[PATCH 4.9 17/53] x86/tlb: Flush global mappings when KAISER is disabled

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-03-29T08:03:30Z

From: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>

Jim Mattson reported that Debian 9 guests using a 4.9-stable kernel
are exploding during alternatives patching:

kernel BUG at /build/linux-dqnRSc/linux-4.9.228/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c:709!
invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.9.0-13-amd64 #1 Debian 4.9.228-1
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011
Call Trace:
swap_entry_free
swap_entry_free
text_poke_bp
swap_entry_free
arch_jump_label_transform
set_debug_rodata
__jump_label_update
static_key_slow_inc
frontswap_register_ops
init_zswap
init_frontswap
do_one_initcall
set_debug_rodata
kernel_init_freeable
rest_init
kernel_init
ret_from_fork

triggering the BUG_ON in text_poke() which verifies whether patched
instruction bytes have actually landed at the destination.

Further debugging showed that the TLB flush before that check is
insufficient because there could be global mappings left in the TLB,
leading to a stale mapping getting used.

I say "global mappings" because the hardware configuration is a new one:
machine is an AMD, which means, KAISER/PTI doesn't need to be enabled
there, which also means there's no user/kernel pagetables split and
therefore the TLB can have global mappings.

And the configuration is new one for a second reason: because that AMD
machine supports PCID and INVPCID, which leads the CPU detection code to
set the synthetic X86_FEATURE_INVPCID_SINGLE flag.

Now, __native_flush_tlb_single() does invalidate global mappings when
X86_FEATURE_INVPCID_SINGLE is *not* set and returns.

When X86_FEATURE_INVPCID_SINGLE is set, however, it invalidates the
requested address from both PCIDs in the KAISER-enabled case. But if
KAISER is not enabled and the machine has global mappings in the TLB,
then those global mappings do not get invalidated, which would lead to
the above mismatch from using a stale TLB entry.

So make sure to flush those global mappings in the KAISER disabled case.

Co-debugged by Babu Moger <babu.moger@amd.com>.

Reported-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Babu Moger <babu.moger@amd.com>
Tested-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CALMp9eRDSW66%2BXvbHVF4ohL7XhThoPoT0BrB0TcS0cgk=dkcBg@mail.gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h | 11 +++++++----
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h
index f5ca15622dc9..2bfa4deb8cae 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h
@@ -245,12 +245,15 @@ static inline void __native_flush_tlb_single(unsigned long addr)
* ASID. But, userspace flushes are probably much more
* important performance-wise.
*
- * Make sure to do only a single invpcid when KAISER is
- * disabled and we have only a single ASID.
+ * In the KAISER disabled case, do an INVLPG to make sure
+ * the mapping is flushed in case it is a global one.
*/
- if (kaiser_enabled)
+ if (kaiser_enabled) {
invpcid_flush_one(X86_CR3_PCID_ASID_USER, addr);
- invpcid_flush_one(X86_CR3_PCID_ASID_KERN, addr);
+ invpcid_flush_one(X86_CR3_PCID_ASID_KERN, addr);
+ } else {
+ asm volatile("invlpg (%0)" ::"r" (addr) : "memory");
+ }
}

static inline void __flush_tlb_all(void)
--
2.30.1