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@zytor.com>
Reported-and-tested-by: Bastien Nocera <bugzilla@hadess.net>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1446739076-21303-1-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
They were generated by 'codespell' and then manually reviewed.
Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
Cc: trivial@kernel.org
LKML-Reference: <1300389856-1099-3-git-send-email-lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Adjust the paths for files that are including verify_cpu.S.
Reported-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
LKML-Reference: <1289931004-16066-1-git-send-email-kees.cook@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The XD_DISABLE-clearing side-effect needs to happen for both 32bit
and 64bit, but the 32bit init routines were not calling verify_cpu()
yet. This adds that call to gain the side-effect.
The longmode/SSE tests being performed in verify_cpu() need to happen very
early for 64bit but not for 32bit. Instead of including it in two places
for 32bit, we can just include it once in arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S.
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>
LKML-Reference: <1289414154-7829-4-git-send-email-kees.cook@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Intel CPUs have an additional MSR bit to indicate if the BIOS was
configured to disable the NX cpu feature. This bit was traditionally
used for operating systems that did not understand how to handle the
NX bit. Since Linux understands this, this BIOS flag should be ignored
by default.
In a review[1] of reported hardware being used by Ubuntu bug reporters,
almost 10% of systems had an incorrectly configured BIOS, leaving their
systems unable to use the NX features of their CPU.
This change will clear the MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE_XD_DISABLE bit so that NX
cannot be inappropriately controlled by the BIOS on Intel CPUs. If, under
very strange hardware configurations, NX actually needs to be disabled,
"noexec=off" can be used to restore the prior behavior.
[1] http://www.outflux.net/blog/archives/2010/02/18/data-mining-for-nx-bit/
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>
LKML-Reference: <1289414154-7829-3-git-send-email-kees.cook@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
The code is 32bit already, and can be used in 32bit routines.
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>
LKML-Reference: <1289414154-7829-2-git-send-email-kees.cook@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Borislav Petkov
Lucas De Marchi
Kees Cook