[3.13.y-ckt stable] Patch "x86/cpu: Call verify_cpu() after having entered long mode too" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    x86/cpu: Call verify_cpu() after having entered long mode too

to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11-ckt31.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.13.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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From: Borislav Petkov <bp at suse.de>
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2015 16:57:56 +0100
Subject: x86/cpu: Call verify_cpu() after having entered long mode too

commit 04633df0c43d710e5f696b06539c100898678235 upstream.

When we get loaded by a 64-bit bootloader, kernel entry point is
startup_64 in head_64.S. We don't trust any and all bootloaders because
some will fiddle with CPU configuration so we go ahead and massage each
CPU into sanity again.

For example, some dell BIOSes have this XD disable feature which set
IA32_MISC_ENABLE[34] and disable NX. This might be some dumb workaround
for other OSes but Linux sure doesn't need it.

A similar thing is present in the Surface 3 firmware - see
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106051 - which sets this bit
only on the BSP:

  # rdmsr -a 0x1a0
  400850089
  850089
  850089
  850089

I know, right?!

There's not even an off switch in there.

So fix all those cases by sanitizing the 64-bit entry point too. For
that, make verify_cpu() callable in 64-bit mode also.

Requested-and-debugged-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com>
Reported-and-tested-by: Bastien Nocera <bugzilla at hadess.net>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp at suse.de>
Cc: Matt Fleming <matt at codeblueprint.co.uk>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz at infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1446739076-21303-1-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S    |  8 ++++++++
 arch/x86/kernel/verify_cpu.S | 12 +++++++-----
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S b/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S
index a2dc0ad..761fd69 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S
@@ -65,6 +65,9 @@ startup_64:
 	 * tables and then reload them.
 	 */

+	/* Sanitize CPU configuration */
+	call verify_cpu
+
 	/*
 	 * Compute the delta between the address I am compiled to run at and the
 	 * address I am actually running at.
@@ -174,6 +177,9 @@ ENTRY(secondary_startup_64)
 	 * after the boot processor executes this code.
 	 */

+	/* Sanitize CPU configuration */
+	call verify_cpu
+
 	movq	$(init_level4_pgt - __START_KERNEL_map), %rax
 1:

@@ -288,6 +294,8 @@ ENTRY(secondary_startup_64)
 	pushq	%rax		# target address in negative space
 	lretq

+#include "verify_cpu.S"
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
 /*
  * Boot CPU0 entry point. It's called from play_dead(). Everything has been set
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/verify_cpu.S b/arch/x86/kernel/verify_cpu.S
index b9242ba..4cf401f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/verify_cpu.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/verify_cpu.S
@@ -34,10 +34,11 @@
 #include <asm/msr-index.h>

 verify_cpu:
-	pushfl				# Save caller passed flags
-	pushl	$0			# Kill any dangerous flags
-	popfl
+	pushf				# Save caller passed flags
+	push	$0			# Kill any dangerous flags
+	popf

+#ifndef __x86_64__
 	pushfl				# standard way to check for cpuid
 	popl	%eax
 	movl	%eax,%ebx
@@ -48,6 +49,7 @@ verify_cpu:
 	popl	%eax
 	cmpl	%eax,%ebx
 	jz	verify_cpu_no_longmode	# cpu has no cpuid
+#endif

 	movl	$0x0,%eax		# See if cpuid 1 is implemented
 	cpuid
@@ -130,10 +132,10 @@ verify_cpu_sse_test:
 	jmp	verify_cpu_sse_test	# try again

 verify_cpu_no_longmode:
-	popfl				# Restore caller passed flags
+	popf				# Restore caller passed flags
 	movl $1,%eax
 	ret
 verify_cpu_sse_ok:
-	popfl				# Restore caller passed flags
+	popf				# Restore caller passed flags
 	xorl %eax, %eax
 	ret
--
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