- 14 Feb, 2013 7 commits
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Matt Fleming authored
commit e0094244 upstream. It has been reported that running this driver on some Samsung laptops with EFI can cause those machines to become bricked as detailed in the following report, https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-cdimage/+bug/1040557 There have also been reports of this driver causing Machine Check Exceptions on recent EFI-enabled Samsung laptops, https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47121 So disable it if booting from EFI since this driver relies on grovelling around in the BIOS memory map which isn't going to work. Signed-off-by:
Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com> Cc: Corentin Chary <corentincj@iksaif.net> Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> Cc: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com> Cc: Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@canonical.com> Signed-off-by:
H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by:
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Matt Fleming authored
commit 83e68189 upstream. Originally 'efi_enabled' indicated whether a kernel was booted from EFI firmware. Over time its semantics have changed, and it now indicates whether or not we are booted on an EFI machine with bit-native firmware, e.g. 64-bit kernel with 64-bit firmware. The immediate motivation for this patch is the bug report at, https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-cdimage/+bug/1040557 which details how running a platform driver on an EFI machine that is designed to run under BIOS can cause the machine to become bricked. Also, the following report, https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47121 details how running said driver can also cause Machine Check Exceptions. Drivers need a new means of detecting whether they're running on an EFI machine, as sadly the expression, if (!efi_enabled) hasn't been a sufficient condition for quite some time. Users actually want to query 'efi_enabled' for different reasons - what they really want access to is the list of available EFI facilities. For instance, the x86 reboot code needs to know whether it can invoke the ResetSystem() function provided by the EFI runtime services, while the ACPI OSL code wants to know whether the EFI config tables were mapped successfully. There are also checks in some of the platform driver code to simply see if they're running on an EFI machine (which would make it a bad idea to do BIOS-y things). This patch is a prereq for the samsung-laptop fix patch. Signed-off-by:
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Johan Hedberg authored
commit 8cf9fa12 upstream. The conn->smp_chan pointer can be NULL if SMP PDUs arrive at unexpected moments. To avoid NULL pointer dereferences the code should be checking for this and disconnect if an unexpected SMP PDU arrives. This patch fixes the issue by adding a check for conn->smp_chan for all other PDUs except pairing request and security request (which are are the first PDUs to come to initialize the SMP context). Signed-off-by:
Johan Hedberg <johan.hedberg@intel.com> Acked-by:
Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> Signed-off-by:
Gustavo Padovan <gustavo.padovan@collabora.co.uk> Signed-off-by:
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T Makphaibulchoke authored
commit 4965f566 upstream. Using a recursive call add a non-conflicting region in __reserve_region_with_split() could result in a stack overflow in the case that the recursive calls are too deep. Convert the recursive calls to an iterative loop to avoid the problem. Tested on a machine containing 135 regions. The kernel no longer panicked with stack overflow. Also tested with code arbitrarily adding regions with no conflict, embedding two consecutive conflicts and embedding two non-consecutive conflicts. Signed-off-by:
T Makphaibulchoke <tmac@hp.com> Reviewed-by:
Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@gmail.com> Cc: Wei Yang <weiyang@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Signed-off-by:
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Sjur Brændeland authored
commit aded024a upstream. Don't access uninitialized work-queue when removing device. The work queue is initialized only if the device multi-queue. So don't call cancel_work unless this is a multi-queue device. This fixes the following panic: Kernel panic - not syncing: BUG! Call Trace: 62031b28: [<6026085d>] panic+0x16b/0x2d3 62031b30: [<6004ef5e>] flush_work+0x0/0x1d7 62031b60: [<602606f2>] panic+0x0/0x2d3 62031b68: [<600333b0>] memcpy+0x0/0x140 62031b80: [<6002d58a>] unblock_signals+0x0/0x84 62031ba0: [<602609c5>] printk+0x0/0xa0 62031bd8: [<60264e51>] __mutex_unlock_slowpath+0x13d/0x148 62031c10: [<6004ef5e>] flush_work+0x0/0x1d7 62031c18: [<60050234>] try_to_grab_pending+0x0/0x17e 62031c38: [<6004e984>] get_work_gcwq+0x71/0x8f 62031c48: [<60050539>] __cancel_work_timer+0x5b/0x115 62031c78: [<628acc85>] unplug_port+0x0/0x191 [virtio_console] 62031c98: [<6005061c>] cancel_work_sync+0x12/0x14 62031ca8: [<628ace96>] virtcons_remove+0x80/0x15c [virtio_console] 62031ce8: [<628191de>] virtio_dev_remove+0x1e/0x7e [virtio] 62031d08: [<601cf242>] __device_release_driver+0x75/0xe4 62031d28: [<601cf2dd>] device_release_driver+0x2c/0x40 62031d48: [<601ce0dd>] driver_unbind+0x7d/0xc6 62031d88: [<601cd5d9>] drv_attr_store+0x27/0x29 62031d98: [<60115f61>] sysfs_write_file+0x100/0x14d 62031df8: [<600b737d>] vfs_write+0xcb/0x184 62031e08: [<600b58b8>] filp_close+0x88/0x94 62031e38: [<600b7686>] sys_write+0x59/0x88 62031e88: [<6001ced1>] handle_syscall+0x5d/0x80 62031ea8: [<60030a74>] userspace+0x405/0x531 62031f08: [<600d32cc>] sys_dup+0x0/0x5e 62031f28: [<601b11d6>] strcpy+0x0/0x18 62031f38: [<600be46c>] do_execve+0x10/0x12 62031f48: [<600184c7>] run_init_process+0x43/0x45 62031fd8: [<60019a91>] new_thread_handler+0xba/0xbc Signed-off-by:
Sjur Brændeland <sjur.brandeland@stericsson.com> Signed-off-by:
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by:
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Larry Finger authored
commit a5ffbe0a upstream. Kernel commits 41affd52 and 6539306b changed the locking in rtl_lps_leave() from a spinlock to a mutex by doing the calls indirectly from a work queue to reduce the time that interrupts were disabled. This change was fine for most systems; however a scheduling while atomic bug was reported in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=903881. The backtrace indicates that routine rtl_is_special(), which calls rtl_lps_leave() in three places was entered in atomic context. These direct calls are replaced by putting a request on the appropriate work queue. Signed-off-by:
Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Reported-and-tested-by:
Nathaniel Doherty <ntdoherty@gmail.com> Cc: Nathaniel Doherty <ntdoherty@gmail.com> Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by:
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Larry Finger authored
commit 0a06ad8e upstream. In routine _rtl_rx_pre_process(), skb_dequeue() is called to get an skb; however, the wrong variable name is used in subsequent calls. Reported-by:
Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Signed-off-by:
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- 11 Feb, 2013 27 commits
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Greg Kroah-Hartman authored
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David Moore authored
commit 58b2939b upstream. When the xHCI driver is not available, actively switch the ports to EHCI mode since some BIOSes leave them in xHCI mode where they would otherwise appear dead. This was discovered on a Dell Optiplex 7010, but it's possible other systems could be affected. This should be backported to kernels as old as 3.0, that contain the commit 69e848c2 "Intel xhci: Support EHCI/xHCI port switching." Signed-off-by:
David Moore <david.moore@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by:
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Alan Stern authored
commit 48c3375c upstream. This patch (as1640) fixes a memory leak in xhci-hcd. The urb_priv data structure isn't always deallocated in the handle_tx_event() routine for non-control transfers. The patch adds a kfree() call so that all paths end up freeing the memory properly. This patch should be backported to kernels as old as 2.6.36, that contain the commit 8e51adcc "USB: xHCI: Introduce urb_priv structure" Signed-off-by:
Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by:
Martin Mokrejs <mmokrejs@fold.natur.cuni.cz> Signed-off-by:
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Sarah Sharp authored
commit f18f8ed2 upstream. To calculate the TD size for a particular TRB in an isoc TD, we need know the endpoint's max packet size. Isochronous endpoints also encode the number of additional service opportunities in their wMaxPacketSize field. The TD size calculation did not mask off those bits before using the field. This resulted in incorrect TD size information for isochronous TRBs when an URB frame buffer crossed a 64KB boundary. For example: - an isoc endpoint has 2 additional service opportunites and a max packet size of 1020 bytes - a frame transfer buffer contains 3060 bytes - one frame buffer crosses a 64KB boundary, and must be split into one 1276 byte TRB, and one 1784 byte TRB. The TD size is is the number of packets that remain to be transferred for a TD after processing all the max packet sized packets in the current TRB and all previous TRBs. For this TD, the number of packets to be transferred is (3060 / 1020), or 3. The first TRB contains 1276 bytes, which means it contains one full packet, and a 256 byte remainder. After processing all the max packet-sized packets in the first TRB, the host will have 2 packets left to transfer. The old code would calculate the TD size for the first TRB as: total packet count = DIV_ROUND_UP (TD length / endpoint wMaxPacketSize) total packet count - (first TRB length / endpoint wMaxPacketSize) The math should have been: total packet count = DIV_ROUND_UP (3060 / 1020) = 3 3 - (1276 / 1020) = 2 Since the old code didn't mask off the additional service interval bits from the wMaxPacketSize field, the math ended up as total packet count = DIV_ROUND_UP (3060 / 5116) = 1 1 - (1276 / 5116) = 1 Fix this by masking off the number of additional service opportunities in the wMaxPacketSize field. This patch should be backported to stable kernels as old as 3.0, that contain the commit 4da6e6f2 "xhci 1.0: Update TD size field format." It may not apply well to kernels older than 3.2 because of commit 29cc8897 "USB: use usb_endpoint_maxp() instead of le16_to_cpu()". Signed-off-by:
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Sarah Sharp authored
commit 760973d2 upstream. An isochronous TD is comprised of one isochronous TRB chained to zero or more normal TRBs. Only the isoc TRB has the TBC and TLBPC fields. The normal TRBs must set those fields to zeroes. The code was setting the TBC and TLBPC fields for both isoc and normal TRBs. Fix this. This should be backported to stable kernels as old as 3.0, that contain the commit b61d378f " xhci 1.0: Set transfer burst last packet count field." Signed-off-by:
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Nickolai Zeldovich authored
commit ba7b5c22 upstream. Fix incorrect bit test that originally showed up in 4ee823b8 "USB/xHCI: Support device-initiated USB 3.0 resume." Use '&' instead of '&&'. This should be backported to kernels as old as 3.4. Signed-off-by:
Nickolai Zeldovich <nickolai@csail.mit.edu> Signed-off-by:
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fangxiaozhi authored
commit 200e0d99 upstream. 1. Optimize the match rules with new macro for Huawei USB storage devices, to avoid to load USB storage driver for the modem interface with Huawei devices. 2. Add to support new switch command for new Huawei USB dongles. Signed-off-by:
fangxiaozhi <huananhu@huawei.com> Signed-off-by:
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fangxiaozhi authored
commit 07c7be3d upstream. 1. Define a new macro for USB storage match rules: matching with Vendor ID and interface descriptors. Signed-off-by:
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Lan Tianyu authored
commit 54a3ac0c upstream. Usb3.0 device defines function remote wakeup which is only for interface recipient rather than device recipient. This is different with usb2.0 device's remote wakeup feature which is defined for device recipient. According usb3.0 spec 9.4.5, the function remote wakeup can be modified by the SetFeature() requests using the FUNCTION_SUSPEND feature selector. This patch is to use correct way to disable usb3.0 device's function remote wakeup after suspend error and resuming. This should be backported to kernels as old as 3.4, that contain the commit 623bef9e "USB/xhci: Enable remote wakeup for USB3 devices." Signed-off-by:
Lan Tianyu <tianyu.lan@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
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Alan Stern authored
commit 3e619d04 upstream. This patch (as1654) fixes a very old bug in ehci-hcd, connected with scheduling of periodic split transfers. The calculations for full/low-speed bus usage are all carried out after the correction for bit-stuffing has been applied, but the values in the max_tt_usecs array assume it hasn't been. The array should allow for allocation of up to 90% of the bus capacity, which is 900 us, not 780 us. The symptom caused by this bug is that any isochronous transfer to a full-speed device with a maxpacket size larger than about 980 bytes is always rejected with a -ENOSPC error. Signed-off-by:
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Alan Stern authored
commit ee74290b upstream. This patch (as1652) fixes a long-standing bug in ehci-hcd. The driver relies on status polls to know when to stop port-resume signalling. It uses the root-hub status timer to schedule these status polls. But when the driver for the root hub is resumed, the timer is rescheduled to go off immediately -- before the port is ready. When this happens the timer does not get re-enabled, which prevents the port resume from finishing until some other event occurs. The symptom is that when a new device is plugged in, it doesn't get recognized or enumerated until lsusb is run or something else happens. The solution is to re-enable the root-hub status timer after every status poll while a port resume is in progress. This bug hasn't surfaced before now because we never used to try to suspend the root hub in the middle of a port resume (except by coincidence). Signed-off-by:
Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> Tested-by:
Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> Signed-off-by:
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Daniele Palmas authored
commit 78796ae1 upstream. Add VID and PID for Telit Gobi QDL device Signed-off-by:
Daniele Palmas <dnlplm@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Bjørn Mork authored
commit d4fa6815 upstream. New device with 3 serial interfaces: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 3 Cls=ff(vend) Sub=ff Prot=ff If#= 1 Alt= 0 #EPs= 2 Cls=ff(vend) Sub=ff Prot=ff If#= 2 Alt= 0 #EPs= 2 Cls=ff(vend) Sub=ff Prot=ff If#= 3 Alt= 0 #EPs= 2 Cls=08(stor) Sub=06 Prot=50 Signed-off-by:
Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no> Signed-off-by:
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Daniele Palmas authored
commit 03eb466f upstream. Add PID and special handling for Telit LE920 Signed-off-by:
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Sven Killig authored
commit c249f911 upstream. Add PID/VID entries for ELV WS 300 PC II weather station Signed-off-by:
Sven Killig <sven@killig.de> Signed-off-by:
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Petr Kubánek authored
commit 0ba3b2cc upstream. Add support for Zolix Omni 1509 monochromator custom USB-RS232 converter. Signed-off-by:
Petr Kubánek <petr@kubanek.net> Signed-off-by:
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Jan Luebbe authored
commit 72fca4a4 upstream. Previously the alarm event was not propagated into the RTC subsystem. By adding a call to rtc_update_irq, this fixes a timeout problem with the hwclock utility. Signed-off-by:
Jan Luebbe <jlu@pengutronix.de> Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Signed-off-by:
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Vyacheslav Dubeyko authored
commit a9bae189 upstream. There exists a situation when GC can work in background alone without any other filesystem activity during significant time. The nilfs_clean_segments() method calls nilfs_segctor_construct() that updates superblocks in the case of NILFS_SC_SUPER_ROOT and THE_NILFS_DISCONTINUED flags are set. But when GC is working alone the nilfs_clean_segments() is called with unset THE_NILFS_DISCONTINUED flag. As a result, the update of superblocks doesn't occurred all this time and in the case of SPOR superblocks keep very old values of last super root placement. SYMPTOMS: Trying to mount a NILFS2 volume after SPOR in such environment ends with very long mounting time (it can achieve about several hours in some cases). REPRODUCING PATH: 1. It needs to use external USB HDD, disable automount and doesn't make any additional filesystem activity on the NILFS2 volume. 2. Generate temporary file with size about 100 - 500 GB (for example, dd if=/dev/zero of=<file_name> bs=1073741824 count=200). The size of file defines duration of GC working. 3. Then it needs to delete file. 4. Start GC manually by means of command "nilfs-clean -p 0". When you start GC by means of such way then, at the end, superblocks is updated by once. So, for simulation of SPOR, it needs to wait sometime (15 - 40 minutes) and simply switch off USB HDD manually. 5. Switch on USB HDD again and try to mount NILFS2 volume. As a result, NILFS2 volume will mount during very long time. REPRODUCIBILITY: 100% FIX: This patch adds checking that superblocks need to update and set THE_NILFS_DISCONTINUED flag before nilfs_clean_segments() call. Reported-by:
Sergey Alexandrov <splavgm@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
Vyacheslav Dubeyko <slava@dubeyko.com> Tested-by:
Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp> Tested-by:
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Shawn Bohrer authored
commit aa7f6730 upstream. When the system has multiple domains do_sched_rt_period_timer() can run on any CPU and may iterate over all rt_rq in cpu_online_mask. This means when balance_runtime() is run for a given rt_rq that rt_rq may be in a different rd than the current processor. Thus if we use smp_processor_id() to get rd in do_balance_runtime() we may borrow runtime from a rt_rq that is not part of our rd. This changes do_balance_runtime to get the rd from the passed in rt_rq ensuring that we borrow runtime only from the correct rd for the given rt_rq. This fixes a BUG at kernel/sched/rt.c:687! in __disable_runtime when we try reclaim runtime lent to other rt_rq but runtime has been lent to a rt_rq in another rd. Signed-off-by:
Shawn Bohrer <sbohrer@rgmadvisors.com> Acked-by:
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Acked-by:
Mike Galbraith <bitbucket@online.de> Cc: peterz@infradead.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1358186131-29494-1-git-send-email-sbohrer@rgmadvisors.comSigned-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
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Jan Beulich authored
commit 40a1ef95 upstream. For some reason they didn't get replaced so far by their paravirt equivalents, resulting in code to be run with interrupts disabled that doesn't expect so (causing, in the observed case, a BUG_ON() to trigger) when syscall auditing is enabled. David (Cc-ed) came up with an identical fix, so likely this can be taken to count as an ack from him. Reported-by:
Peter Moody <pmoody@google.com> Signed-off-by:
Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5108E01902000078000BA9C5@nat28.tlf.novell.comSigned-off-by:
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liu chuansheng authored
commit f2d68cf4 upstream. When kzalloc() failed in radeon_user_framebuffer_create(), need to call object_unreference() to match the object_reference(). Signed-off-by:
liu chuansheng <chuansheng.liu@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
xueminsu <xuemin.su@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com> Signed-off-by:
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Alex Deucher authored
commit fd5d93a0 upstream. If the requested number of DWs on the ring is larger than the size of the ring itself, return an error. In testing with large VM updates, we've seen crashes when we try and allocate more space on the ring than the total size of the ring without checking. This prevents the crash but for large VM updates or bo moves of very large buffers, we will need to break the transaction down into multiple batches. I have patches to use IBs for the next kernel. Signed-off-by:
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Christopher Staite authored
commit bb588820 upstream. Force the crtc mem requests on/off immediately rather than waiting for the double buffered updates to kick in. Seems we miss the update in certain conditions. Also handle the DCE6 case. Signed-off-by:
Christopher Staite <chris@yourdreamnet.co.uk> Signed-off-by:
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Alex Deucher authored
commit 9200ee49 upstream. vbios says external TMDS while the board is actually internal TMDS. fixes: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60037Signed-off-by:
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Alex Deucher authored
commit 674a16f2 upstream. Newer versions of mesa emit this. Signed-off-by:
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Alex Deucher authored
commit ed39fadd upstream. Some chips seem to need a little delay after blacking out the MC before the requests actually stop. May fix: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56139 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57567Signed-off-by:
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YOSHIFUJI Hideaki authored
commit 7810cc1e upstream. digsig_verify_rsa() does not free kmalloc'ed buffer returned by mpi_get_buffer(). Signed-off-by:
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> Signed-off-by:
Dmitry Kasatkin <dmitry.kasatkin@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com> Signed-off-by:
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- 04 Feb, 2013 6 commits
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Greg Kroah-Hartman authored
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Nicholas Bellinger authored
This is to fix a regression that only affect the stable (not for the mainline) that the stable commit fdf9d862 was incorrectly placed dev->dev_link_magic check before the *dev assignment in target_fabric_port_link() due to fuzzy automatically context adjustment during the back-porting. Reported-by:
Chris Boot <bootc@bootc.net> Signed-off-by:
Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org> Signed-off-by:
CAI Qian <caiqian@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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H. Peter Anvin authored
commit e43b3cec upstream. early_pci_allowed() and read_pci_config_16() are only available if CONFIG_PCI is defined. Signed-off-by:
Abdallah Chatila <abdallah.chatila@ericsson.com>
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Matt Fleming authored
commit 712ba9e9 upstream. efi.runtime_version is erroneously being set to the value of the vendor's firmware revision instead of that of the implemented EFI specification. We can't deduce which EFI functions are available based on the revision of the vendor's firmware since the version scheme is likely to be unique to each vendor. What we really need to know is the revision of the implemented EFI specification, which is available in the EFI System Table header. Signed-off-by:
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Nathan Zimmer authored
commit b8f2c21d upstream. Update efi_call_phys_prelog to install an identity mapping of all available memory. This corrects a bug on very large systems with more then 512 GB in which bios would not be able to access addresses above not in the mapping. The result is a crash that looks much like this. BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 000000effd870020 IP: [<0000000078bce331>] 0x78bce330 PGD 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP Modules linked in: CPU 0 Pid: 0, comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G W 3.8.0-rc1-next-20121224-medusa_ntz+ #2 Intel Corp. Stoutland Platform RIP: 0010:[<0000000078bce331>] [<0000000078bce331>] 0x78bce330 RSP: 0000:ffffffff81601d28 EFLAGS: 00010006 RAX: 0000000078b80e18 RBX: 0000000000000004 RCX: 0000000000000004 RDX: 0000000078bcf958 RSI: 0000000000002400 RDI: 8000000000000000 RBP: 0000000078bcf760 R08: 000000effd870000 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 00000000000000c3 R12: 0000000000000030 R13: 000000effd870000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff88effd870000 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88effe400000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 000000effd870020 CR3: 000000000160c000 CR4: 00000000000006b0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Process swapper/0 (pid: 0, threadinfo ffffffff81600000, task ffffffff81614400) Stack: 0000000078b80d18 0000000000000004 0000000078bced7b ffff880078b81fff 0000000000000000 0000000000000082 0000000078bce3a8 0000000000002400 0000000060000202 0000000078b80da0 0000000078bce45d ffffffff8107cb5a Call Trace: [<ffffffff8107cb5a>] ? on_each_cpu+0x77/0x83 [<ffffffff8102f4eb>] ? change_page_attr_set_clr+0x32f/0x3ed [<ffffffff81035946>] ? efi_call4+0x46/0x80 [<ffffffff816c5abb>] ? efi_enter_virtual_mode+0x1f5/0x305 [<ffffffff816aeb24>] ? start_kernel+0x34a/0x3d2 [<ffffffff816ae5ed>] ? repair_env_string+0x60/0x60 [<ffffffff816ae2be>] ? x86_64_start_reservations+0xba/0xc1 [<ffffffff816ae120>] ? early_idt_handlers+0x120/0x120 [<ffffffff816ae419>] ? x86_64_start_kernel+0x154/0x163 Code: Bad RIP value. RIP [<0000000078bce331>] 0x78bce330 RSP <ffffffff81601d28> CR2: 000000effd870020 ---[ end trace ead828934fef5eab ]--- Signed-off-by:
Nathan Zimmer <nzimmer@sgi.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by:
Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> Signed-off-by:
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Alan Cox authored
commit c903f045 upstream. At the moment the MSR driver only relies upon file system checks. This means that anything as root with any capability set can write to MSRs. Historically that wasn't very interesting but on modern processors the MSRs are such that writing to them provides several ways to execute arbitary code in kernel space. Sample code and documentation on doing this is circulating and MSR attacks are used on Windows 64bit rootkits already. In the Linux case you still need to be able to open the device file so the impact is fairly limited and reduces the security of some capability and security model based systems down towards that of a generic "root owns the box" setup. Therefore they should require CAP_SYS_RAWIO to prevent an elevation of capabilities. The impact of this is fairly minimal on most setups because they don't have heavy use of capabilities. Those using SELinux, SMACK or AppArmor rules might want to consider if their rulesets on the MSR driver could be tighter. Signed-off-by:
Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by:
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