user/sven/linux.git/Documentation, branch v4.9.183

tcp: add tcp_min_snd_mss sysctl

2019-06-17T17:53:33Z

commit 5f3e2bf008c2221478101ee72f5cb4654b9fc363 upstream. Some TCP peers announce a very small MSS option in their SYN and/or SYN/ACK messages. This forces the stack to send packets with a very high network/cpu overhead. Linux has enforced a minimal value of 48. Since this value includes the size of TCP options, and that the options can consume up to 40 bytes, this means that each segment can include only 8 bytes of payload. In some cases, it can be useful to increase the minimal value to a saner value. We still let the default to 48 (TCP_MIN_SND_MSS), for compatibility reasons. Note that TCP_MAXSEG socket option enforces a minimal value of (TCP_MIN_MSS). David Miller increased this minimal value in commit c39508d6f118 ("tcp: Make TCP_MAXSEG minimum more correct.") from 64 to 88. We might in the future merge TCP_MIN_SND_MSS and TCP_MIN_MSS. CVE-2019-11479 -- tcp mss hardcoded to 48 Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Suggested-by: Jonathan Looney Acked-by: Neal Cardwell Cc: Yuchung Cheng Cc: Tyler Hicks Cc: Bruce Curtis Cc: Jonathan Lemon Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

docs: Fix conf.py for Sphinx 2.0

2019-06-11T10:22:43Z

commit 3bc8088464712fdcb078eefb68837ccfcc413c88 upstream. Our version check in Documentation/conf.py never envisioned a world where Sphinx moved beyond 1.x. Now that the unthinkable has happened, fix our version check to handle higher version numbers correctly. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86/speculation/mds: Improve CPU buffer clear documentation

2019-05-21T16:48:56Z

commit 9d8d0294e78a164d407133dea05caf4b84247d6a upstream. On x86_64, all returns to usermode go through prepare_exit_to_usermode(), with the sole exception of do_nmi(). This even includes machine checks -- this was added several years ago to support MCE recovery. Update the documentation. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Jon Masters Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 04dcbdb80578 ("x86/speculation/mds: Clear CPU buffers on exit to user") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/999fa9e126ba6a48e9d214d2f18dbde5c62ac55c.1557865329.git.luto@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86/speculation/mds: Revert CPU buffer clear on double fault exit

2019-05-21T16:48:55Z

commit 88640e1dcd089879530a49a8d212d1814678dfe7 upstream. The double fault ESPFIX path doesn't return to user mode at all -- it returns back to the kernel by simulating a #GP fault. prepare_exit_to_usermode() will run on the way out of general_protection before running user code. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Jon Masters Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 04dcbdb80578 ("x86/speculation/mds: Clear CPU buffers on exit to user") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ac97612445c0a44ee10374f6ea79c222fe22a5c4.1557865329.git.luto@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86/speculation/mds: Fix documentation typo

2019-05-14T17:19:42Z

commit 95310e348a321b45fb746c176961d4da72344282 upstream. Fix a minor typo in the MDS documentation: "eanbled" -> "enabled". Reported-by: Jeff Bastian Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Documentation: Correct the possible MDS sysfs values

2019-05-14T17:19:42Z

commit ea01668f9f43021b28b3f4d5ffad50106a1e1301 upstream. Adjust the last two rows in the table that display possible values when MDS mitigation is enabled. They both were slightly innacurate. In addition, convert the table of possible values and their descriptions to a list-table. The simple table format uses the top border of equals signs to determine cell width which resulted in the first column being far too wide in comparison to the second column that contained the majority of the text. Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner [bwh: Backported to 4.9: adjust filename] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86/mds: Add MDSUM variant to the MDS documentation

2019-05-14T17:19:42Z

commit e672f8bf71c66253197e503f75c771dd28ada4a0 upstream. Updated the documentation for a new CVE-2019-11091 Microarchitectural Data Sampling Uncacheable Memory (MDSUM) which is a variant of Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS). MDS is a family of side channel attacks on internal buffers in Intel CPUs. MDSUM is a special case of MSBDS, MFBDS and MLPDS. An uncacheable load from memory that takes a fault or assist can leave data in a microarchitectural structure that may later be observed using one of the same methods used by MSBDS, MFBDS or MLPDS. There are no new code changes expected for MDSUM. The existing mitigation for MDS applies to MDSUM as well. Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: Tyler Hicks Reviewed-by: Jon Masters [bwh: Backported to 4.9: adjust filename] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86/speculation/mds: Add 'mitigations=' support for MDS

2019-05-14T17:19:42Z

commit 5c14068f87d04adc73ba3f41c2a303d3c3d1fa12 upstream. Add MDS to the new 'mitigations=' cmdline option. Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86/speculation: Support 'mitigations=' cmdline option

2019-05-14T17:19:41Z

commit d68be4c4d31295ff6ae34a8ddfaa4c1a8ff42812 upstream. Configure x86 runtime CPU speculation bug mitigations in accordance with the 'mitigations=' cmdline option. This affects Meltdown, Spectre v2, Speculative Store Bypass, and L1TF. The default behavior is unchanged. Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Tested-by: Jiri Kosina (on x86) Reviewed-by: Jiri Kosina Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: "H . Peter Anvin" Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Jiri Kosina Cc: Waiman Long Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Jon Masters Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Cc: Martin Schwidefsky Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Will Deacon Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Tyler Hicks Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Randy Dunlap Cc: Steven Price Cc: Phil Auld Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/6616d0ae169308516cfdf5216bedd169f8a8291b.1555085500.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com [bwh: Backported to 4.9: adjust filenames, context] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

cpu/speculation: Add 'mitigations=' cmdline option

2019-05-14T17:19:41Z

commit 98af8452945c55652de68536afdde3b520fec429 upstream. Keeping track of the number of mitigations for all the CPU speculation bugs has become overwhelming for many users. It's getting more and more complicated to decide which mitigations are needed for a given architecture. Complicating matters is the fact that each arch tends to have its own custom way to mitigate the same vulnerability. Most users fall into a few basic categories: a) they want all mitigations off; b) they want all reasonable mitigations on, with SMT enabled even if it's vulnerable; or c) they want all reasonable mitigations on, with SMT disabled if vulnerable. Define a set of curated, arch-independent options, each of which is an aggregation of existing options: - mitigations=off: Disable all mitigations. - mitigations=auto: [default] Enable all the default mitigations, but leave SMT enabled, even if it's vulnerable. - mitigations=auto,nosmt: Enable all the default mitigations, disabling SMT if needed by a mitigation. Currently, these options are placeholders which don't actually do anything. They will be fleshed out in upcoming patches. Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Tested-by: Jiri Kosina (on x86) Reviewed-by: Jiri Kosina Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: "H . Peter Anvin" Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Jiri Kosina Cc: Waiman Long Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Jon Masters Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Cc: Martin Schwidefsky Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Will Deacon Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Tyler Hicks Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Randy Dunlap Cc: Steven Price Cc: Phil Auld Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/b07a8ef9b7c5055c3a4637c87d07c296d5016fe0.1555085500.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com [bwh: Backported to 4.9: adjust filename] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman