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Xin Li (Intel) a737a81d52 x86/fred: Fix the FRED RSP0 MSR out of sync with its per-CPU cache 
commit de31b3cd70 upstream.

The FRED RSP0 MSR is only used for delivering events when running
userspace.  Linux leverages this property to reduce expensive MSR
writes and optimize context switches.  The kernel only writes the
MSR when about to run userspace *and* when the MSR has actually
changed since the last time userspace ran.

This optimization is implemented by maintaining a per-CPU cache of
FRED RSP0 and then checking that against the value for the top of
current task stack before running userspace.

However cpu_init_fred_exceptions() writes the MSR without updating
the per-CPU cache.  This means that the kernel might return to
userspace with MSR_IA32_FRED_RSP0==0 when it needed to point to the
top of current task stack.  This would induce a double fault (#DF),
which is bad.

A context switch after cpu_init_fred_exceptions() can paper over
the issue since it updates the cached value.  That evidently
happens most of the time explaining how this bug got through.

Fix the bug through resynchronizing the FRED RSP0 MSR with its
per-CPU cache in cpu_init_fred_exceptions().

Fixes: fe85ee3919 ("x86/entry: Set FRED RSP0 on return to userspace instead of context switch")
Signed-off-by: Xin Li (Intel) <xin@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc:stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250110174639.1250829-1-xin%40zytor.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
History 2025-01-23 17:23:03 +01:00
arch x86/fred: Fix the FRED RSP0 MSR out of sync with its per-CPU cache 2025-01-23 17:23:03 +01:00
block block, bfq: fix waker_bfqq UAF after bfq_split_bfqq() 2025-01-17 13:40:59 +01:00
certs sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2024-09-20 19:52:48 +03:00
crypto crypto: ecdsa - Avoid signed integer overflow on signature decoding 2024-12-14 20:03:36 +01:00
Documentation fs/writeback: convert wbc_account_cgroup_owner to take a folio 2025-01-17 13:40:33 +01:00
drivers irqchip/gic-v3-its: Don't enable interrupts in its_irq_set_vcpu_affinity() 2025-01-23 17:23:02 +01:00
fs fs/proc: fix softlockup in __read_vmcore (part 2) 2025-01-23 17:23:01 +01:00
include hrtimers: Handle CPU state correctly on hotplug 2025-01-23 17:23:03 +01:00
init Compiler Attributes: disable __counted_by for clang < 19.1.3 2024-12-05 14:02:45 +01:00
io_uring io_uring: don't touch sqd->thread off tw add 2025-01-17 13:40:59 +01:00
ipc ipc: fix memleak if msg_init_ns failed in create_ipc_ns 2024-12-05 14:03:02 +01:00
kernel timers/migration: Enforce group initialization visibility to tree walkers 2025-01-23 17:23:03 +01:00
lib maple_tree: reload mas before the second call for mas_empty_area 2025-01-09 13:33:50 +01:00
LICENSES LICENSES: add 0BSD license text 2024-09-01 20:43:24 -07:00
mm mm: vmscan : pgdemote vmstat is not getting updated when MGLRU is enabled. 2025-01-23 17:23:02 +01:00
net net/ncsi: fix locking in Get MAC Address handling 2025-01-23 17:23:00 +01:00
rust rust: kbuild: set bindgen's Rust target version 2024-12-19 18:13:22 +01:00
samples samples/bpf: Fix a resource leak 2024-12-14 20:03:46 +01:00
scripts scripts/sorttable: fix orc_sort_cmp() to maintain symmetry and transitivity 2025-01-09 13:33:50 +01:00
security selinux: ignore unknown extended permissions 2025-01-09 13:33:32 +01:00
sound ALSA: hda/realtek: fixup ASUS H7606W 2025-01-23 17:22:58 +01:00
tools selftests/mm: set allocated memory to non-zero content in cow test 2025-01-23 17:23:01 +01:00
usr initramfs: shorten cmd_initfs in usr/Makefile 2024-07-16 01:07:52 +09:00
virt KVM: x86: switch hugepage recovery thread to vhost_task 2024-12-05 14:02:43 +01:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with v6.11-rc1's for_each macro list 2024-08-02 13:20:31 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.editorconfig .editorconfig: remove trim_trailing_whitespace option 2024-06-13 16:47:52 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add Jeff Kirsher to .get_maintainer.ignore 2024-03-08 11:36:54 +00:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore Kbuild updates for v6.12 2024-09-24 13:02:06 -07:00
.mailmap mailmap: add entry for Thorsten Blum 2024-11-07 14:14:59 -08:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Remove self from DSA entry 2024-11-03 12:52:38 -08:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: update location of media main tree 2024-12-05 14:02:42 +01:00
Makefile Linux 6.12.10 2025-01-17 13:41:00 +01:00
README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -06:00

README 

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

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.

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.