linux/Documentation
Linus Torvalds 958f338e96 Merge branch 'l1tf-final' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Merge L1 Terminal Fault fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
 "L1TF, aka L1 Terminal Fault, is yet another speculative hardware
  engineering trainwreck. It's a hardware vulnerability which allows
  unprivileged speculative access to data which is available in the
  Level 1 Data Cache when the page table entry controlling the virtual
  address, which is used for the access, has the Present bit cleared or
  other reserved bits set.

  If an instruction accesses a virtual address for which the relevant
  page table entry (PTE) has the Present bit cleared or other reserved
  bits set, then speculative execution ignores the invalid PTE and loads
  the referenced data if it is present in the Level 1 Data Cache, as if
  the page referenced by the address bits in the PTE was still present
  and accessible.

  While this is a purely speculative mechanism and the instruction will
  raise a page fault when it is retired eventually, the pure act of
  loading the data and making it available to other speculative
  instructions opens up the opportunity for side channel attacks to
  unprivileged malicious code, similar to the Meltdown attack.

  While Meltdown breaks the user space to kernel space protection, L1TF
  allows to attack any physical memory address in the system and the
  attack works across all protection domains. It allows an attack of SGX
  and also works from inside virtual machines because the speculation
  bypasses the extended page table (EPT) protection mechanism.

  The assoicated CVEs are: CVE-2018-3615, CVE-2018-3620, CVE-2018-3646

  The mitigations provided by this pull request include:

   - Host side protection by inverting the upper address bits of a non
     present page table entry so the entry points to uncacheable memory.

   - Hypervisor protection by flushing L1 Data Cache on VMENTER.

   - SMT (HyperThreading) control knobs, which allow to 'turn off' SMT
     by offlining the sibling CPU threads. The knobs are available on
     the kernel command line and at runtime via sysfs

   - Control knobs for the hypervisor mitigation, related to L1D flush
     and SMT control. The knobs are available on the kernel command line
     and at runtime via sysfs

   - Extensive documentation about L1TF including various degrees of
     mitigations.

  Thanks to all people who have contributed to this in various ways -
  patches, review, testing, backporting - and the fruitful, sometimes
  heated, but at the end constructive discussions.

  There is work in progress to provide other forms of mitigations, which
  might be less horrible performance wise for a particular kind of
  workloads, but this is not yet ready for consumption due to their
  complexity and limitations"

* 'l1tf-final' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (75 commits)
  x86/microcode: Allow late microcode loading with SMT disabled
  tools headers: Synchronise x86 cpufeatures.h for L1TF additions
  x86/mm/kmmio: Make the tracer robust against L1TF
  x86/mm/pat: Make set_memory_np() L1TF safe
  x86/speculation/l1tf: Make pmd/pud_mknotpresent() invert
  x86/speculation/l1tf: Invert all not present mappings
  cpu/hotplug: Fix SMT supported evaluation
  KVM: VMX: Tell the nested hypervisor to skip L1D flush on vmentry
  x86/speculation: Use ARCH_CAPABILITIES to skip L1D flush on vmentry
  x86/speculation: Simplify sysfs report of VMX L1TF vulnerability
  Documentation/l1tf: Remove Yonah processors from not vulnerable list
  x86/KVM/VMX: Don't set l1tf_flush_l1d from vmx_handle_external_intr()
  x86/irq: Let interrupt handlers set kvm_cpu_l1tf_flush_l1d
  x86: Don't include linux/irq.h from asm/hardirq.h
  x86/KVM/VMX: Introduce per-host-cpu analogue of l1tf_flush_l1d
  x86/irq: Demote irq_cpustat_t::__softirq_pending to u16
  x86/KVM/VMX: Move the l1tf_flush_l1d test to vmx_l1d_flush()
  x86/KVM/VMX: Replace 'vmx_l1d_flush_always' with 'vmx_l1d_flush_cond'
  x86/KVM/VMX: Don't set l1tf_flush_l1d to true from vmx_l1d_flush()
  cpu/hotplug: detect SMT disabled by BIOS
  ...
2018-08-14 09:46:06 -07:00
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ABI x86/bugs, kvm: Introduce boot-time control of L1TF mitigations 2018-07-13 16:29:56 +02:00
accelerators ocxl: Document new OCXL IOCTLs 2018-06-03 20:40:33 +10:00
accounting
acpi ACPI / Documentation: update ACPI customize method feature docs 2018-06-06 08:48:00 +02:00
admin-guide Merge branch 'l1tf-final' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-08-14 09:46:06 -07:00
aoe
arm ARM: Device-tree updates 2018-06-11 17:57:38 -07:00
arm64 ARM: 2018-04-09 11:42:31 -07:00
auxdisplay Doc: misc-devices: move lcd-panel-cgram.txt to auxdisplay/ 2018-04-12 16:08:02 +02:00
backlight
block block: remov blk_queue_invalidate_tags 2018-06-15 08:13:35 -06:00
blockdev zram: introduce zram memory tracking 2018-06-07 17:34:34 -07:00
bpf bpf, doc: howto use/run the BPF selftests 2018-05-14 23:02:58 -07:00
bus-devices
cdrom Documentation/cdrom: fix German sharp s in LaTex 2018-03-08 19:35:29 -07:00
cgroup-v1 page cache: use xa_lock 2018-04-11 10:28:39 -07:00
cma
connector
console
core-api locking/atomics/Documentation: Describe atomic_set() as a write operation 2018-07-17 09:30:31 +02:00
cpu-freq cpufreq: Drop cpufreq_table_validate_and_show() 2018-04-10 08:40:45 +02:00
cpuidle cpuidle: Add definition of residency to sysfs documentation 2018-04-09 13:44:37 +02:00
crypto docs: crypto_engine.rst: Fix two parse warnings 2018-06-15 12:48:59 -03:00
dev-tools doc: dev-tools: kselftest.rst: update contributing new tests 2018-04-27 16:56:15 -06:00
device-mapper dm writecache: support optional offset for start of device 2018-07-02 16:14:02 -04:00
devicetree hwmon updates for v4.19-rc1 2018-08-13 19:53:26 -07:00
doc-guide MAINTAINERS & files: Canonize the e-mails I use at files 2018-05-04 06:21:06 -04:00
driver-api Move all the dma-mapping code to kernel/dma 2018-06-20 16:30:01 +09:00
driver-model serdev: Introduce devm_serdev_device_open() 2018-01-08 10:08:34 +00:00
early-userspace
EDID
extcon
fault-injection Documentation: nvme: Documentation for nvme fault injection 2018-03-26 08:53:43 -06:00
fb
features ARM: 8777/1: Hook up SYNC_CORE functionality for sys_membarrier() 2018-07-11 11:02:08 +01:00
filesystems Changes for 4.19: 2018-08-14 08:56:02 -07:00
firmware_class
fmc
gpio Documentation: gpio: Move drivers-on-gpio.txt to driver-api 2018-03-23 04:22:29 +01:00
gpu Merge remote-tracking branch 'drm/drm-next' into drm-misc-next 2018-05-11 18:08:10 +02:00
hid
hwmon hwmon: Add NPCM7xx PWM and Fan driver 2018-07-08 20:08:13 -07:00
i2c Merge branch 'i2c/for-4.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wsa/linux 2018-06-14 16:21:46 +09:00
ia64 ia64: doc: tweak whitespace for 'console=' parameter 2018-03-05 14:41:38 -08:00
ide
iio
infiniband Documentation/ABI: update infiniband sysfs interfaces 2018-02-23 08:18:33 -07:00
input Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input 2018-04-05 13:21:57 -07:00
ioctl SCSI misc on 20180610 2018-06-10 13:01:12 -07:00
isdn Documentation/isdn: check and fix dead links ... 2018-03-26 12:31:13 -04:00
kbuild kbuild: document the KBUILD_KCONFIG env. variable 2018-07-06 22:04:01 +09:00
kdump
kernel-hacking Documentation: Fix misconversion of #if 2018-01-17 16:45:01 -07:00
laptops platform/x86: thinkpad_acpi: silence HKEY 0x6032, 0x60f0, 0x6030 2018-05-07 15:10:31 +03:00
leds
lightnvm
livepatch livepatch: Remove not longer valid limitations from the documentation 2018-05-24 15:37:57 +02:00
locking Linux 4.16-rc2 2018-02-21 09:57:55 +01:00
m68k
maintainer docs: Fix more broken references 2018-06-15 18:11:26 -03:00
md raid5-ppl: PPL support for disks with write-back cache enabled 2018-01-15 14:29:42 -08:00
media media: cec: improve cec status documentation 2018-05-25 15:34:50 -04:00
memory-devices
mic
mips Documentation: mips: Update AU1xxx_IDE Kconfig dependencies 2018-02-01 12:45:35 -07:00
misc-devices Mostly small fixes and cleanups, plus a non-trivial fix for charlcd 2018-06-07 14:01:16 -07:00
mmc
mtd mtd: spi-nor: add an API to restore the status of SPI flash chip 2017-12-13 00:36:00 +01:00
namespaces
netlabel
networking Documentation: dpaa2: Use correct heading adornment 2018-08-01 09:45:57 -07:00
nfc
nios2
nvdimm
nvmem
openrisc
parisc
PCI PCI/AER: Handle ERR_FATAL with removal and re-enumeration of devices 2018-05-17 16:44:13 -05:00
pcmcia
perf drivers/bus: Move Arm CCN PMU driver 2018-03-06 17:26:15 +01:00
phy
platform
power firmware: Fix firmware documentation for recent file renames 2018-04-23 13:03:26 +02:00
powerpc
pps
process There's been a fair amount of work in the docs tree this time around, 2018-06-04 12:34:27 -07:00
pti
ptp ptp: Fix documentation to match code. 2018-03-26 12:13:21 -04:00
rapidio Documentation: rapidio: move sysfs interface to ABI 2018-02-23 08:25:45 -07:00
RCU rculist: Improve documentation for list_for_each_entry_from_rcu() 2018-07-12 15:39:25 -07:00
riscv perf: riscv: Add Document for Future Porting Guide 2018-06-04 14:02:11 -07:00
s390 vfio-ccw: update documentation 2018-03-01 17:32:14 +01:00
scheduler sched/deadline/Documentation: Add overrun signal and GRUB-PA documentation 2018-05-14 09:12:27 +02:00
scsi block: remove BLK_EH_HANDLED 2018-05-29 08:59:21 -06:00
security Kbuild: rename CC_STACKPROTECTOR[_STRONG] config variables 2018-06-14 12:21:18 +09:00
serial
sh
sound sound updates for 4.18 2018-06-06 09:08:38 -07:00
sparc sparc64: Add support for ADI (Application Data Integrity) 2018-03-18 07:38:48 -07:00
sphinx Documentation: rstFlatTable.py: fix a broken reference 2018-06-15 18:10:01 -03:00
sphinx-static
spi
sysctl Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2018-06-06 18:39:49 -07:00
target
thermal thermal: Add cooling device's statistics in sysfs 2018-04-02 21:49:01 +08:00
timers sched/isolation: Eliminate NO_HZ_FULL_ALL 2018-02-15 15:40:37 -08:00
trace tracing: Fix some errors in histogram documentation 2018-06-21 15:12:44 -04:00
translations locking/memory-barriers.txt/kokr: Update Korean translation to fix broken DMA vs. MMIO ordering example 2018-07-17 09:29:33 +02:00
usb doc: usb: Fix typo in gadget_configfs documentation 2018-06-18 12:41:00 +03:00
userspace-api audit/stable-4.18 PR 20180605 2018-06-06 16:34:00 -07:00
virtual KVM: s390: Add huge page enablement control 2018-07-30 23:13:38 +02:00
vm docs/vm: move ksm and transhuge from "user" to "internals" section. 2018-05-29 06:45:55 -06:00
w1 Documentation updates for 4.16. New stuff includes refcount_t 2018-01-31 19:25:25 -08:00
watchdog watchdog: remove bfin_wdt driver 2018-03-26 15:57:04 +02:00
wimax
x86 Merge branch 'x86-timers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-08-13 18:28:19 -07:00
xtensa xtensa: add support for KASAN 2017-12-16 22:37:12 -08:00
.gitignore
00-INDEX docs: admin-guide: add cgroup-v2 documentation 2018-05-10 15:42:41 -06:00
atomic_bitops.txt locking/atomic/bitops: Document and clarify ordering semantics for failed test_and_{}_bit() 2018-02-13 14:55:53 +01:00
atomic_t.txt
bt8xxgpio.txt
btmrvl.txt
bus-virt-phys-mapping.txt
Changes
clearing-warn-once.txt
CodingStyle
conf.py ext4: import inode data fork chapter from wiki page 2018-07-29 15:45:00 -04:00
cpu-load.txt
cputopology.txt
crc32.txt
dcdbas.txt
debugging-modules.txt
debugging-via-ohci1394.txt
dell_rbu.txt Documentation: remove stale firmware API reference 2018-05-14 16:44:41 +02:00
digsig.txt
DMA-API-HOWTO.txt
DMA-API.txt
DMA-attributes.txt
DMA-ISA-LPC.txt
docutils.conf
dontdiff
efi-stub.txt
eisa.txt
flexible-arrays.txt
futex-requeue-pi.txt
gcc-plugins.txt
highuid.txt
hw_random.txt
hwspinlock.txt
index.rst docs: fix up the obviously obsolete bits in the new ext4 documentation 2018-07-29 16:35:23 -04:00
intel_txt.txt
Intel-IOMMU.txt
io_ordering.txt
io-mapping.txt
iostats.txt
IPMI.txt
IRQ-affinity.txt
IRQ-domain.txt irqdomain: Kill CONFIG_IRQ_DOMAIN_DEBUG 2018-01-24 12:32:58 +01:00
IRQ.txt
irqflags-tracing.txt
isa.txt
isapnp.txt
kernel-per-CPU-kthreads.txt
kobject.txt
kprobes.txt kprobes/Documentation: Fix various typos 2018-06-22 11:10:55 +02:00
kref.txt
ldm.txt
lockup-watchdogs.txt
logo.gif
logo.txt
lsm.txt
lzo.txt
mailbox.txt
Makefile
memory-barriers.txt sched/Documentation: Update wake_up() & co. memory-barrier guarantees 2018-07-17 09:30:34 +02:00
memory-hotplug.txt
men-chameleon-bus.txt
nommu-mmap.txt
ntb.txt
numastat.txt
padata.txt
parport-lowlevel.txt
percpu-rw-semaphore.txt
phy.txt
pi-futex.txt
pnp.txt
preempt-locking.txt
pwm.txt
rbtree.txt
remoteproc.txt
rfkill.txt
robust-futex-ABI.txt
robust-futexes.txt
rpmsg.txt
rtc.txt Documentation: rtc: move iotcl interface documentation to ABI 2018-01-12 00:20:41 +01:00
SAK.txt
sgi-ioc4.txt
siphash.txt
SM501.txt
smsc_ece1099.txt
speculation.txt Documentation: Document array_index_nospec 2018-01-30 21:54:28 +01:00
static-keys.txt
SubmittingPatches
svga.txt
switchtec.txt
sync_file.txt
tee.txt
this_cpu_ops.txt
unaligned-memory-access.txt
vfio-mediated-device.txt vfio/mdev: Check globally for duplicate devices 2018-06-08 10:24:27 -06:00
vfio.txt vfio: fix documentation 2018-05-08 09:16:41 -06:00
video-output.txt
xillybus.txt
xz.txt
zorro.txt