Pull x86 microcode loading updates from Borislac Petkov:
"Major microcode loader restructuring, cleanup and improvements by
Thomas Gleixner:
- Restructure the code needed for it and add a temporary initrd
mapping on 32-bit so that the loader can access the microcode
blobs. This in itself is a preparation for the next major
improvement:
- Do not load microcode on 32-bit before paging has been enabled.
Handling this has caused an endless stream of headaches, issues,
ugly code and unnecessary hacks in the past. And there really
wasn't any sensible reason to do that in the first place. So switch
the 32-bit loading to happen after paging has been enabled and turn
the loader code "real purrty" again
- Drop mixed microcode steppings loading on Intel - there, a single
patch loaded on the whole system is sufficient
- Rework late loading to track which CPUs have updated microcode
successfully and which haven't, act accordingly
- Move late microcode loading on Intel in NMI context in order to
guarantee concurrent loading on all threads
- Make the late loading CPU-hotplug-safe and have the offlined
threads be woken up for the purpose of the update
- Add support for a minimum revision which determines whether late
microcode loading is safe on a machine and the microcode does not
change software visible features which the machine cannot use
anyway since feature detection has happened already. Roughly, the
minimum revision is the smallest revision number which must be
loaded currently on the system so that late updates can be allowed
- Other nice leanups, fixess, etc all over the place"
* tag 'x86_microcode_for_v6.7_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (40 commits)
x86/microcode/intel: Add a minimum required revision for late loading
x86/microcode: Prepare for minimal revision check
x86/microcode: Handle "offline" CPUs correctly
x86/apic: Provide apic_force_nmi_on_cpu()
x86/microcode: Protect against instrumentation
x86/microcode: Rendezvous and load in NMI
x86/microcode: Replace the all-in-one rendevous handler
x86/microcode: Provide new control functions
x86/microcode: Add per CPU control field
x86/microcode: Add per CPU result state
x86/microcode: Sanitize __wait_for_cpus()
x86/microcode: Clarify the late load logic
x86/microcode: Handle "nosmt" correctly
x86/microcode: Clean up mc_cpu_down_prep()
x86/microcode: Get rid of the schedule work indirection
x86/microcode: Mop up early loading leftovers
x86/microcode/amd: Use cached microcode for AP load
x86/microcode/amd: Cache builtin/initrd microcode early
x86/microcode/amd: Cache builtin microcode too
x86/microcode/amd: Use correct per CPU ucode_cpu_info
...
Pull sysctl updates from Luis Chamberlain:
"To help make the move of sysctls out of kernel/sysctl.c not incur a
size penalty sysctl has been changed to allow us to not require the
sentinel, the final empty element on the sysctl array. Joel Granados
has been doing all this work. On the v6.6 kernel we got the major
infrastructure changes required to support this. For v6.7-rc1 we have
all arch/ and drivers/ modified to remove the sentinel. Both arch and
driver changes have been on linux-next for a bit less than a month. It
is worth re-iterating the value:
- this helps reduce the overall build time size of the kernel and run
time memory consumed by the kernel by about ~64 bytes per array
- the extra 64-byte penalty is no longer inncurred now when we move
sysctls out from kernel/sysctl.c to their own files
For v6.8-rc1 expect removal of all the sentinels and also then the
unneeded check for procname == NULL.
The last two patches are fixes recently merged by Krister Johansen
which allow us again to use softlockup_panic early on boot. This used
to work but the alias work broke it. This is useful for folks who want
to detect softlockups super early rather than wait and spend money on
cloud solutions with nothing but an eventual hung kernel. Although
this hadn't gone through linux-next it's also a stable fix, so we
might as well roll through the fixes now"
* tag 'sysctl-6.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux: (23 commits)
watchdog: move softlockup_panic back to early_param
proc: sysctl: prevent aliased sysctls from getting passed to init
intel drm: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
Drivers: hv: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
raid: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
fw loader: Remove the now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
sgi-xp: Remove the now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
vrf: Remove the now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
char-misc: Remove the now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
infiniband: Remove the now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
macintosh: Remove the now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
parport: Remove the now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
scsi: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
tty: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
xen: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
hpet: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
c-sky: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_talbe array
powerpc: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table arrays
riscv: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
x86/vdso: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
...
Pull x86 core updates from Thomas Gleixner:
- Limit the hardcoded topology quirk for Hygon CPUs to those which have
a model ID less than 4.
The newer models have the topology CPUID leaf 0xB correctly
implemented and are not affected.
- Make SMT control more robust against enumeration failures
SMT control was added to allow controlling SMT at boottime or
runtime. The primary purpose was to provide a simple mechanism to
disable SMT in the light of speculation attack vectors.
It turned out that the code is sensible to enumeration failures and
worked only by chance for XEN/PV. XEN/PV has no real APIC enumeration
which means the primary thread mask is not set up correctly. By
chance a XEN/PV boot ends up with smp_num_siblings == 2, which makes
the hotplug control stay at its default value "enabled". So the mask
is never evaluated.
The ongoing rework of the topology evaluation caused XEN/PV to end up
with smp_num_siblings == 1, which sets the SMT control to "not
supported" and the empty primary thread mask causes the hotplug core
to deny the bringup of the APS.
Make the decision logic more robust and take 'not supported' and 'not
implemented' into account for the decision whether a CPU should be
booted or not.
- Fake primary thread mask for XEN/PV
Pretend that all XEN/PV vCPUs are primary threads, which makes the
usage of the primary thread mask valid on XEN/PV. That is consistent
with because all of the topology information on XEN/PV is fake or
even non-existent.
- Encapsulate topology information in cpuinfo_x86
Move the randomly scattered topology data into a separate data
structure for readability and as a preparatory step for the topology
evaluation overhaul.
- Consolidate APIC ID data type to u32
It's fixed width hardware data and not randomly u16, int, unsigned
long or whatever developers decided to use.
- Cure the abuse of cpuinfo for persisting logical IDs.
Per CPU cpuinfo is used to persist the logical package and die IDs.
That's really not the right place simply because cpuinfo is subject
to be reinitialized when a CPU goes through an offline/online cycle.
Use separate per CPU data for the persisting to enable the further
topology management rework. It will be removed once the new topology
management is in place.
- Provide a debug interface for inspecting topology information
Useful in general and extremly helpful for validating the topology
management rework in terms of correctness or "bug" compatibility.
* tag 'x86-core-2023-10-29-v2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (23 commits)
x86/apic, x86/hyperv: Use u32 in hv_snp_boot_ap() too
x86/cpu: Provide debug interface
x86/cpu/topology: Cure the abuse of cpuinfo for persisting logical ids
x86/apic: Use u32 for wakeup_secondary_cpu[_64]()
x86/apic: Use u32 for [gs]et_apic_id()
x86/apic: Use u32 for phys_pkg_id()
x86/apic: Use u32 for cpu_present_to_apicid()
x86/apic: Use u32 for check_apicid_used()
x86/apic: Use u32 for APIC IDs in global data
x86/apic: Use BAD_APICID consistently
x86/cpu: Move cpu_l[l2]c_id into topology info
x86/cpu: Move logical package and die IDs into topology info
x86/cpu: Remove pointless evaluation of x86_coreid_bits
x86/cpu: Move cu_id into topology info
x86/cpu: Move cpu_core_id into topology info
hwmon: (fam15h_power) Use topology_core_id()
scsi: lpfc: Use topology_core_id()
x86/cpu: Move cpu_die_id into topology info
x86/cpu: Move phys_proc_id into topology info
x86/cpu: Encapsulate topology information in cpuinfo_x86
...
Pull x86 mm handling updates from Ingo Molnar:
- Add new NX-stack self-test
- Improve NUMA partial-CFMWS handling
- Fix #VC handler bugs resulting in SEV-SNP boot failures
- Drop the 4MB memory size restriction on minimal NUMA nodes
- Reorganize headers a bit, in preparation to header dependency
reduction efforts
- Misc cleanups & fixes
* tag 'x86-mm-2023-10-28' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/mm: Drop the 4 MB restriction on minimal NUMA node memory size
selftests/x86/lam: Zero out buffer for readlink()
x86/sev: Drop unneeded #include
x86/sev: Move sev_setup_arch() to mem_encrypt.c
x86/tdx: Replace deprecated strncpy() with strtomem_pad()
selftests/x86/mm: Add new test that userspace stack is in fact NX
x86/sev: Make boot_ghcb_page[] static
x86/boot: Move x86_cache_alignment initialization to correct spot
x86/sev-es: Set x86_virt_bits to the correct value straight away, instead of a two-phase approach
x86/sev-es: Allow copy_from_kernel_nofault() in earlier boot
x86_64: Show CR4.PSE on auxiliaries like on BSP
x86/iommu/docs: Update AMD IOMMU specification document URL
x86/sev/docs: Update document URL in amd-memory-encryption.rst
x86/mm: Move arch_memory_failure() and arch_is_platform_page() definitions from <asm/processor.h> to <asm/pgtable.h>
ACPI/NUMA: Apply SRAT proximity domain to entire CFMWS window
x86/numa: Introduce numa_fill_memblks()
Pull x86 entry updates from Ingo Molnar:
- Make IA32_EMULATION boot time configurable with
the new ia32_emulation=<bool> boot option
- Clean up fast syscall return validation code: convert
it to C and refactor the code
- As part of this, optimize the canonical RIP test code
* tag 'x86-entry-2023-10-28' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/entry/32: Clean up syscall fast exit tests
x86/entry/64: Use TASK_SIZE_MAX for canonical RIP test
x86/entry/64: Convert SYSRET validation tests to C
x86/entry/32: Remove SEP test for SYSEXIT
x86/entry/32: Convert do_fast_syscall_32() to bool return type
x86/entry/compat: Combine return value test from syscall handler
x86/entry/64: Remove obsolete comment on tracing vs. SYSRET
x86: Make IA32_EMULATION boot time configurable
x86/entry: Make IA32 syscalls' availability depend on ia32_enabled()
x86/elf: Make loading of 32bit processes depend on ia32_enabled()
x86/entry: Compile entry_SYSCALL32_ignore() unconditionally
x86/entry: Rename ignore_sysret()
x86: Introduce ia32_enabled()
Pull x86 cpuid updates from Borislav Petkov:
- Make sure the "svm" feature flag is cleared from /proc/cpuinfo when
virtualization support is disabled in the BIOS on AMD and Hygon
platforms
- A minor cleanup
* tag 'x86_cpu_for_6.7_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/cpu/amd: Remove redundant 'break' statement
x86/cpu: Clear SVM feature if disabled by BIOS
Pull x86 resource control updates from Borislav Petkov:
- Add support for non-contiguous capacity bitmasks being added to
Intel's CAT implementation
- Other improvements to resctrl code: better configuration,
simplifications, debugging support, fixes
* tag 'x86_cache_for_6.7_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/resctrl: Display RMID of resource group
x86/resctrl: Add support for the files of MON groups only
x86/resctrl: Display CLOSID for resource group
x86/resctrl: Introduce "-o debug" mount option
x86/resctrl: Move default group file creation to mount
x86/resctrl: Unwind properly from rdt_enable_ctx()
x86/resctrl: Rename rftype flags for consistency
x86/resctrl: Simplify rftype flag definitions
x86/resctrl: Add multiple tasks to the resctrl group at once
Documentation/x86: Document resctrl's new sparse_masks
x86/resctrl: Add sparse_masks file in info
x86/resctrl: Enable non-contiguous CBMs in Intel CAT
x86/resctrl: Rename arch_has_sparse_bitmaps
x86/resctrl: Fix remaining kernel-doc warnings
Pull x86 hw mitigation updates from Borislav Petkov:
- A bunch of improvements, cleanups and fixlets to the SRSO mitigation
machinery and other, general cleanups to the hw mitigations code, by
Josh Poimboeuf
- Improve the return thunk detection by objtool as it is absolutely
important that the default return thunk is not used after returns
have been patched. Future work to detect and report this better is
pending
- Other misc cleanups and fixes
* tag 'x86_bugs_for_6.7_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (21 commits)
x86/retpoline: Document some thunk handling aspects
x86/retpoline: Make sure there are no unconverted return thunks due to KCSAN
x86/callthunks: Delete unused "struct thunk_desc"
x86/vdso: Run objtool on vdso32-setup.o
objtool: Fix return thunk patching in retpolines
x86/srso: Remove unnecessary semicolon
x86/pti: Fix kernel warnings for pti= and nopti cmdline options
x86/calldepth: Rename __x86_return_skl() to call_depth_return_thunk()
x86/nospec: Refactor UNTRAIN_RET[_*]
x86/rethunk: Use SYM_CODE_START[_LOCAL]_NOALIGN macros
x86/srso: Disentangle rethunk-dependent options
x86/srso: Move retbleed IBPB check into existing 'has_microcode' code block
x86/bugs: Remove default case for fully switched enums
x86/srso: Remove 'pred_cmd' label
x86/srso: Unexport untraining functions
x86/srso: Improve i-cache locality for alias mitigation
x86/srso: Fix unret validation dependencies
x86/srso: Fix vulnerability reporting for missing microcode
x86/srso: Print mitigation for retbleed IBPB case
x86/srso: Print actual mitigation if requested mitigation isn't possible
...
In general users, don't have the necessary information to determine
whether late loading of a new microcode version is safe and does not
modify anything which the currently running kernel uses already, e.g.
removal of CPUID bits or behavioural changes of MSRs.
To address this issue, Intel has added a "minimum required version"
field to a previously reserved field in the microcode header. Microcode
updates should only be applied if the current microcode version is equal
to, or greater than this minimum required version.
Thomas made some suggestions on how meta-data in the microcode file could
provide Linux with information to decide if the new microcode is suitable
candidate for late loading. But even the "simpler" option requires a lot of
metadata and corresponding kernel code to parse it, so the final suggestion
was to add the 'minimum required version' field in the header.
When microcode changes visible features, microcode will set the minimum
required version to its own revision which prevents late loading.
Old microcode blobs have the minimum revision field always set to 0, which
indicates that there is no information and the kernel considers it
unsafe.
This is a pure OS software mechanism. The hardware/firmware ignores this
header field.
For early loading there is no restriction because OS visible features
are enumerated after the early load and therefore a change has no
effect.
The check is always enabled, but by default not enforced. It can be
enforced via Kconfig or kernel command line.
If enforced, the kernel refuses to late load microcode with a minimum
required version field which is zero or when the currently loaded
microcode revision is smaller than the minimum required revision.
If not enforced the load happens independent of the revision check to
stay compatible with the existing behaviour, but it influences the
decision whether the kernel is tainted or not. If the check signals that
the late load is safe, then the kernel is not tainted.
Early loading is not affected by this.
[ tglx: Massaged changelog and fixed up the implementation ]
Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231002115903.776467264@linutronix.de
Applying microcode late can be fatal for the running kernel when the
update changes functionality which is in use already in a non-compatible
way, e.g. by removing a CPUID bit.
There is no way for admins which do not have access to the vendors deep
technical support to decide whether late loading of such a microcode is
safe or not.
Intel has added a new field to the microcode header which tells the
minimal microcode revision which is required to be active in the CPU in
order to be safe.
Provide infrastructure for handling this in the core code and a command
line switch which allows to enforce it.
If the update is considered safe the kernel is not tainted and the annoying
warning message not emitted. If it's enforced and the currently loaded
microcode revision is not safe for late loading then the load is aborted.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231017211724.079611170@linutronix.de
Offline CPUs need to be parked in a safe loop when microcode update is
in progress on the primary CPU. Currently, offline CPUs are parked in
mwait_play_dead(), and for Intel CPUs, its not a safe instruction,
because the MWAIT instruction can be patched in the new microcode update
that can cause instability.
- Add a new microcode state 'UCODE_OFFLINE' to report status on per-CPU
basis.
- Force NMI on the offline CPUs.
Wake up offline CPUs while the update is in progress and then return
them back to mwait_play_dead() after microcode update is complete.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231002115903.660850472@linutronix.de
The wait for control loop in which the siblings are waiting for the
microcode update on the primary thread must be protected against
instrumentation as instrumentation can end up in #INT3, #DB or #PF,
which then returns with IRET. That IRET reenables NMI which is the
opposite of what the NMI rendezvous is trying to achieve.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231002115903.545969323@linutronix.de
stop_machine() does not prevent the spin-waiting sibling from handling
an NMI, which is obviously violating the whole concept of rendezvous.
Implement a static branch right in the beginning of the NMI handler
which is nopped out except when enabled by the late loading mechanism.
The late loader enables the static branch before stop_machine() is
invoked. Each CPU has an nmi_enable in its control structure which
indicates whether the CPU should go into the update routine.
This is required to bridge the gap between enabling the branch and
actually being at the point where it is required to enter the loader
wait loop.
Each CPU which arrives in the stopper thread function sets that flag and
issues a self NMI right after that. If the NMI function sees the flag
clear, it returns. If it's set it clears the flag and enters the
rendezvous.
This is safe against a real NMI which hits in between setting the flag
and sending the NMI to itself. The real NMI will be swallowed by the
microcode update and the self NMI will then let stuff continue.
Otherwise this would end up with a spurious NMI.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231002115903.489900814@linutronix.de
The current all in one code is unreadable and really not suited for
adding future features like uniform loading with package or system
scope.
Provide a set of new control functions which split the handling of the
primary and secondary CPUs. These will replace the current rendezvous
all in one function in the next step. This is intentionally a separate
change because diff makes an complete unreadable mess otherwise.
So the flow separates the primary and the secondary CPUs into their own
functions which use the control field in the per CPU ucode_ctrl struct.
primary() secondary()
wait_for_all() wait_for_all()
apply_ucode() wait_for_release()
release() apply_ucode()
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231002115903.377922731@linutronix.de
Add a per CPU control field to ucode_ctrl and define constants for it
which are going to be used to control the loading state machine.
In theory this could be a global control field, but a global control does
not cover the following case:
15 primary CPUs load microcode successfully
1 primary CPU fails and returns with an error code
With global control the sibling of the failed CPU would either try again or
the whole operation would be aborted with the consequence that the 15
siblings do not invoke the apply path and end up with inconsistent software
state. The result in dmesg would be inconsistent too.
There are two additional fields added and initialized:
ctrl_cpu and secondaries. ctrl_cpu is the CPU number of the primary thread
for now, but with the upcoming uniform loading at package or system scope
this will be one CPU per package or just one CPU. Secondaries hands the
control CPU a CPU mask which will be required to release the secondary CPUs
out of the wait loop.
Preparatory change for implementing a properly split control flow for
primary and secondary CPUs.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231002115903.319959519@linutronix.de
The microcode rendezvous is purely acting on global state, which does
not allow to analyze fails in a coherent way.
Introduce per CPU state where the results are written into, which allows to
analyze the return codes of the individual CPUs.
Initialize the state when walking the cpu_present_mask in the online
check to avoid another for_each_cpu() loop.
Enhance the result print out with that.
The structure is intentionally named ucode_ctrl as it will gain control
fields in subsequent changes.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231017211723.632681010@linutronix.de
The code is too complicated for no reason:
- The return value is pointless as this is a strict boolean.
- It's way simpler to count down from num_online_cpus() and check for
zero.
- The timeout argument is pointless as this is always one second.
- Touching the NMI watchdog every 100ns does not make any sense, neither
does checking every 100ns. This is really not a hotpath operation.
Preload the atomic counter with the number of online CPUs and simplify the
whole timeout logic. Delay for one microsecond and touch the NMI watchdog
once per millisecond.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231002115903.204251527@linutronix.de
reload_store() is way too complicated. Split the inner workings out and
make the following enhancements:
- Taint the kernel only when the microcode was actually updated. If. e.g.
the rendezvous fails, then nothing happened and there is no reason for
tainting.
- Return useful error codes
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Borisov <nik.borisov@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231002115903.145048840@linutronix.de
On CPUs where microcode loading is not NMI-safe the SMT siblings which
are parked in one of the play_dead() variants still react to NMIs.
So if an NMI hits while the primary thread updates the microcode the
resulting behaviour is undefined. The default play_dead() implementation on
modern CPUs is using MWAIT which is not guaranteed to be safe against
a microcode update which affects MWAIT.
Take the cpus_booted_once_mask into account to detect this case and
refuse to load late if the vendor specific driver does not advertise
that late loading is NMI safe.
AMD stated that this is safe, so mark the AMD driver accordingly.
This requirement will be partially lifted in later changes.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231002115903.087472735@linutronix.de
This function has nothing to do with suspend. It's a hotplug
callback. Remove the bogus comment.
Drop the pointless debug printk. The hotplug core provides tracepoints
which track the invocation of those callbacks.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231002115903.028651784@linutronix.de
Now that the microcode cache is initialized before the APs are brought
up, there is no point in scanning builtin/initrd microcode during AP
loading.
Convert the AP loader to utilize the cache, which in turn makes the CPU
hotplug callback which applies the microcode after initrd/builtin is
gone, obsolete as the early loading during late hotplug operations
including the resume path depends now only on the cache.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231017211723.243426023@linutronix.de
There is no reason to scan builtin/initrd microcode on each AP.
Cache the builtin/initrd microcode in an early initcall so that the
early AP loader can utilize the cache.
The existing fs initcall which invoked save_microcode_in_initrd_amd() is
still required to maintain the initrd_gone flag. Rename it accordingly.
This will be removed once the AP loader code is converted to use the
cache.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231017211723.187566507@linutronix.de
find_blobs_in_containers() is invoked on every CPU but overwrites
unconditionally ucode_cpu_info of CPU0.
Fix this by using the proper CPU data and move the assignment into the
call site apply_ucode_from_containers() so that the function can be
reused.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231010150702.433454320@linutronix.de
Microcode is applied on the APs during early bringup. There is no point
in trying to apply the microcode again during the hotplug operations and
neither at the point where the microcode device is initialized.
Collect CPU info and microcode revision in setup_online_cpu() for now.
This will move to the CPU hotplug callback later.
[ bp: Leave the starting notifier for the following scenario:
- boot, late load, suspend to disk, resume
without the starting notifier, only the last core manages to update the
microcode upon resume:
# rdmsr -a 0x8b
10000bf
10000bf
10000bf
10000bf
10000bf
10000dc <----
This is on an AMD F10h machine.
For the future, one should check whether potential unification of
the CPU init path could cover the resume path too so that this can
be simplified even more.
tglx: This is caused by the odd handling of APs which try to find the
microcode blob in builtin or initrd instead of caching the microcode
blob during early init before the APs are brought up. Will be cleaned
up in a later step. ]
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231017211723.018821624@linutronix.de
Nothing needs struct ucode_cpu_info. Make it take struct cpu_signature,
let it return a boolean and simplify the implementation. Rename it now
that the silly name clash with collect_cpu_info() is gone.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231017211722.851573238@linutronix.de
There are situations where the late microcode is loaded into memory but
is not applied:
1) The rendezvous fails
2) The microcode is rejected by the CPUs
If any of this happens then the pointer which was updated at firmware
load time is stale and subsequent CPU hotplug operations either fail to
update or create inconsistent microcode state.
Save the loaded microcode in a separate pointer before the late load is
attempted and when successful, update the hotplug pointer accordingly
via a new microcode_ops callback.
Remove the pointless fallback in the loader to a microcode pointer which
is never populated.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231002115902.505491309@linutronix.de
The early loading code is overly complicated:
- It scans the builtin/initrd for microcode not only on the BSP, but also
on all APs during early boot and then later in the boot process it
scans again to duplicate and save the microcode before initrd goes
away.
That's a pointless exercise because this can be simply done before
bringing up the APs when the memory allocator is up and running.
- Saving the microcode from within the scan loop is completely
non-obvious and a left over of the microcode cache.
This can be done at the call site now which makes it obvious.
Rework the code so that only the BSP scans the builtin/initrd microcode
once during early boot and save it away in an early initcall for later
use.
[ bp: Test and fold in a fix from tglx ontop which handles the need to
distinguish what save_microcode() does depending on when it is
called:
- when on the BSP during early load, it needs to find a newer
revision than the one currently loaded on the BSP
- later, before SMP init, it still runs on the BSP and gets the BSP
revision just loaded and uses that revision to know which patch
to save for the APs. For that it needs to find the exact one as
on the BSP.
]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231017211722.629085215@linutronix.de
CONFIG_RETHUNK, CONFIG_CPU_UNRET_ENTRY and CONFIG_CPU_SRSO are all
tangled up. De-spaghettify the code a bit.
Some of the rethunk-related code has been shuffled around within the
'.text..__x86.return_thunk' section, but otherwise there are no
functional changes. srso_alias_untrain_ret() and srso_alias_safe_ret()
((which are very address-sensitive) haven't moved.
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/2845084ed303d8384905db3b87b77693945302b4.1693889988.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
The SRSO default safe-ret mitigation is reported as "mitigated" even if
microcode hasn't been updated. That's wrong because userspace may still
be vulnerable to SRSO attacks due to IBPB not flushing branch type
predictions.
Report the safe-ret + !microcode case as vulnerable.
Also report the microcode-only case as vulnerable as it leaves the
kernel open to attacks.
Fixes: fb3bd914b3 ("x86/srso: Add a Speculative RAS Overflow mitigation")
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/a8a14f97d1b0e03ec255c81637afdf4cf0ae9c99.1693889988.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
Mixed steppings aren't supported on Intel CPUs. Only one microcode patch
is required for the entire system. The caching of microcode blobs which
match the family and model is therefore pointless and in fact is
dysfunctional as CPU hotplug updates use only a single microcode blob,
i.e. the one where *intel_ucode_patch points to.
Remove the microcode cache and make it an AMD local feature.
[ tglx:
- save only at the end. Otherwise random microcode ends up in the
pointer for early loading
- free the ucode patch pointer in save_microcode_patch() only
after kmemdup() has succeeded, as reported by Andrew Cooper ]
Originally-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231017211722.404362809@linutronix.de
32-bit loads microcode before paging is enabled. The commit which
introduced that has zero justification in the changelog. The cover
letter has slightly more content, but it does not give any technical
justification either:
"The problem in current microcode loading method is that we load a
microcode way, way too late; ideally we should load it before turning
paging on. This may only be practical on 32 bits since we can't get
to 64-bit mode without paging on, but we should still do it as early
as at all possible."
Handwaving word salad with zero technical content.
Someone claimed in an offlist conversation that this is required for
curing the ATOM erratum AAE44/AAF40/AAG38/AAH41. That erratum requires
an microcode update in order to make the usage of PSE safe. But during
early boot, PSE is completely irrelevant and it is evaluated way later.
Neither is it relevant for the AP on single core HT enabled CPUs as the
microcode loading on the AP is not doing anything.
On dual core CPUs there is a theoretical problem if a split of an
executable large page between enabling paging including PSE and loading
the microcode happens. But that's only theoretical, it's practically
irrelevant because the affected dual core CPUs are 64bit enabled and
therefore have paging and PSE enabled before loading the microcode on
the second core. So why would it work on 64-bit but not on 32-bit?
The erratum:
"AAG38 Code Fetch May Occur to Incorrect Address After a Large Page is
Split Into 4-Kbyte Pages
Problem: If software clears the PS (page size) bit in a present PDE
(page directory entry), that will cause linear addresses mapped through
this PDE to use 4-KByte pages instead of using a large page after old
TLB entries are invalidated. Due to this erratum, if a code fetch uses
this PDE before the TLB entry for the large page is invalidated then it
may fetch from a different physical address than specified by either the
old large page translation or the new 4-KByte page translation. This
erratum may also cause speculative code fetches from incorrect addresses."
The practical relevance for this is exactly zero because there is no
splitting of large text pages during early boot-time, i.e. between paging
enable and microcode loading, and neither during CPU hotplug.
IOW, this load microcode before paging enable is yet another voodoo
programming solution in search of a problem. What's worse is that it causes
at least two serious problems:
1) When stackprotector is enabled, the microcode loader code has the
stackprotector mechanics enabled. The read from the per CPU variable
__stack_chk_guard is always accessing the virtual address either
directly on UP or via %fs on SMP. In physical address mode this
results in an access to memory above 3GB. So this works by chance as
the hardware returns the same value when there is no RAM at this
physical address. When there is RAM populated above 3G then the read
is by chance the same as nothing changes that memory during the very
early boot stage. That's not necessarily true during runtime CPU
hotplug.
2) When function tracing is enabled, the relevant microcode loader
functions and the functions invoked from there will call into the
tracing code and evaluate global and per CPU variables in physical
address mode. What could potentially go wrong?
Cure this and move the microcode loading after the early paging enable, use
the new temporary initrd mapping and remove the gunk in the microcode
loader which is required to handle physical address mode.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231017211722.348298216@linutronix.de
