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<title>x86, microcode: Sanitize per-cpu microcode reloading interface</title>
<updated>2012-08-02T13:37:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov</name>
<email>borislav.petkov@amd.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-06-21T12:07:16+00:00</published>
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commit c9fc3f778a6a215ace14ee556067c73982b6d40f upstream.

Microcode reloading in a per-core manner is a very bad idea for both
major x86 vendors. And the thing is, we have such interface with which
we can end up with different microcode versions applied on different
cores of an otherwise homogeneous wrt (family,model,stepping) system.

So turn off the possibility of doing that per core and allow it only
system-wide.

This is a minimal fix which we'd like to see in stable too thus the
more-or-less arbitrary decision to allow system-wide reloading only on
the BSP:

$ echo 1 &gt; /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/microcode/reload
...

and disable the interface on the other cores:

$ echo 1 &gt; /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu23/microcode/reload
-bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument

Also, allowing the reload only from one CPU (the BSP in
that case) doesn't allow the reload procedure to degenerate
into an O(n^2) deal when triggering reloads from all
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/microcode/reload sysfs nodes
simultaneously.

A more generic fix will follow.

Cc: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh &lt;hmh@hmh.eng.br&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;borislav.petkov@amd.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1340280437-7718-2-git-send-email-bp@amd64.org
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit c9fc3f778a6a215ace14ee556067c73982b6d40f upstream.

Microcode reloading in a per-core manner is a very bad idea for both
major x86 vendors. And the thing is, we have such interface with which
we can end up with different microcode versions applied on different
cores of an otherwise homogeneous wrt (family,model,stepping) system.

So turn off the possibility of doing that per core and allow it only
system-wide.

This is a minimal fix which we'd like to see in stable too thus the
more-or-less arbitrary decision to allow system-wide reloading only on
the BSP:

$ echo 1 &gt; /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/microcode/reload
...

and disable the interface on the other cores:

$ echo 1 &gt; /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu23/microcode/reload
-bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument

Also, allowing the reload only from one CPU (the BSP in
that case) doesn't allow the reload procedure to degenerate
into an O(n^2) deal when triggering reloads from all
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/microcode/reload sysfs nodes
simultaneously.

A more generic fix will follow.

Cc: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh &lt;hmh@hmh.eng.br&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;borislav.petkov@amd.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1340280437-7718-2-git-send-email-bp@amd64.org
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86, microcode: microcode_core.c simple_strtoul cleanup</title>
<updated>2012-08-02T13:37:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Shuah Khan</name>
<email>shuahkhan@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-06T17:11:04+00:00</published>
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commit e826abd523913f63eb03b59746ffb16153c53dc4 upstream.

Change reload_for_cpu() in kernel/microcode_core.c to call kstrtoul()
instead of calling obsoleted simple_strtoul().

Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan &lt;shuahkhan@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1336324264.2897.9.camel@lorien2
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit e826abd523913f63eb03b59746ffb16153c53dc4 upstream.

Change reload_for_cpu() in kernel/microcode_core.c to call kstrtoul()
instead of calling obsoleted simple_strtoul().

Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan &lt;shuahkhan@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1336324264.2897.9.camel@lorien2
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86: Fix boot on Twinhead H12Y</title>
<updated>2012-08-02T13:37:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alan Cox</name>
<email>alan@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-15T17:44:15+00:00</published>
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commit 80b3e557371205566a71e569fbfcce5b11f92dbe upstream.

Despite lots of investigation into why this is needed we don't
know or have an elegant cure. The only answer found on this
laptop is to mark a problem region as used so that Linux doesn't
put anything there.

Currently all the users add reserve= command lines and anyone
not knowing this needs to find the magic page that documents it.
Automate it instead.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox &lt;alan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Tested-and-bugfixed-by: Arne Fitzenreiter &lt;arne@fitzenreiter.de&gt;
Resolves-bug: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10231
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120515174347.5109.94551.stgit@bluebook
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 80b3e557371205566a71e569fbfcce5b11f92dbe upstream.

Despite lots of investigation into why this is needed we don't
know or have an elegant cure. The only answer found on this
laptop is to mark a problem region as used so that Linux doesn't
put anything there.

Currently all the users add reserve= command lines and anyone
not knowing this needs to find the magic page that documents it.
Automate it instead.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox &lt;alan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Tested-and-bugfixed-by: Arne Fitzenreiter &lt;arne@fitzenreiter.de&gt;
Resolves-bug: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10231
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120515174347.5109.94551.stgit@bluebook
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ACPI, x86: fix Dell M6600 ACPI reboot regression via DMI</title>
<updated>2012-07-25T03:11:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zhang Rui</name>
<email>rui.zhang@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-02-20T06:20:06+00:00</published>
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commit 76eb9a30db4bc8fd172f9155247264b5f2686d7b upstream.

Dell Precision M6600 is known to require PCI reboot, so add it to
the reboot blacklist in pci_reboot_dmi_table[].

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42749

cc: x86@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui &lt;rui.zhang@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 76eb9a30db4bc8fd172f9155247264b5f2686d7b upstream.

Dell Precision M6600 is known to require PCI reboot, so add it to
the reboot blacklist in pci_reboot_dmi_table[].

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42749

cc: x86@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui &lt;rui.zhang@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ACPI: Add a quirk for "AMILO PRO V2030" to ignore the timer overriding</title>
<updated>2012-07-25T03:11:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Feng Tang</name>
<email>feng.tang@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-06-04T07:00:06+00:00</published>
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commit b939c2acf1dc42b08407ef5174f2e8d6f43dd5ea upstream.

commit f6b54f083cc66cf9b11d2120d8df3c2ad4e0836d upstream.

This is the 2nd part of fix for kernel bugzilla 40002:
    "IRQ 0 assigned to VGA"
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40002

The root cause is the buggy FW, whose ACPI tables assign the GSI 16
to 2 irqs 0 and 16(VGA), and the VGA is the right owner of GSI 16.
So add a quirk to ignore the irq0 overriding GSI 16 for the
FUJITSU SIEMENS AMILO PRO V2030 platform will solve this issue.

Reported-and-tested-by: Szymon Kowalczyk &lt;fazerxlo@o2.pl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Feng Tang &lt;feng.tang@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit b939c2acf1dc42b08407ef5174f2e8d6f43dd5ea upstream.

commit f6b54f083cc66cf9b11d2120d8df3c2ad4e0836d upstream.

This is the 2nd part of fix for kernel bugzilla 40002:
    "IRQ 0 assigned to VGA"
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40002

The root cause is the buggy FW, whose ACPI tables assign the GSI 16
to 2 irqs 0 and 16(VGA), and the VGA is the right owner of GSI 16.
So add a quirk to ignore the irq0 overriding GSI 16 for the
FUJITSU SIEMENS AMILO PRO V2030 platform will solve this issue.

Reported-and-tested-by: Szymon Kowalczyk &lt;fazerxlo@o2.pl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Feng Tang &lt;feng.tang@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ACPI: Remove one board specific WARN when ignoring timer overriding</title>
<updated>2012-07-25T03:11:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Feng Tang</name>
<email>feng.tang@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-06-04T07:00:05+00:00</published>
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commit 5752cdb805ff89942d99d12118e2844e7db34df8 upstream.

commit 7f68b4c2e158019c2ec494b5cfbd9c83b4e5b253 upstream.

Current WARN msg is only for the ati_ixp4x0 board, while this function
is used by mulitple platforms. So this one board specific warning
is not appropriate any more.

Signed-off-by: Feng Tang &lt;feng.tang@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 5752cdb805ff89942d99d12118e2844e7db34df8 upstream.

commit 7f68b4c2e158019c2ec494b5cfbd9c83b4e5b253 upstream.

Current WARN msg is only for the ati_ixp4x0 board, while this function
is used by mulitple platforms. So this one board specific warning
is not appropriate any more.

Signed-off-by: Feng Tang &lt;feng.tang@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ACPI: Make acpi_skip_timer_override cover all source_irq==0 cases</title>
<updated>2012-07-25T03:11:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Feng Tang</name>
<email>feng.tang@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-06-04T07:00:04+00:00</published>
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commit ae10ccdc3093486f8c2369d227583f9d79f628e5 upstream.

Currently when acpi_skip_timer_override is set, it only cover the
(source_irq == 0 &amp;&amp; global_irq == 2) cases. While there is also
platform which need use this option and its global_irq is not 2.
This patch will extend acpi_skip_timer_override to cover all
timer overriding cases as long as the source irq is 0.

This is the first part of a fix to kernel bug bugzilla 40002:
	"IRQ 0 assigned to VGA"
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40002

Reported-and-tested-by: Szymon Kowalczyk &lt;fazerxlo@o2.pl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Feng Tang &lt;feng.tang@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit ae10ccdc3093486f8c2369d227583f9d79f628e5 upstream.

Currently when acpi_skip_timer_override is set, it only cover the
(source_irq == 0 &amp;&amp; global_irq == 2) cases. While there is also
platform which need use this option and its global_irq is not 2.
This patch will extend acpi_skip_timer_override to cover all
timer overriding cases as long as the source irq is 0.

This is the first part of a fix to kernel bug bugzilla 40002:
	"IRQ 0 assigned to VGA"
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40002

Reported-and-tested-by: Szymon Kowalczyk &lt;fazerxlo@o2.pl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Feng Tang &lt;feng.tang@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86, cpufeature: Rename X86_FEATURE_DTS to X86_FEATURE_DTHERM</title>
<updated>2012-07-04T04:44:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>H. Peter Anvin</name>
<email>hpa@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-06-22T17:58:06+00:00</published>
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commit 4ad33411308596f2f918603509729922a1ec4411 upstream.

It makes sense to label "Digital Thermal Sensor" as "DTS", but
unfortunately the string "dts" was already used for "Debug Store", and
/proc/cpuinfo is a user space ABI.

Therefore, rename this to "dtherm".

This conflict went into mainline via the hwmon tree without any x86
maintainer ack, and without any kind of hint in the subject.

    a4659053 x86/hwmon: fix initialization of coretemp

Reported-by: Jean Delvare &lt;khali@linux-fr.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4FE34BCB.5050305@linux.intel.com
Cc: Jan Beulich &lt;JBeulich@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: drop the coretemp device table change]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 4ad33411308596f2f918603509729922a1ec4411 upstream.

It makes sense to label "Digital Thermal Sensor" as "DTS", but
unfortunately the string "dts" was already used for "Debug Store", and
/proc/cpuinfo is a user space ABI.

Therefore, rename this to "dtherm".

This conflict went into mainline via the hwmon tree without any x86
maintainer ack, and without any kind of hint in the subject.

    a4659053 x86/hwmon: fix initialization of coretemp

Reported-by: Jean Delvare &lt;khali@linux-fr.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4FE34BCB.5050305@linux.intel.com
Cc: Jan Beulich &lt;JBeulich@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: drop the coretemp device table change]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>thp: avoid atomic64_read in pmd_read_atomic for 32bit PAE</title>
<updated>2012-07-04T04:44:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrea Arcangeli</name>
<email>aarcange@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-06-20T19:52:57+00:00</published>
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commit e4eed03fd06578571c01d4f1478c874bb432c815 upstream.

In the x86 32bit PAE CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE=y case while holding the
mmap_sem for reading, cmpxchg8b cannot be used to read pmd contents under
Xen.

So instead of dealing only with "consistent" pmdvals in
pmd_none_or_trans_huge_or_clear_bad() (which would be conceptually
simpler) we let pmd_none_or_trans_huge_or_clear_bad() deal with pmdvals
where the low 32bit and high 32bit could be inconsistent (to avoid having
to use cmpxchg8b).

The only guarantee we get from pmd_read_atomic is that if the low part of
the pmd was found null, the high part will be null too (so the pmd will be
considered unstable).  And if the low part of the pmd is found "stable"
later, then it means the whole pmd was read atomically (because after a
pmd is stable, neither MADV_DONTNEED nor page faults can alter it anymore,
and we read the high part after the low part).

In the 32bit PAE x86 case, it is enough to read the low part of the pmdval
atomically to declare the pmd as "stable" and that's true for THP and no
THP, furthermore in the THP case we also have a barrier() that will
prevent any inconsistent pmdvals to be cached by a later re-read of the
*pmd.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Nieder &lt;jrnieder@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ulrich Obergfell &lt;uobergfe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Larry Woodman &lt;lwoodman@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Petr Matousek &lt;pmatouse@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jan Beulich &lt;jbeulich@suse.com&gt;
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Andrew Jones &lt;drjones@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit e4eed03fd06578571c01d4f1478c874bb432c815 upstream.

In the x86 32bit PAE CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE=y case while holding the
mmap_sem for reading, cmpxchg8b cannot be used to read pmd contents under
Xen.

So instead of dealing only with "consistent" pmdvals in
pmd_none_or_trans_huge_or_clear_bad() (which would be conceptually
simpler) we let pmd_none_or_trans_huge_or_clear_bad() deal with pmdvals
where the low 32bit and high 32bit could be inconsistent (to avoid having
to use cmpxchg8b).

The only guarantee we get from pmd_read_atomic is that if the low part of
the pmd was found null, the high part will be null too (so the pmd will be
considered unstable).  And if the low part of the pmd is found "stable"
later, then it means the whole pmd was read atomically (because after a
pmd is stable, neither MADV_DONTNEED nor page faults can alter it anymore,
and we read the high part after the low part).

In the 32bit PAE x86 case, it is enough to read the low part of the pmdval
atomically to declare the pmd as "stable" and that's true for THP and no
THP, furthermore in the THP case we also have a barrier() that will
prevent any inconsistent pmdvals to be cached by a later re-read of the
*pmd.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Nieder &lt;jrnieder@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ulrich Obergfell &lt;uobergfe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Larry Woodman &lt;lwoodman@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Petr Matousek &lt;pmatouse@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jan Beulich &lt;jbeulich@suse.com&gt;
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Andrew Jones &lt;drjones@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm: pmd_read_atomic: fix 32bit PAE pmd walk vs pmd_populate SMP race condition</title>
<updated>2012-07-04T04:44:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrea Arcangeli</name>
<email>aarcange@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-29T22:06:49+00:00</published>
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commit 26c191788f18129af0eb32a358cdaea0c7479626 upstream.

When holding the mmap_sem for reading, pmd_offset_map_lock should only
run on a pmd_t that has been read atomically from the pmdp pointer,
otherwise we may read only half of it leading to this crash.

PID: 11679  TASK: f06e8000  CPU: 3   COMMAND: "do_race_2_panic"
 #0 [f06a9dd8] crash_kexec at c049b5ec
 #1 [f06a9e2c] oops_end at c083d1c2
 #2 [f06a9e40] no_context at c0433ded
 #3 [f06a9e64] bad_area_nosemaphore at c043401a
 #4 [f06a9e6c] __do_page_fault at c0434493
 #5 [f06a9eec] do_page_fault at c083eb45
 #6 [f06a9f04] error_code (via page_fault) at c083c5d5
    EAX: 01fb470c EBX: fff35000 ECX: 00000003 EDX: 00000100 EBP:
    00000000
    DS:  007b     ESI: 9e201000 ES:  007b     EDI: 01fb4700 GS:  00e0
    CS:  0060     EIP: c083bc14 ERR: ffffffff EFLAGS: 00010246
 #7 [f06a9f38] _spin_lock at c083bc14
 #8 [f06a9f44] sys_mincore at c0507b7d
 #9 [f06a9fb0] system_call at c083becd
                         start           len
    EAX: ffffffda  EBX: 9e200000  ECX: 00001000  EDX: 6228537f
    DS:  007b      ESI: 00000000  ES:  007b      EDI: 003d0f00
    SS:  007b      ESP: 62285354  EBP: 62285388  GS:  0033
    CS:  0073      EIP: 00291416  ERR: 000000da  EFLAGS: 00000286

This should be a longstanding bug affecting x86 32bit PAE without THP.
Only archs with 64bit large pmd_t and 32bit unsigned long should be
affected.

With THP enabled the barrier() in pmd_none_or_trans_huge_or_clear_bad()
would partly hide the bug when the pmd transition from none to stable,
by forcing a re-read of the *pmd in pmd_offset_map_lock, but when THP is
enabled a new set of problem arises by the fact could then transition
freely in any of the none, pmd_trans_huge or pmd_trans_stable states.
So making the barrier in pmd_none_or_trans_huge_or_clear_bad()
unconditional isn't good idea and it would be a flakey solution.

This should be fully fixed by introducing a pmd_read_atomic that reads
the pmd in order with THP disabled, or by reading the pmd atomically
with cmpxchg8b with THP enabled.

Luckily this new race condition only triggers in the places that must
already be covered by pmd_none_or_trans_huge_or_clear_bad() so the fix
is localized there but this bug is not related to THP.

NOTE: this can trigger on x86 32bit systems with PAE enabled with more
than 4G of ram, otherwise the high part of the pmd will never risk to be
truncated because it would be zero at all times, in turn so hiding the
SMP race.

This bug was discovered and fully debugged by Ulrich, quote:

----
[..]
pmd_none_or_trans_huge_or_clear_bad() loads the content of edx and
eax.

    496 static inline int pmd_none_or_trans_huge_or_clear_bad(pmd_t
    *pmd)
    497 {
    498         /* depend on compiler for an atomic pmd read */
    499         pmd_t pmdval = *pmd;

                                // edi = pmd pointer
0xc0507a74 &lt;sys_mincore+548&gt;:   mov    0x8(%esp),%edi
...
                                // edx = PTE page table high address
0xc0507a84 &lt;sys_mincore+564&gt;:   mov    0x4(%edi),%edx
...
                                // eax = PTE page table low address
0xc0507a8e &lt;sys_mincore+574&gt;:   mov    (%edi),%eax

[..]

Please note that the PMD is not read atomically. These are two "mov"
instructions where the high order bits of the PMD entry are fetched
first. Hence, the above machine code is prone to the following race.

-  The PMD entry {high|low} is 0x0000000000000000.
   The "mov" at 0xc0507a84 loads 0x00000000 into edx.

-  A page fault (on another CPU) sneaks in between the two "mov"
   instructions and instantiates the PMD.

-  The PMD entry {high|low} is now 0x00000003fda38067.
   The "mov" at 0xc0507a8e loads 0xfda38067 into eax.
----

Reported-by: Ulrich Obergfell &lt;uobergfe@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Larry Woodman &lt;lwoodman@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Petr Matousek &lt;pmatouse@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 26c191788f18129af0eb32a358cdaea0c7479626 upstream.

When holding the mmap_sem for reading, pmd_offset_map_lock should only
run on a pmd_t that has been read atomically from the pmdp pointer,
otherwise we may read only half of it leading to this crash.

PID: 11679  TASK: f06e8000  CPU: 3   COMMAND: "do_race_2_panic"
 #0 [f06a9dd8] crash_kexec at c049b5ec
 #1 [f06a9e2c] oops_end at c083d1c2
 #2 [f06a9e40] no_context at c0433ded
 #3 [f06a9e64] bad_area_nosemaphore at c043401a
 #4 [f06a9e6c] __do_page_fault at c0434493
 #5 [f06a9eec] do_page_fault at c083eb45
 #6 [f06a9f04] error_code (via page_fault) at c083c5d5
    EAX: 01fb470c EBX: fff35000 ECX: 00000003 EDX: 00000100 EBP:
    00000000
    DS:  007b     ESI: 9e201000 ES:  007b     EDI: 01fb4700 GS:  00e0
    CS:  0060     EIP: c083bc14 ERR: ffffffff EFLAGS: 00010246
 #7 [f06a9f38] _spin_lock at c083bc14
 #8 [f06a9f44] sys_mincore at c0507b7d
 #9 [f06a9fb0] system_call at c083becd
                         start           len
    EAX: ffffffda  EBX: 9e200000  ECX: 00001000  EDX: 6228537f
    DS:  007b      ESI: 00000000  ES:  007b      EDI: 003d0f00
    SS:  007b      ESP: 62285354  EBP: 62285388  GS:  0033
    CS:  0073      EIP: 00291416  ERR: 000000da  EFLAGS: 00000286

This should be a longstanding bug affecting x86 32bit PAE without THP.
Only archs with 64bit large pmd_t and 32bit unsigned long should be
affected.

With THP enabled the barrier() in pmd_none_or_trans_huge_or_clear_bad()
would partly hide the bug when the pmd transition from none to stable,
by forcing a re-read of the *pmd in pmd_offset_map_lock, but when THP is
enabled a new set of problem arises by the fact could then transition
freely in any of the none, pmd_trans_huge or pmd_trans_stable states.
So making the barrier in pmd_none_or_trans_huge_or_clear_bad()
unconditional isn't good idea and it would be a flakey solution.

This should be fully fixed by introducing a pmd_read_atomic that reads
the pmd in order with THP disabled, or by reading the pmd atomically
with cmpxchg8b with THP enabled.

Luckily this new race condition only triggers in the places that must
already be covered by pmd_none_or_trans_huge_or_clear_bad() so the fix
is localized there but this bug is not related to THP.

NOTE: this can trigger on x86 32bit systems with PAE enabled with more
than 4G of ram, otherwise the high part of the pmd will never risk to be
truncated because it would be zero at all times, in turn so hiding the
SMP race.

This bug was discovered and fully debugged by Ulrich, quote:

----
[..]
pmd_none_or_trans_huge_or_clear_bad() loads the content of edx and
eax.

    496 static inline int pmd_none_or_trans_huge_or_clear_bad(pmd_t
    *pmd)
    497 {
    498         /* depend on compiler for an atomic pmd read */
    499         pmd_t pmdval = *pmd;

                                // edi = pmd pointer
0xc0507a74 &lt;sys_mincore+548&gt;:   mov    0x8(%esp),%edi
...
                                // edx = PTE page table high address
0xc0507a84 &lt;sys_mincore+564&gt;:   mov    0x4(%edi),%edx
...
                                // eax = PTE page table low address
0xc0507a8e &lt;sys_mincore+574&gt;:   mov    (%edi),%eax

[..]

Please note that the PMD is not read atomically. These are two "mov"
instructions where the high order bits of the PMD entry are fetched
first. Hence, the above machine code is prone to the following race.

-  The PMD entry {high|low} is 0x0000000000000000.
   The "mov" at 0xc0507a84 loads 0x00000000 into edx.

-  A page fault (on another CPU) sneaks in between the two "mov"
   instructions and instantiates the PMD.

-  The PMD entry {high|low} is now 0x00000003fda38067.
   The "mov" at 0xc0507a8e loads 0xfda38067 into eax.
----

Reported-by: Ulrich Obergfell &lt;uobergfe@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Larry Woodman &lt;lwoodman@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Petr Matousek &lt;pmatouse@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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