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<title>Revert "x86/vdso: Fix output operand size of RDPID"</title>
<updated>2026-06-01T15:39:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sasha Levin</name>
<email>sashal@kernel.org</email>
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<published>2026-05-26T00:46:05+00:00</published>
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This reverts commit 757a9e78a1c5b824d0a2b7de14c3cd8d841dfbee.

Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>KVM: x86: Use __DECLARE_FLEX_ARRAY() for UAPI structures with VLAs</title>
<updated>2026-06-01T15:38:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Woodhouse</name>
<email>dwmw@amazon.co.uk</email>
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<published>2026-04-13T15:20:05+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 2619da73bb2f10d88f7e1087125c40144fdf0987 ]

Commit 94dfc73e7cf4 ("treewide: uapi: Replace zero-length arrays with
flexible-array members") broke the userspace API for C++.

These structures ending in VLAs are typically a *header*, which can be
followed by an arbitrary number of entries. Userspace typically creates
a larger structure with some non-zero number of entries, for example in
QEMU's kvm_arch_get_supported_msr_feature():

    struct {
        struct kvm_msrs info;
        struct kvm_msr_entry entries[1];
    } msr_data = {};

While that works in C, it fails in C++ with an error like:
 flexible array member 'kvm_msrs::entries' not at end of 'struct msr_data'

Fix this by using __DECLARE_FLEX_ARRAY() for the VLA, which uses [0]
for C++ compilation.

Fixes: 94dfc73e7cf4 ("treewide: uapi: Replace zero-length arrays with flexible-array members")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw@amazon.co.uk&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/3abaf6aefd6e5efeff3b860ac38421d9dec908db.camel@infradead.org
[sean: tag for stable@]
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
[ applied `__DECLARE_FLEX_ARRAY(char, name)` change directly instead of inside missing `#ifdef __KERNEL__` else branch ]
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/CPU/AMD: Prevent improper isolation of shared resources in Zen2's op cache</title>
<updated>2026-05-15T12:49:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Prathyushi Nangia</name>
<email>prathyushi.nangia@amd.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-12-09T16:01:33+00:00</published>
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commit c21b90f77687075115d989e53a8ec5e2bb427ab1 upstream.

Make sure resources are not improperly shared in the op cache and
cause instruction corruption this way.

Signed-off-by: Prathyushi Nangia &lt;prathyushi.nangia@amd.com&gt;
Co-developed-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86/CPU/AMD: Add X86_FEATURE_ZEN1</title>
<updated>2026-05-15T12:49:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov (AMD)</name>
<email>bp@alien8.de</email>
</author>
<published>2023-12-02T11:50:23+00:00</published>
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Commit 232afb557835d6f6859c73bf610bad308c96b131 upstream.

Add a synthetic feature flag specifically for first generation Zen
machines. There's need to have a generic flag for all Zen generations so
make X86_FEATURE_ZEN be that flag.

Fixes: 30fa92832f40 ("x86/CPU/AMD: Add ZenX generations flags")
Suggested-by: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Tom Lendacky &lt;thomas.lendacky@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/dc3835e3-0731-4230-bbb9-336bbe3d042b@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<title>x86/CPU/AMD: Add ZenX generations flags</title>
<updated>2026-05-15T12:49:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov (AMD)</name>
<email>bp@alien8.de</email>
</author>
<published>2023-10-31T22:30:59+00:00</published>
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Commit 30fa92832f405d5ac9f263e99f62445fa3084008 upstream.

Add X86_FEATURE flags for each Zen generation. They should be used from
now on instead of checking f/m/s.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Borisov &lt;nik.borisov@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/r/20231120104152.13740-2-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86/CPU: Fix FPDSS on Zen1</title>
<updated>2026-04-18T08:35:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov (AMD)</name>
<email>bp@alien8.de</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-07T09:40:03+00:00</published>
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commit e55d98e7756135f32150b9b8f75d580d0d4b2dd3 upstream.

Zen1's hardware divider can leave, under certain circumstances, partial
results from previous operations.  Those results can be leaked by
another, attacker thread.

Fix that with a chicken bit.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<title>x86/sev: Allow IBPB-on-Entry feature for SNP guests</title>
<updated>2026-03-25T10:03:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kim Phillips</name>
<email>kim.phillips@amd.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-09T13:06:48+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
[ No SECURE_AVIC ]
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/efi: defer freeing of boot services memory</title>
<updated>2026-03-25T10:02:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)</name>
<email>rppt@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-25T06:55:55+00:00</published>
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commit a4b0bf6a40f3c107c67a24fbc614510ef5719980 upstream.

efi_free_boot_services() frees memory occupied by EFI_BOOT_SERVICES_CODE
and EFI_BOOT_SERVICES_DATA using memblock_free_late().

There are two issue with that: memblock_free_late() should be used for
memory allocated with memblock_alloc() while the memory reserved with
memblock_reserve() should be freed with free_reserved_area().

More acutely, with CONFIG_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT=y
efi_free_boot_services() is called before deferred initialization of the
memory map is complete.

Benjamin Herrenschmidt reports that this causes a leak of ~140MB of
RAM on EC2 t3a.nano instances which only have 512MB or RAM.

If the freed memory resides in the areas that memory map for them is
still uninitialized, they won't be actually freed because
memblock_free_late() calls memblock_free_pages() and the latter skips
uninitialized pages.

Using free_reserved_area() at this point is also problematic because
__free_page() accesses the buddy of the freed page and that again might
end up in uninitialized part of the memory map.

Delaying the entire efi_free_boot_services() could be problematic
because in addition to freeing boot services memory it updates
efi.memmap without any synchronization and that's undesirable late in
boot when there is concurrency.

More robust approach is to only defer freeing of the EFI boot services
memory.

Split efi_free_boot_services() in two. First efi_unmap_boot_services()
collects ranges that should be freed into an array then
efi_free_boot_services() later frees them after deferred init is complete.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/ec2aaef14783869b3be6e3c253b2dcbf67dbc12a.camel@kernel.crashing.org
Fixes: 916f676f8dc0 ("x86, efi: Retain boot service code until after switching to virtual mode")
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<title>x86/kfence: fix booting on 32bit non-PAE systems</title>
<updated>2026-02-11T12:37:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrew Cooper</name>
<email>andrew.cooper3@citrix.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-01-26T21:10:46+00:00</published>
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commit 16459fe7e0ca6520a6e8f603de4ccd52b90fd765 upstream.

The original patch inverted the PTE unconditionally to avoid
L1TF-vulnerable PTEs, but Linux doesn't make this adjustment in 2-level
paging.

Adjust the logic to use the flip_protnone_guard() helper, which is a nop
on 2-level paging but inverts the address bits in all other paging modes.

This doesn't matter for the Xen aspect of the original change.  Linux no
longer supports running 32bit PV under Xen, and Xen doesn't support
running any 32bit PV guests without using PAE paging.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260126211046.2096622-1-andrew.cooper3@citrix.com
Fixes: b505f1944535 ("x86/kfence: avoid writing L1TF-vulnerable PTEs")
Reported-by: Ryusuke Konishi &lt;konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAKFNMokwjw68ubYQM9WkzOuH51wLznHpEOMSqtMoV1Rn9JV_gw@mail.gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper &lt;andrew.cooper3@citrix.com&gt;
Tested-by: Ryusuke Konishi &lt;konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Cc: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<title>x86/kfence: avoid writing L1TF-vulnerable PTEs</title>
<updated>2026-02-06T15:44:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrew Cooper</name>
<email>andrew.cooper3@citrix.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-01-06T18:04:26+00:00</published>
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commit b505f1944535f83d369ae68813e7634d11b990d3 upstream.

For native, the choice of PTE is fine.  There's real memory backing the
non-present PTE.  However, for XenPV, Xen complains:

  (XEN) d1 L1TF-vulnerable L1e 8010000018200066 - Shadowing

To explain, some background on XenPV pagetables:

  Xen PV guests are control their own pagetables; they choose the new
  PTE value, and use hypercalls to make changes so Xen can audit for
  safety.

  In addition to a regular reference count, Xen also maintains a type
  reference count.  e.g.  SegDesc (referenced by vGDT/vLDT), Writable
  (referenced with _PAGE_RW) or L{1..4} (referenced by vCR3 or a lower
  pagetable level).  This is in order to prevent e.g.  a page being
  inserted into the pagetables for which the guest has a writable mapping.

  For non-present mappings, all other bits become software accessible,
  and typically contain metadata rather a real frame address.  There is
  nothing that a reference count could sensibly be tied to.  As such, even
  if Xen could recognise the address as currently safe, nothing would
  prevent that frame from changing owner to another VM in the future.

  When Xen detects a PV guest writing a L1TF-PTE, it responds by
  activating shadow paging.  This is normally only used for the live phase
  of migration, and comes with a reasonable overhead.

KFENCE only cares about getting #PF to catch wild accesses; it doesn't
care about the value for non-present mappings.  Use a fully inverted PTE,
to avoid hitting the slow path when running under Xen.

While adjusting the logic, take the opportunity to skip all actions if the
PTE is already in the right state, half the number PVOps callouts, and
skip TLB maintenance on a !P -&gt; P transition which benefits non-Xen cases
too.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260106180426.710013-1-andrew.cooper3@citrix.com
Fixes: 1dc0da6e9ec0 ("x86, kfence: enable KFENCE for x86")
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper &lt;andrew.cooper3@citrix.com&gt;
Tested-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Cc: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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