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Dan Williams 2bc19b518c x86/entry/64: Clear extra registers beyond syscall arguments, to reduce speculation attack surface 
commit 8e1eb3fa00 upstream.

At entry userspace may have (maliciously) populated the extra registers
outside the syscall calling convention with arbitrary values that could
be useful in a speculative execution (Spectre style) attack.

Clear these registers to minimize the kernel's attack surface.

Note, this only clears the extra registers and not the unused
registers for syscalls less than 6 arguments, since those registers are
likely to be clobbered well before their values could be put to use
under speculation.

Note, Linus found that the XOR instructions can be executed with
minimized cost if interleaved with the PUSH instructions, and Ingo's
analysis found that R10 and R11 should be included in the register
clearing beyond the typical 'extra' syscall calling convention
registers.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Reported-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/151787988577.7847.16733592218894189003.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
[ Made small improvements to the changelog and the code comments. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
History 2018-02-22 15:42:19 +01:00
arch x86/entry/64: Clear extra registers beyond syscall arguments, to reduce speculation attack surface 2018-02-22 15:42:19 +01:00
block blk-mq: quiesce queue before freeing queue 2018-02-16 20:23:09 +01:00
certs License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
crypto crypto: hash - prevent using keyed hashes without setting key 2018-02-16 20:23:00 +01:00
Documentation arm: spear13xx: Fix dmas cells 2018-02-22 15:42:18 +01:00
drivers drm/i915: add GT number to intel_device_info 2018-02-22 15:42:18 +01:00
firmware License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
fs ocfs2: try a blocking lock before return AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE 2018-02-22 15:42:16 +01:00
include x86/gpu: add CFL to early quirks 2018-02-22 15:42:18 +01:00
init bpf: introduce BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON config 2018-01-31 14:03:49 +01:00
ipc License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
kernel tracing: Prevent PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES when FORTIFY_SOURCE=y 2018-02-22 15:42:13 +01:00
lib swiotlb: suppress warning when __GFP_NOWARN is set 2018-02-22 15:42:15 +01:00
mm Revert "defer call to mem_cgroup_sk_alloc()" 2018-02-13 10:19:48 +01:00
net dccp: CVE-2017-8824: use-after-free in DCCP code 2018-02-16 20:22:45 +01:00
samples samples/bpf: adjust rlimit RLIMIT_MEMLOCK for xdp1 2017-12-20 10:10:31 +01:00
scripts kasan: rework Kconfig settings 2018-02-16 20:23:04 +01:00
security ima/policy: fix parsing of fsuuid 2018-02-03 17:38:53 +01:00
sound ASoC: skl: Fix kernel warning due to zero NHTL entry 2018-02-16 20:23:04 +01:00
tools kselftest: fix OOM in memory compaction test 2018-02-22 15:42:15 +01:00
usr initramfs: fix initramfs rebuilds w/ compression after disabling 2017-11-03 07:39:19 -07:00
virt KVM: arm/arm64: Handle CPU_PM_ENTER_FAILED 2018-02-16 20:23:03 +01:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add hch to .get_maintainer.ignore 2015-08-21 14:30:10 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore kbuild: rpm-pkg: keep spec file until make mrproper 2018-02-13 10:19:46 +01:00
.mailmap .mailmap: Add Maciej W. Rozycki's Imagination e-mail address 2017-11-10 12:16:15 -08:00
COPYING [PATCH] update FSF address in COPYING 2005-09-10 10:06:29 -07:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: update TPM driver infrastructure changes 2017-11-09 17:58:40 -08:00
Kbuild License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
Kconfig License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
MAINTAINERS Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2017-11-09 18:26:51 -08:00
Makefile Linux 4.14.20 2018-02-16 20:23:12 +01:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.