kernel/git/stable/linux.git/arch/x86/include, branch linux-6.16.y

x86/topology: Implement topology_is_core_online() to address SMT regression

2025-10-02T11:48:38+00:00

commit 2066f00e5b2dc061fb6d8c88fadaebc97f11feaa upstream. Christian reported that commit a430c11f4015 ("intel_idle: Rescan "dead" SMT siblings during initialization") broke the use case in which both 'nosmt' and 'maxcpus' are on the kernel command line because it onlines primary threads, which were offline due to the maxcpus limit. The initially proposed fix to skip primary threads in the loop is inconsistent. While it prevents the primary thread to be onlined, it then onlines the corresponding hyperthread(s), which does not really make sense. The CPU iterator in cpuhp_smt_enable() contains a check which excludes all threads of a core, when the primary thread is offline. The default implementation is a NOOP and therefore not effective on x86. Implement topology_is_core_online() on x86 to address this issue. This makes the behaviour consistent between x86 and PowerPC. Fixes: a430c11f4015 ("intel_idle: Rescan "dead" SMT siblings during initialization") Fixes: f694481b1d31 ("ACPI: processor: Rescan "dead" SMT siblings during initialization") Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pm/724616a2-6374-4ba3-8ce3-ea9c45e2ae3b@arm.com/ Reported-by: Christian Loehle Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) Reviewed-by: Rafael J. Wysocki (Intel) Tested-by: Christian Loehle Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/12740505.O9o76ZdvQC@rafael.j.wysocki Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86/sev: Guard sev_evict_cache() with CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT

2025-09-25T09:16:49+00:00

commit 7f830e126dc357fc086905ce9730140fd4528d66 upstream. The sev_evict_cache() is guest-related code and should be guarded by CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT, not CONFIG_KVM_AMD_SEV. CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT=y is required for a guest to run properly as an SEV-SNP guest, but a guest kernel built with CONFIG_KVM_AMD_SEV=n would get the stub function of sev_evict_cache() instead of the version that performs the actual eviction. Move the function declarations under the appropriate #ifdef. Fixes: 7b306dfa326f ("x86/sev: Evict cache lines during SNP memory validation") Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) Cc: stable@kernel.org # 6.16.x Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/70e38f2c4a549063de54052c9f64929705313526.1757708959.git.thomas.lendacky@amd.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86/vmscape: Add conditional IBPB mitigation

2025-09-11T15:23:22+00:00

Commit 2f8f173413f1cbf52660d04df92d0069c4306d25 upstream. VMSCAPE is a vulnerability that exploits insufficient branch predictor isolation between a guest and a userspace hypervisor (like QEMU). Existing mitigations already protect kernel/KVM from a malicious guest. Userspace can additionally be protected by flushing the branch predictors after a VMexit. Since it is the userspace that consumes the poisoned branch predictors, conditionally issue an IBPB after a VMexit and before returning to userspace. Workloads that frequently switch between hypervisor and userspace will incur the most overhead from the new IBPB. This new IBPB is not integrated with the existing IBPB sites. For instance, a task can use the existing speculation control prctl() to get an IBPB at context switch time. With this implementation, the IBPB is doubled up: one at context switch and another before running userspace. The intent is to integrate and optimize these cases post-embargo. [ dhansen: elaborate on suboptimal IBPB solution ] Suggested-by: Dave Hansen Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) Reviewed-by: Dave Hansen Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) Acked-by: Sean Christopherson Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86/vmscape: Enumerate VMSCAPE bug

2025-09-11T15:23:22+00:00

Commit a508cec6e5215a3fbc7e73ae86a5c5602187934d upstream. 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 Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86/mm/64: define ARCH_PAGE_TABLE_SYNC_MASK and arch_sync_kernel_mappings()

2025-09-09T17:02:29+00:00

commit 6659d027998083fbb6d42a165b0c90dc2e8ba989 upstream. Define ARCH_PAGE_TABLE_SYNC_MASK and arch_sync_kernel_mappings() to ensure page tables are properly synchronized when calling p*d_populate_kernel(). For 5-level paging, synchronization is performed via pgd_populate_kernel(). In 4-level paging, pgd_populate() is a no-op, so synchronization is instead performed at the P4D level via p4d_populate_kernel(). This fixes intermittent boot failures on systems using 4-level paging and a large amount of persistent memory: BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffe70000000034 #PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode #PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page PGD 0 P4D 0 Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP NOPTI RIP: 0010:__init_single_page+0x9/0x6d Call Trace: __init_zone_device_page+0x17/0x5d memmap_init_zone_device+0x154/0x1bb pagemap_range+0x2e0/0x40f memremap_pages+0x10b/0x2f0 devm_memremap_pages+0x1e/0x60 dev_dax_probe+0xce/0x2ec [device_dax] dax_bus_probe+0x6d/0xc9 [... snip ...] It also fixes a crash in vmemmap_set_pmd() caused by accessing vmemmap before sync_global_pgds() [1]: BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffeb3ff1200000 #PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode #PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page PGD 0 P4D 0 Oops: Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI Tainted: [W]=WARN RIP: 0010:vmemmap_set_pmd+0xff/0x230 vmemmap_populate_hugepages+0x176/0x180 vmemmap_populate+0x34/0x80 __populate_section_memmap+0x41/0x90 sparse_add_section+0x121/0x3e0 __add_pages+0xba/0x150 add_pages+0x1d/0x70 memremap_pages+0x3dc/0x810 devm_memremap_pages+0x1c/0x60 xe_devm_add+0x8b/0x100 [xe] xe_tile_init_noalloc+0x6a/0x70 [xe] xe_device_probe+0x48c/0x740 [xe] [... snip ...] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250818020206.4517-4-harry.yoo@oracle.com Fixes: 8d400913c231 ("x86/vmemmap: handle unpopulated sub-pmd ranges") Signed-off-by: Harry Yoo Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20250311114420.240341-1-gwan-gyeong.mun@intel.com [1] Suggested-by: Dave Hansen Acked-by: Kiryl Shutsemau Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes Acked-by: David Hildenbrand Cc: Alexander Potapenko Cc: Alistair Popple Cc: Andrey Konovalov Cc: Andrey Ryabinin Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" Cc: Anshuman Khandual Cc: Ard Biesheuvel Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: bibo mao Cc: Borislav Betkov Cc: Christoph Lameter (Ampere) Cc: Dennis Zhou Cc: Dev Jain Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jane Chu Cc: Joao Martins Cc: Joerg Roedel Cc: John Hubbard Cc: Kevin Brodsky Cc: Liam Howlett Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Oscar Salvador Cc: Peter Xu Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Qi Zheng Cc: Ryan Roberts Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Thomas Gleinxer Cc: Thomas Huth Cc: "Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)" Cc: Vincenzo Frascino Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

compiler: remove __ADDRESSABLE_ASM{_STR,}() again

2025-08-28T14:34:36+00:00

commit 8ea815399c3fcce1889bd951fec25b5b9a3979c1 upstream. __ADDRESSABLE_ASM_STR() is where the necessary stringification happens. As long as "sym" doesn't contain any odd characters, no quoting is required for its use with .quad / .long. In fact the quotation gets in the way with gas 2.25; it's only from 2.26 onwards that quoted symbols are half-way properly supported. However, assembly being different from C anyway, drop __ADDRESSABLE_ASM_STR() and its helper macro altogether. A simple .global directive will suffice to get the symbol "declared", i.e. into the symbol table. While there also stop open-coding STATIC_CALL_TRAMP() and STATIC_CALL_KEY(). Fixes: 0ef8047b737d ("x86/static-call: provide a way to do very early static-call updates") Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross Message-ID: <609d2c74-de13-4fae-ab1a-1ec44afb948d@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

KVM: VMX: Preserve host's DEBUGCTLMSR_FREEZE_IN_SMM while running the guest

2025-08-20T16:41:43+00:00

[ Upstream commit 6b1dd26544d045f6a79e8c73572c0c0db3ef3c1a ] Set/clear DEBUGCTLMSR_FREEZE_IN_SMM in GUEST_IA32_DEBUGCTL based on the host's pre-VM-Enter value, i.e. preserve the host's FREEZE_IN_SMM setting while running the guest. When running with the "default treatment of SMIs" in effect (the only mode KVM supports), SMIs do not generate a VM-Exit that is visible to host (non-SMM) software, and instead transitions directly from VMX non-root to SMM. And critically, DEBUGCTL isn't context switched by hardware on SMI or RSM, i.e. SMM will run with whatever value was resident in hardware at the time of the SMI. Failure to preserve FREEZE_IN_SMM results in the PMU unexpectedly counting events while the CPU is executing in SMM, which can pollute profiling and potentially leak information into the guest. Check for changes in FREEZE_IN_SMM prior to every entry into KVM's inner run loop, as the bit can be toggled in IRQ context via IPI callback (SMP function call), by way of /sys/devices/cpu/freeze_on_smi. Add a field in kvm_x86_ops to communicate which DEBUGCTL bits need to be preserved, as FREEZE_IN_SMM is only supported and defined for Intel CPUs, i.e. explicitly checking FREEZE_IN_SMM in common x86 is at best weird, and at worst could lead to undesirable behavior in the future if AMD CPUs ever happened to pick up a collision with the bit. Exempt TDX vCPUs, i.e. protected guests, from the check, as the TDX Module owns and controls GUEST_IA32_DEBUGCTL. WARN in SVM if KVM_RUN_LOAD_DEBUGCTL is set, mostly to document that the lack of handling isn't a KVM bug (TDX already WARNs on any run_flag). Lastly, explicitly reload GUEST_IA32_DEBUGCTL on a VM-Fail that is missed by KVM but detected by hardware, i.e. in nested_vmx_restore_host_state(). Doing so avoids the need to track host_debugctl on a per-VMCS basis, as GUEST_IA32_DEBUGCTL is unconditionally written by prepare_vmcs02() and load_vmcs12_host_state(). For the VM-Fail case, even though KVM won't have actually entered the guest, vcpu_enter_guest() will have run with vmcs02 active and thus could result in vmcs01 being run with a stale value. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Maxim Levitsky Co-developed-by: Sean Christopherson Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250610232010.162191-9-seanjc@google.com Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

KVM: VMX: Allow guest to set DEBUGCTL.RTM_DEBUG if RTM is supported

2025-08-15T14:39:34+00:00

commit 17ec2f965344ee3fd6620bef7ef68792f4ac3af0 upstream. Let the guest set DEBUGCTL.RTM_DEBUG if RTM is supported according to the guest CPUID model, as debug support is supposed to be available if RTM is supported, and there are no known downsides to letting the guest debug RTM aborts. Note, there are no known bug reports related to RTM_DEBUG, the primary motivation is to reduce the probability of breaking existing guests when a future change adds a missing consistency check on vmcs12.GUEST_DEBUGCTL (KVM currently lets L2 run with whatever hardware supports; whoops). Note #2, KVM already emulates DR6.RTM, and doesn't restrict access to DR7.RTM. Fixes: 83c529151ab0 ("KVM: x86: expose Intel cpu new features (HLE, RTM) to guest") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250610232010.162191-5-seanjc@google.com Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

KVM: x86: Drop kvm_x86_ops.set_dr6() in favor of a new KVM_RUN flag

2025-08-15T14:39:34+00:00

commit 80c64c7afea1da6a93ebe88d3d29d8a60377ef80 upstream. Instruct vendor code to load the guest's DR6 into hardware via a new KVM_RUN flag, and remove kvm_x86_ops.set_dr6(), whose sole purpose was to load vcpu->arch.dr6 into hardware when DR6 can be read/written directly by the guest. Note, TDX already WARNs on any run_flag being set, i.e. will yell if KVM thinks DR6 needs to be reloaded. TDX vCPUs force KVM_DEBUGREG_AUTO_SWITCH and never clear the flag, i.e. should never observe KVM_RUN_LOAD_GUEST_DR6. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250610232010.162191-4-seanjc@google.com Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

KVM: x86: Convert vcpu_run()'s immediate exit param into a generic bitmap

2025-08-15T14:39:34+00:00

commit 2478b1b220c49d25cb1c3f061ec4f9b351d9a131 upstream. Convert kvm_x86_ops.vcpu_run()'s "force_immediate_exit" boolean parameter into an a generic bitmap so that similar "take action" information can be passed to vendor code without creating a pile of boolean parameters. This will allow dropping kvm_x86_ops.set_dr6() in favor of a new flag, and will also allow for adding similar functionality for re-loading debugctl in the active VMCS. Opportunistically massage the TDX WARN and comment to prepare for adding more run_flags, all of which are expected to be mutually exclusive with TDX, i.e. should be WARNed on. No functional change intended. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250610232010.162191-3-seanjc@google.com Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman