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: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/dc04a9f8b234d7b0956a8d2560b8945bcd9c4bf7.1563117760.git.luto@kernel.org
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