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<updated>2026-03-25T10:08:40+00:00</updated>
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<title>x86/sev: Allow IBPB-on-Entry feature for SNP guests</title>
<updated>2026-03-25T10:08:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kim Phillips</name>
<email>kim.phillips@amd.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-09T11:38:52+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 9073428bb204d921ae15326bb7d4558d9d269aab ]

The SEV-SNP IBPB-on-Entry feature does not require a guest-side
implementation. It was added in Zen5 h/w, after the first SNP Zen
implementation, and thus was not accounted for when the initial set of SNP
features were added to the kernel.

In its abundant precaution, commit

  8c29f0165405 ("x86/sev: Add SEV-SNP guest feature negotiation support")

included SEV_STATUS' IBPB-on-Entry bit as a reserved bit, thereby masking
guests from using the feature.

Allow guests to make use of IBPB-on-Entry when supported by the hypervisor, as
the bit is now architecturally defined and safe to expose.

Fixes: 8c29f0165405 ("x86/sev: Add SEV-SNP guest feature negotiation support")
Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips &lt;kim.phillips@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nikunj A Dadhania &lt;nikunj@amd.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Tom Lendacky &lt;thomas.lendacky@amd.com&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260203222405.4065706-2-kim.phillips@amd.com
[ merged missing SECURE_AVIC into RESERVED_BITS18_22 ]
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<title>x86/boot: Fix page table access in 5-level to 4-level paging transition</title>
<updated>2025-12-18T12:54:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Usama Arif</name>
<email>usamaarif642@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-11-03T14:09:22+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit eb2266312507d7b757859e2227aa5c4ba6280ebe ]

When transitioning from 5-level to 4-level paging, the existing code
incorrectly accesses page table entries by directly dereferencing CR3 and
applying PAGE_MASK. This approach has several issues:

- __native_read_cr3() returns the raw CR3 register value, which on x86_64
  includes not just the physical address but also flags. Bits above the
  physical address width of the system i.e. above __PHYSICAL_MASK_SHIFT) are
  also not masked.

- The PGD entry is masked by PAGE_SIZE which doesn't take into account the
  higher bits such as _PAGE_BIT_NOPTISHADOW.

Replace this with proper accessor functions:

- native_read_cr3_pa(): Uses CR3_ADDR_MASK to additionally mask metadata out
  of CR3 (like SME or LAM bits). All remaining bits are real address bits or
  reserved and must be 0.

- mask pgd value with PTE_PFN_MASK instead of PAGE_MASK, accounting for flags
  above bit 51 (_PAGE_BIT_NOPTISHADOW in particular). Bits below 51, but above
  the max physical address are reserved and must be 0.

Fixes: e9d0e6330eb8 ("x86/boot/compressed/64: Prepare new top-level page table for trampoline")
Reported-by: Michael van der Westhuizen &lt;rmikey@meta.com&gt;
Reported-by: Tobias Fleig &lt;tfleig@meta.com&gt;
Co-developed-by: Kiryl Shutsemau &lt;kas@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kiryl Shutsemau &lt;kas@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Usama Arif &lt;usamaarif642@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/a482fd68-ce54-472d-8df1-33d6ac9f6bb5@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86/boot/sev: Support memory acceptance in the EFI stub under SVSM</title>
<updated>2025-05-09T07:50:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ardb@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-28T17:43:22+00:00</published>
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commit 8ed12ab1319b2d8e4a529504777aacacf71371e4 upstream.

Commit:

  d54d610243a4 ("x86/boot/sev: Avoid shared GHCB page for early memory acceptance")

provided a fix for SEV-SNP memory acceptance from the EFI stub when
running at VMPL #0. However, that fix was insufficient for SVSM SEV-SNP
guests running at VMPL &gt;0, as those rely on a SVSM calling area, which
is a shared buffer whose address is programmed into a SEV-SNP MSR, and
the SEV init code that sets up this calling area executes much later
during the boot.

Given that booting via the EFI stub at VMPL &gt;0 implies that the firmware
has configured this calling area already, reuse it for performing memory
acceptance in the EFI stub.

Fixes: fcd042e86422 ("x86/sev: Perform PVALIDATE using the SVSM when not at VMPL0")
Tested-by: Tom Lendacky &lt;thomas.lendacky@amd.com&gt;
Co-developed-by: Tom Lendacky &lt;thomas.lendacky@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky &lt;thomas.lendacky@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Dionna Amalie Glaze &lt;dionnaglaze@google.com&gt;
Cc: Kevin Loughlin &lt;kevinloughlin@google.com&gt;
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250428174322.2780170-2-ardb+git@google.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86/boot/sev: Avoid shared GHCB page for early memory acceptance</title>
<updated>2025-04-25T08:47:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ardb@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-17T20:21:21+00:00</published>
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commit d54d610243a4508183978871e5faff5502786cd4 upstream.

Communicating with the hypervisor using the shared GHCB page requires
clearing the C bit in the mapping of that page. When executing in the
context of the EFI boot services, the page tables are owned by the
firmware, and this manipulation is not possible.

So switch to a different API for accepting memory in SEV-SNP guests, one
which is actually supported at the point during boot where the EFI stub
may need to accept memory, but the SEV-SNP init code has not executed
yet.

For simplicity, also switch the memory acceptance carried out by the
decompressor when not booting via EFI - this only involves the
allocation for the decompressed kernel, and is generally only called
after kexec, as normal boot will jump straight into the kernel from the
EFI stub.

Fixes: 6c3211796326 ("x86/sev: Add SNP-specific unaccepted memory support")
Tested-by: Tom Lendacky &lt;thomas.lendacky@amd.com&gt;
Co-developed-by: Tom Lendacky &lt;thomas.lendacky@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky &lt;thomas.lendacky@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Dionna Amalie Glaze &lt;dionnaglaze@google.com&gt;
Cc: Kevin Loughlin &lt;kevinloughlin@google.com&gt;
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250404082921.2767593-8-ardb+git@google.com # discussion thread #1
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250410132850.3708703-2-ardb+git@google.com # discussion thread #2
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250417202120.1002102-2-ardb+git@google.com # final submission
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86/boot: Sanitize boot params before parsing command line</title>
<updated>2025-03-13T12:01:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ardb@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-06T15:59:16+00:00</published>
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commit c00b413a96261faef4ce22329153c6abd4acef25 upstream.

The 5-level paging code parses the command line to look for the 'no5lvl'
string, and does so very early, before sanitize_boot_params() has been
called and has been given the opportunity to wipe bogus data from the
fields in boot_params that are not covered by struct setup_header, and
are therefore supposed to be initialized to zero by the bootloader.

This triggers an early boot crash when using syslinux-efi to boot a
recent kernel built with CONFIG_X86_5LEVEL=y and CONFIG_EFI_STUB=n, as
the 0xff padding that now fills the unused PE/COFF header is copied into
boot_params by the bootloader, and interpreted as the top half of the
command line pointer.

Fix this by sanitizing the boot_params before use. Note that there is no
harm in calling this more than once; subsequent invocations are able to
spot that the boot_params have already been cleaned up.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v6.1+
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250306155915.342465-2-ardb+git@google.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/202503041549.35913.ulrich.gemkow@ikr.uni-stuttgart.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86/boot: Use '-std=gnu11' to fix build with GCC 15</title>
<updated>2025-02-17T09:05:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nathan Chancellor</name>
<email>nathan@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-22T01:11:33+00:00</published>
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commit ee2ab467bddfb2d7f68d996dbab94d7b88f8eaf7 upstream.

GCC 15 changed the default C standard version to C23, which should not
have impacted the kernel because it requests the gnu11 standard via
'-std=' in the main Makefile. However, the x86 compressed boot Makefile
uses its own set of KBUILD_CFLAGS without a '-std=' value (i.e., using
the default), resulting in errors from the kernel's definitions of bool,
true, and false in stddef.h, which are reserved keywords under C23.

  ./include/linux/stddef.h:11:9: error: expected identifier before ‘false’
     11 |         false   = 0,
  ./include/linux/types.h:35:33: error: two or more data types in declaration specifiers
     35 | typedef _Bool                   bool;

Set '-std=gnu11' in the x86 compressed boot Makefile to resolve the
error and consistently use the same C standard version for the entire
kernel.

Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/4OAhbllK7x4QJGpZjkYjtBYNLd_2whHx9oFiuZcGwtVR4hIzvduultkgfAIRZI3vQpZylu7Gl929HaYFRGeMEalWCpeMzCIIhLxxRhq4U-Y=@protonmail.com/
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/Z4467umXR2PZ0M1H@tucnak/
Reported-by: Kostadin Shishmanov &lt;kostadinshishmanov@protonmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Jakub Jelinek &lt;jakub@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Cc:stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250121-x86-use-std-consistently-gcc-15-v1-1-8ab0acf645cb%40kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm: rework accept memory helpers</title>
<updated>2024-09-02T03:26:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kirill A. Shutemov</name>
<email>kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-08-09T11:48:51+00:00</published>
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Make accept_memory() and range_contains_unaccepted_memory() take 'start'
and 'size' arguments instead of 'start' and 'end'.

Remove accept_page(), replacing it with direct calls to accept_memory(). 
The accept_page() name is going to be used for a different function.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240809114854.3745464-6-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Tom Lendacky &lt;thomas.lendacky@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'efi-next-for-v6.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/efi/efi</title>
<updated>2024-07-16T19:22:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-16T19:22:07+00:00</published>
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Pull EFI updates from Ard Biesheuvel:
 "Note the removal of the EFI fake memory map support - this is believed
  to be unused and no longer worth supporting. However, we could easily
  bring it back if needed.

  With recent developments regarding confidential VMs and unaccepted
  memory, combined with kexec, creating a known inaccurate view of the
  firmware's memory map and handing it to the OS is a feature we can
  live without, hence the removal. Alternatively, I could imagine making
  this feature mutually exclusive with those confidential VM related
  features, but let's try simply removing it first.

  Summary:

   - Drop support for the 'fake' EFI memory map on x86

   - Add an SMBIOS based tweak to the EFI stub instructing the firmware
     on x86 Macbook Pros to keep both GPUs enabled

   - Replace 0-sized array with flexible array in EFI memory attributes
     table handling

   - Drop redundant BSS clearing when booting via the native PE
     entrypoint on x86

   - Avoid returning EFI_SUCCESS when aborting on an out-of-memory
     condition

   - Cosmetic tweak for arm64 KASLR loading logic"

* tag 'efi-next-for-v6.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/efi/efi:
  efi: Replace efi_memory_attributes_table_t 0-sized array with flexible array
  efi: Rename efi_early_memdesc_ptr() to efi_memdesc_ptr()
  arm64/efistub: Clean up KASLR logic
  x86/efistub: Drop redundant clearing of BSS
  x86/efistub: Avoid returning EFI_SUCCESS on error
  x86/efistub: Call Apple set_os protocol on dual GPU Intel Macs
  x86/efistub: Enable SMBIOS protocol handling for x86
  efistub/smbios: Simplify SMBIOS enumeration API
  x86/efi: Drop support for fake EFI memory maps
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'x86_sev_for_v6.11_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2024-07-16T18:12:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-16T18:12:25+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 SEV updates from Borislav Petkov:

 - Add support for running the kernel in a SEV-SNP guest, over a Secure
   VM Service Module (SVSM).

   When running over a SVSM, different services can run at different
   protection levels, apart from the guest OS but still within the
   secure SNP environment. They can provide services to the guest, like
   a vTPM, for example.

   This series adds the required facilities to interface with such a
   SVSM module.

 - The usual fixlets, refactoring and cleanups

[ And as always: "SEV" is AMD's "Secure Encrypted Virtualization".

  I can't be the only one who gets all the newer x86 TLA's confused,
  can I?
              - Linus ]

* tag 'x86_sev_for_v6.11_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  Documentation/ABI/configfs-tsm: Fix an unexpected indentation silly
  x86/sev: Do RMP memory coverage check after max_pfn has been set
  x86/sev: Move SEV compilation units
  virt: sev-guest: Mark driver struct with __refdata to prevent section mismatch
  x86/sev: Allow non-VMPL0 execution when an SVSM is present
  x86/sev: Extend the config-fs attestation support for an SVSM
  x86/sev: Take advantage of configfs visibility support in TSM
  fs/configfs: Add a callback to determine attribute visibility
  sev-guest: configfs-tsm: Allow the privlevel_floor attribute to be updated
  virt: sev-guest: Choose the VMPCK key based on executing VMPL
  x86/sev: Provide guest VMPL level to userspace
  x86/sev: Provide SVSM discovery support
  x86/sev: Use the SVSM to create a vCPU when not in VMPL0
  x86/sev: Perform PVALIDATE using the SVSM when not at VMPL0
  x86/sev: Use kernel provided SVSM Calling Areas
  x86/sev: Check for the presence of an SVSM in the SNP secrets page
  x86/irqflags: Provide native versions of the local_irq_save()/restore()
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'x86_cleanups_for_v6.11_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2024-07-16T02:34:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-16T02:34:20+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 cleanups from Borislav Petkov:

 - Remove an unused function and the documentation of an already removed
   cmdline parameter

* tag 'x86_cleanups_for_v6.11_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/boot: Remove unused function __fortify_panic()
  Documentation: Remove "mfgpt_irq=" from the kernel-parameters.txt file
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