x86/mm/64: Stop using CR3.PCID == 0 in ASID-aware code
Putting the logical ASID into CR3's PCID bits directly means that we have two cases to consider separately: ASID == 0 and ASID != 0. This means that bugs that only hit in one of these cases trigger nondeterministically. There were some bugs like this in the past, and I think there's still one in current kernels. In particular, we have a number of ASID-unware code paths that save CR3, write some special value, and then restore CR3. This includes suspend/resume, hibernate, kexec, EFI, and maybe other things I've missed. This is currently dangerous: if ASID != 0, then this code sequence will leave garbage in the TLB tagged for ASID 0. We could potentially see corruption when switching back to ASID 0. In principle, an initialize_tlbstate_and_flush() call after these sequences would solve the problem, but EFI, at least, does not call this. (And it probably shouldn't -- initialize_tlbstate_and_flush() is rather expensive.) Signed-off-by:Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bpetkov@suse.de> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/cdc14bbe5d3c3ef2a562be09a6368ffe9bd947a6.1505663533.git.luto@kernel.org Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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