linux-toradex.git/arch/x86/boot/boot.h, branch v4.9.121

x86/boot: Fix BSS corruption/overwrite bug in early x86 kernel startup

2017-05-20T12:28:36+00:00

commit d594aa0277e541bb997aef0bc0a55172d8138340 upstream.

The minimum size for a new stack (512 bytes) setup for arch/x86/boot components
when the bootloader does not setup/provide a stack for the early boot components
is not "enough".

The setup code executing as part of early kernel startup code, uses the stack
beyond 512 bytes and accidentally overwrites and corrupts part of the BSS
section. This is exposed mostly in the early video setup code, where
it was corrupting BSS variables like force_x, force_y, which in-turn affected
kernel parameters such as screen_info (screen_info.orig_video_cols) and
later caused an exception/panic in console_init().

Most recent boot loaders setup the stack for early boot components, so this
stack overwriting into BSS section issue has not been exposed.

Signed-off-by: Ashish Kalra 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Brian Gerst 
Cc: Denys Vlasenko 
Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170419152015.10011-1-ashishkalra@Ashishs-MacBook-Pro.local
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge branch 'x86/asm' into x86/mm, to resolve conflicts

2016-07-15T08:26:04+00:00

 Conflicts:
	tools/testing/selftests/x86/Makefile

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

x86/mm: Disallow running with 32-bit PTEs to work around erratum

2016-07-13T07:43:25+00:00

The Intel(R) Xeon Phi(TM) Processor x200 Family (codename: Knights
Landing) has an erratum where a processor thread setting the Accessed
or Dirty bits may not do so atomically against its checks for the
Present bit.  This may cause a thread (which is about to page fault)
to set A and/or D, even though the Present bit had already been
atomically cleared.

These bits are truly "stray".  In the case of the Dirty bit, the
thread associated with the stray set was *not* allowed to write to
the page.  This means that we do not have to launder the bit(s); we
can simply ignore them.

If the PTE is used for storing a swap index or a NUMA migration index,
the A bit could be misinterpreted as part of the swap type.  The stray
bits being set cause a software-cleared PTE to be interpreted as a
swap entry.  In some cases (like when the swap index ends up being
for a non-existent swapfile), the kernel detects the stray value
and WARN()s about it, but there is no guarantee that the kernel can
always detect it.

When we have 64-bit PTEs (64-bit mode or 32-bit PAE), we were able
to move the swap PTE format around to avoid these troublesome bits.
But, 32-bit non-PAE is tight on bits.  So, disallow it from running
on this hardware.  I can't imagine anyone wanting to run 32-bit
non-highmem kernels on this hardware, but disallowing them from
running entirely is surely the safe thing to do.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Brian Gerst 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: Denys Vlasenko 
Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Toshi Kani 
Cc: dave.hansen@intel.com
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: mhocko@suse.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160708001914.D0B50110@viggo.jf.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

x86, asm, boot: Use CC_SET()/CC_OUT() in arch/x86/boot/boot.h

2016-06-08T19:41:20+00:00

Remove open-coded uses of set instructions to use CC_SET()/CC_OUT() in
arch/x86/boot/boot.h.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1465414726-197858-10-git-send-email-hpa@linux.intel.com
Reviewed-by: Andy Lutomirski 
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov 
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel)

x86, asm: use bool for bitops and other assembly outputs

2016-06-08T19:41:20+00:00

The gcc people have confirmed that using "bool" when combined with
inline assembly always is treated as a byte-sized operand that can be
assumed to be 0 or 1, which is exactly what the SET instruction
emits.  Change the output types and intermediate variables of as many
operations as practical to "bool".

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1465414726-197858-3-git-send-email-hpa@linux.intel.com
Reviewed-by: Andy Lutomirski 
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov 
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel)

x86/mm: Fix regression with huge pages on PAE

2015-12-04T08:14:27+00:00

Recent PAT patchset has caused issue on 32-bit PAE machines:

  page:eea45000 count:0 mapcount:-128 mapping:  (null) index:0x0 flags: 0x40000000()
  page dumped because: VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(page_mapcount(page) < 0)
  ------------[ cut here ]------------
  kernel BUG at /home/build/linux-boris/mm/huge_memory.c:1485!
  invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
  [...]
  Call Trace:
   unmap_single_vma
   ? __wake_up
   unmap_vmas
   unmap_region
   do_munmap
   vm_munmap
   SyS_munmap
   do_fast_syscall_32
   ? __do_page_fault
   sysenter_past_esp
  Code: ...
  EIP: [] zap_huge_pmd+0x240/0x260 SS:ESP 0068:f6459d98

The problem is in pmd_pfn_mask() and pmd_flags_mask(). These
helpers use PMD_PAGE_MASK to calculate resulting mask.
PMD_PAGE_MASK is 'unsigned long', not 'unsigned long long' as
phys_addr_t is on 32-bit PAE (ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT). As a
result, the upper bits of resulting mask get truncated.

pud_pfn_mask() and pud_flags_mask() aren't problematic since we
don't have PUD page table level on 32-bit systems, but it's
reasonable to keep them consistent with PMD counterpart.

Introduce PHYSICAL_PMD_PAGE_MASK and PHYSICAL_PUD_PAGE_MASK in
addition to existing PHYSICAL_PAGE_MASK and reworks helpers to
use them.

Reported-and-Tested-by: Boris Ostrovsky 
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov 
[ Fix -Woverflow warnings from the realmode code. ]
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov 
Reviewed-by: Toshi Kani 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Brian Gerst 
Cc: Denys Vlasenko 
Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Jürgen Gross 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: elliott@hpe.com
Cc: konrad.wilk@oracle.com
Cc: linux-mm 
Fixes: f70abb0fc3da ("x86/asm: Fix pud/pmd interfaces to handle large PAT bit")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1448878233-11390-2-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

x86/boot: Obsolete the MCA sys_desc_table

2015-07-21T08:55:11+00:00

The kernel does not support the MCA bus anymroe, so mark sys_desc_table
as obsolete: remove any reference from the code together with the remaining
of MCA logic.

bloat-o-meter output:

  add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 0/2 up/down: 0/-55 (-55)
  function                                     old     new   delta
  i386_start_kernel                            128     119      -9
  setup_arch                                  1421    1375     -46

Signed-off-by: Paolo Pisati 
Cc: Josh Triplett 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1437409430-8491-1-git-send-email-p.pisati@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

x86, boot: Move memcmp() into string.h and string.c

2014-03-19T22:44:04+00:00

Try to treat memcmp() in same way as memcpy() and memset(). Provide a
declaration in boot/string.h and by default user gets a memcmp() which
maps to builtin function.

Move optimized definition of memcmp() in boot/string.c. Now a user can
do #undef memcmp and link against string.c to use optimzied memcmp().

It also simplifies boot/compressed/string.c where we had to redefine
memcmp(). That extra definition is gone now.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1395170800-11059-5-git-send-email-vgoyal@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin

x86, boot: Create a separate string.h file to provide standard string functions

2014-03-19T22:43:45+00:00

Create a separate arch/x86/boot/string.h file to provide declaration of
some of the common string functions.

By default memcpy, memset and memcmp functions will default to gcc
builtin functions. If code wants to use an optimized version of any
of these functions, they need to #undef the respective macro and link
against a local file providing definition of undefed function.

For example, arch/x86/boot/* code links against copy.S to get memcpy()
and memcmp() definitions. arch/86/boot/compressed/* links against
compressed/string.c.

There are quite a few places in arch/x86/ where these functions are
used. Idea is to try to consilidate  their declaration and possibly
definitions so that it can be reused.

I am planning to reuse boot/string.h in arch/x86/purgatory/ and use
gcc builtin functions for memcpy, memset and memcmp.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1395170800-11059-3-git-send-email-vgoyal@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin

x86, boot: Move CPU flags out of cpucheck

2013-10-13T10:12:02+00:00

Refactor the CPU flags handling out of the cpucheck routines so that
they can be reused by the future ASLR routines (in order to detect CPU
features like RDRAND and RDTSC).

This reworks has_eflag() and has_fpu() to be used on both 32-bit and
64-bit, and refactors the calls to cpuid to make them PIC-safe on 32-bit.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381450698-28710-2-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin