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x86/speculation/l1tf: Protect swap entries against L1TF
authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 13 Jun 2018 22:48:23 +0000 (15:48 -0700)
committerStefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
Wed, 8 Aug 2018 12:08:07 +0000 (14:08 +0200)
commitc12d983406f87c61e68088e30abb767a3cb91db9
treefd3911f53f2975b8bce6c0fd8ccf3506e4679ec7
parentfe88409545664fde543888e3424f998e55909559
x86/speculation/l1tf: Protect swap entries against L1TF

With L1 terminal fault the CPU speculates into unmapped PTEs, and resulting
side effects allow to read the memory the PTE is pointing too, if its
values are still in the L1 cache.

For swapped out pages Linux uses unmapped PTEs and stores a swap entry into
them.

To protect against L1TF it must be ensured that the swap entry is not
pointing to valid memory, which requires setting higher bits (between bit
36 and bit 45) that are inside the CPUs physical address space, but outside
any real memory.

To do this invert the offset to make sure the higher bits are always set,
as long as the swap file is not too big.

Note there is no workaround for 32bit !PAE, or on systems which have more
than MAX_PA/2 worth of memory. The later case is very unlikely to happen on
real systems.

[AK: updated description and minor tweaks by. Split out from the original
     patch ]

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
CVE-2018-3620
CVE-2018-3646

Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_64.h