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authorLibravatar Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2023-02-21 18:24:12 -0800
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Merge tag 'net-next-6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-nextgrafted
Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski: "Core: - Add dedicated kmem_cache for typical/small skb->head, avoid having to access struct page at kfree time, and improve memory use. - Introduce sysctl to set default RPS configuration for new netdevs. - Define Netlink protocol specification format which can be used to describe messages used by each family and auto-generate parsers. Add tools for generating kernel data structures and uAPI headers. - Expose all net/core sysctls inside netns. - Remove 4s sleep in netpoll if carrier is instantly detected on boot. - Add configurable limit of MDB entries per port, and port-vlan. - Continue populating drop reasons throughout the stack. - Retire a handful of legacy Qdiscs and classifiers. Protocols: - Support IPv4 big TCP (TSO frames larger than 64kB). - Add IP_LOCAL_PORT_RANGE socket option, to control local port range on socket by socket basis. - Track and report in procfs number of MPTCP sockets used. - Support mixing IPv4 and IPv6 flows in the in-kernel MPTCP path manager. - IPv6: don't check net.ipv6.route.max_size and rely on garbage collection to free memory (similarly to IPv4). - Support Penultimate Segment Pop (PSP) flavor in SRv6 (RFC8986). - ICMP: add per-rate limit counters. - Add support for user scanning requests in ieee802154. - Remove static WEP support. - Support minimal Wi-Fi 7 Extremely High Throughput (EHT) rate reporting. - WiFi 7 EHT channel puncturing support (client & AP). BPF: - Add a rbtree data structure following the "next-gen data structure" precedent set by recently added linked list, that is, by using kfunc + kptr instead of adding a new BPF map type. - Expose XDP hints via kfuncs with initial support for RX hash and timestamp metadata. - Add BPF_F_NO_TUNNEL_KEY extension to bpf_skb_set_tunnel_key to better support decap on GRE tunnel devices not operating in collect metadata. - Improve x86 JIT's codegen for PROBE_MEM runtime error checks. - Remove the need for trace_printk_lock for bpf_trace_printk and bpf_trace_vprintk helpers. - Extend libbpf's bpf_tracing.h support for tracing arguments of kprobes/uprobes and syscall as a special case. - Significantly reduce the search time for module symbols by livepatch and BPF. - Enable cpumasks to be used as kptrs, which is useful for tracing programs tracking which tasks end up running on which CPUs in different time intervals. - Add support for BPF trampoline on s390x and riscv64. - Add capability to export the XDP features supported by the NIC. - Add __bpf_kfunc tag for marking kernel functions as kfuncs. - Add cgroup.memory=nobpf kernel parameter option to disable BPF memory accounting for container environments. Netfilter: - Remove the CLUSTERIP target. It has been marked as obsolete for years, and we still have WARN splats wrt races of the out-of-band /proc interface installed by this target. - Add 'destroy' commands to nf_tables. They are identical to the existing 'delete' commands, but do not return an error if the referenced object (set, chain, rule...) did not exist. Driver API: - Improve cpumask_local_spread() locality to help NICs set the right IRQ affinity on AMD platforms. - Separate C22 and C45 MDIO bus transactions more clearly. - Introduce new DCB table to control DSCP rewrite on egress. - Support configuration of Physical Layer Collision Avoidance (PLCA) Reconciliation Sublayer (RS) (802.3cg-2019). Modern version of shared medium Ethernet. - Support for MAC Merge layer (IEEE 802.3-2018 clause 99). Allowing preemption of low priority frames by high priority frames. - Add support for controlling MACSec offload using netlink SET. - Rework devlink instance refcounts to allow registration and de-registration under the instance lock. Split the code into multiple files, drop some of the unnecessarily granular locks and factor out common parts of netlink operation handling. - Add TX frame aggregation parameters (for USB drivers). - Add a new attr TCA_EXT_WARN_MSG to report TC (offload) warning messages with notifications for debug. - Allow offloading of UDP NEW connections via act_ct. - Add support for per action HW stats in TC. - Support hardware miss to TC action (continue processing in SW from a specific point in the action chain). - Warn if old Wireless Extension user space interface is used with modern cfg80211/mac80211 drivers. Do not support Wireless Extensions for Wi-Fi 7 devices at all. Everyone should switch to using nl80211 interface instead. - Improve the CAN bit timing configuration. Use extack to return error messages directly to user space, update the SJW handling, including the definition of a new default value that will benefit CAN-FD controllers, by increasing their oscillator tolerance. New hardware / drivers: - Ethernet: - nVidia BlueField-3 support (control traffic driver) - Ethernet support for imx93 SoCs - Motorcomm yt8531 gigabit Ethernet PHY - onsemi NCN26000 10BASE-T1S PHY (with support for PLCA) - Microchip LAN8841 PHY (incl. cable diagnostics and PTP) - Amlogic gxl MDIO mux - WiFi: - RealTek RTL8188EU (rtl8xxxu) - Qualcomm Wi-Fi 7 devices (ath12k) - CAN: - Renesas R-Car V4H Drivers: - Bluetooth: - Set Per Platform Antenna Gain (PPAG) for Intel controllers. - Ethernet NICs: - Intel (1G, igc): - support TSN / Qbv / packet scheduling features of i226 model - Intel (100G, ice): - use GNSS subsystem instead of TTY - multi-buffer XDP support - extend support for GPIO pins to E823 devices - nVidia/Mellanox: - update the shared buffer configuration on PFC commands - implement PTP adjphase function for HW offset control - TC support for Geneve and GRE with VF tunnel offload - more efficient crypto key management method - multi-port eswitch support - Netronome/Corigine: - add DCB IEEE support - support IPsec offloading for NFP3800 - Freescale/NXP (enetc): - support XDP_REDIRECT for XDP non-linear buffers - improve reconfig, avoid link flap and waiting for idle - support MAC Merge layer - Other NICs: - sfc/ef100: add basic devlink support for ef100 - ionic: rx_push mode operation (writing descriptors via MMIO) - bnxt: use the auxiliary bus abstraction for RDMA - r8169: disable ASPM and reset bus in case of tx timeout - cpsw: support QSGMII mode for J721e CPSW9G - cpts: support pulse-per-second output - ngbe: add an mdio bus driver - usbnet: optimize usbnet_bh() by avoiding unnecessary queuing - r8152: handle devices with FW with NCM support - amd-xgbe: support 10Mbps, 2.5GbE speeds and rx-adaptation - virtio-net: support multi buffer XDP - virtio/vsock: replace virtio_vsock_pkt with sk_buff - tsnep: XDP support - Ethernet high-speed switches: - nVidia/Mellanox (mlxsw): - add support for latency TLV (in FW control messages) - Microchip (sparx5): - separate explicit and implicit traffic forwarding rules, make the implicit rules always active - add support for egress DSCP rewrite - IS0 VCAP support (Ingress Classification) - IS2 VCAP filters (protos, L3 addrs, L4 ports, flags, ToS etc.) - ES2 VCAP support (Egress Access Control) - support for Per-Stream Filtering and Policing (802.1Q, 8.6.5.1) - Ethernet embedded switches: - Marvell (mv88e6xxx): - add MAB (port auth) offload support - enable PTP receive for mv88e6390 - NXP (ocelot): - support MAC Merge layer - support for the the vsc7512 internal copper phys - Microchip: - lan9303: convert to PHYLINK - lan966x: support TC flower filter statistics - lan937x: PTP support for KSZ9563/KSZ8563 and LAN937x - lan937x: support Credit Based Shaper configuration - ksz9477: support Energy Efficient Ethernet - other: - qca8k: convert to regmap read/write API, use bulk operations - rswitch: Improve TX timestamp accuracy - Intel WiFi (iwlwifi): - EHT (Wi-Fi 7) rate reporting - STEP equalizer support: transfer some STEP (connection to radio on platforms with integrated wifi) related parameters from the BIOS to the firmware. - Qualcomm 802.11ax WiFi (ath11k): - IPQ5018 support - Fine Timing Measurement (FTM) responder role support - channel 177 support - MediaTek WiFi (mt76): - per-PHY LED support - mt7996: EHT (Wi-Fi 7) support - Wireless Ethernet Dispatch (WED) reset support - switch to using page pool allocator - RealTek WiFi (rtw89): - support new version of Bluetooth co-existance - Mobile: - rmnet: support TX aggregation" * tag 'net-next-6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1872 commits) page_pool: add a comment explaining the fragment counter usage net: ethtool: fix __ethtool_dev_mm_supported() implementation ethtool: pse-pd: Fix double word in comments xsk: add linux/vmalloc.h to xsk.c sefltests: netdevsim: wait for devlink instance after netns removal selftest: fib_tests: Always cleanup before exit net/mlx5e: Align IPsec ASO result memory to be as required by hardware net/mlx5e: TC, Set CT miss to the specific ct action instance net/mlx5e: Rename CHAIN_TO_REG to MAPPED_OBJ_TO_REG net/mlx5: Refactor tc miss handling to a single function net/mlx5: Kconfig: Make tc offload depend on tc skb extension net/sched: flower: Support hardware miss to tc action net/sched: flower: Move filter handle initialization earlier net/sched: cls_api: Support hardware miss to tc action net/sched: Rename user cookie and act cookie sfc: fix builds without CONFIG_RTC_LIB sfc: clean up some inconsistent indentings net/mlx4_en: Introduce flexible array to silence overflow warning net: lan966x: Fix possible deadlock inside PTP net/ulp: Remove redundant ->clone() test in inet_clone_ulp(). ...
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+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+=====================================
+Intel Trust Domain Extensions (TDX)
+=====================================
+
+Intel's Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) protect confidential guest VMs from
+the host and physical attacks by isolating the guest register state and by
+encrypting the guest memory. In TDX, a special module running in a special
+mode sits between the host and the guest and manages the guest/host
+separation.
+
+Since the host cannot directly access guest registers or memory, much
+normal functionality of a hypervisor must be moved into the guest. This is
+implemented using a Virtualization Exception (#VE) that is handled by the
+guest kernel. A #VE is handled entirely inside the guest kernel, but some
+require the hypervisor to be consulted.
+
+TDX includes new hypercall-like mechanisms for communicating from the
+guest to the hypervisor or the TDX module.
+
+New TDX Exceptions
+==================
+
+TDX guests behave differently from bare-metal and traditional VMX guests.
+In TDX guests, otherwise normal instructions or memory accesses can cause
+#VE or #GP exceptions.
+
+Instructions marked with an '*' conditionally cause exceptions. The
+details for these instructions are discussed below.
+
+Instruction-based #VE
+---------------------
+
+- Port I/O (INS, OUTS, IN, OUT)
+- HLT
+- MONITOR, MWAIT
+- WBINVD, INVD
+- VMCALL
+- RDMSR*,WRMSR*
+- CPUID*
+
+Instruction-based #GP
+---------------------
+
+- All VMX instructions: INVEPT, INVVPID, VMCLEAR, VMFUNC, VMLAUNCH,
+ VMPTRLD, VMPTRST, VMREAD, VMRESUME, VMWRITE, VMXOFF, VMXON
+- ENCLS, ENCLU
+- GETSEC
+- RSM
+- ENQCMD
+- RDMSR*,WRMSR*
+
+RDMSR/WRMSR Behavior
+--------------------
+
+MSR access behavior falls into three categories:
+
+- #GP generated
+- #VE generated
+- "Just works"
+
+In general, the #GP MSRs should not be used in guests. Their use likely
+indicates a bug in the guest. The guest may try to handle the #GP with a
+hypercall but it is unlikely to succeed.
+
+The #VE MSRs are typically able to be handled by the hypervisor. Guests
+can make a hypercall to the hypervisor to handle the #VE.
+
+The "just works" MSRs do not need any special guest handling. They might
+be implemented by directly passing through the MSR to the hardware or by
+trapping and handling in the TDX module. Other than possibly being slow,
+these MSRs appear to function just as they would on bare metal.
+
+CPUID Behavior
+--------------
+
+For some CPUID leaves and sub-leaves, the virtualized bit fields of CPUID
+return values (in guest EAX/EBX/ECX/EDX) are configurable by the
+hypervisor. For such cases, the Intel TDX module architecture defines two
+virtualization types:
+
+- Bit fields for which the hypervisor controls the value seen by the guest
+ TD.
+
+- Bit fields for which the hypervisor configures the value such that the
+ guest TD either sees their native value or a value of 0. For these bit
+ fields, the hypervisor can mask off the native values, but it can not
+ turn *on* values.
+
+A #VE is generated for CPUID leaves and sub-leaves that the TDX module does
+not know how to handle. The guest kernel may ask the hypervisor for the
+value with a hypercall.
+
+#VE on Memory Accesses
+======================
+
+There are essentially two classes of TDX memory: private and shared.
+Private memory receives full TDX protections. Its content is protected
+against access from the hypervisor. Shared memory is expected to be
+shared between guest and hypervisor and does not receive full TDX
+protections.
+
+A TD guest is in control of whether its memory accesses are treated as
+private or shared. It selects the behavior with a bit in its page table
+entries. This helps ensure that a guest does not place sensitive
+information in shared memory, exposing it to the untrusted hypervisor.
+
+#VE on Shared Memory
+--------------------
+
+Access to shared mappings can cause a #VE. The hypervisor ultimately
+controls whether a shared memory access causes a #VE, so the guest must be
+careful to only reference shared pages it can safely handle a #VE. For
+instance, the guest should be careful not to access shared memory in the
+#VE handler before it reads the #VE info structure (TDG.VP.VEINFO.GET).
+
+Shared mapping content is entirely controlled by the hypervisor. The guest
+should only use shared mappings for communicating with the hypervisor.
+Shared mappings must never be used for sensitive memory content like kernel
+stacks. A good rule of thumb is that hypervisor-shared memory should be
+treated the same as memory mapped to userspace. Both the hypervisor and
+userspace are completely untrusted.
+
+MMIO for virtual devices is implemented as shared memory. The guest must
+be careful not to access device MMIO regions unless it is also prepared to
+handle a #VE.
+
+#VE on Private Pages
+--------------------
+
+An access to private mappings can also cause a #VE. Since all kernel
+memory is also private memory, the kernel might theoretically need to
+handle a #VE on arbitrary kernel memory accesses. This is not feasible, so
+TDX guests ensure that all guest memory has been "accepted" before memory
+is used by the kernel.
+
+A modest amount of memory (typically 512M) is pre-accepted by the firmware
+before the kernel runs to ensure that the kernel can start up without
+being subjected to a #VE.
+
+The hypervisor is permitted to unilaterally move accepted pages to a
+"blocked" state. However, if it does this, page access will not generate a
+#VE. It will, instead, cause a "TD Exit" where the hypervisor is required
+to handle the exception.
+
+Linux #VE handler
+=================
+
+Just like page faults or #GP's, #VE exceptions can be either handled or be
+fatal. Typically, an unhandled userspace #VE results in a SIGSEGV.
+An unhandled kernel #VE results in an oops.
+
+Handling nested exceptions on x86 is typically nasty business. A #VE
+could be interrupted by an NMI which triggers another #VE and hilarity
+ensues. The TDX #VE architecture anticipated this scenario and includes a
+feature to make it slightly less nasty.
+
+During #VE handling, the TDX module ensures that all interrupts (including
+NMIs) are blocked. The block remains in place until the guest makes a
+TDG.VP.VEINFO.GET TDCALL. This allows the guest to control when interrupts
+or a new #VE can be delivered.
+
+However, the guest kernel must still be careful to avoid potential
+#VE-triggering actions (discussed above) while this block is in place.
+While the block is in place, any #VE is elevated to a double fault (#DF)
+which is not recoverable.
+
+MMIO handling
+=============
+
+In non-TDX VMs, MMIO is usually implemented by giving a guest access to a
+mapping which will cause a VMEXIT on access, and then the hypervisor
+emulates the access. That is not possible in TDX guests because VMEXIT
+will expose the register state to the host. TDX guests don't trust the host
+and can't have their state exposed to the host.
+
+In TDX, MMIO regions typically trigger a #VE exception in the guest. The
+guest #VE handler then emulates the MMIO instruction inside the guest and
+converts it into a controlled TDCALL to the host, rather than exposing
+guest state to the host.
+
+MMIO addresses on x86 are just special physical addresses. They can
+theoretically be accessed with any instruction that accesses memory.
+However, the kernel instruction decoding method is limited. It is only
+designed to decode instructions like those generated by io.h macros.
+
+MMIO access via other means (like structure overlays) may result in an
+oops.
+
+Shared Memory Conversions
+=========================
+
+All TDX guest memory starts out as private at boot. This memory can not
+be accessed by the hypervisor. However, some kernel users like device
+drivers might have a need to share data with the hypervisor. To do this,
+memory must be converted between shared and private. This can be
+accomplished using some existing memory encryption helpers:
+
+ * set_memory_decrypted() converts a range of pages to shared.
+ * set_memory_encrypted() converts memory back to private.
+
+Device drivers are the primary user of shared memory, but there's no need
+to touch every driver. DMA buffers and ioremap() do the conversions
+automatically.
+
+TDX uses SWIOTLB for most DMA allocations. The SWIOTLB buffer is
+converted to shared on boot.
+
+For coherent DMA allocation, the DMA buffer gets converted on the
+allocation. Check force_dma_unencrypted() for details.
+
+Attestation
+===========
+
+Attestation is used to verify the TDX guest trustworthiness to other
+entities before provisioning secrets to the guest. For example, a key
+server may want to use attestation to verify that the guest is the
+desired one before releasing the encryption keys to mount the encrypted
+rootfs or a secondary drive.
+
+The TDX module records the state of the TDX guest in various stages of
+the guest boot process using the build time measurement register (MRTD)
+and runtime measurement registers (RTMR). Measurements related to the
+guest initial configuration and firmware image are recorded in the MRTD
+register. Measurements related to initial state, kernel image, firmware
+image, command line options, initrd, ACPI tables, etc are recorded in
+RTMR registers. For more details, as an example, please refer to TDX
+Virtual Firmware design specification, section titled "TD Measurement".
+At TDX guest runtime, the attestation process is used to attest to these
+measurements.
+
+The attestation process consists of two steps: TDREPORT generation and
+Quote generation.
+
+TDX guest uses TDCALL[TDG.MR.REPORT] to get the TDREPORT (TDREPORT_STRUCT)
+from the TDX module. TDREPORT is a fixed-size data structure generated by
+the TDX module which contains guest-specific information (such as build
+and boot measurements), platform security version, and the MAC to protect
+the integrity of the TDREPORT. A user-provided 64-Byte REPORTDATA is used
+as input and included in the TDREPORT. Typically it can be some nonce
+provided by attestation service so the TDREPORT can be verified uniquely.
+More details about the TDREPORT can be found in Intel TDX Module
+specification, section titled "TDG.MR.REPORT Leaf".
+
+After getting the TDREPORT, the second step of the attestation process
+is to send it to the Quoting Enclave (QE) to generate the Quote. TDREPORT
+by design can only be verified on the local platform as the MAC key is
+bound to the platform. To support remote verification of the TDREPORT,
+TDX leverages Intel SGX Quoting Enclave to verify the TDREPORT locally
+and convert it to a remotely verifiable Quote. Method of sending TDREPORT
+to QE is implementation specific. Attestation software can choose
+whatever communication channel available (i.e. vsock or TCP/IP) to
+send the TDREPORT to QE and receive the Quote.
+
+References
+==========
+
+TDX reference material is collected here:
+
+https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/technical/intel-trust-domain-extensions.html