kernel/linux.git/drivers/xen, branch v7.0-rc7

xen/privcmd: unregister xenstore notifier on module exit

2026-03-26T07:57:51+00:00

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>

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

2026-03-20T11:06:01+00:00

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 --- V2: - new patch

xen/privcmd: restrict usage in unprivileged domU

2026-03-20T11:05:41+00:00

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 --- V2: - defer reading from Xenstore if Xenstore isn't ready yet (Jan Beulich) - wait in open() if target domain isn't known yet - issue message in case no target domain found (Jan Beulich)

Merge tag 'for-linus-7.0-rc3-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip

2026-03-07T15:44:32+00:00

Pull xen fixes from Juergen Gross: - a cleanup of arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S removing the pre-built page tables for Xen guests - a small comment update - another cleanup for Xen PVH guests mode - fix an issue with Xen PV-devices backed by driver domains * tag 'for-linus-7.0-rc3-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip: xen/xenbus: better handle backend crash xenbus: add xenbus_device parameter to xenbus_read_driver_state() x86/PVH: Use boot params to pass RSDP address in start_info page x86/xen: update outdated comment xen/acpi-processor: fix _CST detection using undersized evaluation buffer x86/xen: Build identity mapping page tables dynamically for XENPV

xen/xenbus: better handle backend crash

2026-03-04T14:31:40+00:00

When the backend domain crashes, coordinated device cleanup is not possible (as it involves waiting for the backend state change). In that case, toolstack forcefully removes frontend xenstore entries. xenbus_dev_changed() handles this case, and triggers device cleanup. It's possible that toolstack manages to connect new device in that place, before xenbus_dev_changed() notices the old one is missing. If that happens, new one won't be probed and will forever remain in XenbusStateInitialising. Fix this by checking the frontend's state in Xenstore. In case it has been reset to XenbusStateInitialising by Xen tools, consider this being the result of an unplug+plug operation. It's important that cleanup on such unplug doesn't modify Xenstore entries (especially the "state" key) as it belong to the new device to be probed - changing it would derail establishing connection to the new backend (most likely, closing the device before it was even connected). Handle this case by setting new xenbus_device->vanished flag to true, and check it before changing state entry. And even if xenbus_dev_changed() correctly detects the device was forcefully removed, the cleanup handling is still racy. Since this whole handling doesn't happened in a single Xenstore transaction, it's possible that toolstack might put a new device there already. Avoid re-creating the state key (which in the case of loosing the race would actually close newly attached device). The problem does not apply to frontend domain crash, as this case involves coordinated cleanup. Problem originally reported at https://lore.kernel.org/xen-devel/aOZvivyZ9YhVWDLN@mail-itl/T/#t, including reproduction steps. Based-on-patch-by: Marek Marczykowski-Górecki Tested-by: Marek Marczykowski-Górecki Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross Message-ID: <20260218095205.453657-3-jgross@suse.com>

xenbus: add xenbus_device parameter to xenbus_read_driver_state()

2026-03-04T14:31:40+00:00

In order to prepare checking the xenbus device status in xenbus_read_driver_state(), add the pointer to struct xenbus_device as a parameter. Tested-by: Marek Marczykowski-Górecki Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross Acked-by: "Martin K. Petersen" # SCSI Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski Acked-by: Bjorn Helgaas # drivers/pci/xen-pcifront.c Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross Message-ID: <20260218095205.453657-2-jgross@suse.com>

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

2026-03-03T13:53:46+00:00

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>

Convert remaining multi-line kmalloc_obj/flex GFP_KERNEL uses

2026-02-22T16:26:33+00:00

Conversion performed via this Coccinelle script: // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only // Options: --include-headers-for-types --all-includes --include-headers --keep-comments virtual patch @gfp depends on patch && !(file in "tools") && !(file in "samples")@ identifier ALLOC = {kmalloc_obj,kmalloc_objs,kmalloc_flex, kzalloc_obj,kzalloc_objs,kzalloc_flex, kvmalloc_obj,kvmalloc_objs,kvmalloc_flex, kvzalloc_obj,kvzalloc_objs,kvzalloc_flex}; @@ ALLOC(... - , GFP_KERNEL ) $ make coccicheck MODE=patch COCCI=gfp.cocci Build and boot tested x86_64 with Fedora 42's GCC and Clang: Linux version 6.19.0+ (user@host) (gcc (GCC) 15.2.1 20260123 (Red Hat 15.2.1-7), GNU ld version 2.44-12.fc42) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 1970-01-01 Linux version 6.19.0+ (user@host) (clang version 20.1.8 (Fedora 20.1.8-4.fc42), LLD 20.1.8) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 1970-01-01 Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Convert more 'alloc_obj' cases to default GFP_KERNEL arguments

2026-02-22T04:03:00+00:00

This converts some of the visually simpler cases that have been split over multiple lines. I only did the ones that are easy to verify the resulting diff by having just that final GFP_KERNEL argument on the next line. Somebody should probably do a proper coccinelle script for this, but for me the trivial script actually resulted in an assertion failure in the middle of the script. I probably had made it a bit _too_ trivial. So after fighting that far a while I decided to just do some of the syntactically simpler cases with variations of the previous 'sed' scripts. The more syntactically complex multi-line cases would mostly really want whitespace cleanup anyway. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Convert 'alloc_flex' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument

2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00

This is the exact same thing as the 'alloc_obj()' version, only much smaller because there are a lot fewer users of the *alloc_flex() interface. As with alloc_obj() version, this was done entirely with mindless brute force, using the same script, except using 'flex' in the pattern rather than 'objs*'. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds