Patch in Fixes: causes the usual:
unchecked MSR access error: RDMSR from 0x17 at ... (intel_get_platform_id)
Call Trace:
early_init_intel
early_cpu_init
setup_arch
_printk
start_kernel
x86_64_start_reservations
x86_64_start_kernel
common_startup_64
because the kernel is booted in a guest.
In order to avoid it, this MSR access needs to be prevented when running
virtualized. That is usually done by checking X86_FEATURE_HYPERVISOR but
for this particular case it is too early yet.
The platform ID needs to be read as early as when microcode is loaded on
the BSP:
load_ucode_bsp ... -> get_microcode_blob ... -> intel_find_matching_signature
and by that time, CPUID leafs haven't been parsed yet.
The microcode loader already has logic to check early whether the kernel
is running virtualized so make that globally available to arch/x86/. The
query whether running virtualized is getting more and more prominent in
recent times so might as well make it an arch-global var which the rest
of the code can use.
Fixes: d8630b67ca ("x86/cpu: Add platform ID to CPU info structure")
Reported-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Reviewed-by: Binbin Wu <binbin.wu@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@intel.com>
Tested-by: Binbin Wu <binbin.wu@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260430020953.1405535-1-binbin.wu@linux.intel.com
The end goal here is to be able to do x86_match_cpu() and match on a
specific platform ID. While it would be possible to stash this ID
off somewhere or read it dynamically, that approaches would not be
consistent with the other fields which can be matched.
Read the platform ID and store it in cpuinfo_x86.
There are lots of sites to set this new field. Place it near
the place c->microcode is established since the platform ID is
so closely intertwined with microcode updates.
Note: This should not grow the size of 'struct cpuinfo_x86' in
practice since the u8 fits next to another u8 in the structure.
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Sohil Mehta <sohil.mehta@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260304181020.8D518228@davehans-spike.ostc.intel.com
TL;DR:
Prepare to unify how TDX and SME do cache flushing during kexec by
making a percpu boolean control whether to do the WBINVD.
-- Background --
On SME platforms, dirty cacheline aliases with and without encryption
bit can coexist, and the CPU can flush them back to memory in random
order. During kexec, the caches must be flushed before jumping to the
new kernel otherwise the dirty cachelines could silently corrupt the
memory used by the new kernel due to different encryption property.
TDX also needs a cache flush during kexec for the same reason. It would
be good to have a generic way to flush the cache instead of scattering
checks for each feature all around.
When SME is enabled, the kernel basically encrypts all memory including
the kernel itself and a simple memory write from the kernel could dirty
cachelines. Currently, the kernel uses WBINVD to flush the cache for
SME during kexec in two places:
1) the one in stop_this_cpu() for all remote CPUs when the kexec-ing CPU
stops them;
2) the one in the relocate_kernel() where the kexec-ing CPU jumps to the
new kernel.
-- Solution --
Unlike SME, TDX can only dirty cachelines when it is used (i.e., when
SEAMCALLs are performed). Since there are no more SEAMCALLs after the
aforementioned WBINVDs, leverage this for TDX.
To unify the approach for SME and TDX, use a percpu boolean to indicate
the cache may be in an incoherent state and needs flushing during kexec,
and set the boolean for SME. TDX can then leverage it.
While SME could use a global flag (since it's enabled at early boot and
enabled on all CPUs), the percpu flag fits TDX better:
The percpu flag can be set when a CPU makes a SEAMCALL, and cleared when
another WBINVD on the CPU obviates the need for a kexec-time WBINVD.
Saving kexec-time WBINVD is valuable, because there is an existing
race[*] where kexec could proceed while another CPU is active. WBINVD
could make this race worse, so it's worth skipping it when possible.
-- Side effect to SME --
Today the first WBINVD in the stop_this_cpu() is performed when SME is
*supported* by the platform, and the second WBINVD is done in
relocate_kernel() when SME is *activated* by the kernel. Make things
simple by changing to do the second WBINVD when the platform supports
SME. This allows the kernel to simply turn on this percpu boolean when
bringing up a CPU by checking whether the platform supports SME.
No other functional change intended.
[*] The aforementioned race:
During kexec native_stop_other_cpus() is called to stop all remote CPUs
before jumping to the new kernel. native_stop_other_cpus() firstly
sends normal REBOOT vector IPIs to stop remote CPUs and waits them to
stop. If that times out, it sends NMI to stop the CPUs that are still
alive. The race happens when native_stop_other_cpus() has to send NMIs
and could potentially result in the system hang (for more information
please see [1]).
Signed-off-by: Kai Huang <kai.huang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Tested-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/b963fcd60abe26c7ec5dc20b42f1a2ebbcc72397.1750934177.git.kai.huang@intel.com/ [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250901160930.1785244-3-pbonzini%40redhat.com
The main CPUID header <asm/cpuid.h> was originally a storefront for the
headers:
<asm/cpuid/api.h>
<asm/cpuid/leaf_0x2_api.h>
Now that the latter CPUID(0x2) header has been merged into the former,
there is no practical difference between <asm/cpuid.h> and
<asm/cpuid/api.h>.
Migrate all users to the <asm/cpuid/api.h> header, in preparation of
the removal of <asm/cpuid.h>.
Don't remove <asm/cpuid.h> just yet, in case some new code in -next
started using it.
Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish <darwi@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Cc: x86-cpuid@lists.linux.dev
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250508150240.172915-3-darwi@linutronix.de
Prepare to resolve conflicts with an upstream series of fixes that conflict
with pending x86 changes:
6f5bf947ba Merge tag 'its-for-linus-20250509' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Borislav Petkov reported the following boot crash on x86-32,
with CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY=y:
| usercopy: Kernel memory overwrite attempt detected to SLUB object 'task_struct' (offset 2112, size 160)!
| ...
| kernel BUG at mm/usercopy.c:102!
So the useroffset and usersize arguments are what control the allowed
window of copying in/out of the "task_struct" kmem cache:
/* create a slab on which task_structs can be allocated */
task_struct_whitelist(&useroffset, &usersize);
task_struct_cachep = kmem_cache_create_usercopy("task_struct",
arch_task_struct_size, align,
SLAB_PANIC|SLAB_ACCOUNT,
useroffset, usersize, NULL);
task_struct_whitelist() positions this window based on the location of
the thread_struct within task_struct, and gets the arch-specific details
via arch_thread_struct_whitelist(offset, size):
static void __init task_struct_whitelist(unsigned long *offset, unsigned long *size)
{
/* Fetch thread_struct whitelist for the architecture. */
arch_thread_struct_whitelist(offset, size);
/*
* Handle zero-sized whitelist or empty thread_struct, otherwise
* adjust offset to position of thread_struct in task_struct.
*/
if (unlikely(*size == 0))
*offset = 0;
else
*offset += offsetof(struct task_struct, thread);
}
Commit cb7ca40a38 ("x86/fpu: Make task_struct::thread constant size")
removed the logic for the window, leaving:
static inline void
arch_thread_struct_whitelist(unsigned long *offset, unsigned long *size)
{
*offset = 0;
*size = 0;
}
So now there is no window that usercopy hardening will allow to be copied
in/out of task_struct.
But as reported above, there *is* a copy in copy_uabi_to_xstate(). (It
seems there are several, actually.)
int copy_sigframe_from_user_to_xstate(struct task_struct *tsk,
const void __user *ubuf)
{
return copy_uabi_to_xstate(x86_task_fpu(tsk)->fpstate, NULL, ubuf, &tsk->thread.pkru);
}
This appears to be writing into x86_task_fpu(tsk)->fpstate. With or
without CONFIG_X86_DEBUG_FPU, this resolves to:
((struct fpu *)((void *)(task) + sizeof(*(task))))
i.e. the memory "after task_struct" is cast to "struct fpu", and the
uses the "fpstate" pointer. How that pointer gets set looks to be
variable, but I think the one we care about here is:
fpu->fpstate = &fpu->__fpstate;
And struct fpu::__fpstate says:
struct fpstate __fpstate;
/*
* WARNING: '__fpstate' is dynamically-sized. Do not put
* anything after it here.
*/
So we're still dealing with a dynamically sized thing, even if it's not
within the literal struct task_struct -- it's still in the kmem cache,
though.
Looking at the kmem cache size, it has allocated "arch_task_struct_size"
bytes, which is calculated in fpu__init_task_struct_size():
int task_size = sizeof(struct task_struct);
task_size += sizeof(struct fpu);
/*
* Subtract off the static size of the register state.
* It potentially has a bunch of padding.
*/
task_size -= sizeof(union fpregs_state);
/*
* Add back the dynamically-calculated register state
* size.
*/
task_size += fpu_kernel_cfg.default_size;
/*
* We dynamically size 'struct fpu', so we require that
* 'state' be at the end of 'it:
*/
CHECK_MEMBER_AT_END_OF(struct fpu, __fpstate);
arch_task_struct_size = task_size;
So, this is still copying out of the kmem cache for task_struct, and the
window seems unchanged (still fpu regs). This is what the window was
before:
void fpu_thread_struct_whitelist(unsigned long *offset, unsigned long *size)
{
*offset = offsetof(struct thread_struct, fpu.__fpstate.regs);
*size = fpu_kernel_cfg.default_size;
}
And the same commit I mentioned above removed it.
I think the misunderstanding is here:
| The fpu_thread_struct_whitelist() quirk to hardened usercopy can be removed,
| now that the FPU structure is not embedded in the task struct anymore, which
| reduces text footprint a bit.
Yes, FPU is no longer in task_struct, but it IS in the kmem cache named
"task_struct", since the fpstate is still being allocated there.
Partially revert the earlier mentioned commit, along with a
recalculation of the fpstate regs location.
Fixes: cb7ca40a38 ("x86/fpu: Make task_struct::thread constant size")
Reported-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Tested-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Chang S. Bae <chang.seok.bae@intel.com>
Cc: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250409211127.3544993-1-mingo@kernel.org/ # Discussion #1
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/202505041418.F47130C4C8@keescook # Discussion #2
Turn thread.fpu into a pointer. Since most FPU code internals work by passing
around the FPU pointer already, the code generation impact is small.
This allows us to remove the old kludge of task_struct being variable size:
struct task_struct {
...
/*
* New fields for task_struct should be added above here, so that
* they are included in the randomized portion of task_struct.
*/
randomized_struct_fields_end
/* CPU-specific state of this task: */
struct thread_struct thread;
/*
* WARNING: on x86, 'thread_struct' contains a variable-sized
* structure. It *MUST* be at the end of 'task_struct'.
*
* Do not put anything below here!
*/
};
... which creates a number of problems, such as requiring thread_struct to be
the last member of the struct - not allowing it to be struct-randomized, etc.
But the primary motivation is to allow the decoupling of task_struct from
hardware details (<asm/processor.h> in particular), and to eventually allow
the per-task infrastructure:
DECLARE_PER_TASK(type, name);
...
per_task(current, name) = val;
... which requires task_struct to be a constant size struct.
The fpu_thread_struct_whitelist() quirk to hardened usercopy can be removed,
now that the FPU structure is not embedded in the task struct anymore, which
reduces text footprint a bit.
Fixed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Chang S. Bae <chang.seok.bae@intel.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250409211127.3544993-4-mingo@kernel.org
Pull x86 speculation mitigation updates from Borislav Petkov:
- Some preparatory work to convert the mitigations machinery to
mitigating attack vectors instead of single vulnerabilities
- Untangle and remove a now unneeded X86_FEATURE_USE_IBPB flag
- Add support for a Zen5-specific SRSO mitigation
- Cleanups and minor improvements
* tag 'x86_bugs_for_v6.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/bugs: Make spectre user default depend on MITIGATION_SPECTRE_V2
x86/bugs: Use the cpu_smt_possible() helper instead of open-coded code
x86/bugs: Add AUTO mitigations for mds/taa/mmio/rfds
x86/bugs: Relocate mds/taa/mmio/rfds defines
x86/bugs: Add X86_BUG_SPECTRE_V2_USER
x86/bugs: Remove X86_FEATURE_USE_IBPB
KVM: nVMX: Always use IBPB to properly virtualize IBRS
x86/bugs: Use a static branch to guard IBPB on vCPU switch
x86/bugs: Remove the X86_FEATURE_USE_IBPB check in ib_prctl_set()
x86/mm: Remove X86_FEATURE_USE_IBPB checks in cond_mitigation()
x86/bugs: Move the X86_FEATURE_USE_IBPB check into callers
x86/bugs: KVM: Add support for SRSO_MSR_FIX
smp_store_cpu_info() is just a wrapper around identify_secondary_cpu()
without further value.
Move the extra bits from smp_store_cpu_info() into identify_secondary_cpu()
and remove the wrapper.
[ darwi: Make it compile and fix up the xen/smp_pv.c instance ]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish <darwi@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250304085152.51092-9-darwi@linutronix.de
Commit:
e0ba94f14f ("x86/tlb_info: get last level TLB entry number of CPU")
introduced u16 "info" arrays for each TLB type.
Since 2012 and each array stores just one type of information: the
number of TLB entries for its respective TLB type.
Replace such arrays with simple variables.
Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish <darwi@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250304085152.51092-8-darwi@linutronix.de
Add AUTO mitigations for mds/taa/mmio/rfds to create consistent vulnerability
handling. These AUTO mitigations will be turned into the appropriate default
mitigations in the <vuln>_select_mitigation() functions. Later, these will be
used with the new attack vector controls to help select appropriate
mitigations.
Signed-off-by: David Kaplan <david.kaplan@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250108202515.385902-4-david.kaplan@amd.com
The percpu section is currently linked at absolute address 0, because
older compilers hard-coded the stack protector canary value at a fixed
offset from the start of the GS segment. Now that the canary is a
normal percpu variable, the percpu section does not need to be linked
at a specific address.
x86-64 will now calculate the percpu offsets as the delta between the
initial percpu address and the dynamically allocated memory, like other
architectures. Note that GSBASE is limited to the canonical address
width (48 or 57 bits, sign-extended). As long as the kernel text,
modules, and the dynamically allocated percpu memory are all in the
negative address space, the delta will not overflow this limit.
Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250123190747.745588-9-brgerst@gmail.com
Older versions of GCC fixed the location of the stack protector canary
at %gs:40. This constraint forced the percpu section to be linked at
absolute address 0 so that the canary could be the first data object in
the percpu section. Supporting the zero-based percpu section requires
additional code to handle relocations for RIP-relative references to
percpu data, extra complexity to kallsyms, and workarounds for linker
bugs due to the use of absolute symbols.
GCC 8.1 supports redefining where the canary is located, allowing it to
become a normal percpu variable instead of at a fixed location. This
removes the constraint that the percpu section must be zero-based.
Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250123190747.745588-8-brgerst@gmail.com
Pull performance events updates from Ingo Molnar:
"Seqlock optimizations that arose in a perf context and were merged
into the perf tree:
- seqlock: Add raw_seqcount_try_begin (Suren Baghdasaryan)
- mm: Convert mm_lock_seq to a proper seqcount (Suren Baghdasaryan)
- mm: Introduce mmap_lock_speculate_{try_begin|retry} (Suren
Baghdasaryan)
- mm/gup: Use raw_seqcount_try_begin() (Peter Zijlstra)
Core perf enhancements:
- Reduce 'struct page' footprint of perf by mapping pages in advance
(Lorenzo Stoakes)
- Save raw sample data conditionally based on sample type (Yabin Cui)
- Reduce sampling overhead by checking sample_type in
perf_sample_save_callchain() and perf_sample_save_brstack() (Yabin
Cui)
- Export perf_exclude_event() (Namhyung Kim)
Uprobes scalability enhancements: (Andrii Nakryiko)
- Simplify find_active_uprobe_rcu() VMA checks
- Add speculative lockless VMA-to-inode-to-uprobe resolution
- Simplify session consumer tracking
- Decouple return_instance list traversal and freeing
- Ensure return_instance is detached from the list before freeing
- Reuse return_instances between multiple uretprobes within task
- Guard against kmemdup() failing in dup_return_instance()
AMD core PMU driver enhancements:
- Relax privilege filter restriction on AMD IBS (Namhyung Kim)
AMD RAPL energy counters support: (Dhananjay Ugwekar)
- Introduce topology_logical_core_id() (K Prateek Nayak)
- Remove the unused get_rapl_pmu_cpumask() function
- Remove the cpu_to_rapl_pmu() function
- Rename rapl_pmu variables
- Make rapl_model struct global
- Add arguments to the init and cleanup functions
- Modify the generic variable names to *_pkg*
- Remove the global variable rapl_msrs
- Move the cntr_mask to rapl_pmus struct
- Add core energy counter support for AMD CPUs
Intel core PMU driver enhancements:
- Support RDPMC 'metrics clear mode' feature (Kan Liang)
- Clarify adaptive PEBS processing (Kan Liang)
- Factor out functions for PEBS records processing (Kan Liang)
- Simplify the PEBS records processing for adaptive PEBS (Kan Liang)
Intel uncore driver enhancements: (Kan Liang)
- Convert buggy pmu->func_id use to pmu->registered
- Support more units on Granite Rapids"
* tag 'perf-core-2025-01-20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (33 commits)
perf: map pages in advance
perf/x86/intel/uncore: Support more units on Granite Rapids
perf/x86/intel/uncore: Clean up func_id
perf/x86/intel: Support RDPMC metrics clear mode
uprobes: Guard against kmemdup() failing in dup_return_instance()
perf/x86: Relax privilege filter restriction on AMD IBS
perf/core: Export perf_exclude_event()
uprobes: Reuse return_instances between multiple uretprobes within task
uprobes: Ensure return_instance is detached from the list before freeing
uprobes: Decouple return_instance list traversal and freeing
uprobes: Simplify session consumer tracking
uprobes: add speculative lockless VMA-to-inode-to-uprobe resolution
uprobes: simplify find_active_uprobe_rcu() VMA checks
mm: introduce mmap_lock_speculate_{try_begin|retry}
mm: convert mm_lock_seq to a proper seqcount
mm/gup: Use raw_seqcount_try_begin()
seqlock: add raw_seqcount_try_begin
perf/x86/rapl: Add core energy counter support for AMD CPUs
perf/x86/rapl: Move the cntr_mask to rapl_pmus struct
perf/x86/rapl: Remove the global variable rapl_msrs
...
In order to be able to differentiate between AMD and Intel based
systems for very early hypercalls without having to rely on the Xen
hypercall page, make get_cpu_vendor() non-static.
Refactor early_cpu_init() for the same reason by splitting out the
loop initializing cpu_devs() into an externally callable function.
This is part of XSA-466 / CVE-2024-53241.
Reported-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Borislav Petkov
Dave Hansen
Kai HuangandDave Hansen
Ahmed S. DarwishandIngo Molnar
Kees CookandIngo Molnar
David KaplanandBorislav Petkov (AMD)
Linus Torvalds
Brian GerstandIngo Molnar
Thomas GleixnerandIngo Molnar
Juergen Gross