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11 daysMerge tag 'hardening-v7.4-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux Pull hardening updates from Kees Cook: - Provide kmalloc_obj*-style API for devm_kmalloc() - Improve seq_buf API for saner C String handling with several bug fixes along the way (Kees Cook, Bill Wendling) - Overflow helper readability improvements (Bill Wendling) - Unexport native_write_cr4() (Dennis Chen) - um: fix CONFIG_GCOV for built-in code (Johannes Berg) - Improve stackinit test coverage (Justin Stitt) - KMSAN: fix memset() when using fortify-source, again (Arnd Bergmann) - lkdtm: use kmalloc() instead of __get_free_page (Mahad Ibrahim) - signalfd: don't dequeue the forced fatal signals (Oleg Nesterov) - Fix randstruct to recognize new container_of() behavior - coccinelle: kmalloc_obj: Convert multi-byte integral allocations too - Fix a couple remaining allocation return type mismatches * tag 'hardening-v7.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux: (29 commits) overflow: Match arithmetic in both parts of __builtin_choose_expr lkdtm: Make UNSET_SMEP built-in-only and unexport native_write_cr4() extcon: realtek: Remove const from type_c_cfg allocation type coresight: cti: Add const to con_groups allocation type docs: core-api: Document the seq_buf API nvdimm: ndtest: Return the string length from flags_show() powerpc/papr_scm: Return the string length from the sysfs show functions seq_buf: Add seq_buf_init_append() bpf: Remove dead newline stripping from format_disasm_line() seq_buf: Add seq_buf_terminate() seq_buf: Add seq_buf_strlen() seq_buf: Clear what a writer did not claim when a seq_buf overflows seq_buf: Copy what fits when seq_buf_puts() and seq_buf_putmem() overflow scsi: lpfc: Print rx monitor records straight into the seq_buf seq_buf: Do not pop from an overflowed seq_buf seq_buf: Do not print an empty line from an overflowed seq_buf_do_printk() .get_maintainer.ignore: Add Kees Cook devres: Provide kmalloc_obj*-style API for devm_kmalloc mm: Move default_gfp() into gfp_types.h kunit/stackinit: Clean up XFAIL under instrumentation ...
13 daysMerge tag 'x86_cpu_for_v7.4_rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 cpu feature updates from Borislav Petkov: - Rework early CPU features detection code to handle a case where recorded CPU capabilities are temporarily cleared in an interruptible region. The practical implication of this lead to, for example, KASAN complaining due to 5-level pagetable support disappearing intermittently (Ihor Solodrai) - AMD Zen5 started reporting TLB sizes as multiples of 32 so adjust the TLB sizes reporting code to consider that - Return the proper retval when trying to enable user shadow stacks * tag 'x86_cpu_for_v7.4_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86/cpu: Don't transiently clear the boot CPU's capabilities x86/cpu: Move 32-bit SEP setup into identify_cpu() x86/cpu: Inline generic_identify() into identify_cpu() x86/cpu: Initialize boot CPU cpuinfo defaults early x86/cpu: Factor init_cpu_info() out of identify_cpu() x86/CPU/AMD: Fix Zen5 TLB sizes reporting x86/shstk: Return the correct error value when user shadow stacks are disabled
2026-10-14lkdtm: Make UNSET_SMEP built-in-only and unexport native_write_cr4()Dennis Chen
native_write_cr4 should not be exported to modules. Commit 21953ee5013d ("x86/cpu: Export native_write_cr4() only when CONFIG_LKTDM=m") restricted the export somewhat, but native_write_cr4() is still exposed to all GPL-compatible modules when CONFIG_LKDTM=m. UNSET_SMEP is the only module user of native_write_cr4(). Restrict the test to CONFIG_LKDTM=y and remove the export. When LKDTM is built as a module, report XFAIL for UNSET_SMEP. Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20200420090102.GB24518@infradead.org/ Signed-off-by: Dennis Chen <dechen@redhat.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20261014175859.30863-1-dechen@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
2026-09-27x86/cpu: Constify struct x86_cpu_idChristophe JAILLET
'struct x86_cpu_id' is not modified in this compilation unit. Constifying this structure moves some data to a read-only section, so increases overall security. It is only used in cpu_has_old_microcode() which is an __init function. So, using __initconst is safe and will save about 6 kB of memory at runtime. On a x86_64, with allmodconfig: text data bss dec hex filename 55725 28774 512 85011 14c13 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.o.before 61464 22918 512 84894 14b9e arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.o.after [ bp: Massage commit message. ] Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/f08d3a0e7aefe3bad66251927cbd03b8cbf9df73.1786311119.git.christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr
2026-09-17x86/cpu: Don't transiently clear the boot CPU's capabilitiesIhor Solodrai
On the boot CPU, identify_cpu() runs from arch_cpu_finalize_init(), with interrupts enabled and before alternatives are patched. So cpu_feature_enabled() still evaluates against boot_cpu_data. identify_cpu() rebuilds c->x86_capability from scratch: the reset zeroes the array and the CPUID rescan fills it in again. An interrupt delivered in that window finds X86_FEATURE_LA57 clear in boot_cpu_data, so pgtable_l5_enabled() is false and KASAN checks a 5-level address against the 4-level addressability limit. The result is a bogus "wild-memory-access" report, and under kasan_multi_shot a report storm that wedges the boot. The boot CPU has already been scanned by early_identify_cpu(), with interrupts disabled, and its capabilities cannot have changed since. Reset only the CPUs which have not been scanned yet. The window is as old as identify_cpu() rebuilding the capabilities. Commit 39b9552281ab ("x86/mm: Optimize boot-time paging mode switching cost") merely let KASAN notice it by making pgtable_l5_enabled() read the feature bit. So no Fixes: tag. Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260610175651.647515-1-ihor.solodrai@linux.dev/ Signed-off-by: Ihor Solodrai <ihor.solodrai@linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260916195203.1099646-6-ihor.solodrai@linux.dev
2026-09-17x86/cpu: Move 32-bit SEP setup into identify_cpu()Ihor Solodrai
identify_boot_cpu() and identify_secondary_cpu() both call enable_sep_cpu() under CONFIG_X86_32 immediately after identify_cpu(). Do it once and drop the ifdefs while at it. No functional changes. Signed-off-by: Ihor Solodrai <ihor.solodrai@linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Reviewed-by: Nikolay Borisov <nik.borisov@suse.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260916195203.1099646-5-ihor.solodrai@linux.dev
2026-09-17x86/cpu: Inline generic_identify() into identify_cpu()Ihor Solodrai
generic_identify() has exactly one call site: at the top of identify_cpu(). Fold it into identify_cpu() so that a single function does the job for both the boot CPU and the secondary CPUs. While at it, fix up both copies of the Cyrix comment. No functional changes. Signed-off-by: Ihor Solodrai <ihor.solodrai@linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260916195203.1099646-4-ihor.solodrai@linux.dev
2026-09-17x86/cpu: Initialize boot CPU cpuinfo defaults earlyIhor Solodrai
early_identify_cpu() clears the capability array, the CPUID table and extended_cpuid_level, but the architectural defaults for the rest of struct cpuinfo_x86 are set only later, in identify_cpu(). Use the same defaults from the start, so that the boot CPU does not depend on a later reset to end up with the right ones. Signed-off-by: Ihor Solodrai <ihor.solodrai@linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260916195203.1099646-3-ihor.solodrai@linux.dev
2026-09-17x86/cpu: Factor init_cpu_info() out of identify_cpu()Ihor Solodrai
identify_cpu() unconditionally resets the struct cpuinfo_x86 fields to their default values and clears the capability arrays with memset() before rescanning the CPU to fill it in again. However the boot CPU capabilities have already been scanned by early_identify_cpu(), with interrupts disabled. Introduce init_cpu_info() helper in preparation for letting the callers decide whether the reset is needed. No functional changes. Signed-off-by: Ihor Solodrai <ihor.solodrai@linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260916195203.1099646-2-ihor.solodrai@linux.dev
2026-09-14x86/CPU/AMD: Fix Zen5 TLB sizes reportingBorislav Petkov (AMD)
Starting with Zen5, TLB sizes in CPUID_Fn80000006_E[AB]X are reported as multiples of 32. There's a CPUID bit which determines that: CPUID_Fn80000021_EAX [Extended Feature 2 EAX] (Core::X86::Cpuid::FeatureExt2Eax) ... 14: L2TlbSizeX32. Read-only. Reset: 1. Indicates that L2TLB sizes are encoded as multiples of 32. Update the places which report that information. With it, the numbers look correct now: -Last level iTLB entries: 4KB 64, 2MB 64, 4MB 32 -Last level dTLB entries: 4KB 128, 2MB 128, 4MB 64, 1GB 0 +Last level iTLB entries: 4KB 2048, 2MB 2048, 4MB 1024 +Last level dTLB entries: 4KB 4096, 2MB 4096, 4MB 2048, 1GB 0 /proc/cpuinfo -TLB size : 192 4K pages +TLB size : 6144 4K pages Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260821022031.946311-1-bp@kernel.org
2026-08-18Merge tag 'x86_cpu_for_v7.3_rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 cpuid updates from Borislav Petkov: - Get rid of static_cpu_has() - one less API to care about testing CPU features - Unify the handling of CPU core types (performance, efficient, etc) by mapping the vendor-specific types to Linux ones - Continuation of the work of Ahmed Darwish to centralize CPUID leaf representation * tag 'x86_cpu_for_v7.3_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86/CPU: Rename struct cpuid_read_output to struct cpuid_output x86/cpu/scattered: Sort it properly x86/cpu: Use parsed CPUID(0x1) x86/lib: Add CPUID(0x1) family and model calculation x86/cpu: Use parsed CPUID(0x0) x86/cpu/transmeta: Rescan CPUID(0x1) after modifying capabilities x86/topology: Add TOPO_CPU_TYPE_LOW_POWER x86/topology: Name the AMD core-type values x86/topo: Map vendor CPU types to generic Linux such types x86/bugs: Don't use cpu-type matching in cpu_vuln_blacklist x86/cpu: Hide and rename static_cpu_has()
2026-08-18Merge tag 'x86_cleanups_for_v7.3_rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 cleanups from Borislav Petkov: - The usual pile of smallish cleanups and fixlets all over the place * tag 'x86_cleanups_for_v7.3_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86/cpu: Remove unnecessary __maybe_unused annotations x86/msr: Document the I/O-like write semantics in the msr driver x86/apic: Ensure ICR register write value is handled as 32 bits x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S: Clean up SEV-related comments Documentation/arch/x86/amd-memory-encryption.rst: Fix typo x86/platform/quark: Fix kernel-doc warnings in imr.c x86/ras: Move contents from arch/x86/ras/Kconfig into drivers/ras/Kconfig x86/cpu: Move intel_get_platform_id() to cpu/intel.c x86/mm: Fix typo in comment x86/fpu: Fix kernel-doc formatting above fpu_enable_guest_xfd_features() x86/cfi: Use symmetric SYM_START and SYM_END in __CFI_TYPE() x86/cfi: Add __init_or_module annotations for fineibt
2026-08-18Merge tag 'x86-msr-2026-08-17' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 MSR updates from Ingo Molnar: - Streamline the x86 MSR handling APIs along the 64-bit variants, simplifying the interfaces. Removal of the old APIs is planned for the next cycle, to reduce churn & integration pain (Juergen Gross) * tag 'x86-msr-2026-08-17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (21 commits) x86/mce: Work around build warning after MSR-interface switch cpufreq: Stop using 32-bit MSR interfaces x86/featctl: Stop using 32-bit MSR interfaces KVM/x86: Stop using 32-bit MSR interfaces x86/mtrr: Stop using 32-bit MSR interfaces acpi: Stop using 32-bit MSR interfaces powercap: Stop using 32-bit MSR interfaces thermal/intel: Stop using 32-bit MSR interfaces x86/olpc: Stop using 32-bit MSR interfaces x86/hyperv: Stop using 32-bit MSR interfaces hwmon: Stop using 32-bit MSR interfaces EDAC: Stop using 32-bit MSR interfaces x86/cpu: Stop using 32-bit MSR interfaces x86/apic: Stop using 32-bit MSR interfaces x86/resctrl: Stop using 32-bit MSR interfaces x86/tsc: Stop using 32-bit MSR interfaces x86/amd: Stop using 32-bit MSR interfaces x86/pci: Stop using 32-bit MSR interfaces x86/hygon: Stop using 32-bit MSR interfaces x86/mce: Stop using 32-bit MSR interfaces ...
2026-08-18Merge tag 'locking-core-2026-08-17' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull locking updates from Ingo Molnar: "Futexes: - Use runtime constants for futex_hash computation (K Prateek Nayak, Peter Zijlstra) - Optimise the size check get_futex_key() (Sebastian Andrzej Siewior) - Avoid private hash use-after-free on final put (Felix Hoffmann) - Tell kmemleak we're not leaking __futex_queues (Peter Zijlstra) Rust integration updates: - Implement refcounted interrupt disable and SpinLockIrq for Rust (Boqun Feng, Heiko Carstens, Joel Fernandes, Lyude Paul) - Rust sync: add helpers for mb, dma_mb and friends; add generic memory barriers and use LKMM atomics instead of Rust atomics in the revocable code (Gary Guo) - Add abstraction and integrate synchronize_rcu() (Philipp Stanner) Lock debugging: - Add qspinlock contended_release tracepoint (Dmitry Ilvokhin, Peter Zijlstra) - Enable the printing of held locks of remote running tasks and print task CPU (Ingo Molnar) - percpu-rwsem: Annotate intentional data race in readers_active_check() (Sun Shaojie) Misc fixes and updates by Boqun Feng, Peter Zijlstra, Fangrui Song, Naveen Kumar Chaudhary and Thomas Huth" * tag 'locking-core-2026-08-17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (44 commits) rust: sync: Introduce SpinLockIrq::lock_with() and friends rust: sync: Add SpinLockIrq rust: sync: Use super::* in spinlock.rs rust: helper: Add spin_{un,}lock_irq_{enable,disable}() helpers rust: Introduce interrupt module s390/preempt: Enable HAS_SEPARATE_PREEMPT_RESCHED_BITS arm64: sched/preempt: Enable HAS_SEPARATE_PREEMPT_RESCHED_BITS preempt: Introduce HAS_SEPARATE_PREEMPT_RESCHED_BITS sched: Avoid signed comparison of preempt_count() in __cant_migrate() sched: Remove the unused preempt_offset parameter of __cant_sleep() locking: Switch to _irq_{disable,enable}() variants in cleanup guards irq: Add KUnit test for refcounted interrupt enable/disable irq,spin_lock: Add counted interrupt disabling/enabling openrisc: Include <linux/cpumask.h> in smp.h preempt: Introduce __preempt_count_{sub,add}_return() preempt: Introduce HARDIRQ_DISABLE_BITS preempt: Track NMI nesting to separate per-CPU counter futex: Tell kmemleak we're not leaking __futex_queues x86/paravirt: Trace contended_release on unlock tracing/lock: Use TRACE_EVENT_FN() for contended_release ...
2026-08-10x86/CPU: Add a tlbi= cmdline switchRik van Riel
With the recently found INVLPGB / TLBSYNC issue, there has been some interest in disabling INVLPGB-based TLB flushing, in order to rule out that CPU issue as a cause of userspace crashes. Add a kernel command line option to control the TLB flushing behavior. If the need arises, we will add a "tlbi=broadcast" for the case when TLB invalidation broadcasts need to be explicitly selected, but this is not needed now yet. [ bp: Rewrite commit message, move to cpu/common.c, add documentation. ] Fixes: 767ae437a32d ("x86/mm: Add INVLPGB feature and Kconfig entry") Suggested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260729204341.3eb0b5ea@fangorn
2026-08-10preempt: Introduce HAS_SEPARATE_PREEMPT_RESCHED_BITSBoqun Feng
With the changes that enable preempt count to track IRQ disabling nesting, we don't have enough bits in 32-bit preempt count implementation, as a result we move NMI nesting bits out of the 32-bit preempt count. However on the architectures that can support 64-bit preempt count implementation, we can keep the NMI nesting bits in the 32-bit preempt count and avoid maintaining NMI nesting bits outside of the same cache line. Therefore HAS_SEPARATE_PREEMPT_RESCHED_BITS is introduced to allow architectures to select this. Note that under this Kconfig, preempt count is maintained in a 64-bit word however preempt_count() still remains as an int because all the effective bits still fit in (previously we mask out NEED_RESCHED bit in preempt_count()). This should make no functional changes for existing preempt_count() users. Enable this for x86_64 along with the introduction of the Kconfig. [boqun: Undo the __preempt_count_{add,sub}() optimization in 32-bit preempt count since it may introduce {over,under}flow] Originally-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260804161447.84806-11-boqun@kernel.org
2026-07-31x86/cpu: Use parsed CPUID(0x1)Ahmed S. Darwish
On early boot CPU detection, use parsed CPUID(0x1) instead of a direct CPUID query. Beside the parser's centralization benefits, use the auto generated CPUID data types, and their C99 bitfields, instead of doing ugly bitwise operations. [ bp: - Use a common code pattern for l1 of fetching and checking it right after that - flip the check to save an indentation level - align assignments vertically. ] Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish <darwi@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260528153923.403473-12-darwi@linutronix.de
2026-07-31x86/cpu: Use parsed CPUID(0x0)Ahmed S. Darwish
Use parsed CPUID(0x0) instead of a direct CPUID query. [ bp: Drop the unnecessary NULL check. ] Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish <darwi@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260528153923.403473-10-darwi@linutronix.de
2026-07-22x86/cpu: Remove unnecessary __maybe_unused annotationsThorsten Blum
Remove __maybe_unused from variables and functions that are referenced unconditionally. Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260630083031.683508-2-thorsten.blum@linux.dev
2026-07-20x86/bugs: Don't use cpu-type matching in cpu_vuln_blacklistPawan Gupta
Thomas Gleixner pointed out that cpu-type is a per-CPU property while hybrid is a system property; conflating the two in the CPU matching infrastructure is wrong. Currently, on a hybrid system x86_match_cpu() matches any cpu-type. This works if the intent is to find the possibility of a cpu-type in a system. But fails if matching for the cpu-type of a given CPU. Borislav posted a cleanup here: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260703193222.GFakgORjvxwnZTPRnI@fat_crate.local To make way for the cleanup stop matching cpu-type in cpu_vuln_blacklist. RFDS is the only user, so drop the VULNBL_INTEL_TYPE entries and fold their RFDS bit into the base Alder Lake (0x97) and Raptor Lake (0xB7) blacklist entries. For now open-code cpu-type check in vulnerable_to_rfds(). In the future, if more vulnerabilities need cpu-type matching a helper can be added. No functional change intended. Fixes: 722fa0dba74f ("x86/rfds: Exclude P-only parts from the RFDS affected list") Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260708-cpu-type-vuln-v1-1-85c1d3c704db@linux.intel.com
2026-07-02x86/cpu: Stop using 32-bit MSR interfacesJuergen Gross
The 32-bit MSR interfaces rdmsr() and wrmsr() are planned to be removed. Use the related 64-bit variants instead. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260629060526.3638272-20-jgross@suse.com
2026-05-11x86/cpuid: Introduce a centralized CPUID parserAhmed S. Darwish
Introduce a CPUID parser for populating the system's CPUID tables. Since accessing a leaf within the CPUID table requires compile time tokenization, split the parser into two stages: (a) Compile-time macros for tokenizing the leaf/subleaf offsets within the CPUID table. (b) Generic runtime code to fill the CPUID data, using a parsing table which collects these compile-time offsets. For actual CPUID output parsing, support both generic and leaf-specific read functions. To ensure CPUID data early availability, invoke the parser during early boot, early Xen boot, and at early secondary CPUs bring up. Provide call site APIs to refresh a single leaf, or a leaf range, within the CPUID tables. This is for sites issuing MSR writes that partially change the CPU's CPUID layout. Doing full CPUID table rescans in such cases will be destructive since the CPUID tables will host all of the kernel's X86_FEATURE flags at a later stage. Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish <darwi@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260327021645.555257-1-darwi@linutronix.de
2026-05-08x86/fpu: Remove the 'no387' boot optionIngo Molnar
Without math emulation there's no point to this option. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ahmed S. Darwish <darwi@linutronix.de> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250425084216.3913608-10-mingo@kernel.org
2026-04-17Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvmLinus Torvalds
Pull kvm updates from Paolo Bonzini: "Arm: - Add support for tracing in the standalone EL2 hypervisor code, which should help both debugging and performance analysis. This uses the new infrastructure for 'remote' trace buffers that can be exposed by non-kernel entities such as firmware, and which came through the tracing tree - Add support for GICv5 Per Processor Interrupts (PPIs), as the starting point for supporting the new GIC architecture in KVM - Finally add support for pKVM protected guests, where pages are unmapped from the host as they are faulted into the guest and can be shared back from the guest using pKVM hypercalls. Protected guests are created using a new machine type identifier. As the elusive guestmem has not yet delivered on its promises, anonymous memory is also supported This is only a first step towards full isolation from the host; for example, the CPU register state and DMA accesses are not yet isolated. Because this does not really yet bring fully what it promises, it is hidden behind CONFIG_ARM_PKVM_GUEST + 'kvm-arm.mode=protected', and also triggers TAINT_USER when a VM is created. Caveat emptor - Rework the dreaded user_mem_abort() function to make it more maintainable, reducing the amount of state being exposed to the various helpers and rendering a substantial amount of state immutable - Expand the Stage-2 page table dumper to support NV shadow page tables on a per-VM basis - Tidy up the pKVM PSCI proxy code to be slightly less hard to follow - Fix both SPE and TRBE in non-VHE configurations so that they do not generate spurious, out of context table walks that ultimately lead to very bad HW lockups - A small set of patches fixing the Stage-2 MMU freeing in error cases - Tighten-up accepted SMC immediate value to be only #0 for host SMCCC calls - The usual cleanups and other selftest churn LoongArch: - Use CSR_CRMD_PLV for kvm_arch_vcpu_in_kernel() - Add DMSINTC irqchip in kernel support RISC-V: - Fix steal time shared memory alignment checks - Fix vector context allocation leak - Fix array out-of-bounds in pmu_ctr_read() and pmu_fw_ctr_read_hi() - Fix double-free of sdata in kvm_pmu_clear_snapshot_area() - Fix integer overflow in kvm_pmu_validate_counter_mask() - Fix shift-out-of-bounds in make_xfence_request() - Fix lost write protection on huge pages during dirty logging - Split huge pages during fault handling for dirty logging - Skip CSR restore if VCPU is reloaded on the same core - Implement kvm_arch_has_default_irqchip() for KVM selftests - Factored-out ISA checks into separate sources - Added hideleg to struct kvm_vcpu_config - Factored-out VCPU config into separate sources - Support configuration of per-VM HGATP mode from KVM user space s390: - Support for ESA (31-bit) guests inside nested hypervisors - Remove restriction on memslot alignment, which is not needed anymore with the new gmap code - Fix LPSW/E to update the bear (which of course is the breaking event address register) x86: - Shut up various UBSAN warnings on reading module parameter before they were initialized - Don't zero-allocate page tables that are used for splitting hugepages in the TDP MMU, as KVM is guaranteed to set all SPTEs in the page table and thus write all bytes - As an optimization, bail early when trying to unsync 4KiB mappings if the target gfn can just be mapped with a 2MiB hugepage x86 generic: - Copy single-chunk MMIO write values into struct kvm_vcpu (more precisely struct kvm_mmio_fragment) to fix use-after-free stack bugs where KVM would dereference stack pointer after an exit to userspace - Clean up and comment the emulated MMIO code to try to make it easier to maintain (not necessarily "easy", but "easier") - Move VMXON+VMXOFF and EFER.SVME toggling out of KVM (not *all* of VMX and SVM enabling) as it is needed for trusted I/O - Advertise support for AVX512 Bit Matrix Multiply (BMM) instructions - Immediately fail the build if a required #define is missing in one of KVM's headers that is included multiple times - Reject SET_GUEST_DEBUG with -EBUSY if there's an already injected exception, mostly to prevent syzkaller from abusing the uAPI to trigger WARNs, but also because it can help prevent userspace from unintentionally crashing the VM - Exempt SMM from CPUID faulting on Intel, as per the spec - Misc hardening and cleanup changes x86 (AMD): - Fix and optimize IRQ window inhibit handling for AVIC; make it per-vCPU so that KVM doesn't prematurely re-enable AVIC if multiple vCPUs have to-be-injected IRQs - Clean up and optimize the OSVW handling, avoiding a bug in which KVM would overwrite state when enabling virtualization on multiple CPUs in parallel. This should not be a problem because OSVW should usually be the same for all CPUs - Drop a WARN in KVM_MEMORY_ENCRYPT_REG_REGION where KVM complains about a "too large" size based purely on user input - Clean up and harden the pinning code for KVM_MEMORY_ENCRYPT_REG_REGION - Disallow synchronizing a VMSA of an already-launched/encrypted vCPU, as doing so for an SNP guest will crash the host due to an RMP violation page fault - Overhaul KVM's APIs for detecting SEV+ guests so that VM-scoped queries are required to hold kvm->lock, and enforce it by lockdep. Fix various bugs where sev_guest() was not ensured to be stable for the whole duration of a function or ioctl - Convert a pile of kvm->lock SEV code to guard() - Play nicer with userspace that does not enable KVM_CAP_EXCEPTION_PAYLOAD, for which KVM needs to set CR2 and DR6 as a response to ioctls such as KVM_GET_VCPU_EVENTS (even if the payload would end up in EXITINFO2 rather than CR2, for example). Only set CR2 and DR6 when consumption of the payload is imminent, but on the other hand force delivery of the payload in all paths where userspace retrieves CR2 or DR6 - Use vcpu->arch.cr2 when updating vmcb12's CR2 on nested #VMEXIT instead of vmcb02->save.cr2. The value is out of sync after a save/restore or after a #PF is injected into L2 - Fix a class of nSVM bugs where some fields written by the CPU are not synchronized from vmcb02 to cached vmcb12 after VMRUN, and so are not up-to-date when saved by KVM_GET_NESTED_STATE - Fix a class of bugs where the ordering between KVM_SET_NESTED_STATE and KVM_SET_{S}REGS could cause vmcb02 to be incorrectly initialized after save+restore - Add a variety of missing nSVM consistency checks - Fix several bugs where KVM failed to correctly update VMCB fields on nested #VMEXIT - Fix several bugs where KVM failed to correctly synthesize #UD or #GP for SVM-related instructions - Add support for save+restore of virtualized LBRs (on SVM) - Refactor various helpers and macros to improve clarity and (hopefully) make the code easier to maintain - Aggressively sanitize fields when copying from vmcb12, to guard against unintentionally allowing L1 to utilize yet-to-be-defined features - Fix several bugs where KVM botched rAX legality checks when emulating SVM instructions. There are remaining issues in that KVM doesn't handle size prefix overrides for 64-bit guests - Fail emulation of VMRUN/VMLOAD/VMSAVE if mapping vmcb12 fails instead of somewhat arbitrarily synthesizing #GP (i.e. don't double down on AMD's architectural but sketchy behavior of generating #GP for "unsupported" addresses) - Cache all used vmcb12 fields to further harden against TOCTOU bugs x86 (Intel): - Drop obsolete branch hint prefixes from the VMX instruction macros - Use ASM_INPUT_RM() in __vmcs_writel() to coerce clang into using a register input when appropriate - Code cleanups guest_memfd: - Don't mark guest_memfd folios as accessed, as guest_memfd doesn't support reclaim, the memory is unevictable, and there is no storage to write back to LoongArch selftests: - Add KVM PMU test cases s390 selftests: - Enable more memory selftests x86 selftests: - Add support for Hygon CPUs in KVM selftests - Fix a bug in the MSR test where it would get false failures on AMD/Hygon CPUs with exactly one of RDPID or RDTSCP - Add an MADV_COLLAPSE testcase for guest_memfd as a regression test for a bug where the kernel would attempt to collapse guest_memfd folios against KVM's will" * tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (373 commits) KVM: x86: use inlines instead of macros for is_sev_*guest x86/virt: Treat SVM as unsupported when running as an SEV+ guest KVM: SEV: Goto an existing error label if charging misc_cg for an ASID fails KVM: SVM: Move lock-protected allocation of SEV ASID into a separate helper KVM: SEV: use mutex guard in snp_handle_guest_req() KVM: SEV: use mutex guard in sev_mem_enc_unregister_region() KVM: SEV: use mutex guard in sev_mem_enc_ioctl() KVM: SEV: use mutex guard in snp_launch_update() KVM: SEV: Assert that kvm->lock is held when querying SEV+ support KVM: SEV: Document that checking for SEV+ guests when reclaiming memory is "safe" KVM: SEV: Hide "struct kvm_sev_info" behind CONFIG_KVM_AMD_SEV=y KVM: SEV: WARN on unhandled VM type when initializing VM KVM: LoongArch: selftests: Add PMU overflow interrupt test KVM: LoongArch: selftests: Add basic PMU event counting test KVM: LoongArch: selftests: Add cpucfg read/write helpers LoongArch: KVM: Add DMSINTC inject msi to vCPU LoongArch: KVM: Add DMSINTC device support LoongArch: KVM: Make vcpu_is_preempted() as a macro rather than function LoongArch: KVM: Move host CSR_GSTAT save and restore in context switch LoongArch: KVM: Move host CSR_EENTRY save and restore in context switch ...
2026-04-14Merge tag 'x86_fred_for_v7.1_rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 FRED updates from Borislav Petkov: "We made the FRED support an opt-in initially out of fear of it breaking machines left and right in the case of a hw bug in the first generation of machines supporting it. Now that that the FRED code has seen a lot of hammering, flip the logic to be opt-out as is the usual case with new hw features" * tag 'x86_fred_for_v7.1_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86/fred: Remove kernel log message when initializing exceptions x86/fred: Enable FRED by default
2026-04-14Merge tag 'x86_cpu_for_7.1-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 cpu updates from Dave Hansen: - Complete LASS enabling: deal with vsyscall and EFI The existing Linear Address Space Separation (LASS) support punted on support for common EFI and vsyscall configs. Complete the implementation by supporting EFI and vsyscall=xonly. - Clean up CPUID usage in newer Intel "avs" audio driver and update the x86-cpuid-db file * tag 'x86_cpu_for_7.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: tools/x86/kcpuid: Update bitfields to x86-cpuid-db v3.0 ASoC: Intel: avs: Include CPUID header at file scope ASoC: Intel: avs: Check maximum valid CPUID leaf x86/cpu: Remove LASS restriction on vsyscall emulation x86/vsyscall: Disable LASS if vsyscall mode is set to EMULATE x86/vsyscall: Restore vsyscall=xonly mode under LASS x86/traps: Consolidate user fixups in the #GP handler x86/vsyscall: Reorganize the page fault emulation code x86/cpu: Remove LASS restriction on EFI x86/efi: Disable LASS while executing runtime services x86/cpu: Defer LASS enabling until userspace comes up
2026-04-13Merge tag 'kvm-x86-vmxon-7.1' of https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux into HEADPaolo Bonzini
KVM x86 VMXON and EFER.SVME extraction for 7.1 Move _only_ VMXON+VMXOFF and EFER.SVME toggling out of KVM (versus all of VMX and SVM enabling) out of KVM and into the core kernel so that non-KVM TDX enabling, e.g. for trusted I/O, can make SEAMCALLs without needing to ensure KVM is fully loaded. TIO isn't a hypervisor, and isn't trying to be a hypervisor. Specifically, TIO should _never_ have it's own VMCSes (that are visible to the host; the TDX-Module has it's own VMCSes to do SEAMCALL/SEAMRET), and so there is simply no reason to move that functionality out of KVM. With that out of the way, dealing with VMXON/VMXOFF and EFER.SVME is a fairly simple refcounting game.
2026-03-27x86/fred: Enable FRED by defaultH. Peter Anvin
When FRED was added to the mainline kernel, it was set up as an explicit opt-in due to the risk of regressions before hardware was available publicly. Now, Panther Lake (Core Ultra 300 series) has been released, and benchmarking by Phoronix has shown that it provides a significant performance benefit on most workloads: https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-fred-panther-lake Accordingly, enable FRED by default if the CPU supports it. FRED can of course still be disabled via the fred=off command line option. Touch up Kconfig help too. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Reviewed-by: Sohil Mehta <sohil.mehta@intel.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260325230151.1898287-2-hpa@zytor.com
2026-03-23x86/cpu: Add comment clarifying CRn pinningPeter Zijlstra
To avoid future confusion on the purpose and design of the CRn pinning code. Also note that if the attacker controls page-tables, the CRn bits lose much of the attraction anyway. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260320092521.GG3739106@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net
2026-03-23x86/cpu: Remove X86_CR4_FRED from the CR4 pinned bits maskBorislav Petkov (AMD)
Commit in Fixes added the FRED CR4 bit to the CR4 pinned bits mask so that whenever something else modifies CR4, that bit remains set. Which in itself is a perfectly fine idea. However, there's an issue when during boot FRED is initialized: first on the BSP and later on the APs. Thus, there's a window in time when exceptions cannot be handled. This becomes particularly nasty when running as SEV-{ES,SNP} or TDX guests which, when they manage to trigger exceptions during that short window described above, triple fault due to FRED MSRs not being set up yet. See Link tag below for a much more detailed explanation of the situation. So, as a result, the commit in that Link URL tried to address this shortcoming by temporarily disabling CR4 pinning when an AP is not online yet. However, that is a problem in itself because in this case, an attack on the kernel needs to only modify the online bit - a single bit in RW memory - and then disable CR4 pinning and then disable SM*P, leading to more and worse things to happen to the system. So, instead, remove the FRED bit from the CR4 pinning mask, thus obviating the need to temporarily disable CR4 pinning. If someone manages to disable FRED when poking at CR4, then idt_invalidate() would make sure the system would crash'n'burn on the first exception triggered, which is a much better outcome security-wise. Fixes: ff45746fbf00 ("x86/cpu: Add X86_CR4_FRED macro") Suggested-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # 6.12+ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/177385987098.1647592.3381141860481415647.tip-bot2@tip-bot2
2026-03-23x86/cpu: Enable FSGSBASE early in cpu_init_exception_handling()Nikunj A Dadhania
Move FSGSBASE enablement from identify_cpu() to cpu_init_exception_handling() to ensure it is enabled before any exceptions can occur on both boot and secondary CPUs. == Background == Exception entry code (paranoid_entry()) uses ALTERNATIVE patching based on X86_FEATURE_FSGSBASE to decide whether to use RDGSBASE/WRGSBASE instructions or the slower RDMSR/SWAPGS sequence for saving/restoring GSBASE. On boot CPU, ALTERNATIVE patching happens after enabling FSGSBASE in CR4. When the feature is available, the code is permanently patched to use RDGSBASE/WRGSBASE, which require CR4.FSGSBASE=1 to execute without triggering == Boot Sequence == Boot CPU (with CR pinning enabled): trap_init() cpu_init() <- Uses unpatched code (RDMSR/SWAPGS) x2apic_setup() ... arch_cpu_finalize_init() identify_boot_cpu() identify_cpu() cr4_set_bits(X86_CR4_FSGSBASE) # Enables the feature # This becomes part of cr4_pinned_bits ... alternative_instructions() <- Patches code to use RDGSBASE/WRGSBASE Secondary CPUs (with CR pinning enabled): start_secondary() cr4_init() <- Code already patched, CR4.FSGSBASE=1 set implicitly via cr4_pinned_bits cpu_init() <- exceptions work because FSGSBASE is already enabled Secondary CPU (with CR pinning disabled): start_secondary() cr4_init() <- Code already patched, CR4.FSGSBASE=0 cpu_init() x2apic_setup() rdmsrq(MSR_IA32_APICBASE) <- Triggers #VC in SNP guests exc_vmm_communication() paranoid_entry() <- Uses RDGSBASE with CR4.FSGSBASE=0 (patched code) ... ap_starting() identify_secondary_cpu() identify_cpu() cr4_set_bits(X86_CR4_FSGSBASE) <- Enables the feature, which is too late == CR Pinning == Currently, for secondary CPUs, CR4.FSGSBASE is set implicitly through CR-pinning: the boot CPU sets it during identify_cpu(), it becomes part of cr4_pinned_bits, and cr4_init() applies those pinned bits to secondary CPUs. This works but creates an undocumented dependency between cr4_init() and the pinning mechanism. == Problem == Secondary CPUs boot after alternatives have been applied globally. They execute already-patched paranoid_entry() code that uses RDGSBASE/WRGSBASE instructions, which require CR4.FSGSBASE=1. Upcoming changes to CR pinning behavior will break the implicit dependency, causing secondary CPUs to generate #UD. This issue manifests itself on AMD SEV-SNP guests, where the rdmsrq() in x2apic_setup() triggers a #VC exception early during cpu_init(). The #VC handler (exc_vmm_communication()) executes the patched paranoid_entry() path. Without CR4.FSGSBASE enabled, RDGSBASE instructions trigger #UD. == Fix == Enable FSGSBASE explicitly in cpu_init_exception_handling() before loading exception handlers. This makes the dependency explicit and ensures both boot and secondary CPUs have FSGSBASE enabled before paranoid_entry() executes. Fixes: c82965f9e530 ("x86/entry/64: Handle FSGSBASE enabled paranoid entry/exit") Reported-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Suggested-by: Sohil Mehta <sohil.mehta@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Nikunj A Dadhania <nikunj@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Reviewed-by: Sohil Mehta <sohil.mehta@intel.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260318075654.1792916-2-nikunj@amd.com
2026-03-19x86/cpu: Remove LASS restriction on vsyscall emulationSohil Mehta
Vsyscall emulation has two modes of operation: XONLY and EMULATE. The default XONLY mode is now supported with a LASS-triggered #GP. OTOH, LASS is disabled if someone requests the deprecated EMULATE mode via the vsyscall=emulate command line option. So, remove the restriction on LASS when the overall vsyscall emulation support is compiled in. As a result, there is no need for setup_lass() anymore. LASS is enabled by default through a late_initcall(). Signed-off-by: Sohil Mehta <sohil.mehta@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com> Reviewed-by: Tested-by: Maciej Wieczor-Retman <maciej.wieczor-retman@intel.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260309181029.398498-6-sohil.mehta@intel.com
2026-03-04KVM: VMX: Unconditionally allocate root VMCSes during boot CPU bringupSean Christopherson
Allocate the root VMCS (misleading called "vmxarea" and "kvm_area" in KVM) for each possible CPU during early boot CPU bringup, before early TDX initialization, so that TDX can eventually do VMXON on-demand (to make SEAMCALLs) without needing to load kvm-intel.ko. Allocate the pages early on, e.g. instead of trying to do so on-demand, to avoid having to juggle allocation failures at runtime. Opportunistically rename the per-CPU pointers to better reflect the role of the VMCS. Use Intel's "root VMCS" terminology, e.g. from various VMCS patents[1][2] and older SDMs, not the more opaque "VMXON region" used in recent versions of the SDM. While it's possible the VMCS passed to VMXON no longer serves as _the_ root VMCS on modern CPUs, it is still in effect a "root mode VMCS", as described in the patents. Link: https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/c7/e4/32/d7a7def5580667/WO2013101191A1.pdf [1] Link: https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/13/f6/8d/1361fab8c33373/US20080163205A1.pdf [2] Tested-by: Chao Gao <chao.gao@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Tested-by: Sagi Shahar <sagis@google.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260214012702.2368778-5-seanjc@google.com Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2026-03-04x86/topo: Add topology_num_nodes_per_package()Peter Zijlstra
Use the MADT and SRAT table data to compute __num_nodes_per_package. Specifically, SRAT has already been parsed in x86_numa_init(), which is called before acpi_boot_init() which parses MADT. So both are available in topology_init_possible_cpus(). This number is useful to divinate the various Intel CoD/SNC and AMD NPS modes, since the platforms are failing to provide this otherwise. Doing it this way is independent of the number of online CPUs and other such shenanigans. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Tested-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Tested-by: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com> Tested-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com> Tested-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com> Tested-by: Kyle Meyer <kyle.meyer@hpe.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260303110100.004091624@infradead.org
2026-03-03x86/cpu: Remove LASS restriction on EFISohil Mehta
The initial LASS enabling has been deferred to much later during boot, and EFI runtime services now run with LASS temporarily disabled. This removes LASS from the path of all EFI services. Remove the LASS restriction on EFI config, as the two can now coexist. Signed-off-by: Sohil Mehta <sohil.mehta@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Tested-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Tested-by: Maciej Wieczor-Retman <maciej.wieczor-retman@intel.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260120234730.2215498-4-sohil.mehta@intel.com
2026-03-03x86/cpu: Defer LASS enabling until userspace comes upSohil Mehta
LASS blocks any kernel access to the lower half of the virtual address space. Unfortunately, some EFI accesses happen during boot with bit 63 cleared, which causes a #GP fault when LASS is enabled. Notably, the SetVirtualAddressMap() call can only happen in EFI physical mode. Also, EFI_BOOT_SERVICES_CODE/_DATA could be accessed even after ExitBootServices(). The boot services memory is truly freed during efi_free_boot_services() after SVAM has completed. To prevent EFI from tripping LASS, at a minimum, LASS enabling must be deferred until EFI has completely finished entering virtual mode (including freeing boot services memory). Moving setup_lass() to arch_cpu_finalize_init() would do the trick, but that would make the implementation very fragile. Something else might come in the future that would need the LASS enabling to be moved again. In general, security features such as LASS provide limited value before userspace is up. They aren't necessary during early boot while only trusted ring0 code is executing. Introduce a generic late initcall to defer activating some CPU features until userspace is enabled. For now, only move the LASS CR4 programming to this initcall. As APs are already up by the time late initcalls run, some extra steps are needed to enable LASS on all CPUs. Use a CPU hotplug callback instead of on_each_cpu() or smp_call_function(). This ensures that LASS is enabled on every CPU that is currently online as well as any future CPUs that come online later. Note, even though hotplug callbacks run with preemption enabled, cr4_set_bits() would disable interrupts while updating CR4. Keep the existing logic in place to clear the LASS feature bits early. setup_clear_cpu_cap() must be called before boot_cpu_data is finalized and alternatives are patched. Eventually, the entire setup_lass() logic can go away once the restrictions based on vsyscall emulation and EFI are removed. Signed-off-by: Sohil Mehta <sohil.mehta@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Tested-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Tested-by: Maciej Wieczor-Retman <maciej.wieczor-retman@intel.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260120234730.2215498-2-sohil.mehta@intel.com
2026-01-13x86/cpufeature: Replace X86_FEATURE_SYSENTER32 with X86_FEATURE_SYSFAST32H. Peter Anvin
In most cases, the use of "fast 32-bit system call" depends either on X86_FEATURE_SEP or X86_FEATURE_SYSENTER32 || X86_FEATURE_SYSCALL32. However, nearly all the logic for both is identical. Define X86_FEATURE_SYSFAST32 which indicates that *either* SYSENTER32 or SYSCALL32 should be used, for either 32- or 64-bit kernels. This defaults to SYSENTER; use SYSCALL if the SYSCALL32 bit is also set. As this removes ALL existing uses of X86_FEATURE_SYSENTER32, which is a kernel-only synthetic feature bit, simply remove it and replace it with X86_FEATURE_SYSFAST32. This leaves an unused alternative for a true 32-bit kernel, but that should really not matter in any way. The clearing of X86_FEATURE_SYSCALL32 can be removed once the patches for automatically clearing disabled features has been merged. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251216212606.1325678-10-hpa@zytor.com
2025-12-02Merge tag 'x86_cpu_for_6.19-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 CPU feature updates from Dave Hansen: "The biggest thing of note here is Linear Address Space Separation (LASS). It represents the first time I can think of that the upper=>kernel/lower=>user address space convention is actually recognized by the hardware on x86. It ensures that userspace can not even get the hardware to _start_ page walks for the kernel address space. This, of course, is a really nice generic side channel defense. This is really only a down payment on LASS support. There are still some details to work out in its interaction with EFI calls and vsyscall emulation. For now, LASS is disabled if either of those features is compiled in (which is almost always the case). There's also one straggler commit in here which converts an under-utilized AMD CPU feature leaf into a generic Linux-defined leaf so more feature can be packed in there. Summary: - Enable Linear Address Space Separation (LASS) - Change X86_FEATURE leaf 17 from an AMD leaf to Linux-defined" * tag 'x86_cpu_for_6.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86/cpu: Enable LASS during CPU initialization selftests/x86: Update the negative vsyscall tests to expect a #GP x86/traps: Communicate a LASS violation in #GP message x86/kexec: Disable LASS during relocate kernel x86/alternatives: Disable LASS when patching kernel code x86/asm: Introduce inline memcpy and memset x86/cpu: Add an LASS dependency on SMAP x86/cpufeatures: Enumerate the LASS feature bits x86/cpufeatures: Make X86_FEATURE leaf 17 Linux-specific
2025-12-02Merge tag 'x86_misc_for_6.19-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull misc x86 updates from Dave Hansen: "The most significant are some changes to ensure that symbols exported for KVM are used only by KVM modules themselves, along with some related cleanups. In true x86/misc fashion, the other patch is completely unrelated and just enhances an existing pr_warn() to make it clear to users how they have tainted their kernel when something is mucking with MSRs. Summary: - Make MSR-induced taint easier for users to track down - Restrict KVM-specific exports to KVM itself" * tag 'x86_misc_for_6.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86: Restrict KVM-induced symbol exports to KVM modules where obvious/possible x86/mm: Drop unnecessary export of "ptdump_walk_pgd_level_debugfs" x86/mtrr: Drop unnecessary export of "mtrr_state" x86/bugs: Drop unnecessary export of "x86_spec_ctrl_base" x86/msr: Add CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC taint name to "unrecognized" pr_warn(msg)
2025-11-18x86/cpu: Enable LASS during CPU initializationSohil Mehta
Linear Address Space Separation (LASS) mitigates a class of side-channel attacks that rely on speculative access across the user/kernel boundary. Enable LASS along with similar security features if the platform supports it. While at it, remove the comment above the SMAP/SMEP/UMIP/LASS setup instead of updating it, as the whole sequence is quite self-explanatory. Some EFI runtime and boot services may rely on 1:1 mappings in the lower half during early boot and even after SetVirtualAddressMap(). To avoid tripping LASS, the initial CR4 programming would need to be delayed until EFI has completely finished entering virtual mode (including efi_free_boot_services()). Also, LASS would need to be temporarily disabled while switching to efi_mm to avoid potential faults on stray runtime accesses. Similarly, legacy vsyscall page accesses are flagged by LASS resulting in a #GP (instead of a #PF). Without LASS, the #PF handler emulates the accesses and returns the appropriate values. Equivalent emulation support is required in the #GP handler with LASS enabled. In case of vsyscall XONLY (execute only) mode, the faulting address is readily available in the RIP which would make it easier to reuse the #PF emulation logic. For now, keep it simple and disable LASS if either of those are compiled in. Though not ideal, this makes it easier to start testing LASS support in some environments. In future, LASS support can easily be expanded to support EFI and legacy vsyscalls. Signed-off-by: Sohil Mehta <sohil.mehta@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251118182911.2983253-9-sohil.mehta%40intel.com
2025-11-12x86: Restrict KVM-induced symbol exports to KVM modules where obvious/possibleSean Christopherson
Extend KVM's export macro framework to provide EXPORT_SYMBOL_FOR_KVM(), and use the helper macro to export symbols for KVM throughout x86 if and only if KVM will build one or more modules, and only for those modules. To avoid unnecessary exports when CONFIG_KVM=m but kvm.ko will not be built (because no vendor modules are selected), let arch code #define EXPORT_SYMBOL_FOR_KVM to suppress/override the exports. Note, the set of symbols to restrict to KVM was generated by manual search and audit; any "misses" are due to human error, not some grand plan. Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Kai Huang <kai.huang@intel.com> Tested-by: Kai Huang <kai.huang@intel.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251112173944.1380633-5-seanjc%40google.com
2025-11-05x86: uaccess: don't use runtime-const rewriting in modulesLinus Torvalds
The runtime-const infrastructure was never designed to handle the modular case, because the constant fixup is only done at boot time for core kernel code. But by the time I used it for the x86-64 user space limit handling in commit 86e6b1547b3d ("x86: fix user address masking non-canonical speculation issue"), I had completely repressed that fact. And it all happens to work because the only code that currently actually gets inlined by modules is for the access_ok() limit check, where the default constant value works even when not fixed up. Because at least I had intentionally made it be something that is in the non-canonical address space region. But it's technically very wrong, and it does mean that at least in theory, the use of 'access_ok()' + '__get_user()' can trigger the same speculation issue with non-canonical addresses that the original commit was all about. The pattern is unusual enough that this probably doesn't matter in practice, but very wrong is still very wrong. Also, let's fix it before the nice optimized scoped user accessor helpers that Thomas Gleixner is working on cause this pseudo-constant to then be more widely used. This all came up due to an unrelated discussion with Mateusz Guzik about using the runtime const infrastructure for names_cachep accesses too. There the modular case was much more obviously broken, and Mateusz noted it in his 'v2' of the patch series. That then made me notice how broken 'access_ok()' had been in modules all along. Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. Fix it by simply not using the runtime-const code in modules, and just using the USER_PTR_MAX variable value instead. This is not performance-critical like the core user accessor functions (get_user() and friends) are. Also make sure this doesn't get forgotten the next time somebody wants to do runtime constant optimizations by having the x86 runtime-const.h header file error out if included by modules. Fixes: 86e6b1547b3d ("x86: fix user address masking non-canonical speculation issue") Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Acked-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Triggered-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251030105242.801528-1-mjguzik@gmail.com/ Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2025-10-13x86/cpufeatures: Make X86_FEATURE leaf 17 Linux-specificBorislav Petkov (AMD)
That cpuinfo_x86.x86_capability[] element was supposed to mirror CPUID flags from CPUID_0x80000007_EBX but that leaf has still to this day only three bits defined in it. So move those bits to scattered.c and free the capability element for synthetic flags. No functional changes. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
2025-09-30Merge tag 'ras_core_for_v6.18_rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 RAS updates from Borislav Petkov: - Unify and refactor the MCA arch side and better separate code - Cleanup and simplify the AMD RAS side, unify code, drop unused stuff * tag 'ras_core_for_v6.18_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86/mce: Add a clear_bank() helper x86/mce: Move machine_check_poll() status checks to helper functions x86/mce: Separate global and per-CPU quirks x86/mce: Do 'UNKNOWN' vendor check early x86/mce: Define BSP-only SMCA init x86/mce: Define BSP-only init x86/mce: Set CR4.MCE last during init x86/mce: Remove __mcheck_cpu_init_early() x86/mce: Cleanup bank processing on init x86/mce/amd: Put list_head in threshold_bank x86/mce/amd: Remove smca_banks_map x86/mce/amd: Remove return value for mce_threshold_{create,remove}_device() x86/mce/amd: Rename threshold restart function
2025-09-11x86/mce: Define BSP-only initYazen Ghannam
Currently, MCA initialization is executed identically on each CPU as they are brought online. However, a number of MCA initialization tasks only need to be done once. Define a function to collect all 'global' init tasks and call this from the BSP only. Start with CPU features. Signed-off-by: Yazen Ghannam <yazen.ghannam@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Reviewed-by: Qiuxu Zhuo <qiuxu.zhuo@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Nikolay Borisov <nik.borisov@suse.com> Tested-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250908-wip-mca-updates-v6-0-eef5d6c74b9c@amd.com
2025-08-29x86/vmscape: Add old Intel CPUs to affected listPawan Gupta
These old CPUs are not tested against VMSCAPE, but are likely vulnerable. Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
2025-08-14x86/vmscape: Enumerate VMSCAPE bugPawan Gupta
The VMSCAPE vulnerability may allow a guest to cause Branch Target Injection (BTI) in userspace hypervisors. Kernels (both host and guest) have existing defenses against direct BTI attacks from guests. There are also inter-process BTI mitigations which prevent processes from attacking each other. However, the threat in this case is to a userspace hypervisor within the same process as the attacker. Userspace hypervisors have access to their own sensitive data like disk encryption keys and also typically have access to all guest data. This means guest userspace may use the hypervisor as a confused deputy to attack sensitive guest kernel data. There are no existing mitigations for these attacks. Introduce X86_BUG_VMSCAPE for this vulnerability and set it on affected Intel and AMD CPUs. Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
2025-07-29Merge tag 'x86-boot-2025-07-29' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 boot updates from Ingo Molnar: - Implement support for embedding EFI SBAT data (Secure Boot Advanced Targeting: a secure boot image revocation facility) on x86 (Vitaly Kuznetsov) - Move the efi_enter_virtual_mode() initialization call from the generic init code to x86 init code (Alexander Shishkin) * tag 'x86-boot-2025-07-29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86/efi: Implement support for embedding SBAT data for x86 x86/efi: Move runtime service initialization to arch/x86
2025-07-07Merge tag 'tsa_x86_bugs_for_6.16' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull CPU speculation fixes from Borislav Petkov: "Add the mitigation logic for Transient Scheduler Attacks (TSA) TSA are new aspeculative side channel attacks related to the execution timing of instructions under specific microarchitectural conditions. In some cases, an attacker may be able to use this timing information to infer data from other contexts, resulting in information leakage. Add the usual controls of the mitigation and integrate it into the existing speculation bugs infrastructure in the kernel" * tag 'tsa_x86_bugs_for_6.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86/process: Move the buffer clearing before MONITOR x86/microcode/AMD: Add TSA microcode SHAs KVM: SVM: Advertise TSA CPUID bits to guests x86/bugs: Add a Transient Scheduler Attacks mitigation x86/bugs: Rename MDS machinery to something more generic
2025-06-24x86/traps: Initialize DR7 by writing its architectural reset valueXin Li (Intel)
Initialize DR7 by writing its architectural reset value to always set bit 10, which is reserved to '1', when "clearing" DR7 so as not to trigger unanticipated behavior if said bit is ever unreserved, e.g. as a feature enabling flag with inverted polarity. Signed-off-by: Xin Li (Intel) <xin@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com> Reviewed-by: Sohil Mehta <sohil.mehta@intel.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Tested-by: Sohil Mehta <sohil.mehta@intel.com> Cc:stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250620231504.2676902-3-xin%40zytor.com