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<title>arch: back to -std=gnu89 in &lt; v5.18</title>
<updated>2025-12-06T21:09:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthieu Baerts (NGI0)</name>
<email>matttbe@kernel.org</email>
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<published>2025-10-17T16:24:01+00:00</published>
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Recent fixes have been backported to &lt; v5.18 to fix build issues with
GCC 5.15. They all force -std=gnu11 in the CFLAGS, "because [the kernel]
requests the gnu11 standard via '-std=' in the main Makefile".

This is true for &gt;= 5.18 versions, but not before. This switch to
-std=gnu11 has been done in commit e8c07082a810 ("Kbuild: move to
-std=gnu11").

For a question of uniformity, force -std=gnu89, similar to what is done
in the main Makefile.

Note: the fixes tags below refers to upstream commits, but this fix is
only for kernels not having commit e8c07082a810 ("Kbuild: move to
-std=gnu11").

Fixes: 7cbb015e2d3d ("parisc: fix building with gcc-15")
Fixes: 3b8b80e99376 ("s390: Add '-std=gnu11' to decompressor and purgatory CFLAGS")
Fixes: b3bee1e7c3f2 ("x86/boot: Compile boot code with -std=gnu11 too")
Fixes: ee2ab467bddf ("x86/boot: Use '-std=gnu11' to fix build with GCC 15")
Fixes: 8ba14d9f490a ("efi: libstub: Use '-std=gnu11' to fix build with GCC 15")
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) &lt;matttbe@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86/boot/compressed: prefer cc-option for CFLAGS additions</title>
<updated>2025-06-27T10:05:21+00:00</updated>
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<name>Nick Desaulniers</name>
<email>ndesaulniers@google.com</email>
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<published>2023-01-12T03:04:58+00:00</published>
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commit 994f5f7816ff963f49269cfc97f63cb2e4edb84f upstream.

as-option tests new options using KBUILD_CFLAGS, which causes problems
when using as-option to update KBUILD_AFLAGS because many compiler
options are not valid assembler options.

This will be fixed in a follow up patch. Before doing so, move the
assembler test for -Wa,-mrelax-relocations=no from using as-option to
cc-option.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/llvm/CAK7LNATcHt7GcXZ=jMszyH=+M_LC9Qr6yeAGRCBbE6xriLxtUQ@mail.gmail.com/
Suggested-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing &lt;lkft@linaro.org&gt;
Tested-by: Anders Roxell &lt;anders.roxell@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<title>x86/build: Fix broken copy command in genimage.sh when making isoimage</title>
<updated>2025-06-04T12:38:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nir Lichtman</name>
<email>nir@lichtman.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-10T12:05:00+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit e451630226bd09dc730eedb4e32cab1cc7155ae8 ]

Problem: Currently when running the "make isoimage" command there is an
error related to wrong parameters passed to the cp command:

  "cp: missing destination file operand after 'arch/x86/boot/isoimage/'"

This is caused because FDINITRDS is an empty array.

Solution: Check if FDINITRDS is empty before executing the "cp" command,
similar to how it is done in the case of hdimage.

Signed-off-by: Nir Lichtman &lt;nir@lichtman.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Marek &lt;michal.lkml@markovi.net&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250110120500.GA923218@lichtman.org
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>x86/boot: Use '-std=gnu11' to fix build with GCC 15</title>
<updated>2025-03-13T11:50:29+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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<title>arch: Introduce CONFIG_FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT</title>
<updated>2024-04-10T14:18:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
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<published>2024-03-13T10:42:51+00:00</published>
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commit d49a0626216b95cd4bf696f6acf55f39a16ab0bb upstream.

Generic function-alignment infrastructure.

Architectures can select FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT_xxB symbols; the
FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT symbol is then set to the largest such selected
size, 0 otherwise.

&gt;From this the -falign-functions compiler argument and __ALIGN macro
are set.

This incorporates the DEBUG_FORCE_FUNCTION_ALIGN_64B knob and future
alignment requirements for x86_64 (later in this series) into a single
place.

NOTE: also removes the 0x90 filler byte from the generic __ALIGN
      primitive, that value makes no sense outside of x86.

NOTE: .balign 0 reverts to a no-op.

Requested-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Change-Id: I053b3c408d56988381feb8c8bdb5e27ea221755f
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220915111143.719248727@infradead.org
[cascardo: adjust context at arch/x86/Kconfig]
Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo &lt;cascardo@igalia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<title>x86/boot: Ignore NMIs during very early boot</title>
<updated>2024-02-23T07:54:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jun'ichi Nomura</name>
<email>junichi.nomura@nec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-11-29T20:44:49+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 78a509fba9c9b1fcb77f95b7c6be30da3d24823a ]

When there are two racing NMIs on x86, the first NMI invokes NMI handler and
the 2nd NMI is latched until IRET is executed.

If panic on NMI and panic kexec are enabled, the first NMI triggers
panic and starts booting the next kernel via kexec. Note that the 2nd
NMI is still latched. During the early boot of the next kernel, once
an IRET is executed as a result of a page fault, then the 2nd NMI is
unlatched and invokes the NMI handler.

However, NMI handler is not set up at the early stage of boot, which
results in a boot failure.

Avoid such problems by setting up a NOP handler for early NMIs.

[ mingo: Refined the changelog. ]

Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura &lt;junichi.nomura@nec.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Derek Barbosa &lt;debarbos@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>x86/sev: Check for user-space IOIO pointing to kernel space</title>
<updated>2023-10-25T09:58:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joerg Roedel</name>
<email>jroedel@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2023-10-16T12:42:50+00:00</published>
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Upstream commit: 63e44bc52047f182601e7817da969a105aa1f721

Check the memory operand of INS/OUTS before emulating the instruction.
The #VC exception can get raised from user-space, but the memory operand
can be manipulated to access kernel memory before the emulation actually
begins and after the exception handler has run.

  [ bp: Massage commit message. ]

Fixes: 597cfe48212a ("x86/boot/compressed/64: Setup a GHCB-based VC Exception handler")
Reported-by: Tom Dohrmann &lt;erbse.13@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel &lt;jroedel@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<title>x86/sev: Check IOBM for IOIO exceptions from user-space</title>
<updated>2023-10-25T09:58:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joerg Roedel</name>
<email>jroedel@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-21T15:42:42+00:00</published>
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Upstream commit: b9cb9c45583b911e0db71d09caa6b56469eb2bdf

Check the IO permission bitmap (if present) before emulating IOIO #VC
exceptions for user-space. These permissions are checked by hardware
already before the #VC is raised, but due to the VC-handler decoding
race it needs to be checked again in software.

Fixes: 25189d08e516 ("x86/sev-es: Add support for handling IOIO exceptions")
Reported-by: Tom Dohrmann &lt;erbse.13@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel &lt;jroedel@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Tested-by: Tom Dohrmann &lt;erbse.13@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<title>x86/boot/compressed: Reserve more memory for page tables</title>
<updated>2023-09-23T09:10:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kirill A. Shutemov</name>
<email>kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-09-15T07:02:21+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit f530ee95b72e77b09c141c4b1a4b94d1199ffbd9 ]

The decompressor has a hard limit on the number of page tables it can
allocate. This limit is defined at compile-time and will cause boot
failure if it is reached.

The kernel is very strict and calculates the limit precisely for the
worst-case scenario based on the current configuration. However, it is
easy to forget to adjust the limit when a new use-case arises. The
worst-case scenario is rarely encountered during sanity checks.

In the case of enabling 5-level paging, a use-case was overlooked. The
limit needs to be increased by one to accommodate the additional level.
This oversight went unnoticed until Aaron attempted to run the kernel
via kexec with 5-level paging and unaccepted memory enabled.

Update wost-case calculations to include 5-level paging.

To address this issue, let's allocate some extra space for page tables.
128K should be sufficient for any use-case. The logic can be simplified
by using a single value for all kernel configurations.

[ Also add a warning, should this memory run low - by Dave Hansen. ]

Fixes: 34bbb0009f3b ("x86/boot/compressed: Enable 5-level paging during decompression stage")
Reported-by: Aaron Lu &lt;aaron.lu@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230915070221.10266-1-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>x86/decompressor: Don't rely on upper 32 bits of GPRs being preserved</title>
<updated>2023-09-19T10:22:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ardb@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-07T16:26:58+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 264b82fdb4989cf6a44a2bcd0c6ea05e8026b2ac ]

The 4-to-5 level mode switch trampoline disables long mode and paging in
order to be able to flick the LA57 bit. According to section 3.4.1.1 of
the x86 architecture manual [0], 64-bit GPRs might not retain the upper
32 bits of their contents across such a mode switch.

Given that RBP, RBX and RSI are live at this point, preserve them on the
stack, along with the return address that might be above 4G as well.

[0] Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer’s Manual, Volume 1: Basic Architecture

  "Because the upper 32 bits of 64-bit general-purpose registers are
   undefined in 32-bit modes, the upper 32 bits of any general-purpose
   register are not preserved when switching from 64-bit mode to a 32-bit
   mode (to protected mode or compatibility mode). Software must not
   depend on these bits to maintain a value after a 64-bit to 32-bit
   mode switch."

Fixes: 194a9749c73d650c ("x86/boot/compressed/64: Handle 5-level paging boot if kernel is above 4G")
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230807162720.545787-2-ardb@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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