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Linus Torvalds eb094f0696 Merge branch 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 TSX Async Abort and iTLB Multihit mitigations from Thomas Gleixner:
 "The performance deterioration departement is not proud at all of
  presenting the seventh installment of speculation mitigations and
  hardware misfeature workarounds:

   1) TSX Async Abort (TAA) - 'The Annoying Affair'

      TAA is a hardware vulnerability that allows unprivileged
      speculative access to data which is available in various CPU
      internal buffers by using asynchronous aborts within an Intel TSX
      transactional region.

      The mitigation depends on a microcode update providing a new MSR
      which allows to disable TSX in the CPU. CPUs which have no
      microcode update can be mitigated by disabling TSX in the BIOS if
      the BIOS provides a tunable.

      Newer CPUs will have a bit set which indicates that the CPU is not
      vulnerable, but the MSR to disable TSX will be available
      nevertheless as it is an architected MSR. That means the kernel
      provides the ability to disable TSX on the kernel command line,
      which is useful as TSX is a truly useful mechanism to accelerate
      side channel attacks of all sorts.

   2) iITLB Multihit (NX) - 'No eXcuses'

      iTLB Multihit is an erratum where some Intel processors may incur
      a machine check error, possibly resulting in an unrecoverable CPU
      lockup, when an instruction fetch hits multiple entries in the
      instruction TLB. This can occur when the page size is changed
      along with either the physical address or cache type. A malicious
      guest running on a virtualized system can exploit this erratum to
      perform a denial of service attack.

      The workaround is that KVM marks huge pages in the extended page
      tables as not executable (NX). If the guest attempts to execute in
      such a page, the page is broken down into 4k pages which are
      marked executable. The workaround comes with a mechanism to
      recover these shattered huge pages over time.

  Both issues come with full documentation in the hardware
  vulnerabilities section of the Linux kernel user's and administrator's
  guide.

  Thanks to all patch authors and reviewers who had the extraordinary
  priviledge to be exposed to this nuisance.

  Special thanks to Borislav Petkov for polishing the final TAA patch
  set and to Paolo Bonzini for shepherding the KVM iTLB workarounds and
  providing also the backports to stable kernels for those!"

* 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/speculation/taa: Fix printing of TAA_MSG_SMT on IBRS_ALL CPUs
  Documentation: Add ITLB_MULTIHIT documentation
  kvm: x86: mmu: Recovery of shattered NX large pages
  kvm: Add helper function for creating VM worker threads
  kvm: mmu: ITLB_MULTIHIT mitigation
  cpu/speculation: Uninline and export CPU mitigations helpers
  x86/cpu: Add Tremont to the cpu vulnerability whitelist
  x86/bugs: Add ITLB_MULTIHIT bug infrastructure
  x86/tsx: Add config options to set tsx=on|off|auto
  x86/speculation/taa: Add documentation for TSX Async Abort
  x86/tsx: Add "auto" option to the tsx= cmdline parameter
  kvm/x86: Export MDS_NO=0 to guests when TSX is enabled
  x86/speculation/taa: Add sysfs reporting for TSX Async Abort
  x86/speculation/taa: Add mitigation for TSX Async Abort
  x86/cpu: Add a "tsx=" cmdline option with TSX disabled by default
  x86/cpu: Add a helper function x86_read_arch_cap_msr()
  x86/msr: Add the IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR
2019-11-12 10:53:24 -08:00
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ABI x86/bugs: Add ITLB_MULTIHIT bug infrastructure 2019-11-04 12:22:01 +01:00
EDID docs: driver-api: add a series of orphaned documents 2019-07-15 11:03:02 -03:00
PCI Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2019-08-27 14:23:31 -07:00
RCU Merge branches 'consolidate.2019.08.01b', 'fixes.2019.08.12a', 'lists.2019.08.13a' and 'torture.2019.08.01b' into HEAD 2019-08-13 14:30:30 -07:00
accounting docs: add some documentation dirs to the driver-api book 2019-07-15 11:03:02 -03:00
admin-guide Documentation: Add ITLB_MULTIHIT documentation 2019-11-04 20:26:00 +01:00
arm Documentation/arm/samsung-s3c24xx: Remove stray U+FEFF character to fix title 2019-08-12 15:25:32 -06:00
arm64 arm64: apply ARM64_ERRATUM_843419 workaround for Brahma-B53 core 2019-11-01 10:47:37 +00:00
block docs: block: null_blk: enhance document style 2019-09-11 16:04:22 -06:00
bpf bpf/flow_dissector: document flags 2019-07-25 18:00:41 -07:00
cdrom docs: add some directories to the main documentation index 2019-07-15 11:03:03 -03:00
core-api Modules fixes for v5.4-rc3 2019-10-11 10:19:24 -07:00
cpu-freq Documentation: cpufreq: Update policy notifier documentation 2019-09-02 22:44:05 +02:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2019-09-18 12:11:14 -07:00
dev-tools mm, page_owner: decouple freeing stack trace from debug_pagealloc 2019-10-14 15:04:00 -07:00
devicetree ARM: SoC fixes 2019-10-25 16:00:47 -04:00
doc-guide docs: remove extra conf.py files 2019-07-17 06:57:52 -03:00
driver-api This is the bulk of pin control changes for the v5.4 kernel 2019-09-19 14:19:33 -07:00
fault-injection docs: add some directories to the main documentation index 2019-07-15 11:03:03 -03:00
fb docs conversion for v5.3-rc1 2019-07-16 12:21:41 -07:00
features It's a somewhat calmer cycle for docs this time, as the churn of the mass 2019-09-17 16:22:26 -07:00
filesystems add virtio-fs 2019-09-27 15:54:24 -07:00
firmware-guide Documentation: ACPI: DSD: Convert LED documentation to ReST 2019-08-20 23:53:46 +02:00
firmware_class
fpga Documentation: fpga: dfl: add descriptions for virtualization and new interfaces. 2019-09-03 19:35:42 -07:00
gpu Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-next-queued 2019-08-22 00:10:36 -07:00
hid docs: add some documentation dirs to the driver-api book 2019-07-15 11:03:02 -03:00
hwmon hwmon: docs: Extend inspur-ipsps1 title underline 2019-10-07 05:56:57 -07:00
i2c docs: i2c: convert to ReST and add to driver-api bookset 2019-07-31 13:25:27 -06:00
ia64 docs: add SPDX tags to new index files 2019-07-15 11:03:03 -03:00
ide docs: add some directories to the main documentation index 2019-07-15 11:03:03 -03:00
iio docs: add some documentation dirs to the driver-api book 2019-07-15 11:03:02 -03:00
infiniband Documentation/infiniband: update name of some functions 2019-09-13 16:55:55 -03:00
input Input: docs: fix spelling mistake "potocol" -> "protocol" 2019-08-06 11:24:49 -06:00
ioctl fs-verity: add UAPI header 2019-07-28 16:59:16 -07:00
isdn docs: isdn: convert to ReST and add to kAPI bookset 2019-07-31 13:30:25 -06:00
kbuild Modules fixes for v5.4-rc3 2019-10-11 10:19:24 -07:00
kernel-hacking docs: Add documentation for Symbol Namespaces 2019-09-10 10:30:49 +02:00
leds leds: core: Add support for composing LED class device names 2019-07-25 20:07:52 +02:00
livepatch docs: add some directories to the main documentation index 2019-07-15 11:03:03 -03:00
locking doc🔒 remove reference to clever use of read-write lock 2019-09-14 01:53:27 -06:00
m68k docs: README.buddha: convert to ReST and add to m68k book 2019-07-31 13:30:10 -06:00
maintainer docs: Fix typo on pull requests guide 2019-08-12 15:14:14 -06:00
media drm main pull for 5.4-rc1 2019-09-19 16:24:24 -07:00
mic docs: driver-api: add remaining converted dirs to it 2019-07-15 11:03:03 -03:00
mips Main MIPS changes for v5.4: 2019-09-22 09:30:30 -07:00
misc-devices Docs: misc: xilinx_sdfec: Add documentation 2019-08-15 17:54:38 +02:00
netlabel docs: add some directories to the main documentation index 2019-07-15 11:03:03 -03:00
networking Documentation: TLS: Add missing counter description 2019-11-05 18:34:06 -08:00
nios2 docs: nios2: add it to the main Documentation body 2019-07-31 13:31:51 -06:00
openrisc docs: openrisc: convert to ReST and add to documentation body 2019-07-31 13:30:20 -06:00
parisc docs: parisc: convert to ReST and add to documentation body 2019-07-31 13:30:15 -06:00
pcmcia docs: add some directories to the main documentation index 2019-07-15 11:03:03 -03:00
power Merge branches 'pm-opp', 'pm-qos', 'acpi-pm', 'pm-domains' and 'pm-tools' 2019-09-17 09:49:19 +02:00
powerpc docs: powerpc: Add missing documentation reference 2019-09-17 23:59:34 +10:00
process Documentation/process: Add fallthrough pseudo-keyword 2019-10-11 09:26:05 -07:00
riscv It's a somewhat calmer cycle for docs this time, as the churn of the mass 2019-09-17 16:22:26 -07:00
s390 Documentation/s390: remove outdated debugging390 documentation 2019-08-21 12:41:43 +02:00
scheduler sched/fair: Fix low cpu usage with high throttling by removing expiration of cpu-local slices 2019-08-08 09:09:30 +02:00
scsi scsi: ufs: Documentation: Announce ufs-tool v1.0 2019-06-26 22:47:51 -04:00
security Merge branch 'next-integrity' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/zohar/linux-integrity 2019-09-27 19:37:27 -07:00
sh docs: remove extra conf.py files 2019-07-17 06:57:52 -03:00
sound sound updates for 5.4 2019-09-17 17:43:33 -07:00
sparc docs: add arch doc directories to the index 2019-07-15 11:03:01 -03:00
sphinx Documentation: sphinx: Don't parse socket() as identifier reference 2019-08-12 14:55:30 -06:00
sphinx-static
spi spi: docs: convert to ReST and add it to the kABI bookset 2019-07-31 14:13:13 -06:00
target docs: add some directories to the main documentation index 2019-07-15 11:03:03 -03:00
timers docs: add some directories to the main documentation index 2019-07-15 11:03:03 -03:00
trace Tracing updates: 2019-09-20 11:19:48 -07:00
translations doc: arm64: fix grammar dtb placed in no attributes region 2019-09-06 08:44:34 -06:00
usb USB: rio500: Remove Rio 500 kernel driver 2019-10-04 10:53:36 +02:00
userspace-api docs: remove extra conf.py files 2019-07-17 06:57:52 -03:00
virt KVM/Hyper-V: Add new KVM capability KVM_CAP_HYPERV_DIRECT_TLBFLUSH 2019-09-24 13:37:13 +02:00
virtual cpuidle: add haltpoll governor 2019-07-30 17:27:37 +02:00
vm mm: treewide: clarify pgtable_page_{ctor,dtor}() naming 2019-09-26 10:10:44 -07:00
w1 docs: w1: convert to ReST and add to the kAPI group of docs 2019-07-31 14:16:17 -06:00
watchdog linux-watchdog 5.4-rc1 tag 2019-09-27 11:17:38 -07:00
x86 x86/speculation/taa: Add documentation for TSX Async Abort 2019-10-28 08:37:00 +01:00
xtensa docs: add arch doc directories to the index 2019-07-15 11:03:01 -03:00
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COPYING-logo docs: logo.txt: rename it to COPYING-logo 2019-07-15 09:20:27 -03:00
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DMA-ISA-LPC.txt Documentation/DMA-ISA-LPC: fix an incorrect reference 2019-02-11 08:23:07 -07:00
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