Commit 229b969b authored by Andy Lutomirski's avatar Andy Lutomirski Committed by Thomas Gleixner

x86/apic: Initialize TPR to block interrupts 16-31

The APIC, per spec, is fundamentally confused and thinks that interrupt
vectors 16-31 are valid.  This makes no sense -- the CPU reserves vectors
0-31 for exceptions (faults, traps, etc).  Obviously, no device should
actually produce an interrupt with vector 16-31, but robustness can be
improved by setting the APIC TPR class to 1, which will prevent delivery of
an interrupt with a vector below 32.

Note: This is *not* intended as a security measure against attackers who
control malicious hardware.  Any PCI or similar hardware that can be
controlled by an attacker MUST be behind a functional IOMMU that remaps
interrupts.  The purpose of this change is to reduce the chance that a
certain class of device malfunctions crashes the kernel in hard-to-debug
ways.
Suggested-by: default avatarAndrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/dc04a9f8b234d7b0956a8d2560b8945bcd9c4bf7.1563117760.git.luto@kernel.org
parent 5f9e832c
......@@ -1561,11 +1561,14 @@ static void setup_local_APIC(void)
#endif
/*
* Set Task Priority to 'accept all'. We never change this
* later on.
* Set Task Priority to 'accept all except vectors 0-31'. An APIC
* vector in the 16-31 range could be delivered if TPR == 0, but we
* would think it's an exception and terrible things will happen. We
* never change this later on.
*/
value = apic_read(APIC_TASKPRI);
value &= ~APIC_TPRI_MASK;
value |= 0x10;
apic_write(APIC_TASKPRI, value);
apic_pending_intr_clear();
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