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  1. 25 Feb, 2016 4 commits
    • Toshi Kani's avatar
      x86/uaccess/64: Handle the caching of 4-byte nocache copies properly in __copy_user_nocache() · e0c89043
      Toshi Kani authored 
      commit a82eee74 upstream.

Data corruption issues were observed in tests which initiated
a system crash/reset while accessing BTT devices.  This problem
is reproducible.

The BTT driver calls pmem_rw_bytes() to update data in pmem
devices.  This interface calls __copy_user_nocache(), which
uses non-temporal stores so that the stores to pmem are
persistent.

__copy_user_nocache() uses non-temporal stores when a request
size is 8 bytes or larger (and is aligned by 8 bytes).  The
BTT driver updates the BTT map table, which entry size is
4 bytes.  Therefore, updates to the map table entries remain
cached, and are not written to pmem after a crash.

Change __copy_user_nocache() to use non-temporal store when
a request size is 4 bytes.  The change extends the current
byte-copy path for a less-than-8-bytes request, and does not
add any overhead to the regular path.
Reported-and-tested-by: default avatarMicah Parrish <micah.parrish@hpe.com>
Reported-and-tested-by: default avatarBrian Boylston <brian.boylston@hpe.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarToshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Cc: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Cc: linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1455225857-12039-3-git-send-email-toshi.kani@hpe.com
[ Small readability edits. ]
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
      e0c89043
    • Toshi Kani's avatar
      x86/uaccess/64: Make the __copy_user_nocache() assembly code more readable · 1e2e0ad1
      Toshi Kani authored 
      commit ee9737c9 upstream.

Add comments to __copy_user_nocache() to clarify its procedures
and alignment requirements.

Also change numeric branch target labels to named local labels.

No code changed:

 arch/x86/lib/copy_user_64.o:

    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
    1239       0       0    1239     4d7 copy_user_64.o.before
    1239       0       0    1239     4d7 copy_user_64.o.after

 md5:
    58bed94c2db98c1ca9a2d46d0680aaae  copy_user_64.o.before.asm
    58bed94c2db98c1ca9a2d46d0680aaae  copy_user_64.o.after.asm
Signed-off-by: default avatarToshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Cc: brian.boylston@hpe.com
Cc: dan.j.williams@intel.com
Cc: linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org
Cc: micah.parrish@hpe.com
Cc: ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com
Cc: vishal.l.verma@intel.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1455225857-12039-2-git-send-email-toshi.kani@hpe.com
[ Small readability edits and added object file comparison. ]
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
      1e2e0ad1
    • Matt Fleming's avatar
      x86/mm/pat: Avoid truncation when converting cpa->numpages to address · 4f298c10
      Matt Fleming authored 
      commit 74256377 upstream.

There are a couple of nasty truncation bugs lurking in the pageattr
code that can be triggered when mapping EFI regions, e.g. when we pass
a cpa->pgd pointer. Because cpa->numpages is a 32-bit value, shifting
left by PAGE_SHIFT will truncate the resultant address to 32-bits.

Viorel-Cătălin managed to trigger this bug on his Dell machine that
provides a ~5GB EFI region which requires 1236992 pages to be mapped.
When calling populate_pud() the end of the region gets calculated
incorrectly in the following buggy expression,

  end = start + (cpa->numpages << PAGE_SHIFT);

And only 188416 pages are mapped. Next, populate_pud() gets invoked
for a second time because of the loop in __change_page_attr_set_clr(),
only this time no pages get mapped because shifting the remaining
number of pages (1048576) by PAGE_SHIFT is zero. At which point the
loop in __change_page_attr_set_clr() spins forever because we fail to
map progress.

Hitting this bug depends very much on the virtual address we pick to
map the large region at and how many pages we map on the initial run
through the loop. This explains why this issue was only recently hit
with the introduction of commit

  a5caa209 ("x86/efi: Fix boot crash by mapping EFI memmap
   entries bottom-up at runtime, instead of top-down")

It's interesting to note that safe uses of cpa->numpages do exist in
the pageattr code. If instead of shifting ->numpages we multiply by
PAGE_SIZE, no truncation occurs because PAGE_SIZE is a UL value, and
so the result is unsigned long.

To avoid surprises when users try to convert very large cpa->numpages
values to addresses, change the data type from 'int' to 'unsigned
long', thereby making it suitable for shifting by PAGE_SHIFT without
any type casting.

The alternative would be to make liberal use of casting, but that is
far more likely to cause problems in the future when someone adds more
code and fails to cast properly; this bug was difficult enough to
track down in the first place.
Reported-and-tested-by: default avatarViorel-Cătălin Răpițeanu <rapiteanu.catalin@gmail.com>
Acked-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Sai Praneeth Prakhya <sai.praneeth.prakhya@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMatt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=110131
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1454067370-10374-1-git-send-email-matt@codeblueprint.co.ukSigned-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
      4f298c10
    • Jan Beulich's avatar
      x86/mm: Fix types used in pgprot cacheability flags translations · 75a101ba
      Jan Beulich authored 
      commit 3625c2c2 upstream.

For PAE kernels "unsigned long" is not suitable to hold page protection
flags, since _PAGE_NX doesn't fit there. This is the reason for quite a
few W+X pages getting reported as insecure during boot (observed namely
for the entire initrd range).

Fixes: 281d4078 ("x86: Make page cache mode a real type")
Signed-off-by: default avatarJan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJuergen Gross <JGross@suse.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/56A7635602000078000CAFF1@prv-mh.provo.novell.comSigned-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
      75a101ba
  3. 17 Feb, 2016 36 commits
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