user/sven/linux.git/Documentation, branch v4.19.280

intel-ethernet: rename i40evf to iavf

2023-04-05T09:15:32Z

[ Upstream commit 8062b2263a9fc294ddeb4024b113e8e26b82d5de ] Rename the Intel Ethernet Adaptive Virtual Function driver (i40evf) to a new name (iavf) that is more consistent with the ongoing maintenance of the driver as the universal VF driver for multiple product lines. This first patch fixes up the directory names and the .ko name, intentionally ignoring the function names inside the driver for now. Basically this is the simplest patch that gets the rename done and will be followed by other patches that rename the internal functions. This patch also addresses a couple of string/name issues and updates the Copyright year. Also, made sure to add a MODULE_ALIAS to the old name. Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg Tested-by: Andrew Bowers Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher Stable-dep-of: 32d57f667f87 ("iavf: fix inverted Rx hash condition leading to disabled hash") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

Documentation/hw-vuln: Document the interaction between IBRS and STIBP

2023-03-11T15:31:51Z

commit e02b50ca442e88122e1302d4dbc1b71a4808c13f upstream. Explain why STIBP is needed with legacy IBRS as currently implemented (KERNEL_IBRS) and why STIBP is not needed when enhanced IBRS is enabled. Fixes: 7c693f54c873 ("x86/speculation: Add spectre_v2=ibrs option to support Kernel IBRS") Signed-off-by: KP Singh Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230227060541.1939092-2-kpsingh@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

docs/scripts/gdb: add necessary make scripts_gdb step

2023-03-11T15:31:47Z

[ Upstream commit 6b219431037bf98c9efd49716aea9b68440477a3 ] In order to debug the kernel successfully with gdb you need to run 'make scripts_gdb' nowadays. This was changed with the following commit: Commit 67274c083438340ad16c ("scripts/gdb: delay generation of gdb constants.py") In order to have a complete guide for beginners this remark should be added to the offial documentation. Signed-off-by: Jakob Koschel Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230112-documentation-gdb-v2-1-292785c43dc9@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

docs: Fix path paste-o for /sys/kernel/warn_count

2023-02-06T06:49:46Z

commit 00dd027f721e0458418f7750d8a5a664ed3e5994 upstream. Running "make htmldocs" shows that "/sys/kernel/oops_count" was duplicated. This should have been "warn_count": Warning: /sys/kernel/oops_count is defined 2 times: ./Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-warn_count:0 ./Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-oops_count:0 Fix the typo. Reported-by: kernel test robot Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-doc/202212110529.A3Qav8aR-lkp@intel.com Fixes: 8b05aa263361 ("panic: Expose "warn_count" to sysfs") Cc: linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

panic: Expose "warn_count" to sysfs

2023-02-06T06:49:46Z

commit 8b05aa26336113c4cea25f1c333ee8cd4fc212a6 upstream. Since Warn count is now tracked and is a fairly interesting signal, add the entry /sys/kernel/warn_count to expose it to userspace. Cc: Petr Mladek Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: tangmeng Cc: "Guilherme G. Piccoli" Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Cc: Tiezhu Yang Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221117234328.594699-6-keescook@chromium.org Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

panic: Introduce warn_limit

2023-02-06T06:49:46Z

commit 9fc9e278a5c0b708eeffaf47d6eb0c82aa74ed78 upstream. Like oops_limit, add warn_limit for limiting the number of warnings when panic_on_warn is not set. Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Baolin Wang Cc: "Jason A. Donenfeld" Cc: Eric Biggers Cc: Huang Ying Cc: Petr Mladek Cc: tangmeng Cc: "Guilherme G. Piccoli" Cc: Tiezhu Yang Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221117234328.594699-5-keescook@chromium.org Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

exit: Allow oops_limit to be disabled

2023-02-06T06:49:45Z

commit de92f65719cd672f4b48397540b9f9eff67eca40 upstream. In preparation for keeping oops_limit logic in sync with warn_limit, have oops_limit == 0 disable checking the Oops counter. Cc: Jann Horn Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Baolin Wang Cc: "Jason A. Donenfeld" Cc: Eric Biggers Cc: Huang Ying Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

exit: Expose "oops_count" to sysfs

2023-02-06T06:49:45Z

commit 9db89b41117024f80b38b15954017fb293133364 upstream. Since Oops count is now tracked and is a fairly interesting signal, add the entry /sys/kernel/oops_count to expose it to userspace. Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Jann Horn Cc: Arnd Bergmann Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221117234328.594699-3-keescook@chromium.org Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

exit: Put an upper limit on how often we can oops

2023-02-06T06:49:45Z

commit d4ccd54d28d3c8598e2354acc13e28c060961dbb upstream. Many Linux systems are configured to not panic on oops; but allowing an attacker to oops the system **really** often can make even bugs that look completely unexploitable exploitable (like NULL dereferences and such) if each crash elevates a refcount by one or a lock is taken in read mode, and this causes a counter to eventually overflow. The most interesting counters for this are 32 bits wide (like open-coded refcounts that don't use refcount_t). (The ldsem reader count on 32-bit platforms is just 16 bits, but probably nobody cares about 32-bit platforms that much nowadays.) So let's panic the system if the kernel is constantly oopsing. The speed of oopsing 2^32 times probably depends on several factors, like how long the stack trace is and which unwinder you're using; an empirically important one is whether your console is showing a graphical environment or a text console that oopses will be printed to. In a quick single-threaded benchmark, it looks like oopsing in a vfork() child with a very short stack trace only takes ~510 microseconds per run when a graphical console is active; but switching to a text console that oopses are printed to slows it down around 87x, to ~45 milliseconds per run. (Adding more threads makes this faster, but the actual oops printing happens under &die_lock on x86, so you can maybe speed this up by a factor of around 2 and then any further improvement gets eaten up by lock contention.) It looks like it would take around 8-12 days to overflow a 32-bit counter with repeated oopsing on a multi-core X86 system running a graphical environment; both me (in an X86 VM) and Seth (with a distro kernel on normal hardware in a standard configuration) got numbers in that ballpark. 12 days aren't *that* short on a desktop system, and you'd likely need much longer on a typical server system (assuming that people don't run graphical desktop environments on their servers), and this is a *very* noisy and violent approach to exploiting the kernel; and it also seems to take orders of magnitude longer on some machines, probably because stuff like EFI pstore will slow it down a ton if that's active. Signed-off-by: Jann Horn Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221107201317.324457-1-jannh@google.com Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221117234328.594699-2-keescook@chromium.org Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

docs: Fix the docs build with Sphinx 6.0

2023-01-18T10:30:51Z

commit 0283189e8f3d0917e2ac399688df85211f48447b upstream. Sphinx 6.0 removed the execfile_() function, which we use as part of the configuration process. They *did* warn us... Just open-code the functionality as is done in Sphinx itself. Tested (using SPHINX_CONF, since this code is only executed with an alternative config file) on various Sphinx versions from 2.5 through 6.0. Reported-by: Martin Liška Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman