFSv4: Use sequence counter with associated spinlock
iocost: Use sequence counter with associated spinlock
raid5: Use sequence counter with associated spinlock
vfs: Use sequence counter with associated spinlock
timekeeping: Use sequence counter with associated raw spinlock
xfrm: policy: Use sequence counters with associated lock
netfilter: nft_set_rbtree: Use sequence counter with associated rwlock
netfilter: conntrack: Use sequence counter with associated spinlock
sched: tasks: Use sequence counter with associated spinlock
...
Pull fdpick coredump update from Al Viro:
"Switches fdpic coredumps away from original aout dumping primitives to
the same kind of regset use as regular elf coredumps do"
* 'work.fdpic' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
[elf-fdpic] switch coredump to regsets
[elf-fdpic] use elf_dump_thread_status() for the dumper thread as well
[elf-fdpic] move allocation of elf_thread_status into elf_dump_thread_status()
[elf-fdpic] coredump: don't bother with cyclic list for per-thread objects
kill elf_fpxregs_t
take fdpic-related parts of elf_prstatus out
unexport linux/elfcore.h
Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton:
- a few MM hotfixes
- kthread, tools, scripts, ntfs and ocfs2
- some of MM
Subsystems affected by this patch series: kthread, tools, scripts, ntfs,
ocfs2 and mm (hofixes, pagealloc, slab-generic, slab, slub, kcsan,
debug, pagecache, gup, swap, shmem, memcg, pagemap, mremap, mincore,
sparsemem, vmalloc, kasan, pagealloc, hugetlb and vmscan).
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (162 commits)
mm: vmscan: consistent update to pgrefill
mm/vmscan.c: fix typo
khugepaged: khugepaged_test_exit() check mmget_still_valid()
khugepaged: retract_page_tables() remember to test exit
khugepaged: collapse_pte_mapped_thp() protect the pmd lock
khugepaged: collapse_pte_mapped_thp() flush the right range
mm/hugetlb: fix calculation of adjust_range_if_pmd_sharing_possible
mm: thp: replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones
mm/page_alloc: fix memalloc_nocma_{save/restore} APIs
mm/page_alloc.c: skip setting nodemask when we are in interrupt
mm/page_alloc: fallbacks at most has 3 elements
mm/page_alloc: silence a KASAN false positive
mm/page_alloc.c: remove unnecessary end_bitidx for [set|get]_pfnblock_flags_mask()
mm/page_alloc.c: simplify pageblock bitmap access
mm/page_alloc.c: extract the common part in pfn_to_bitidx()
mm/page_alloc.c: replace the definition of NR_MIGRATETYPE_BITS with PB_migratetype_bits
mm/shuffle: remove dynamic reconfiguration
mm/memory_hotplug: document why shuffle_zone() is relevant
mm/page_alloc: remove nr_free_pagecache_pages()
mm: remove vm_total_pages
...
Patch series "mm: cleanup usage of <asm/pgalloc.h>"
Most architectures have very similar versions of pXd_alloc_one() and
pXd_free_one() for intermediate levels of page table. These patches add
generic versions of these functions in <asm-generic/pgalloc.h> and enable
use of the generic functions where appropriate.
In addition, functions declared and defined in <asm/pgalloc.h> headers are
used mostly by core mm and early mm initialization in arch and there is no
actual reason to have the <asm/pgalloc.h> included all over the place.
The first patch in this series removes unneeded includes of
<asm/pgalloc.h>
In the end it didn't work out as neatly as I hoped and moving
pXd_alloc_track() definitions to <asm-generic/pgalloc.h> would require
unnecessary changes to arches that have custom page table allocations, so
I've decided to move lib/ioremap.c to mm/ and make pgalloc-track.h local
to mm/.
This patch (of 8):
In most cases <asm/pgalloc.h> header is required only for allocations of
page table memory. Most of the .c files that include that header do not
use symbols declared in <asm/pgalloc.h> and do not require that header.
As for the other header files that used to include <asm/pgalloc.h>, it is
possible to move that include into the .c file that actually uses symbols
from <asm/pgalloc.h> and drop the include from the header file.
The process was somewhat automated using
sed -i -E '/[<"]asm\/pgalloc\.h/d' \
$(grep -L -w -f /tmp/xx \
$(git grep -E -l '[<"]asm/pgalloc\.h'))
where /tmp/xx contains all the symbols defined in
arch/*/include/asm/pgalloc.h.
[rppt@linux.ibm.com: fix powerpc warning]
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> [m68k]
Cc: Abdul Haleem <abdhalee@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Satheesh Rajendran <sathnaga@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Stafford Horne <shorne@gmail.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200627143453.31835-1-rppt@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200627143453.31835-2-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull xen updates from Juergen Gross:
- two trivial comment fixes
- a small series for the Xen balloon driver fixing some issues
- a series of the Xen privcmd driver targeting elimination of using
get_user_pages*() in this driver
- a series for the Xen swiotlb driver cleaning it up and adding support
for letting the kernel run as dom0 on Rpi4
* tag 'for-linus-5.9-rc1-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip:
xen/arm: call dma_to_phys on the dma_addr_t parameter of dma_cache_maint
xen/arm: introduce phys/dma translations in xen_dma_sync_for_*
swiotlb-xen: introduce phys_to_dma/dma_to_phys translations
swiotlb-xen: remove XEN_PFN_PHYS
swiotlb-xen: add struct device * parameter to is_xen_swiotlb_buffer
swiotlb-xen: add struct device * parameter to xen_dma_sync_for_device
swiotlb-xen: add struct device * parameter to xen_dma_sync_for_cpu
swiotlb-xen: add struct device * parameter to xen_bus_to_phys
swiotlb-xen: add struct device * parameter to xen_phys_to_bus
swiotlb-xen: remove start_dma_addr
swiotlb-xen: use vmalloc_to_page on vmalloc virt addresses
Revert "xen/balloon: Fix crash when ballooning on x86 32 bit PAE"
xen/balloon: make the balloon wait interruptible
xen/balloon: fix accounting in alloc_xenballooned_pages error path
xen: hypercall.h: fix duplicated word
xen/gntdev: gntdev.h: drop a duplicated word
xen/privcmd: Convert get_user_pages*() to pin_user_pages*()
xen/privcmd: Mark pages as dirty
xen/privcmd: Corrected error handling path
Pull ptrace regset updates from Al Viro:
"Internal regset API changes:
- regularize copy_regset_{to,from}_user() callers
- switch to saner calling conventions for ->get()
- kill user_regset_copyout()
The ->put() side of things will have to wait for the next cycle,
unfortunately.
The balance is about -1KLoC and replacements for ->get() instances are
a lot saner"
* 'work.regset' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (41 commits)
regset: kill user_regset_copyout{,_zero}()
regset(): kill ->get_size()
regset: kill ->get()
csky: switch to ->regset_get()
xtensa: switch to ->regset_get()
parisc: switch to ->regset_get()
nds32: switch to ->regset_get()
nios2: switch to ->regset_get()
hexagon: switch to ->regset_get()
h8300: switch to ->regset_get()
openrisc: switch to ->regset_get()
riscv: switch to ->regset_get()
c6x: switch to ->regset_get()
ia64: switch to ->regset_get()
arc: switch to ->regset_get()
arm: switch to ->regset_get()
sh: convert to ->regset_get()
arm64: switch to ->regset_get()
mips: switch to ->regset_get()
sparc: switch to ->regset_get()
...
Pull KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini:
"s390:
- implement diag318
x86:
- Report last CPU for debugging
- Emulate smaller MAXPHYADDR in the guest than in the host
- .noinstr and tracing fixes from Thomas
- nested SVM page table switching optimization and fixes
Generic:
- Unify shadow MMU cache data structures across architectures"
* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (127 commits)
KVM: SVM: Fix sev_pin_memory() error handling
KVM: LAPIC: Set the TDCR settable bits
KVM: x86: Specify max TDP level via kvm_configure_mmu()
KVM: x86/mmu: Rename max_page_level to max_huge_page_level
KVM: x86: Dynamically calculate TDP level from max level and MAXPHYADDR
KVM: VXM: Remove temporary WARN on expected vs. actual EPTP level mismatch
KVM: x86: Pull the PGD's level from the MMU instead of recalculating it
KVM: VMX: Make vmx_load_mmu_pgd() static
KVM: x86/mmu: Add separate helper for shadow NPT root page role calc
KVM: VMX: Drop a duplicate declaration of construct_eptp()
KVM: nSVM: Correctly set the shadow NPT root level in its MMU role
KVM: Using macros instead of magic values
MIPS: KVM: Fix build error caused by 'kvm_run' cleanup
KVM: nSVM: remove nonsensical EXITINFO1 adjustment on nested NPF
KVM: x86: Add a capability for GUEST_MAXPHYADDR < HOST_MAXPHYADDR support
KVM: VMX: optimize #PF injection when MAXPHYADDR does not match
KVM: VMX: Add guest physical address check in EPT violation and misconfig
KVM: VMX: introduce vmx_need_pf_intercept
KVM: x86: update exception bitmap on CPUID changes
KVM: x86: rename update_bp_intercept to update_exception_bitmap
...
This reverts commit 8bb9bf242d.
It seems the vmalloc page tables aren't always preallocated in all
situations, because Jason Donenfeld reports an oops with this commit:
BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffe8ffffd00608
#PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
#PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
PGD 0 P4D 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
CPU: 2 PID: 22 Comm: kworker/2:0 Not tainted 5.8.0+ #154
RIP: process_one_work+0x2c/0x2d0
Code: 41 56 41 55 41 54 55 48 89 f5 53 48 89 fb 48 83 ec 08 48 8b 06 4c 8b 67 40 49 89 c6 45 30 f6 a8 04 b8 00 00 00 00 4c 0f 44 f0 <49> 8b 46 08 44 8b a8 00 01 05
Call Trace:
worker_thread+0x4b/0x3b0
? rescuer_thread+0x360/0x360
kthread+0x116/0x140
? __kthread_create_worker+0x110/0x110
ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30
CR2: ffffe8ffffd00608
and that page fault address is right in that vmalloc space, and we
clearly don't have a PGD/P4D entry for it.
Looking at the "Code:" line, the actual fault seems to come from the
'pwq->wq' dereference at the top of the process_one_work() function:
struct pool_workqueue *pwq = get_work_pwq(work);
struct worker_pool *pool = worker->pool;
bool cpu_intensive = pwq->wq->flags & WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE;
so 'struct pool_workqueue *pwq' is the allocation that hasn't been
synchronized across CPUs.
Just revert for now, while Joerg figures out the cause.
Reported-and-bisected-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The APIC headers are relatively complex and bring in additional
header dependencies - while smp.h is a relatively simple header
included from high level headers.
Remove the dependency and add in the missing #include's in .c
files where they gained it indirectly before.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
MIPS already uses and S390 will need the vdso data pointer in
__arch_get_hw_counter().
This works nicely as long as the architecture does not support time
namespaces in the VDSO. With time namespaces enabled the regular
accessor to the vdso data pointer __arch_get_vdso_data() will return the
namespace specific VDSO data page for tasks which are part of a
non-root time namespace. This would cause the architectures which need
the vdso data pointer in __arch_get_hw_counter() to access the wrong
vdso data page.
Add a vdso_data pointer argument to __arch_get_hw_counter() and hand it in
from the call sites in the core code. For architectures which do not need
the data pointer in their counter accessor function the compiler will just
optimize it out.
Fix up all existing architecture implementations and make MIPS utilize the
pointer instead of invoking the accessor function.
No functional change and no change in the resulting object code (except
MIPS).
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/draft-87wo2ekuzn.fsf@nanos.tec.linutronix.de
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"It's been a busy cycle for documentation - hopefully the busiest for a
while to come. Changes include:
- Some new Chinese translations
- Progress on the battle against double words words and non-HTTPS
URLs
- Some block-mq documentation
- More RST conversions from Mauro. At this point, that task is
essentially complete, so we shouldn't see this kind of churn again
for a while. Unless we decide to switch to asciidoc or
something...:)
- Lots of typo fixes, warning fixes, and more"
* tag 'docs-5.9' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (195 commits)
scripts/kernel-doc: optionally treat warnings as errors
docs: ia64: correct typo
mailmap: add entry for <alobakin@marvell.com>
doc/zh_CN: add cpu-load Chinese version
Documentation/admin-guide: tainted-kernels: fix spelling mistake
MAINTAINERS: adjust kprobes.rst entry to new location
devices.txt: document rfkill allocation
PCI: correct flag name
docs: filesystems: vfs: correct flag name
docs: filesystems: vfs: correct sync_mode flag names
docs: path-lookup: markup fixes for emphasis
docs: path-lookup: more markup fixes
docs: path-lookup: fix HTML entity mojibake
CREDITS: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones
docs: process: Add an example for creating a fixes tag
doc/zh_CN: add Chinese translation prefer section
doc/zh_CN: add clearing-warn-once Chinese version
doc/zh_CN: add admin-guide index
doc:it_IT: process: coding-style.rst: Correct __maybe_unused compiler label
futex: MAINTAINERS: Re-add selftests directory
...
Pull x86 fsgsbase from Thomas Gleixner:
"Support for FSGSBASE. Almost 5 years after the first RFC to support
it, this has been brought into a shape which is maintainable and
actually works.
This final version was done by Sasha Levin who took it up after Intel
dropped the ball. Sasha discovered that the SGX (sic!) offerings out
there ship rogue kernel modules enabling FSGSBASE behind the kernels
back which opens an instantanious unpriviledged root hole.
The FSGSBASE instructions provide a considerable speedup of the
context switch path and enable user space to write GSBASE without
kernel interaction. This enablement requires careful handling of the
exception entries which go through the paranoid entry path as they
can no longer rely on the assumption that user GSBASE is positive (as
enforced via prctl() on non FSGSBASE enabled systemn).
All other entries (syscalls, interrupts and exceptions) can still just
utilize SWAPGS unconditionally when the entry comes from user space.
Converting these entries to use FSGSBASE has no benefit as SWAPGS is
only marginally slower than WRGSBASE and locating and retrieving the
kernel GSBASE value is not a free operation either. The real benefit
of RD/WRGSBASE is the avoidance of the MSR reads and writes.
The changes come with appropriate selftests and have held up in field
testing against the (sanitized) Graphene-SGX driver"
* tag 'x86-fsgsbase-2020-08-04' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (21 commits)
x86/fsgsbase: Fix Xen PV support
x86/ptrace: Fix 32-bit PTRACE_SETREGS vs fsbase and gsbase
selftests/x86/fsgsbase: Add a missing memory constraint
selftests/x86/fsgsbase: Fix a comment in the ptrace_write_gsbase test
selftests/x86: Add a syscall_arg_fault_64 test for negative GSBASE
selftests/x86/fsgsbase: Test ptracer-induced GS base write with FSGSBASE
selftests/x86/fsgsbase: Test GS selector on ptracer-induced GS base write
Documentation/x86/64: Add documentation for GS/FS addressing mode
x86/elf: Enumerate kernel FSGSBASE capability in AT_HWCAP2
x86/cpu: Enable FSGSBASE on 64bit by default and add a chicken bit
x86/entry/64: Handle FSGSBASE enabled paranoid entry/exit
x86/entry/64: Introduce the FIND_PERCPU_BASE macro
x86/entry/64: Switch CR3 before SWAPGS in paranoid entry
x86/speculation/swapgs: Check FSGSBASE in enabling SWAPGS mitigation
x86/process/64: Use FSGSBASE instructions on thread copy and ptrace
x86/process/64: Use FSBSBASE in switch_to() if available
x86/process/64: Make save_fsgs_for_kvm() ready for FSGSBASE
x86/fsgsbase/64: Enable FSGSBASE instructions in helper functions
x86/fsgsbase/64: Add intrinsics for FSGSBASE instructions
x86/cpu: Add 'unsafe_fsgsbase' to enable CR4.FSGSBASE
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