kernel/linux.git/arch/x86/include, branch v6.12.93

x86/alternatives: Rename 'apply_relocation()' to 'text_poke_apply_relocation()'

2026-06-09T10:26:05+00:00

[ Upstream commit 023f42dd59203be8ad2fc0574af32d3b4ad041ec ] Join the text_poke_*() API namespace. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Cc: Juergen Gross Cc: "H . Peter Anvin" Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250411054105.2341982-52-mingo@kernel.org Stable-dep-of: a17dc12bfed8 ("x86/ftrace: Relocate %rip-relative percpu refs in dynamic trampolines") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ring-buffer: Flush and stop persistent ring buffer on panic

2026-06-09T10:26:03+00:00

[ Upstream commit a494d3c8d5392bcdff83c2a593df0c160ff9f322 ] On real hardware, panic and machine reboot may not flush hardware cache to memory. This means the persistent ring buffer, which relies on a coherent state of memory, may not have its events written to the buffer and they may be lost. Moreover, there may be inconsistency with the counters which are used for validation of the integrity of the persistent ring buffer which may cause all data to be discarded. To avoid this issue, stop recording of the ring buffer on panic and flush the cache of the ring buffer's memory. Fixes: e645535a954a ("tracing: Add option to use memmapped memory for trace boot instance") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers Cc: Ian Rogers Link: https://patch.msgid.link/177751969602.2136606.12031934362587643488.stgit@mhiramat.tok.corp.google.com Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) Acked-by: Catalin Marinas Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Revert "x86/vdso: Fix output operand size of RDPID"

2026-06-01T15:46:14+00:00

This reverts commit d607e6b349b014df1d2d0399f6667322626450e0. Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

x86/CPU/AMD: Prevent improper isolation of shared resources in Zen2's op cache

2026-05-14T13:29:29+00:00

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 Co-developed-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86-64/arm64/powerpc: clean up and rename __copy_from_user_flushcache

2026-04-22T11:19:02+00:00

commit 809b997a5ce945ab470f70c187048fe4f5df20bf upstream. This finishes the work on these odd functions that were only implemented by a handful of architectures. The 'flushcache' function was only used from the iterator code, and let's make it do the same thing that the nontemporal version does: remove the two underscores and add the user address checking. Yes, yes, the user address checking is also done at iovec import time, but we have long since walked away from the old double-underscore thing where we try to avoid address checking overhead at access time, and these functions shouldn't be so special and old-fashioned. The arm64 version already did the address check, in fact, so there it's just a matter of renaming it. For powerpc and x86-64 we now do the proper user access boilerplate. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86: rename and clean up __copy_from_user_inatomic_nocache()

2026-04-22T11:19:02+00:00

commit 5de7bcaadf160c1716b20a263cf8f5b06f658959 upstream. Similarly to the previous commit, this renames the somewhat confusingly named function. But in this case, it was at least less confusing: the __copy_from_user_inatomic_nocache is indeed copying from user memory, and it is indeed ok to be used in an atomic context, so it will not warn about it. But the previous commit also removed the NTB mis-use of the __copy_from_user_inatomic_nocache() function, and as a result every call-site is now _actually_ doing a real user copy. That means that we can now do the proper user pointer verification too. End result: add proper address checking, remove the double underscores, and change the "nocache" to "nontemporal" to more accurately describe what this x86-only function actually does. It might be worth noting that only the target is non-temporal: the actual user accesses are normal memory accesses. Also worth noting is that non-x86 targets (and on older 32-bit x86 CPU's before XMM2 in the Pentium III) we end up just falling back on a regular user copy, so nothing can actually depend on the non-temporal semantics, but that has always been true. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86-64: rename misleadingly named '__copy_user_nocache()' function

2026-04-22T11:19:01+00:00

commit d187a86de793f84766ea40b9ade7ac60aabbb4fe upstream. This function was a masterclass in bad naming, for various historical reasons. It claimed to be a non-cached user copy. It is literally _neither_ of those things. It's a specialty memory copy routine that uses non-temporal stores for the destination (but not the source), and that does exception handling for both source and destination accesses. Also note that while it works for unaligned targets, any unaligned parts (whether at beginning or end) will not use non-temporal stores, since only words and quadwords can be non-temporal on x86. The exception handling means that it _can_ be used for user space accesses, but not on its own - it needs all the normal "start user space access" logic around it. But typically the user space access would be the source, not the non-temporal destination. That was the original intention of this, where the destination was some fragile persistent memory target that needed non-temporal stores in order to catch machine check exceptions synchronously and deal with them gracefully. Thus that non-descriptive name: one use case was to copy from user space into a non-cached kernel buffer. However, the existing users are a mix of that intended use-case, and a couple of random drivers that just did this as a performance tweak. Some of those random drivers then actively misused the user copying version (with STAC/CLAC and all) to do kernel copies without ever even caring about the exception handling, _just_ for the non-temporal destination. Rename it as a first small step to actually make it halfway sane, and change the prototype to be more normal: it doesn't take a user pointer unless the caller has done the proper conversion, and the argument size is the full size_t (it still won't actually copy more than 4GB in one go, but there's also no reason to silently truncate the size argument in the caller). Finally, use this now sanely named function in the NTB code, which mis-used a user copy version (with STAC/CLAC and all) of this interface despite it not actually being a user copy at all. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

KVM: x86: Use __DECLARE_FLEX_ARRAY() for UAPI structures with VLAs

2026-04-22T11:19:01+00:00

[ 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 Link: https://patch.msgid.link/3abaf6aefd6e5efeff3b860ac38421d9dec908db.camel@infradead.org [sean: tag for stable@] Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

x86/CPU: Fix FPDSS on Zen1

2026-04-18T08:41:59+00:00

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) Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

KVM: x86: Introduce KVM_X86_QUIRK_VMCS12_ALLOW_FREEZE_IN_SMM

2026-03-25T10:08:43+00:00

[ Upstream commit e2ffe85b6d2bb7780174b87aa4468a39be17eb81 ] Add KVM_X86_QUIRK_VMCS12_ALLOW_FREEZE_IN_SMM to allow L1 to set FREEZE_IN_SMM in vmcs12's GUEST_IA32_DEBUGCTL field, as permitted prior to commit 6b1dd26544d0 ("KVM: VMX: Preserve host's DEBUGCTLMSR_FREEZE_IN_SMM while running the guest"). Enable the quirk by default for backwards compatibility (like all quirks); userspace can disable it via KVM_CAP_DISABLE_QUIRKS2 for consistency with the constraints on WRMSR(IA32_DEBUGCTL). Note that the quirk only bypasses the consistency check. The vmcs02 bit is still owned by the host, and PMCs are not frozen during virtualized SMM. In particular, if a host administrator decides that PMCs should not be frozen during physical SMM, then L1 has no say in the matter. Fixes: 095686e6fcb4 ("KVM: nVMX: Check vmcs12->guest_ia32_debugctl on nested VM-Enter") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jim Mattson Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260205231537.1278753-1-jmattson@google.com [sean: tag for stable@, clean-up and fix goofs in the comment and docs] Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson [Rename quirk. - Paolo] Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman