kernel/arch/x86/include/asm/pti.h, branch linux-5.14.y

x86: Use the correct SPDX License Identifier in headers

2019-10-01T18:31:35Z

Correct the SPDX License Identifier format in a couple of headers. Suggested-by: Joe Perches Signed-off-by: Nishad Kamdar Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Sean Christopherson Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Uwe Kleine-König Cc: Waiman Long Cc: x86-ml Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/697848ff866ade29e78e872525d7a3067642fd37.1555427420.git.nishadkamdar@gmail.com

x86/mm/pti: Introduce pti_finalize()

2018-07-19T23:11:45Z

Introduce a new function to finalize the kernel mappings for the userspace page-table after all ro/nx protections have been applied to the kernel mappings. Also move the call to pti_clone_kernel_text() to that function so that it will run on 32 bit kernels too. Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Tested-by: Pavel Machek Cc: "H . Peter Anvin" Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Josh Poimboeuf Cc: Juergen Gross Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Jiri Kosina Cc: Boris Ostrovsky Cc: Brian Gerst Cc: David Laight Cc: Denys Vlasenko Cc: Eduardo Valentin Cc: Greg KH Cc: Will Deacon Cc: aliguori@amazon.com Cc: daniel.gruss@iaik.tugraz.at Cc: hughd@google.com Cc: keescook@google.com Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Waiman Long Cc: "David H . Gutteridge" Cc: joro@8bytes.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1531906876-13451-30-git-send-email-joro@8bytes.org

x86/pti: Leave kernel text global for !PCID

2018-04-12T07:06:00Z

Global pages are bad for hardening because they potentially let an exploit read the kernel image via a Meltdown-style attack which makes it easier to find gadgets. But, global pages are good for performance because they reduce TLB misses when making user/kernel transitions, especially when PCIDs are not available, such as on older hardware, or where a hypervisor has disabled them for some reason. This patch implements a basic, sane policy: If you have PCIDs, you only map a minimal amount of kernel text global. If you do not have PCIDs, you map all kernel text global. This policy effectively makes PCIDs something that not only adds performance but a little bit of hardening as well. I ran a simple "lseek" microbenchmark[1] to test the benefit on a modern Atom microserver. Most of the benefit comes from applying the series before this patch ("entry only"), but there is still a signifiant benefit from this patch. No Global Lines (baseline ): 6077741 lseeks/sec 88 Global Lines (entry only): 7528609 lseeks/sec (+23.9%) 94 Global Lines (this patch): 8433111 lseeks/sec (+38.8%) [1.] https://github.com/antonblanchard/will-it-scale/blob/master/tests/lseek1.c Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Dan Williams Cc: David Woodhouse Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Josh Poimboeuf Cc: Juergen Gross Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Nadav Amit Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180406205518.E3D989EB@viggo.jf.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

x86/mm/pti: Add infrastructure for page table isolation

2017-12-23T20:12:59Z

Add the initial files for kernel page table isolation, with a minimal init function and the boot time detection for this misfeature. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Boris Ostrovsky Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Brian Gerst Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: David Laight Cc: Denys Vlasenko Cc: Eduardo Valentin Cc: Greg KH Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Josh Poimboeuf Cc: Juergen Gross Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Will Deacon Cc: aliguori@amazon.com Cc: daniel.gruss@iaik.tugraz.at Cc: hughd@google.com Cc: keescook@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar