x86/speculation/l1tf: Fix off-by-one error when warning that system has too much RAM
authorVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Thu, 23 Aug 2018 13:44:18 +0000 (15:44 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 5 Sep 2018 07:20:07 +0000 (09:20 +0200)
commit b0a182f875689647b014bc01d36b340217792852 upstream.

Two users have reported [1] that they have an "extremely unlikely" system
with more than MAX_PA/2 memory and L1TF mitigation is not effective. In
fact it's a CPU with 36bits phys limit (64GB) and 32GB memory, but due to
holes in the e820 map, the main region is almost 500MB over the 32GB limit:

[    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000100000000-0x000000081effffff] usable

Suggestions to use 'mem=32G' to enable the L1TF mitigation while losing the
500MB revealed, that there's an off-by-one error in the check in
l1tf_select_mitigation().

l1tf_pfn_limit() returns the last usable pfn (inclusive) and the range
check in the mitigation path does not take this into account.

Instead of amending the range check, make l1tf_pfn_limit() return the first
PFN which is over the limit which is less error prone. Adjust the other
users accordingly.

[1] https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1105536

Fixes: 17dbca119312 ("x86/speculation/l1tf: Add sysfs reporting for l1tf")
Reported-by: George Anchev <studio@anchev.net>
Reported-by: Christopher Snowhill <kode54@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180823134418.17008-1-vbabka@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
arch/x86/mm/init.c
arch/x86/mm/mmap.c

index c3d53af..8d9ea8a 100644 (file)
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ extern void cpu_detect(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c);
 
 static inline unsigned long long l1tf_pfn_limit(void)
 {
-       return BIT_ULL(boot_cpu_data.x86_phys_bits - 1 - PAGE_SHIFT) - 1;
+       return BIT_ULL(boot_cpu_data.x86_phys_bits - 1 - PAGE_SHIFT);
 }
 
 extern void early_cpu_init(void);
index 8c51000..90801a8 100644 (file)
@@ -792,7 +792,7 @@ unsigned long max_swapfile_size(void)
 
        if (boot_cpu_has_bug(X86_BUG_L1TF)) {
                /* Limit the swap file size to MAX_PA/2 for L1TF workaround */
-               unsigned long long l1tf_limit = l1tf_pfn_limit() + 1;
+               unsigned long long l1tf_limit = l1tf_pfn_limit();
                /*
                 * We encode swap offsets also with 3 bits below those for pfn
                 * which makes the usable limit higher.
index 5aad869..74609a9 100644 (file)
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ bool pfn_modify_allowed(unsigned long pfn, pgprot_t prot)
        /* If it's real memory always allow */
        if (pfn_valid(pfn))
                return true;
-       if (pfn > l1tf_pfn_limit() && !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
+       if (pfn >= l1tf_pfn_limit() && !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
                return false;
        return true;
 }