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authorMax Krummenacher <max.krummenacher@toradex.com>2020-09-27 13:50:08 +0200
committerMax Krummenacher <max.krummenacher@toradex.com>2020-09-27 13:50:08 +0200
commitf1442a59da02a0b5ef648925f2f274a3e64999cc (patch)
tree7d03cfca9b9f426a7af9bdd4a6a927a6a90b6a4e /Documentation
parenta54df82931ac98d6f01acc9107a38ce0258ff8f1 (diff)
parent38779362ed7ce5c24c9ac88c45afaf93116fc459 (diff)
Merge tag 'v4.4.237' into toradex_vf_4.4
This is the 4.4.237 stable release Signed-off-by: Max Krummenacher <max.krummenacher@toradex.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-iio3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu1
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/affs.txt16
-rw-r--r--Documentation/hw-vuln/special-register-buffer-data-sampling.rst149
-rw-r--r--Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt20
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/l2tp.txt8
6 files changed, 186 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-iio b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-iio
index 0439c2aaf741..f20c783cb5c0 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-iio
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-iio
@@ -1470,7 +1470,8 @@ What: /sys/bus/iio/devices/iio:deviceX/in_concentrationX_voc_raw
KernelVersion: 4.3
Contact: linux-iio@vger.kernel.org
Description:
- Raw (unscaled no offset etc.) percentage reading of a substance.
+ Raw (unscaled no offset etc.) reading of a substance. Units
+ after application of scale and offset are percents.
What: /sys/bus/iio/devices/iio:deviceX/in_resistance_raw
What: /sys/bus/iio/devices/iio:deviceX/in_resistanceX_raw
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu
index f97d1aaec1f9..e9f9ce0688bc 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu
@@ -279,6 +279,7 @@ What: /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities
/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spec_store_bypass
/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/l1tf
/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/mds
+ /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/srbds
/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/tsx_async_abort
/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/itlb_multihit
Date: January 2018
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/affs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/affs.txt
index 71b63c2b9841..a8f1a58e3692 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/affs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/affs.txt
@@ -93,13 +93,15 @@ The Amiga protection flags RWEDRWEDHSPARWED are handled as follows:
- R maps to r for user, group and others. On directories, R implies x.
- - If both W and D are allowed, w will be set.
+ - W maps to w.
- E maps to x.
- - H and P are always retained and ignored under Linux.
+ - D is ignored.
- - A is always reset when a file is written to.
+ - H, S and P are always retained and ignored under Linux.
+
+ - A is cleared when a file is written to.
User id and group id will be used unless set[gu]id are given as mount
options. Since most of the Amiga file systems are single user systems
@@ -111,11 +113,13 @@ Linux -> Amiga:
The Linux rwxrwxrwx file mode is handled as follows:
- - r permission will set R for user, group and others.
+ - r permission will allow R for user, group and others.
+
+ - w permission will allow W for user, group and others.
- - w permission will set W and D for user, group and others.
+ - x permission of the user will allow E for plain files.
- - x permission of the user will set E for plain files.
+ - D will be allowed for user, group and others.
- All other flags (suid, sgid, ...) are ignored and will
not be retained.
diff --git a/Documentation/hw-vuln/special-register-buffer-data-sampling.rst b/Documentation/hw-vuln/special-register-buffer-data-sampling.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..47b1b3afac99
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/hw-vuln/special-register-buffer-data-sampling.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,149 @@
+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+SRBDS - Special Register Buffer Data Sampling
+=============================================
+
+SRBDS is a hardware vulnerability that allows MDS :doc:`mds` techniques to
+infer values returned from special register accesses. Special register
+accesses are accesses to off core registers. According to Intel's evaluation,
+the special register reads that have a security expectation of privacy are
+RDRAND, RDSEED and SGX EGETKEY.
+
+When RDRAND, RDSEED and EGETKEY instructions are used, the data is moved
+to the core through the special register mechanism that is susceptible
+to MDS attacks.
+
+Affected processors
+--------------------
+Core models (desktop, mobile, Xeon-E3) that implement RDRAND and/or RDSEED may
+be affected.
+
+A processor is affected by SRBDS if its Family_Model and stepping is
+in the following list, with the exception of the listed processors
+exporting MDS_NO while Intel TSX is available yet not enabled. The
+latter class of processors are only affected when Intel TSX is enabled
+by software using TSX_CTRL_MSR otherwise they are not affected.
+
+ ============= ============ ========
+ common name Family_Model Stepping
+ ============= ============ ========
+ IvyBridge 06_3AH All
+
+ Haswell 06_3CH All
+ Haswell_L 06_45H All
+ Haswell_G 06_46H All
+
+ Broadwell_G 06_47H All
+ Broadwell 06_3DH All
+
+ Skylake_L 06_4EH All
+ Skylake 06_5EH All
+
+ Kabylake_L 06_8EH <= 0xC
+ Kabylake 06_9EH <= 0xD
+ ============= ============ ========
+
+Related CVEs
+------------
+
+The following CVE entry is related to this SRBDS issue:
+
+ ============== ===== =====================================
+ CVE-2020-0543 SRBDS Special Register Buffer Data Sampling
+ ============== ===== =====================================
+
+Attack scenarios
+----------------
+An unprivileged user can extract values returned from RDRAND and RDSEED
+executed on another core or sibling thread using MDS techniques.
+
+
+Mitigation mechanism
+-------------------
+Intel will release microcode updates that modify the RDRAND, RDSEED, and
+EGETKEY instructions to overwrite secret special register data in the shared
+staging buffer before the secret data can be accessed by another logical
+processor.
+
+During execution of the RDRAND, RDSEED, or EGETKEY instructions, off-core
+accesses from other logical processors will be delayed until the special
+register read is complete and the secret data in the shared staging buffer is
+overwritten.
+
+This has three effects on performance:
+
+#. RDRAND, RDSEED, or EGETKEY instructions have higher latency.
+
+#. Executing RDRAND at the same time on multiple logical processors will be
+ serialized, resulting in an overall reduction in the maximum RDRAND
+ bandwidth.
+
+#. Executing RDRAND, RDSEED or EGETKEY will delay memory accesses from other
+ logical processors that miss their core caches, with an impact similar to
+ legacy locked cache-line-split accesses.
+
+The microcode updates provide an opt-out mechanism (RNGDS_MITG_DIS) to disable
+the mitigation for RDRAND and RDSEED instructions executed outside of Intel
+Software Guard Extensions (Intel SGX) enclaves. On logical processors that
+disable the mitigation using this opt-out mechanism, RDRAND and RDSEED do not
+take longer to execute and do not impact performance of sibling logical
+processors memory accesses. The opt-out mechanism does not affect Intel SGX
+enclaves (including execution of RDRAND or RDSEED inside an enclave, as well
+as EGETKEY execution).
+
+IA32_MCU_OPT_CTRL MSR Definition
+--------------------------------
+Along with the mitigation for this issue, Intel added a new thread-scope
+IA32_MCU_OPT_CTRL MSR, (address 0x123). The presence of this MSR and
+RNGDS_MITG_DIS (bit 0) is enumerated by CPUID.(EAX=07H,ECX=0).EDX[SRBDS_CTRL =
+9]==1. This MSR is introduced through the microcode update.
+
+Setting IA32_MCU_OPT_CTRL[0] (RNGDS_MITG_DIS) to 1 for a logical processor
+disables the mitigation for RDRAND and RDSEED executed outside of an Intel SGX
+enclave on that logical processor. Opting out of the mitigation for a
+particular logical processor does not affect the RDRAND and RDSEED mitigations
+for other logical processors.
+
+Note that inside of an Intel SGX enclave, the mitigation is applied regardless
+of the value of RNGDS_MITG_DS.
+
+Mitigation control on the kernel command line
+---------------------------------------------
+The kernel command line allows control over the SRBDS mitigation at boot time
+with the option "srbds=". The option for this is:
+
+ ============= =============================================================
+ off This option disables SRBDS mitigation for RDRAND and RDSEED on
+ affected platforms.
+ ============= =============================================================
+
+SRBDS System Information
+-----------------------
+The Linux kernel provides vulnerability status information through sysfs. For
+SRBDS this can be accessed by the following sysfs file:
+/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/srbds
+
+The possible values contained in this file are:
+
+ ============================== =============================================
+ Not affected Processor not vulnerable
+ Vulnerable Processor vulnerable and mitigation disabled
+ Vulnerable: No microcode Processor vulnerable and microcode is missing
+ mitigation
+ Mitigation: Microcode Processor is vulnerable and mitigation is in
+ effect.
+ Mitigation: TSX disabled Processor is only vulnerable when TSX is
+ enabled while this system was booted with TSX
+ disabled.
+ Unknown: Dependent on
+ hypervisor status Running on virtual guest processor that is
+ affected but with no way to know if host
+ processor is mitigated or vulnerable.
+ ============================== =============================================
+
+SRBDS Default mitigation
+------------------------
+This new microcode serializes processor access during execution of RDRAND,
+RDSEED ensures that the shared buffer is overwritten before it is released for
+reuse. Use the "srbds=off" kernel command line to disable the mitigation for
+RDRAND and RDSEED.
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index da9acfb23383..b19d872feb56 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -3787,6 +3787,26 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
spia_pedr=
spia_peddr=
+ srbds= [X86,INTEL]
+ Control the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling
+ (SRBDS) mitigation.
+
+ Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an MDS-like
+ exploit which can leak bits from the random
+ number generator.
+
+ By default, this issue is mitigated by
+ microcode. However, the microcode fix can cause
+ the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become
+ much slower. Among other effects, this will
+ result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom.
+
+ The microcode mitigation can be disabled with
+ the following option:
+
+ off: Disable mitigation and remove
+ performance impact to RDRAND and RDSEED
+
stack_guard_gap= [MM]
override the default stack gap protection. The value
is in page units and it defines how many pages prior
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/l2tp.txt b/Documentation/networking/l2tp.txt
index 4650a00ed012..9bc271cdc9a8 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/l2tp.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/l2tp.txt
@@ -177,10 +177,10 @@ setsockopt on the PPPoX socket to set a debug mask.
The following debug mask bits are available:
-PPPOL2TP_MSG_DEBUG verbose debug (if compiled in)
-PPPOL2TP_MSG_CONTROL userspace - kernel interface
-PPPOL2TP_MSG_SEQ sequence numbers handling
-PPPOL2TP_MSG_DATA data packets
+L2TP_MSG_DEBUG verbose debug (if compiled in)
+L2TP_MSG_CONTROL userspace - kernel interface
+L2TP_MSG_SEQ sequence numbers handling
+L2TP_MSG_DATA data packets
If enabled, files under a l2tp debugfs directory can be used to dump
kernel state about L2TP tunnels and sessions. To access it, the