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<title>drivers/base/cpu: crash data showing should depends on KEXEC_CORE</title>
<updated>2023-12-07T00:12:48Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Baoquan He</name>
<email>bhe@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2023-11-28T05:52:48Z</published>
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After commit 88a6f8994421 ("crash: memory and CPU hotplug sysfs
attributes"), on x86_64, if only below kernel configs related to kdump are
set, compiling error are triggered.

----
CONFIG_CRASH_CORE=y
CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE=y
CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP=y
CONFIG_CRASH_HOTPLUG=y
------

------------------------------------------------------
drivers/base/cpu.c: In function `crash_hotplug_show':
drivers/base/cpu.c:309:40: error: implicit declaration of function `crash_hotplug_cpu_support'; did you mean `crash_hotplug_show'? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
  309 |         return sysfs_emit(buf, "%d\n", crash_hotplug_cpu_support());
      |                                        ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
      |                                        crash_hotplug_show
cc1: some warnings being treated as errors
------------------------------------------------------

CONFIG_KEXEC is used to enable kexec_load interface, the
crash_notes/crash_notes_size/crash_hotplug showing depends on
CONFIG_KEXEC is incorrect. It should depend on KEXEC_CORE instead.

Fix it now.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231128055248.659808-1-bhe@redhat.com
Fixes: 88a6f8994421 ("crash: memory and CPU hotplug sysfs attributes")
Signed-off-by: Baoquan He &lt;bhe@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Ignat Korchagin &lt;ignat@cloudflare.com&gt;	[compile-time only]
Tested-by: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric DeVolder &lt;eric_devolder@yahoo.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'driver-core-6.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core</title>
<updated>2023-09-01T16:43:18Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-09-01T16:43:18Z</published>
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Pull driver core updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is a small set of driver core updates and additions for 6.6-rc1.

  Included in here are:

   - stable kernel documentation updates

   - class structure const work from Ivan on various subsystems

   - kernfs tweaks

   - driver core tests!

   - kobject sanity cleanups

   - kobject structure reordering to save space

   - driver core error code handling fixups

   - other minor driver core cleanups

  All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
  problems"

* tag 'driver-core-6.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (32 commits)
  driver core: Call in reversed order in device_platform_notify_remove()
  driver core: Return proper error code when dev_set_name() fails
  kobject: Remove redundant checks for whether ktype is NULL
  kobject: Add sanity check for kset-&gt;kobj.ktype in kset_register()
  drivers: base: test: Add missing MODULE_* macros to root device tests
  drivers: base: test: Add missing MODULE_* macros for platform devices tests
  drivers: base: Free devm resources when unregistering a device
  drivers: base: Add basic devm tests for platform devices
  drivers: base: Add basic devm tests for root devices
  kernfs: fix missing kernfs_iattr_rwsem locking
  docs: stable-kernel-rules: mention that regressions must be prevented
  docs: stable-kernel-rules: fine-tune various details
  docs: stable-kernel-rules: make the examples for option 1 a proper list
  docs: stable-kernel-rules: move text around to improve flow
  docs: stable-kernel-rules: improve structure by changing headlines
  base/node: Remove duplicated include
  kernfs: attach uuid for every kernfs and report it in fsid
  kernfs: add stub helper for kernfs_generic_poll()
  x86/resctrl: make pseudo_lock_class a static const structure
  x86/MSR: make msr_class a static const structure
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2023-08-28-22-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2023-08-29T21:53:51Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-29T21:53:51Z</published>
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Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - An extensive rework of kexec and crash Kconfig from Eric DeVolder
   ("refactor Kconfig to consolidate KEXEC and CRASH options")

 - kernel.h slimming work from Andy Shevchenko ("kernel.h: Split out a
   couple of macros to args.h")

 - gdb feature work from Kuan-Ying Lee ("Add GDB memory helper
   commands")

 - vsprintf inclusion rationalization from Andy Shevchenko
   ("lib/vsprintf: Rework header inclusions")

 - Switch the handling of kdump from a udev scheme to in-kernel
   handling, by Eric DeVolder ("crash: Kernel handling of CPU and memory
   hot un/plug")

 - Many singleton patches to various parts of the tree

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2023-08-28-22-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (81 commits)
  document while_each_thread(), change first_tid() to use for_each_thread()
  drivers/char/mem.c: shrink character device's devlist[] array
  x86/crash: optimize CPU changes
  crash: change crash_prepare_elf64_headers() to for_each_possible_cpu()
  crash: hotplug support for kexec_load()
  x86/crash: add x86 crash hotplug support
  crash: memory and CPU hotplug sysfs attributes
  kexec: exclude elfcorehdr from the segment digest
  crash: add generic infrastructure for crash hotplug support
  crash: move a few code bits to setup support of crash hotplug
  kstrtox: consistently use _tolower()
  kill do_each_thread()
  nilfs2: fix WARNING in mark_buffer_dirty due to discarded buffer reuse
  scripts/bloat-o-meter: count weak symbol sizes
  treewide: drop CONFIG_EMBEDDED
  lockdep: fix static memory detection even more
  lib/vsprintf: declare no_hash_pointers in sprintf.h
  lib/vsprintf: split out sprintf() and friends
  kernel/fork: stop playing lockless games for exe_file replacement
  adfs: delete unused "union adfs_dirtail" definition
  ...
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<entry>
<title>crash: memory and CPU hotplug sysfs attributes</title>
<updated>2023-08-24T23:25:14Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric DeVolder</name>
<email>eric.devolder@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-14T21:44:42Z</published>
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Introduce the crash_hotplug attribute for memory and CPUs for use by
userspace.  These attributes directly facilitate the udev rule for
managing userspace re-loading of the crash kernel upon hot un/plug
changes.

For memory, expose the crash_hotplug attribute to the
/sys/devices/system/memory directory.  For example:

 # udevadm info --attribute-walk /sys/devices/system/memory/memory81
  looking at device '/devices/system/memory/memory81':
    KERNEL=="memory81"
    SUBSYSTEM=="memory"
    DRIVER==""
    ATTR{online}=="1"
    ATTR{phys_device}=="0"
    ATTR{phys_index}=="00000051"
    ATTR{removable}=="1"
    ATTR{state}=="online"
    ATTR{valid_zones}=="Movable"

  looking at parent device '/devices/system/memory':
    KERNELS=="memory"
    SUBSYSTEMS==""
    DRIVERS==""
    ATTRS{auto_online_blocks}=="offline"
    ATTRS{block_size_bytes}=="8000000"
    ATTRS{crash_hotplug}=="1"

For CPUs, expose the crash_hotplug attribute to the
/sys/devices/system/cpu directory. For example:

 # udevadm info --attribute-walk /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0
  looking at device '/devices/system/cpu/cpu0':
    KERNEL=="cpu0"
    SUBSYSTEM=="cpu"
    DRIVER=="processor"
    ATTR{crash_notes}=="277c38600"
    ATTR{crash_notes_size}=="368"
    ATTR{online}=="1"

  looking at parent device '/devices/system/cpu':
    KERNELS=="cpu"
    SUBSYSTEMS==""
    DRIVERS==""
    ATTRS{crash_hotplug}=="1"
    ATTRS{isolated}==""
    ATTRS{kernel_max}=="8191"
    ATTRS{nohz_full}=="  (null)"
    ATTRS{offline}=="4-7"
    ATTRS{online}=="0-3"
    ATTRS{possible}=="0-7"
    ATTRS{present}=="0-3"

With these sysfs attributes in place, it is possible to efficiently
instruct the udev rule to skip crash kernel reloading for kernels
configured with crash hotplug support.

For example, the following is the proposed udev rule change for RHEL
system 98-kexec.rules (as the first lines of the rule file):

 # The kernel updates the crash elfcorehdr for CPU and memory changes
 SUBSYSTEM=="cpu", ATTRS{crash_hotplug}=="1", GOTO="kdump_reload_end"
 SUBSYSTEM=="memory", ATTRS{crash_hotplug}=="1", GOTO="kdump_reload_end"

When examined in the context of 98-kexec.rules, the above rules test if
crash_hotplug is set, and if so, the userspace initiated
unload-then-reload of the crash kernel is skipped.

CPU and memory checks are separated in accordance with CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
and CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG kernel config options.  If an architecture
supports, for example, memory hotplug but not CPU hotplug, then the
/sys/devices/system/memory/crash_hotplug attribute file is present, but
the /sys/devices/system/cpu/crash_hotplug attribute file will NOT be
present.  Thus the udev rule skips userspace processing of memory hot
un/plug events, but the udev rule will evaluate false for CPU events, thus
allowing userspace to process CPU hot un/plug events (ie the
unload-then-reload of the kdump capture kernel).

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230814214446.6659-5-eric.devolder@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Eric DeVolder &lt;eric.devolder@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sourabh Jain &lt;sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Hari Bathini &lt;hbathini@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Baoquan He &lt;bhe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Akhil Raj &lt;lf32.dev@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bhelgaas@google.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Young &lt;dyoung@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Mimi Zohar &lt;zohar@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Naveen N. Rao &lt;naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Oscar Salvador &lt;osalvador@suse.de&gt;
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rafael@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Cc: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Thomas Weißschuh &lt;linux@weissschuh.net&gt;
Cc: Valentin Schneider &lt;vschneid@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Vivek Goyal &lt;vgoyal@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>driver core: cpu: Fix the fallback cpu_show_gds() name</title>
<updated>2023-08-11T18:36:02Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov (AMD)</name>
<email>bp@alien8.de</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-11T09:32:09Z</published>
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In

  6524c798b727 ("driver core: cpu: Make cpu_show_not_affected() static")

I fat-fingered the name of cpu_show_gds(). Usually, I'd rebase but since
those are extraordinary embargoed times, the commit above was already
pulled into another tree so no no.

Therefore, fix it ontop.

Fixes: 6524c798b727 ("driver core: cpu: Make cpu_show_not_affected() static")
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230811095831.27513-1-bp@alien8.de
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<entry>
<title>driver core: cpu: Make cpu_show_not_affected() static</title>
<updated>2023-08-10T11:25:12Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov (AMD)</name>
<email>bp@alien8.de</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-10T11:22:29Z</published>
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Fix a -Wmissing-prototypes warning and add the gather_data_sampling()
stub macro call for real.

Fixes: 0fddfe338210 ("driver core: cpu: Unify redundant silly stubs")
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202308101956.oRj1ls7s-lkp@intel.com
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/202308101956.oRj1ls7s-lkp@intel.com
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<entry>
<title>driver core: cpu: Unify redundant silly stubs</title>
<updated>2023-08-10T09:03:04Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov (AMD)</name>
<email>bp@alien8.de</email>
</author>
<published>2023-07-29T15:20:33Z</published>
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Make them all a weak function, aliasing to a single function which
issues the "Not affected" string.

No functional changes.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Borisov &lt;nik.borisov@suse.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230809102700.29449-3-bp@alien8.de
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'gds-for-linus-2023-08-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2023-08-08T00:03:54Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-08T00:03:54Z</published>
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Pull x86/gds fixes from Dave Hansen:
 "Mitigate Gather Data Sampling issue:

   - Add Base GDS mitigation

   - Support GDS_NO under KVM

   - Fix a documentation typo"

* tag 'gds-for-linus-2023-08-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  Documentation/x86: Fix backwards on/off logic about YMM support
  KVM: Add GDS_NO support to KVM
  x86/speculation: Add Kconfig option for GDS
  x86/speculation: Add force option to GDS mitigation
  x86/speculation: Add Gather Data Sampling mitigation
</content>
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<title>driver/base/cpu: Retry online operation if -EBUSY</title>
<updated>2023-08-05T06:31:41Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Waiman Long</name>
<email>longman@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-07-24T14:38:26Z</published>
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Booting the kernel with "maxcpus=1" is a common technique for CPU
partitioning and isolation. It delays the CPU bringup process until
when the bootup scripts are ready to bring CPUs online by writing 1 to
/sys/device/system/cpu/cpu&lt;X&gt;/online. However, it was found that not
all the CPUs were online after bootup. The collection of offline CPUs
are different after every reboot.

Further investigation reveals that some "online" write operations
fail with an -EBUSY error. This error is returned when CPU hotplug is
temporiarly disabled when cpu_hotplug_disable() is called.

During bootup, the main caller of cpu_hotplug_disable() is
pci_call_probe() for PCI device initialization. By measuring the times
spent with cpu_hotplug_disabled set in a typical 2-socket server, most
of them last less than 10ms.  However, there are a few that can last
hundreds of ms. Note that the cpu_hotplug_disabled period of different
devices can overlap leading to longer cpu_hotplug_disabled hold time.

Since the CPU hotplug disable condition is transient and it is not
that easy to modify all the existing bootup scripts to handle this
condition, the kernel can help by retrying the online operation when
an -EBUSY error is returned. This patch retries the online operation
in cpu_subsys_online() when an -EBUSY error is returned for up to 5
times after an exponentially increasing delay that can last a total of
at least 620ms of waiting time by calling msleep().

With this patch in place, booting up the patched kernel with "maxcpus=1"
does not leave any CPU in an offline state in 10 reboot attempts.

Reported-by: Vishal Agrawal &lt;vagrawal@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long &lt;longman@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230724143826.3996163-1-longman@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/srso: Add a Speculative RAS Overflow mitigation</title>
<updated>2023-07-27T09:07:14Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov (AMD)</name>
<email>bp@alien8.de</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-28T09:02:39Z</published>
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Add a mitigation for the speculative return address stack overflow
vulnerability found on AMD processors.

The mitigation works by ensuring all RET instructions speculate to
a controlled location, similar to how speculation is controlled in the
retpoline sequence.  To accomplish this, the __x86_return_thunk forces
the CPU to mispredict every function return using a 'safe return'
sequence.

To ensure the safety of this mitigation, the kernel must ensure that the
safe return sequence is itself free from attacker interference.  In Zen3
and Zen4, this is accomplished by creating a BTB alias between the
untraining function srso_untrain_ret_alias() and the safe return
function srso_safe_ret_alias() which results in evicting a potentially
poisoned BTB entry and using that safe one for all function returns.

In older Zen1 and Zen2, this is accomplished using a reinterpretation
technique similar to Retbleed one: srso_untrain_ret() and
srso_safe_ret().

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
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