kernel/linux.git/arch/x86, branch v7.2-rc6

Merge tag 'x86-urgent-2026-08-02' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2026-08-02T18:44:12+00:00

Pull misc x86 fixes from Ingo Molnar: - Fix the boot-time memcmp() asm implementation's constraints and optimization properties (Mauricio Faria de Oliveira) - Move the 0xd0...0xd7 AMD Zen5 model range from the Zen6 range where it mistakenly ended up (Pratik Vishwakarma) * tag 'x86-urgent-2026-08-02' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86/CPU/AMD: Carve out a Zen5 models range x86/boot: Add volatile, clobbers and zero-length test in memcmp()

KVM: SVM: Update x2APIC MSR intercepts if AVIC is inhibited while L2 is active

2026-07-29T21:39:36+00:00

Always update x2APIC MSR intercepts for L1 when AVIC is deactivated, even if L2 is active and KVM is using a separate MSR bitmap to run L2. If AVIC is fully enabled prior to running L2, and is then inhibited while L2 is active (for a VM-scoped inhibit), then KVM will run L1 with AVIC disabled, but with x2APIC MSR intercepts disabled, i.e. will allow L1 to read most of the host's APIC state, send arbitrary interrupts, change task priority, and ultimately trivially DoS the host. E.g. sending a self-IPI in L1 on HYPERV_REENLIGHTENMENT_VECTOR, 0xee, with CONFIG_HYPERV=n in the host kernel as a "safe" PoC, yields: Spurious interrupt (vector 0xee) on CPU#425. Acked And hacking KVM to abuse kvm_set_posted_intr_wakeup_handler() to register a handler and WARN on POSTED_INTR_WAKEUP_VECTOR yields: ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c:5594 at pi_wakeup_handler+0x9/0x10 [kvm_amd], CPU#156: nested_x2apic_t/316940 CPU: 156 UID: 0 PID: 316940 Comm: nested_x2apic_t Tainted: G S U Tainted: [S]=CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC, [U]=USER Hardware name: Google Astoria-Turin/astoria, BIOS 0.20260209.0-0 02/09/2026 RIP: 0010:pi_wakeup_handler+0x9/0x10 [kvm_amd] Call Trace: sysvec_kvm_posted_intr_wakeup_ipi+0x64/0x80 asm_sysvec_kvm_posted_intr_wakeup_ipi+0x1a/0x20 RIP: 0010:vcpu_run+0x1430/0x1e40 [kvm] kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x2c1/0x600 [kvm] kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x580/0x6b0 [kvm] __se_sys_ioctl+0x6d/0xb0 do_syscall_64+0x10a/0x480 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53 RIP: 0033:0x46ff4b ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]--- Fixes: 091abbf578f9 ("KVM: x86: nSVM: optimize svm_set_x2apic_msr_interception") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Yosry Ahmed Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260729213558.639074-1-pbonzini@redhat.com/ Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

x86/CPU/AMD: Carve out a Zen5 models range

2026-07-29T19:52:27+00:00

Family 0x1a, model 0xd0..0xd7 belongs to the Zen5 generation. Carve it out from the larger, Zen6 range where former doesn't belong. [ bp: Rewrite commit message, add tags. ] Fixes: b5f53e6d3d32 ("x86/CPU/AMD: Add more Zen6 models") Signed-off-by: Pratik Vishwakarma Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) Cc: Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260729055459.15904-1-Pratik.Vishwakarma@amd.com

x86/boot: Add volatile, clobbers and zero-length test in memcmp()

2026-07-28T23:32:44+00:00

Add the volatile qualifier and clobbers parameter to prevent bugs with instruction reordering and optimization. Also add TEST for the zero-length case to set ZF, as, if the count register is zero, the REPE prefix does not run the CMPSB instruction, leaving the ZF flag undetermined. [ bp: Add a comment about the len==0 case. ] Fixes: 62bd0337d0c4 ("Top header file for new x86 setup code") Closes: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260701-pvh-kasan-inline-v6-0-ba99045dfa9f%40igalia.com Suggested-by: Borislav Petkov Signed-off-by: Mauricio Faria de Oliveira Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260721-pvh-kasan-inline-v7-2-38979a50cef0@igalia.com

KVM: x86/mmu: Check all address spaces before skipping unsync

2026-07-28T16:07:18+00:00

mmu_try_to_unsync_pages() skips the shadow-page lookup when the supplied memslot allows a hugepage, because a shadow page would disallow hugepages. But hugepage metadata is per-address-space while shadow pages are shared across all address spaces. With SMM, the other address space can therefore have a shadow page even when the supplied memslot allows a hugepage. Check the corresponding memslot in the other address space before taking the fast path. Skip the shadow-page lookup only when all address spaces allow a hugepage. Fixes: b3ae3ceb5569 ("KVM: x86/mmu: KVM: x86/mmu: Skip unsync when large pages are allowed") Assisted-by: Codex:GPT-5 Signed-off-by: Jinu Kim [invert direction of the conditional. - Paolo] Message-ID: <20260721103512.2136240-3-kimjw04271234@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

KVM: x86/mmu: Check write tracking in all address spaces

2026-07-28T16:07:14+00:00

kvm_gfn_is_write_tracked() checks only the supplied memslot, but page tracking is per-address-space and shadow pages are shared across all address spaces. With SMM, a GFN can therefore be write-tracked in one address space and appear untracked through the other. Check the supplied slot first, then the slot for the other address space. This ensures all callers honor write tracking regardless of the active address space. In particular, it prevents mmu_try_to_unsync_pages() from marking an upper-level shadow page unsync and eventually triggering the BUG in pte_list_remove(). Fixes: 699023e23965 ("KVM: x86: add SMM to the MMU role, support SMRAM address space") Assisted-by: Codex:GPT-5 Signed-off-by: Jinu Kim Message-ID: <20260721103512.2136240-2-kimjw04271234@gmail.com> [invert direction of the conditional. - Paolo] Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

KVM: x86: Cancel delayed I/O APIC EOI handling before destroying vCPUs

2026-07-28T15:43:28+00:00

Cancel (and flush) the I/O APIC's delayed EOI handling work during the "pre VM destroy" phase, before vCPUs are destroyed, as processing the EOI broadcast will inject another IRQ if the line is asserted, i.e. will try to deliver an IRQ to the target vCPU(s). Canceling the work after vCPUs are destroyed leads to UAF if the delayed work is processed after vCPUs are destroyed. BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __kvm_irq_delivery_to_apic_fast+0x9bf/0xa20 arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c:1250 Read of size 8 at addr ffff8880499abea0 by task kworker/1:2/1218 CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 1218 Comm: kworker/1:2 Not tainted 7.1.0-rc7 #5 PREEMPT(lazy) Hardware name: QEMU Ubuntu 25.10 PC v2 (i440FX + PIIX, + 10.1 machine, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014 Workqueue: events kvm_ioapic_eoi_inject_work Call Trace: __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 dump_stack_lvl+0x100/0x190 lib/dump_stack.c:120 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 print_report+0x139/0x4ad mm/kasan/report.c:482 kasan_report+0xe4/0x1d0 mm/kasan/report.c:595 __kvm_irq_delivery_to_apic_fast+0x9bf/0xa20 arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c:1250 __kvm_irq_delivery_to_apic+0xd8/0xbf0 arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c:1345 kvm_irq_delivery_to_apic arch/x86/kvm/lapic.h:129 ioapic_service+0x308/0x590 arch/x86/kvm/ioapic.c:492 kvm_ioapic_eoi_inject_work+0x13c/0x190 arch/x86/kvm/ioapic.c:532 process_one_work+0xa59/0x19a0 kernel/workqueue.c:3314 process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3397 worker_thread+0x5eb/0xe50 kernel/workqueue.c:3478 kthread+0x370/0x450 kernel/kthread.c:436 ret_from_fork+0x72b/0xd30 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245 Note, the VM is unreachable once kvm_destroy_vm() starts, and scheduling new work via kvm_ioapic_send_eoi() can only be done via KVM_RUN, i.e. requires a live vCPU. Alternatively, KVM could simply destroy the I/O APIC during the "pre" phase of VM destruction, but that gets more than a bit sketchy as KVM expects the I/O APIC to exist if ioapic_in_kernel() is true, and nested virtualization in particular has a bad habit of touching VM-scope state during vCPU destruction. E.g. attempting to free the PIC during the pre phase would lead to a NULL pointer dereference in kvm_cpu_has_extint(), and it's not hard to imagine the I/O APIC having a similar flaw. Fixes: 17bcd7144263 ("KVM: x86: Free vCPUs before freeing VM state") Reported-by: Reported-by: Zhong Wang Reported-by: Xuanqing Shi Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Weiming Shi Co-developed-by: Sean Christopherson Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson Message-ID: <20260727171718.543491-1-seanjc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

KVM: VMX: add memory clobber to asm for VMX instructions

2026-07-28T15:43:28+00:00

VMCLEAR/VMREAD/VMWRITE/VMPTRLD access the internal VMCS cache, which is not visible to the compiler; without a memory clobber, the compiler can reorder them in troublesome ways because "asm volatile" and "asm goto" only protect against removal of the asm. For example, placing a VMWRITE before the corresponding VMCS pointer is loaded can lead to corruption. While none of this has been observed, it is better to prevent than cure. Likewise, INVEPT and INVVPID access the TLB and, even though in their case the effect is only visible to the next VMLAUNCH/VMRESUME, it is technically correct to add the clobber there too. So avoid any urge to special case them, and simply hardcode "memory" into the clobber list of vmx_asm1() and vmx_asm2(). __vmcs_readl() open-codes its own asm, so add the clobber there as well. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/CABgObfbL3t21yVeSwiLSjjOUER+rTYDPHYAH9YU4TWGRjx6XHg@mail.gmail.com/ Cc: Sean Christopherson Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

Merge tag 'x86-urgent-2026-07-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2026-07-26T15:52:38+00:00

Pull x86 fix from Ingo Molnar: - Disable jump/lookup tables in the x86 boot decompressor code a bit more widely, because newer versions of LLVM started optimizing it a bit better and introduced run-time relocations in PIE code (Nathan Chancellor) * tag 'x86-urgent-2026-07-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86/boot/compressed: Disable jump tables

x86/boot/compressed: Disable jump tables

2026-07-23T08:06:58+00:00

After a recent upstream LLVM change to start generating jump and lookup tables in switch statements in more instances [1], linking the compressed x86 boot image when CONFIG_KERNEL_ZSTD is enabled fails with: ld.lld: error: Unexpected run-time relocations (.rela) detected! Dumping the relocations in misc.o, which is the only file influenced by CONFIG_KERNEL_ZSTD in the decompressor, shows dynamic relocations to some string constants, which correspond to the string literals in the switch statement in handle_zstd_error(): Relocation section '.rela.data.rel.ro' at offset 0x277b0 contains 31 entries: Offset Info Type Symbol's Value Symbol's Name + Addend 0000000000000000 0000006600000001 R_X86_64_64 0000000000000000 .rodata.str1.1 + 73a 0000000000000008 0000006600000001 R_X86_64_64 0000000000000000 .rodata.str1.1 + 78e 0000000000000010 0000006600000001 R_X86_64_64 0000000000000000 .rodata.str1.1 + 78e 0000000000000018 0000006600000001 R_X86_64_64 0000000000000000 .rodata.str1.1 + 78e ... This optimization is problematic for the decompressor environment, as it is built as -fPIE without any explicit absolute references (as described at the top of misc.c) while not applying any dynamic relocations, hence the linker assertion. To opt out of this optimization, which is of little value in this special early boot code, and to mirror the other x86 startup code in arch/x86/boot/startup, disable jump tables in the decompressor. Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel Cc: Bill Wendling Cc: Justin Stitt Cc: Nick Desaulniers Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/fa02a6ed66b1700c996b49c96c6bc0eb014c9518 [1] Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260722-x86-boot-compressed-disable-jt-clang-v2-1-7373d38482fb@kernel.org Closes: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/2165