On Sat, Aug 14, 2021 at 8:59 AM Fabiano Rosas wrote:
>
> Laurent Vivier writes:
>
> >
> > since this patch is merged my VM is experiencing a crash at boot (20% of
> > the time):
> >
> > [8.496850] kernel tried to execute exec-protected page
> > (c00804073278) - exploit
> > attempt?
On 2021-08-14, Daniel Axtens wrote:
Bill Wendling writes:
The "-z notext" flag disables reporting an error if DT_TEXTREL is set on
PPC with CONFIG=kdump:
ld.lld: error: can't create dynamic relocation R_PPC64_ADDR64 against
local symbol in readonly segment; recompile object files with
From: Fangrui Song
Object files used to link .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms1 have many R_PPC64_ADDR64
relocations in non-SHF_WRITE sections. There are many text relocations (e.g. in
.rela___ksymtab_gpl+* and .rela__mcount_loc sections) in a -pie link and are
disallowed by LLD:
ld.lld: error: can't
On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 11:24 AM Bill Wendling wrote:
>
> BTW, this patch should more properly be attributed to Fangrui Song. I
> can send a follow-up patch that reflects this and adds more context to
> the commit message.
Sounds good to me. The TL;DR is that LLD has a different implicit
default
Laurent Vivier writes:
>
> since this patch is merged my VM is experiencing a crash at boot (20% of the
> time):
>
> [8.496850] kernel tried to execute exec-protected page (c00804073278)
> - exploit
> attempt? (uid: 0)
> [8.496921] BUG: Unable to handle kernel instruction fetch
> [
On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 7:13 AM Daniel Axtens wrote:
>
> Bill Wendling writes:
>
> > The "-z notext" flag disables reporting an error if DT_TEXTREL is set on
> > PPC with CONFIG=kdump:
> >
> > ld.lld: error: can't create dynamic relocation R_PPC64_ADDR64 against
> > local symbol in
On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 2:10 AM Maxim Kochetkov wrote:
>
> The patch be7ecbd240b2: "soc: fsl: qe: convert QE interrupt
> controller to platform_device" from Aug 3, 2021, leads to the
> following static checker warning:
>
> drivers/soc/fsl/qe/qe_ic.c:438 qe_ic_init()
> warn:
On 8/13/21 12:08 PM, Tom Lendacky wrote:
On 8/12/21 5:07 AM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 10:52:55AM -0500, Tom Lendacky wrote:
On 8/11/21 7:19 AM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
On Tue, Aug 10, 2021 at 02:48:54PM -0500, Tom Lendacky wrote:
On 8/10/21 1:45 PM, Kuppuswamy,
On 8/13/21 11:59 AM, Tom Lendacky wrote:
This patch series provides a generic helper function, prot_guest_has(),
to replace the sme_active(), sev_active(), sev_es_active() and
mem_encrypt_active() functions.
It is expected that as new protected virtualization technologies are
added to the
On 8/13/21 9:59 AM, Tom Lendacky wrote:
In prep for other protected virtualization technologies, introduce a
generic helper function, prot_guest_has(), that can be used to check
for specific protection attributes, like memory encryption. This is
intended to eliminate having to add multiple
On 8/12/21 5:07 AM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 10:52:55AM -0500, Tom Lendacky wrote:
On 8/11/21 7:19 AM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
On Tue, Aug 10, 2021 at 02:48:54PM -0500, Tom Lendacky wrote:
On 8/10/21 1:45 PM, Kuppuswamy, Sathyanarayanan wrote:
...
Looking at code
The mem_encrypt_active() function has been replaced by prot_guest_has(),
so remove the implementation. Since the default implementation of the
prot_guest_has() matches the s390 implementation of mem_encrypt_active(),
prot_guest_has() does not need to be implemented in s390 (the config
option
The mem_encrypt_active() function has been replaced by prot_guest_has(),
so remove the implementation.
Cc: Michael Ellerman
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky
---
arch/powerpc/include/asm/mem_encrypt.h | 5 -
1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)
diff
The mem_encrypt_active() function has been replaced by prot_guest_has(),
so remove the implementation.
Reviewed-by: Joerg Roedel
Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky
---
include/linux/mem_encrypt.h | 4
1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/mem_encrypt.h
The mem_encrypt_active() function has been replaced by prot_guest_has(),
so remove the implementation.
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Borislav Petkov
Reviewed-by: Joerg Roedel
Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky
---
arch/x86/include/asm/mem_encrypt.h | 5 -
1 file changed, 5
Replace occurrences of mem_encrypt_active() with calls to prot_guest_has()
with the PATTR_MEM_ENCRYPT attribute.
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Borislav Petkov
Cc: Dave Hansen
Cc: Andy Lutomirski
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: David Airlie
Cc: Daniel Vetter
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst
Cc:
Replace occurrences of sev_es_active() with the more generic
prot_guest_has() using PATTR_GUEST_PROT_STATE, except for in
arch/x86/kernel/sev*.c and arch/x86/mm/mem_encrypt*.c where PATTR_SEV_ES
will be used. If future support is added for other memory encyrption
techonologies, the use of
Replace occurrences of sev_active() with the more generic prot_guest_has()
using PATTR_GUEST_MEM_ENCRYPT, except for in arch/x86/mm/mem_encrypt*.c
where PATTR_SEV will be used. If future support is added for other memory
encryption technologies, the use of PATTR_GUEST_MEM_ENCRYPT can be
updated,
Replace occurrences of sme_active() with the more generic prot_guest_has()
using PATTR_HOST_MEM_ENCRYPT, except for in arch/x86/mm/mem_encrypt*.c
where PATTR_SME will be used. If future support is added for other memory
encryption technologies, the use of PATTR_HOST_MEM_ENCRYPT can be
updated, as
Introduce a powerpc version of the prot_guest_has() function. This will
be used to replace the powerpc mem_encrypt_active() implementation, so
the implementation will initially only support the PATTR_MEM_ENCRYPT
attribute.
Cc: Michael Ellerman
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Introduce an x86 version of the prot_guest_has() function. This will be
used in the more generic x86 code to replace vendor specific calls like
sev_active(), etc.
While the name suggests this is intended mainly for guests, it will
also be used for host memory encryption checks in place of
In prep for other protected virtualization technologies, introduce a
generic helper function, prot_guest_has(), that can be used to check
for specific protection attributes, like memory encryption. This is
intended to eliminate having to add multiple technology-specific checks
to the code (e.g. if
In prep for other uses of the prot_guest_has() function besides AMD's
memory encryption support, selectively build the AMD memory encryption
architecture override functions only when CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT=y. These
functions are:
- early_memremap_pgprot_adjust()
- arch_memremap_can_ram_remap()
This patch series provides a generic helper function, prot_guest_has(),
to replace the sme_active(), sev_active(), sev_es_active() and
mem_encrypt_active() functions.
It is expected that as new protected virtualization technologies are
added to the kernel, they can all be covered by a single
On Mon, Aug 02, 2021 at 09:20:30PM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> Will Deacon writes:
> > Commit ad6c00283163 ("swiotlb: Free tbl memory in swiotlb_exit()")
> > introduced a set_memory_encrypted() call to swiotlb_exit() so that the
> > buffer pages are returned to an encrypted state prior to
在 2021/8/13 下午1:53, Jiri Slaby 写道:
Hi,
On 12. 08. 21, 14:26, kernel test robot wrote:
drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_console.c:190:26: warning: variable 'hp' is
uninitialized when used here [-Wuninitialized]
spin_unlock_irqrestore(>c_lock, flags);
^~
Bill Wendling writes:
> The "-z notext" flag disables reporting an error if DT_TEXTREL is set on
> PPC with CONFIG=kdump:
>
> ld.lld: error: can't create dynamic relocation R_PPC64_ADDR64 against
> local symbol in readonly segment; recompile object files with -fPIC
> or pass
On Sat, 7 Aug 2021 09:20:57 +0200, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
> On PowerVM, CPU-less nodes can be populated with hot-plugged CPUs at
> runtime. Today, the IPI is not created for such nodes, and hot-plugged
> CPUs use a bogus IPI, which leads to soft lockups.
>
> We can not directly allocate and
On Mon, 9 Aug 2021 10:36:58 +0800, Pu Lehui wrote:
> When using kprobe on powerpc booke series processor, Oops happens
> as show bellow:
>
> / # echo "p:myprobe do_nanosleep" > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/kprobe_events
> / # echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kprobes/myprobe/enable
> / #
On Thu, 5 Aug 2021 17:23:08 +0200, Laurent Dufour wrote:
> After LPM, when migrating from a system with security mitigation enabled to
> a system with mitigation disabled, the security flavor exposed in /proc is
> not correctly set back to 0.
>
> Do not assume the value of the security flavor is
On Wed, 4 Aug 2021 18:24:10 + (UTC), Christophe Leroy wrote:
> Running an SMP kernel on an UP platform not prepared for it,
> I encountered the following OOPS:
>
> BUG: Kernel NULL pointer dereference on read at 0x0034
> Faulting instruction address: 0xc0a04110
> Oops:
On Tue, 3 Aug 2021 15:14:27 + (UTC), Christophe Leroy wrote:
> When a DSI (Data Storage Interrupt) is taken while in NAP mode,
> r11 doesn't survive the call to power_save_ppc32_restore().
>
> So use r1 instead of r11 as they both contain the virtual stack
> pointer at that point.
Applied to
On Wed, 7 Jul 2021 05:55:07 + (UTC), Christophe Leroy wrote:
> 32 bits BOOKE have special interrupts for debug and other
> critical events.
>
> When handling those interrupts, dedicated registers are saved
> in the stack frame in addition to the standard registers, leading
> to a shift of the
On Tue, 10 Aug 2021 16:13:16 + (UTC), Christophe Leroy wrote:
> An interrupt handler shall not be called from another interrupt
> handler otherwise this leads to problems like the following:
>
> Kernel attempted to write user page (afd4fa84) - exploit attempt? (uid:
> 1000)
>
On Tue, 10 Aug 2021 16:13:17 + (UTC), Christophe Leroy wrote:
> single_step_exception() is called by emulate_single_step() which
> is called from (at least) alignment exception() handler and
> program_check_exception() handler.
>
> Redefine it as a regular __single_step_exception() which is
在 2021/8/13 下午3:27, Greg KH 写道:
On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 05:45:31PM +0800, Xianting Tian wrote:
As well known, hvc backend can register its opertions to hvc backend.
the opertions contain put_chars(), get_chars() and so on.
Some hvc backend may do dma in its opertions. eg, put_chars() of
On 07/07/2021 14:13, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
Currently it is vm-$currentpid which works as long as there is just one
VM per the userspace (99.99% cases) but produces a bunch
of "debugfs: Directory 'vm16679' with parent 'kvm' already present!"
when syzkaller (syscall fuzzer) is running so
Le 13/08/2021 à 10:24, Kajol Jain a écrit :
Incase of random sampling, there can be scenarios where SIAR is not
latching sample address and results in 0 value. Since current code
directly returning the siar value, we could see multiple instruction
pointer values as 0 in perf report.
Patch
Le 13/08/2021 à 10:24, Kajol Jain a écrit :
Incase of random sampling, there can be scenarios where SIAR is not
latching sample address and results in 0 value. Since current code
directly returning the siar value, we could see multiple instruction
pointer values as 0 in perf report.
Patch
Le 13/08/2021 à 10:29, kajoljain a écrit :
On 8/13/21 1:54 PM, Kajol Jain wrote:
Minor optimization in the 'perf_instruction_pointer' function code by
making use of stack siar instead of mfspr.
Fixes: 75382aa72f06 ("powerpc/perf: Move code to select SIAR or pt_regs
into perf_read_regs")
Incase of random sampling, there can be scenarios where SIAR is not
latching sample address and results in 0 value. Since current code
directly returning the siar value, we could see multiple instruction
pointer values as 0 in perf report.
Patch resolves this issue by adding a ternary condition to
Minor optimization in the 'perf_instruction_pointer' function code by
making use of stack siar instead of mfspr.
Fixes: 75382aa72f06 ("powerpc/perf: Move code to select SIAR or pt_regs
into perf_read_regs")
Signed-off-by: Kajol Jain
---
arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1
On 8/13/21 1:54 PM, Kajol Jain wrote:
> Minor optimization in the 'perf_instruction_pointer' function code by
> making use of stack siar instead of mfspr.
>
> Fixes: 75382aa72f06 ("powerpc/perf: Move code to select SIAR or pt_regs
> into perf_read_regs")
> Signed-off-by: Kajol Jain
Please
Incase of random sampling, there can be scenarios where SIAR is not
latching sample address and results in 0 value. Since current code
directly returning the siar value, we could see multiple instruction
pointer values as 0 in perf report.
Patch resolves this issue by adding a ternary condition to
Minor optimization in the 'perf_instruction_pointer' function code by
making use of stack siar instead of mfspr.
Fixes: 75382aa72f06 ("powerpc/perf: Move code to select SIAR or pt_regs
into perf_read_regs")
Signed-off-by: Kajol Jain
---
arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1
H_GetPerformanceCounterInfo (0xF080) hcall returns the counter data in the
result buffer. Result buffer has specific format defined in the PAPR
specification. One of the field is counter offset and width of the counter
data returned.
Counter data are returned in a unsigned char array. To
get the
"Aneesh Kumar K.V" writes:
> Similar to x86/s390 add a debugfs file to tune tlb_single_page_flush_ceiling.
> Also add a debugfs entry for tlb_local_single_page_flush_ceiling.
>
> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V
> ---
> Changes from v1:
> * switch to debugfs_create_u32
>
>
On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 05:45:31PM +0800, Xianting Tian wrote:
> As well known, hvc backend can register its opertions to hvc backend.
> the opertions contain put_chars(), get_chars() and so on.
>
> Some hvc backend may do dma in its opertions. eg, put_chars() of
> virtio-console. But in the code
Excerpts from Christophe Leroy's message of April 14, 2021 2:38 am:
> Using asm goto in __WARN_FLAGS() and WARN_ON() allows more
> flexibility to GCC.
>
> For that add an entry to the exception table so that
> program_check_exception() knowns where to resume execution
> after a WARNING.
Nice
Excerpts from Christophe Leroy's message of April 14, 2021 2:38 am:
> powerpc BUG_ON() and WARN_ON() are based on using twnei instruction.
>
> For catching simple conditions like a variable having value 0, this
> is efficient because it does the test and the trap at the same time.
> But most
在 2021/8/13 下午1:53, Jiri Slaby 写道:
Hi,
On 12. 08. 21, 14:26, kernel test robot wrote:
drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_console.c:190:26: warning: variable 'hp' is
uninitialized when used here [-Wuninitialized]
spin_unlock_irqrestore(>c_lock, flags);
^~
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