kernel/linux.git/tools/testing/selftests/kvm, branch v6.19.11

KVM: selftests: Add -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE to avoid some unpredictable test failures

2026-01-23T16:38:31+00:00

Some distributions (such as Ubuntu) configure GCC so that _FORTIFY_SOURCE is automatically enabled at -O1 or above. This results in some fortified version of definitions of standard library functions are included. While linker resolves the symbols, the fortified versions might override the definitions in lib/string_override.c and reference to those PLT entries in GLIBC. This is not a problem for the code in host, but it is a disaster for the guest code. E.g., if build and run x86/nested_emulation_test on Ubuntu 24.04 will encounter a L1 #PF due to memset() reference to __memset_chk@plt. The option -fno-builtin-memset is not helpful here, because those fortified versions are not built-in but some definitions which are included by header, they are for different intentions. In order to eliminate the unpredictable behaviors may vary depending on the linker and platform, add the "-U_FORTIFY_SOURCE" into CFLAGS to prevent from introducing the fortified definitions. Signed-off-by: Zhiquan Li Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260122053551.548229-1-zhiquan_li@163.com Fixes: 6b6f71484bf4 ("KVM: selftests: Implement memcmp(), memcpy(), and memset() for guest use") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org [sean: tag for stable] Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson

selftests: kvm: Verify TILELOADD actually #NM faults when XFD[18]=1

2026-01-10T06:17:30+00:00

Rework the AMX test's #NM handling to use kvm_asm_safe() to verify an #NM actually occurs. As is, a completely missing #NM could go unnoticed. Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

selftests: kvm: try getting XFD and XSAVE state out of sync

2026-01-10T06:17:30+00:00

The host is allowed to set FPU state that includes a disabled xstate component. Check that this does not cause bad effects. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

selftests: kvm: replace numbered sync points with actions

2026-01-10T06:17:29+00:00

Rework the guest=>host syncs in the AMX test to use named actions instead of arbitrary, incrementing numbers. The "stage" of the test has no real meaning, what matters is what action the test wants the host to perform. The incrementing numbers are somewhat helpful for triaging failures, but fully debugging failures almost always requires a much deeper dive into the test (and KVM). Using named actions not only makes it easier to extend the test without having to shift all sync point numbers, it makes the code easier to read. [Commit message by Sean Christopherson] Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

Merge tag 'kvm-x86-fixes-6.19-rc1' of https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux into HEAD

2025-12-18T17:38:45+00:00

KVM fixes for 6.19-rc1 - Add a missing "break" to fix param parsing in the rseq selftest. - Apply runtime updates to the _current_ CPUID when userspace is setting CPUID, e.g. as part of vCPU hotplug, to fix a false positive and to avoid dropping the pending update. - Disallow toggling KVM_MEM_GUEST_MEMFD on an existing memslot, as it's not supported by KVM and leads to a use-after-free due to KVM failing to unbind the memslot from the previously-associated guest_memfd instance. - Harden against similar KVM_MEM_GUEST_MEMFD goofs, and prepare for supporting flags-only changes on KVM_MEM_GUEST_MEMFD memlslots, e.g. for dirty logging. - Set exit_code[63:32] to -1 (all 0xffs) when synthesizing a nested SVM_EXIT_ERR (a.k.a. VMEXIT_INVALID) #VMEXIT, as VMEXIT_INVALID is defined as -1ull (a 64-bit value). - Update SVI when activating APICv to fix a bug where a post-activation EOI for an in-service IRQ would effective be lost due to SVI being stale. - Immediately refresh APICv controls (if necessary) on a nested VM-Exit instead of deferring the update via KVM_REQ_APICV_UPDATE, as the request is effectively ignored because KVM thinks the vCPU already has the correct APICv settings.

Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm

2025-12-06T01:01:20+00:00

Pull KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini: "ARM: - Support for userspace handling of synchronous external aborts (SEAs), allowing the VMM to potentially handle the abort in a non-fatal manner - Large rework of the VGIC's list register handling with the goal of supporting more active/pending IRQs than available list registers in hardware. In addition, the VGIC now supports EOImode==1 style deactivations for IRQs which may occur on a separate vCPU than the one that acked the IRQ - Support for FEAT_XNX (user / privileged execute permissions) and FEAT_HAF (hardware update to the Access Flag) in the software page table walkers and shadow MMU - Allow page table destruction to reschedule, fixing long need_resched latencies observed when destroying a large VM - Minor fixes to KVM and selftests Loongarch: - Get VM PMU capability from HW GCFG register - Add AVEC basic support - Use 64-bit register definition for EIOINTC - Add KVM timer test cases for tools/selftests RISC/V: - SBI message passing (MPXY) support for KVM guest - Give a new, more specific error subcode for the case when in-kernel AIA virtualization fails to allocate IMSIC VS-file - Support KVM_DIRTY_LOG_INITIALLY_SET, enabling dirty log gradually in small chunks - Fix guest page fault within HLV* instructions - Flush VS-stage TLB after VCPU migration for Andes cores s390: - Always allocate ESCA (Extended System Control Area), instead of starting with the basic SCA and converting to ESCA with the addition of the 65th vCPU. The price is increased number of exits (and worse performance) on z10 and earlier processor; ESCA was introduced by z114/z196 in 2010 - VIRT_XFER_TO_GUEST_WORK support - Operation exception forwarding support - Cleanups x86: - Skip the costly "zap all SPTEs" on an MMIO generation wrap if MMIO SPTE caching is disabled, as there can't be any relevant SPTEs to zap - Relocate a misplaced export - Fix an async #PF bug where KVM would clear the completion queue when the guest transitioned in and out of paging mode, e.g. when handling an SMI and then returning to paged mode via RSM - Leave KVM's user-return notifier registered even when disabling virtualization, as long as kvm.ko is loaded. On reboot/shutdown, keeping the notifier registered is ok; the kernel does not use the MSRs and the callback will run cleanly and restore host MSRs if the CPU manages to return to userspace before the system goes down - Use the checked version of {get,put}_user() - Fix a long-lurking bug where KVM's lack of catch-up logic for periodic APIC timers can result in a hard lockup in the host - Revert the periodic kvmclock sync logic now that KVM doesn't use a clocksource that's subject to NTP corrections - Clean up KVM's handling of MMIO Stale Data and L1TF, and bury the latter behind CONFIG_CPU_MITIGATIONS - Context switch XCR0, XSS, and PKRU outside of the entry/exit fast path; the only reason they were handled in the fast path was to paper of a bug in the core #MC code, and that has long since been fixed - Add emulator support for AVX MOV instructions, to play nice with emulated devices whose guest drivers like to access PCI BARs with large multi-byte instructions x86 (AMD): - Fix a few missing "VMCB dirty" bugs - Fix the worst of KVM's lack of EFER.LMSLE emulation - Add AVIC support for addressing 4k vCPUs in x2AVIC mode - Fix incorrect handling of selective CR0 writes when checking intercepts during emulation of L2 instructions - Fix a currently-benign bug where KVM would clobber SPEC_CTRL[63:32] on VMRUN and #VMEXIT - Fix a bug where KVM corrupt the guest code stream when re-injecting a soft interrupt if the guest patched the underlying code after the VM-Exit, e.g. when Linux patches code with a temporary INT3 - Add KVM_X86_SNP_POLICY_BITS to advertise supported SNP policy bits to userspace, and extend KVM "support" to all policy bits that don't require any actual support from KVM x86 (Intel): - Use the root role from kvm_mmu_page to construct EPTPs instead of the current vCPU state, partly as worthwhile cleanup, but mostly to pave the way for tracking per-root TLB flushes, and elide EPT flushes on pCPU migration if the root is clean from a previous flush - Add a few missing nested consistency checks - Rip out support for doing "early" consistency checks via hardware as the functionality hasn't been used in years and is no longer useful in general; replace it with an off-by-default module param to WARN if hardware fails a check that KVM does not perform - Fix a currently-benign bug where KVM would drop the guest's SPEC_CTRL[63:32] on VM-Enter - Misc cleanups - Overhaul the TDX code to address systemic races where KVM (acting on behalf of userspace) could inadvertantly trigger lock contention in the TDX-Module; KVM was either working around these in weird, ugly ways, or was simply oblivious to them (though even Yan's devilish selftests could only break individual VMs, not the host kernel) - Fix a bug where KVM could corrupt a vCPU's cpu_list when freeing a TDX vCPU, if creating said vCPU failed partway through - Fix a few sparse warnings (bad annotation, 0 != NULL) - Use struct_size() to simplify copying TDX capabilities to userspace - Fix a bug where TDX would effectively corrupt user-return MSR values if the TDX Module rejects VP.ENTER and thus doesn't clobber host MSRs as expected Selftests: - Fix a math goof in mmu_stress_test when running on a single-CPU system/VM - Forcefully override ARCH from x86_64 to x86 to play nice with specifying ARCH=x86_64 on the command line - Extend a bunch of nested VMX to validate nested SVM as well - Add support for LA57 in the core VM_MODE_xxx macro, and add a test to verify KVM can save/restore nested VMX state when L1 is using 5-level paging, but L2 is not - Clean up the guest paging code in anticipation of sharing the core logic for nested EPT and nested NPT guest_memfd: - Add NUMA mempolicy support for guest_memfd, and clean up a variety of rough edges in guest_memfd along the way - Define a CLASS to automatically handle get+put when grabbing a guest_memfd from a memslot to make it harder to leak references - Enhance KVM selftests to make it easer to develop and debug selftests like those added for guest_memfd NUMA support, e.g. where test and/or KVM bugs often result in hard-to-debug SIGBUS errors - Misc cleanups Generic: - Use the recently-added WQ_PERCPU when creating the per-CPU workqueue for irqfd cleanup - Fix a goof in the dirty ring documentation - Fix choice of target for directed yield across different calls to kvm_vcpu_on_spin(); the function was always starting from the first vCPU instead of continuing the round-robin search" * tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (260 commits) KVM: arm64: at: Update AF on software walk only if VM has FEAT_HAFDBS KVM: arm64: at: Use correct HA bit in TCR_EL2 when regime is EL2 KVM: arm64: Document KVM_PGTABLE_PROT_{UX,PX} KVM: arm64: Fix spelling mistake "Unexpeced" -> "Unexpected" KVM: arm64: Add break to default case in kvm_pgtable_stage2_pte_prot() KVM: arm64: Add endian casting to kvm_swap_s[12]_desc() KVM: arm64: Fix compilation when CONFIG_ARM64_USE_LSE_ATOMICS=n KVM: arm64: selftests: Add test for AT emulation KVM: arm64: nv: Expose hardware access flag management to NV guests KVM: arm64: nv: Implement HW access flag management in stage-2 SW PTW KVM: arm64: Implement HW access flag management in stage-1 SW PTW KVM: arm64: Propagate PTW errors up to AT emulation KVM: arm64: Add helper for swapping guest descriptor KVM: arm64: nv: Use pgtable definitions in stage-2 walk KVM: arm64: Handle endianness in read helper for emulated PTW KVM: arm64: nv: Stop passing vCPU through void ptr in S2 PTW KVM: arm64: Call helper for reading descriptors directly KVM: arm64: nv: Advertise support for FEAT_XNX KVM: arm64: Teach ptdump about FEAT_XNX permissions KVM: s390: Use generic VIRT_XFER_TO_GUEST_WORK functions ...

Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux

2025-12-03T01:03:55+00:00

Pull arm64 updates from Catalin Marinas: "These are the arm64 updates for 6.19. The biggest part is the Arm MPAM driver under drivers/resctrl/. There's a patch touching mm/ to handle spurious faults for huge pmd (similar to the pte version). The corresponding arm64 part allows us to avoid the TLB maintenance if a (huge) page is reused after a write fault. There's EFI refactoring to allow runtime services with preemption enabled and the rest is the usual perf/PMU updates and several cleanups/typos. Summary: Core features: - Basic Arm MPAM (Memory system resource Partitioning And Monitoring) driver under drivers/resctrl/ which makes use of the fs/rectrl/ API Perf and PMU: - Avoid cycle counter on multi-threaded CPUs - Extend CSPMU device probing and add additional filtering support for NVIDIA implementations - Add support for the PMUs on the NoC S3 interconnect - Add additional compatible strings for new Cortex and C1 CPUs - Add support for data source filtering to the SPE driver - Add support for i.MX8QM and "DB" PMU in the imx PMU driver Memory managemennt: - Avoid broadcast TLBI if page reused in write fault - Elide TLB invalidation if the old PTE was not valid - Drop redundant cpu_set_*_tcr_t0sz() macros - Propagate pgtable_alloc() errors outside of __create_pgd_mapping() - Propagate return value from __change_memory_common() ACPI and EFI: - Call EFI runtime services without disabling preemption - Remove unused ACPI function Miscellaneous: - ptrace support to disable streaming on SME-only systems - Improve sysreg generation to include a 'Prefix' descriptor - Replace __ASSEMBLY__ with __ASSEMBLER__ - Align register dumps in the kselftest zt-test - Remove some no longer used macros/functions - Various spelling corrections" * tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (94 commits) arm64/mm: Document why linear map split failure upon vm_reset_perms is not problematic arm64/pageattr: Propagate return value from __change_memory_common arm64/sysreg: Remove unused define ARM64_FEATURE_FIELD_BITS KVM: arm64: selftests: Consider all 7 possible levels of cache KVM: arm64: selftests: Remove ARM64_FEATURE_FIELD_BITS and its last user arm64: atomics: lse: Remove unused parameters from ATOMIC_FETCH_OP_AND macros Documentation/arm64: Fix the typo of register names ACPI: GTDT: Get rid of acpi_arch_timer_mem_init() perf: arm_spe: Add support for filtering on data source perf: Add perf_event_attr::config4 perf/imx_ddr: Add support for PMU in DB (system interconnects) perf/imx_ddr: Get and enable optional clks perf/imx_ddr: Move ida_alloc() from ddr_perf_init() to ddr_perf_probe() dt-bindings: perf: fsl-imx-ddr: Add compatible string for i.MX8QM, i.MX8QXP and i.MX8DXL arm64: remove duplicate ARCH_HAS_MEM_ENCRYPT arm64: mm: use untagged address to calculate page index MAINTAINERS: new entry for MPAM Driver arm_mpam: Add kunit tests for props_mismatch() arm_mpam: Add kunit test for bitmap reset arm_mpam: Add helper to reset saved mbwu state ...

Merge tag 'kvm-s390-next-6.19-1' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvms390/linux into HEAD

2025-12-02T17:58:47+00:00

- SCA rework - VIRT_XFER_TO_GUEST_WORK support - Operation exception forwarding support - Cleanups

Merge tag 'kvmarm-6.19' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvmarm/kvmarm into HEAD

2025-12-02T17:36:26+00:00

KVM/arm64 updates for 6.19 - Support for userspace handling of synchronous external aborts (SEAs), allowing the VMM to potentially handle the abort in a non-fatal manner. - Large rework of the VGIC's list register handling with the goal of supporting more active/pending IRQs than available list registers in hardware. In addition, the VGIC now supports EOImode==1 style deactivations for IRQs which may occur on a separate vCPU than the one that acked the IRQ. - Support for FEAT_XNX (user / privileged execute permissions) and FEAT_HAF (hardware update to the Access Flag) in the software page table walkers and shadow MMU. - Allow page table destruction to reschedule, fixing long need_resched latencies observed when destroying a large VM. - Minor fixes to KVM and selftests

Merge tag 'kvm-riscv-6.19-1' of https://github.com/kvm-riscv/linux into HEAD

2025-12-02T17:35:25+00:00

KVM/riscv changes for 6.19 - SBI MPXY support for KVM guest - New KVM_EXIT_FAIL_ENTRY_NO_VSFILE for the case when in-kernel AIA virtualization fails to allocate IMSIC VS-file - Support enabling dirty log gradually in small chunks - Fix guest page fault within HLV* instructions - Flush VS-stage TLB after VCPU migration for Andes cores