kernel/linux.git/drivers/xen, branch v6.18.21

xen/privcmd: unregister xenstore notifier on module exit

2026-04-02T11:23:32+00:00

[ Upstream commit cd7e1fef5a1ca1c4fcd232211962ac2395601636 ] Commit 453b8fb68f36 ("xen/privcmd: restrict usage in unprivileged domU") added a xenstore notifier to defer setting the restriction target until Xenstore is ready. XEN_PRIVCMD can be built as a module, but privcmd_exit() leaves that notifier behind. Balance the notifier lifecycle by unregistering it on module exit. This is harmless even if xenstore was already ready at registration time and the notifier was never queued on the chain. Fixes: 453b8fb68f3641fe ("xen/privcmd: restrict usage in unprivileged domU") Signed-off-by: GuoHan Zhao Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross Message-ID: <20260325120246.252899-1-zhaoguohan@kylinos.cn> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

xen/privcmd: add boot control for restricted usage in domU

2026-03-25T10:10:46+00:00

commit 1613462be621ad5103ec338a7b0ca0746ec4e5f1 upstream. When running in an unprivileged domU under Xen, the privcmd driver is restricted to allow only hypercalls against a target domain, for which the current domU is acting as a device model. Add a boot parameter "unrestricted" to allow all hypercalls (the hypervisor will still refuse destructive hypercalls affecting other guests). Make this new parameter effective only in case the domU wasn't started using secure boot, as otherwise hypercalls targeting the domU itself might result in violating the secure boot functionality. This is achieved by adding another lockdown reason, which can be tested to not being set when applying the "unrestricted" option. This is part of XSA-482 Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

xen/privcmd: restrict usage in unprivileged domU

2026-03-25T10:10:45+00:00

commit 453b8fb68f3641fea970db88b7d9a153ed2a37e8 upstream. The Xen privcmd driver allows to issue arbitrary hypercalls from user space processes. This is normally no problem, as access is usually limited to root and the hypervisor will deny any hypercalls affecting other domains. In case the guest is booted using secure boot, however, the privcmd driver would be enabling a root user process to modify e.g. kernel memory contents, thus breaking the secure boot feature. The only known case where an unprivileged domU is really needing to use the privcmd driver is the case when it is acting as the device model for another guest. In this case all hypercalls issued via the privcmd driver will target that other guest. Fortunately the privcmd driver can already be locked down to allow only hypercalls targeting a specific domain, but this mode can be activated from user land only today. The target domain can be obtained from Xenstore, so when not running in dom0 restrict the privcmd driver to that target domain from the beginning, resolving the potential problem of breaking secure boot. This is XSA-482 Reported-by: Teddy Astie Fixes: 1c5de1939c20 ("xen: add privcmd driver") Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

xen/acpi-processor: fix _CST detection using undersized evaluation buffer

2026-03-12T11:09:55+00:00

[ Upstream commit 8b57227d59a86fc06d4f09de08f98133680f2cae ] read_acpi_id() attempts to evaluate _CST using a stack buffer of sizeof(union acpi_object) (48 bytes), but _CST returns a nested Package of sub-Packages (one per C-state, each containing a register descriptor, type, latency, and power) requiring hundreds of bytes. The evaluation always fails with AE_BUFFER_OVERFLOW. On modern systems using FFH/MWAIT entry (where pblk is zero), this causes the function to return before setting the acpi_id_cst_present bit. In check_acpi_ids(), flags.power is then zero for all Phase 2 CPUs (physical CPUs beyond dom0's vCPU count), so push_cxx_to_hypervisor() is never called for them. On a system with dom0_max_vcpus=2 and 8 physical CPUs, only PCPUs 0-1 receive C-state data. PCPUs 2-7 are stuck in C0/C1 idle, unable to enter C2/C3. This costs measurable wall power (4W observed on an Intel Core Ultra 7 265K with Xen 4.20). The function never uses the _CST return value -- it only needs to know whether _CST exists. Replace the broken acpi_evaluate_object() call with acpi_has_method(), which correctly detects _CST presence using acpi_get_handle() without any buffer allocation. This brings C-state detection to parity with the P-state path, which already works correctly for Phase 2 CPUs. Fixes: 59a568029181 ("xen/acpi-processor: C and P-state driver that uploads said data to hypervisor.") Signed-off-by: David Thomson Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross Message-ID: <20260224093707.19679-1-dt@linux-mail.net> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

xenbus: Use .freeze/.thaw to handle xenbus devices

2026-03-04T12:19:38+00:00

[ Upstream commit e08dd1ee49838750a514e83c0aa60cd12ba6ecbb ] The goal is to fix s2idle and S3 for Xen PV devices. A domain resuming from s3 or s2idle disconnects its PV devices during resume. The backends are not expecting this and do not reconnect. b3e96c0c7562 ("xen: use freeze/restore/thaw PM events for suspend/ resume/chkpt") changed xen_suspend()/do_suspend() from PMSG_SUSPEND/PMSG_RESUME to PMSG_FREEZE/PMSG_THAW/PMSG_RESTORE, but the suspend/resume callbacks remained. .freeze/restore are used with hiberation where Linux restarts in a new place in the future. .suspend/resume are useful for runtime power management for the duration of a boot. The current behavior of the callbacks works for an xl save/restore or live migration where the domain is restored/migrated to a new location and connecting to a not-already-connected backend. Change xenbus_pm_ops to use .freeze/thaw/restore and drop the .suspend/resume hook. This matches the use in drivers/xen/manage.c for save/restore and live migration. With .suspend/resume empty, PV devices are left connected during s2idle and s3, so PV devices are not changed and work after resume. Signed-off-by: Jason Andryuk Acked-by: Juergen Gross Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross Message-ID: <20251119224731.61497-2-jason.andryuk@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

Partial revert "x86/xen: fix balloon target initialization for PVH dom0"

2026-02-26T22:59:01+00:00

[ Upstream commit 0949c646d64697428ff6257d52efa5093566868d ] This partially reverts commit 87af633689ce16ddb166c80f32b120e50b1295de so the current memory target for PV guests is still fetched from start_info->nr_pages, which matches exactly what the toolstack sets the initial memory target to. Using get_num_physpages() is possible on PV also, but needs adjusting to take into account the ISA hole and the PFN at 0 not considered usable memory despite being populated, and hence would need extra adjustments. Instead of carrying those extra adjustments switch back to the previous code. That leaves Linux with a difference in how current memory target is obtained for HVM vs PV, but that's better than adding extra logic just for PV. However if switching to start_info->nr_pages for PV domains we need to differentiate between released pages (freed back to the hypervisor) as opposed to pages in the physmap which are not populated to start with. Introduce a new xen_unpopulated_pages to account for papges that have never been populated, and hence in the PV case don't need subtracting. Fixes: 87af633689ce ("x86/xen: fix balloon target initialization for PVH dom0") Reported-by: James Dingwall Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross Message-ID: <20260128110510.46425-2-roger.pau@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

xen/virtio: Don't use grant-dma-ops when running as Dom0

2026-02-26T22:58:59+00:00

[ Upstream commit dc8ea8714311e549ee93a2b0bdd5487d20bfadbf ] Dom0 inherit devices from the machine and is usually in PV mode. If we are running in a virtual that has virtio devices, these devices would be considered as using grants with Dom0 as backend, while being the said Dom0 itself, while we want to use these devices like regular PCI devices. Fix this by preventing grant-dma-ops from being used when running as Dom0 (initial domain). We still keep the device-tree logic as-is. Signed-off-by: Teddy Astie Fixes: 61367688f1fb0 ("xen/virtio: enable grant based virtio on x86") Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross Message-ID: <6698564dd2270a9f7377b78ebfb20cb425cabbe8.1767720955.git.teddy.astie@vates.tech> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

scsi: xen: scsiback: Fix potential memory leak in scsiback_remove()

2026-01-30T09:32:13+00:00

commit 901a5f309daba412e2a30364d7ec1492fa11c32c upstream. Memory allocated for struct vscsiblk_info in scsiback_probe() is not freed in scsiback_remove() leading to potential memory leaks on remove, as well as in the scsiback_probe() error paths. Fix that by freeing it in scsiback_remove(). Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: d9d660f6e562 ("xen-scsiback: Add Xen PV SCSI backend driver") Signed-off-by: Abdun Nihaal Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251223063012.119035-1-nihaal@cse.iitm.ac.in Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge tag 'dma-mapping-6.18-2025-09-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszyprowski/linux

2025-10-04T00:41:12+00:00

Pull dma-mapping updates from Marek Szyprowski: - Refactoring of DMA mapping API to physical addresses as the primary interface instead of page+offset parameters This gets much closer to Matthew Wilcox's long term wish for struct-pageless IO to cacheable DRAM and is supporting memdesc project which seeks to substantially transform how struct page works. An advantage of this approach is the possibility of introducing DMA_ATTR_MMIO, which covers existing 'dma_map_resource' flow in the common paths, what in turn lets to use recently introduced dma_iova_link() API to map PCI P2P MMIO without creating struct page Developped by Leon Romanovsky and Jason Gunthorpe - Minor clean-up by Petr Tesarik and Qianfeng Rong * tag 'dma-mapping-6.18-2025-09-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszyprowski/linux: kmsan: fix missed kmsan_handle_dma() signature conversion mm/hmm: properly take MMIO path mm/hmm: migrate to physical address-based DMA mapping API dma-mapping: export new dma_*map_phys() interface xen: swiotlb: Open code map_resource callback dma-mapping: implement DMA_ATTR_MMIO for dma_(un)map_page_attrs() kmsan: convert kmsan_handle_dma to use physical addresses dma-mapping: convert dma_direct_*map_page to be phys_addr_t based iommu/dma: implement DMA_ATTR_MMIO for iommu_dma_(un)map_phys() iommu/dma: rename iommu_dma_*map_page to iommu_dma_*map_phys dma-mapping: rename trace_dma_*map_page to trace_dma_*map_phys dma-debug: refactor to use physical addresses for page mapping iommu/dma: implement DMA_ATTR_MMIO for dma_iova_link(). dma-mapping: introduce new DMA attribute to indicate MMIO memory swiotlb: Remove redundant __GFP_NOWARN dma-direct: clean up the logic in __dma_direct_alloc_pages()

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-10-01-19-00' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2025-10-03T01:18:33+00:00

Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: - "mm, swap: improve cluster scan strategy" from Kairui Song improves performance and reduces the failure rate of swap cluster allocation - "support large align and nid in Rust allocators" from Vitaly Wool permits Rust allocators to set NUMA node and large alignment when perforning slub and vmalloc reallocs - "mm/damon/vaddr: support stat-purpose DAMOS" from Yueyang Pan extend DAMOS_STAT's handling of the DAMON operations sets for virtual address spaces for ops-level DAMOS filters - "execute PROCMAP_QUERY ioctl under per-vma lock" from Suren Baghdasaryan reduces mmap_lock contention during reads of /proc/pid/maps - "mm/mincore: minor clean up for swap cache checking" from Kairui Song performs some cleanup in the swap code - "mm: vm_normal_page*() improvements" from David Hildenbrand provides code cleanup in the pagemap code - "add persistent huge zero folio support" from Pankaj Raghav provides a block layer speedup by optionalls making the huge_zero_pagepersistent, instead of releasing it when its refcount falls to zero - "kho: fixes and cleanups" from Mike Rapoport adds a few touchups to the recently added Kexec Handover feature - "mm: make mm->flags a bitmap and 64-bit on all arches" from Lorenzo Stoakes turns mm_struct.flags into a bitmap. To end the constant struggle with space shortage on 32-bit conflicting with 64-bit's needs - "mm/swapfile.c and swap.h cleanup" from Chris Li cleans up some swap code - "selftests/mm: Fix false positives and skip unsupported tests" from Donet Tom fixes a few things in our selftests code - "prctl: extend PR_SET_THP_DISABLE to only provide THPs when advised" from David Hildenbrand "allows individual processes to opt-out of THP=always into THP=madvise, without affecting other workloads on the system". It's a long story - the [1/N] changelog spells out the considerations - "Add and use memdesc_flags_t" from Matthew Wilcox gets us started on the memdesc project. Please see https://kernelnewbies.org/MatthewWilcox/Memdescs and https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/post/introducing-memdesc - "Tiny optimization for large read operations" from Chi Zhiling improves the efficiency of the pagecache read path - "Better split_huge_page_test result check" from Zi Yan improves our folio splitting selftest code - "test that rmap behaves as expected" from Wei Yang adds some rmap selftests - "remove write_cache_pages()" from Christoph Hellwig removes that function and converts its two remaining callers - "selftests/mm: uffd-stress fixes" from Dev Jain fixes some UFFD selftests issues - "introduce kernel file mapped folios" from Boris Burkov introduces the concept of "kernel file pages". Using these permits btrfs to account its metadata pages to the root cgroup, rather than to the cgroups of random inappropriate tasks - "mm/pageblock: improve readability of some pageblock handling" from Wei Yang provides some readability improvements to the page allocator code - "mm/damon: support ARM32 with LPAE" from SeongJae Park teaches DAMON to understand arm32 highmem - "tools: testing: Use existing atomic.h for vma/maple tests" from Brendan Jackman performs some code cleanups and deduplication under tools/testing/ - "maple_tree: Fix testing for 32bit compiles" from Liam Howlett fixes a couple of 32-bit issues in tools/testing/radix-tree.c - "kasan: unify kasan_enabled() and remove arch-specific implementations" from Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov moves KASAN arch-specific initialization code into a common arch-neutral implementation - "mm: remove zpool" from Johannes Weiner removes zspool - an indirection layer which now only redirects to a single thing (zsmalloc) - "mm: task_stack: Stack handling cleanups" from Pasha Tatashin makes a couple of cleanups in the fork code - "mm: remove nth_page()" from David Hildenbrand makes rather a lot of adjustments at various nth_page() callsites, eventually permitting the removal of that undesirable helper function - "introduce kasan.write_only option in hw-tags" from Yeoreum Yun creates a KASAN read-only mode for ARM, using that architecture's memory tagging feature. It is felt that a read-only mode KASAN is suitable for use in production systems rather than debug-only - "mm: hugetlb: cleanup hugetlb folio allocation" from Kefeng Wang does some tidying in the hugetlb folio allocation code - "mm: establish const-correctness for pointer parameters" from Max Kellermann makes quite a number of the MM API functions more accurate about the constness of their arguments. This was getting in the way of subsystems (in this case CEPH) when they attempt to improving their own const/non-const accuracy - "Cleanup free_pages() misuse" from Vishal Moola fixes a number of code sites which were confused over when to use free_pages() vs __free_pages() - "Add Rust abstraction for Maple Trees" from Alice Ryhl makes the mapletree code accessible to Rust. Required by nouveau and by its forthcoming successor: the new Rust Nova driver - "selftests/mm: split_huge_page_test: split_pte_mapped_thp improvements" from David Hildenbrand adds a fix and some cleanups to the thp selftesting code - "mm, swap: introduce swap table as swap cache (phase I)" from Chris Li and Kairui Song is the first step along the path to implementing "swap tables" - a new approach to swap allocation and state tracking which is expected to yield speed and space improvements. This patchset itself yields a 5-20% performance benefit in some situations - "Some ptdesc cleanups" from Matthew Wilcox utilizes the new memdesc layer to clean up the ptdesc code a little - "Fix va_high_addr_switch.sh test failure" from Chunyu Hu fixes some issues in our 5-level pagetable selftesting code - "Minor fixes for memory allocation profiling" from Suren Baghdasaryan addresses a couple of minor issues in relatively new memory allocation profiling feature - "Small cleanups" from Matthew Wilcox has a few cleanups in preparation for more memdesc work - "mm/damon: add addr_unit for DAMON_LRU_SORT and DAMON_RECLAIM" from Quanmin Yan makes some changes to DAMON in furtherance of supporting arm highmem - "selftests/mm: Add -Wunreachable-code and fix warnings" from Muhammad Anjum adds that compiler check to selftests code and fixes the fallout, by removing dead code - "Improvements to Victim Process Thawing and OOM Reaper Traversal Order" from zhongjinji makes a number of improvements in the OOM killer: mainly thawing a more appropriate group of victim threads so they can release resources - "mm/damon: misc fixups and improvements for 6.18" from SeongJae Park is a bunch of small and unrelated fixups for DAMON - "mm/damon: define and use DAMON initialization check function" from SeongJae Park implement reliability and maintainability improvements to a recently-added bug fix - "mm/damon/stat: expose auto-tuned intervals and non-idle ages" from SeongJae Park provides additional transparency to userspace clients of the DAMON_STAT information - "Expand scope of khugepaged anonymous collapse" from Dev Jain removes some constraints on khubepaged's collapsing of anon VMAs. It also increases the success rate of MADV_COLLAPSE against an anon vma - "mm: do not assume file == vma->vm_file in compat_vma_mmap_prepare()" from Lorenzo Stoakes moves us further towards removal of file_operations.mmap(). This patchset concentrates upon clearing up the treatment of stacked filesystems - "mm: Improve mlock tracking for large folios" from Kiryl Shutsemau provides some fixes and improvements to mlock's tracking of large folios. /proc/meminfo's "Mlocked" field became more accurate - "mm/ksm: Fix incorrect accounting of KSM counters during fork" from Donet Tom fixes several user-visible KSM stats inaccuracies across forks and adds selftest code to verify these counters - "mm_slot: fix the usage of mm_slot_entry" from Wei Yang addresses some potential but presently benign issues in KSM's mm_slot handling * tag 'mm-stable-2025-10-01-19-00' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (372 commits) mm: swap: check for stable address space before operating on the VMA mm: convert folio_page() back to a macro mm/khugepaged: use start_addr/addr for improved readability hugetlbfs: skip VMAs without shareable locks in hugetlb_vmdelete_list alloc_tag: fix boot failure due to NULL pointer dereference mm: silence data-race in update_hiwater_rss mm/memory-failure: don't select MEMORY_ISOLATION mm/khugepaged: remove definition of struct khugepaged_mm_slot mm/ksm: get mm_slot by mm_slot_entry() when slot is !NULL hugetlb: increase number of reserving hugepages via cmdline selftests/mm: add fork inheritance test for ksm_merging_pages counter mm/ksm: fix incorrect KSM counter handling in mm_struct during fork drivers/base/node: fix double free in register_one_node() mm: remove PMD alignment constraint in execmem_vmalloc() mm/memory_hotplug: fix typo 'esecially' -> 'especially' mm/rmap: improve mlock tracking for large folios mm/filemap: map entire large folio faultaround mm/fault: try to map the entire file folio in finish_fault() mm/rmap: mlock large folios in try_to_unmap_one() mm/rmap: fix a mlock race condition in folio_referenced_one() ...