kernel/arch/x86, branch linux-rolling-lts

KVM: SVM: Set/clear CR8 write interception when AVIC is (de)activated

2026-03-19T15:08:50Z

[ Upstream commit 87d0f901a9bd8ae6be57249c737f20ac0cace93d ] Explicitly set/clear CR8 write interception when AVIC is (de)activated to fix a bug where KVM leaves the interception enabled after AVIC is activated. E.g. if KVM emulates INIT=>WFS while AVIC is deactivated, CR8 will remain intercepted in perpetuity. On its own, the dangling CR8 intercept is "just" a performance issue, but combined with the TPR sync bug fixed by commit d02e48830e3f ("KVM: SVM: Sync TPR from LAPIC into VMCB::V_TPR even if AVIC is active"), the danging intercept is fatal to Windows guests as the TPR seen by hardware gets wildly out of sync with reality. Note, VMX isn't affected by the bug as TPR_THRESHOLD is explicitly ignored when Virtual Interrupt Delivery is enabled, i.e. when APICv is active in KVM's world. I.e. there's no need to trigger update_cr8_intercept(), this is firmly an SVM implementation flaw/detail. WARN if KVM gets a CR8 write #VMEXIT while AVIC is active, as KVM should never enter the guest with AVIC enabled and CR8 writes intercepted. Fixes: 3bbf3565f48c ("svm: Do not intercept CR8 when enable AVIC") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Jim Mattson Cc: Naveen N Rao (AMD) Cc: Maciej S. Szmigiero Reviewed-by: Naveen N Rao (AMD) Reviewed-by: Jim Mattson Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260203190711.458413-3-seanjc@google.com Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson [Squash fix to avic_deactivate_vmcb. - Paolo] Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

KVM: SVM: Add a helper to look up the max physical ID for AVIC

2026-03-19T15:08:50Z

[ Upstream commit f2f6e67a56dc88fea7e9b10c4e79bb01d97386b7 ] To help with a future change, add a helper to look up the maximum physical ID depending on the vCPU AVIC mode. No functional change intended. Suggested-by: Sean Christopherson Signed-off-by: Naveen N Rao (AMD) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/0ab9bf5e20a3463a4aa3a5ea9bbbac66beedf1d1.1757009416.git.naveen@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson Stable-dep-of: 87d0f901a9bd ("KVM: SVM: Set/clear CR8 write interception when AVIC is (de)activated") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

KVM: SVM: Limit AVIC physical max index based on configured max_vcpu_ids

2026-03-19T15:08:49Z

[ Upstream commit 574ef752d4aea04134bc121294d717f4422c2755 ] KVM allows VMMs to specify the maximum possible APIC ID for a virtual machine through KVM_CAP_MAX_VCPU_ID capability so as to limit data structures related to APIC/x2APIC. Utilize the same to set the AVIC physical max index in the VMCB, similar to VMX. This helps hardware limit the number of entries to be scanned in the physical APIC ID table speeding up IPI broadcasts for virtual machines with smaller number of vCPUs. Unlike VMX, SVM AVIC requires a single page to be allocated for the Physical APIC ID table and the Logical APIC ID table, so retain the existing approach of allocating those during VM init. Signed-off-by: Naveen N Rao (AMD) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/adb07ccdb3394cd79cb372ba6bcc69a4e4d4ef54.1757009416.git.naveen@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson Stable-dep-of: 87d0f901a9bd ("KVM: SVM: Set/clear CR8 write interception when AVIC is (de)activated") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86/apic: Disable x2apic on resume if the kernel expects so

2026-03-19T15:08:44Z

commit 8cc7dd77a1466f0ec58c03478b2e735a5b289b96 upstream. When resuming from s2ram, firmware may re-enable x2apic mode, which may have been disabled by the kernel during boot either because it doesn't support IRQ remapping or for other reasons. This causes the kernel to continue using the xapic interface, while the hardware is in x2apic mode, which causes hangs. This happens on defconfig + bare metal + s2ram. Fix this in lapic_resume() by disabling x2apic if the kernel expects it to be disabled, i.e. when x2apic_mode = 0. The ACPI v6.6 spec, Section 16.3 [1] says firmware restores either the pre-sleep configuration or initial boot configuration for each CPU, including MSR state: When executing from the power-on reset vector as a result of waking from an S2 or S3 sleep state, the platform firmware performs only the hardware initialization required to restore the system to either the state the platform was in prior to the initial operating system boot, or to the pre-sleep configuration state. In multiprocessor systems, non-boot processors should be placed in the same state as prior to the initial operating system boot. (further ahead) If this is an S2 or S3 wake, then the platform runtime firmware restores minimum context of the system before jumping to the waking vector. This includes: CPU configuration. Platform runtime firmware restores the pre-sleep configuration or initial boot configuration of each CPU (MSR, MTRR, firmware update, SMBase, and so on). Interrupts must be disabled (for IA-32 processors, disabled by CLI instruction). (and other things) So at least as per the spec, re-enablement of x2apic by the firmware is allowed if "x2apic on" is a part of the initial boot configuration. [1] https://uefi.org/specs/ACPI/6.6/16_Waking_and_Sleeping.html#initialization [ bp: Massage. ] Fixes: 6e1cb38a2aef ("x64, x2apic/intr-remap: add x2apic support, including enabling interrupt-remapping") Co-developed-by: Rahul Bukte Signed-off-by: Rahul Bukte Signed-off-by: Shashank Balaji Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: Sohil Mehta Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260306-x2apic-fix-v2-1-bee99c12efa3@sony.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

KVM: SVM: Initialize AVIC VMCB fields if AVIC is enabled with in-kernel APIC

2026-03-19T15:08:24Z

commit 3989a6d036c8ec82c0de3614bed23a1dacd45de5 upstream. Initialize all per-vCPU AVIC control fields in the VMCB if AVIC is enabled in KVM and the VM has an in-kernel local APIC, i.e. if it's _possible_ the vCPU could activate AVIC at any point in its lifecycle. Configuring the VMCB if and only if AVIC is active "works" purely because of optimizations in kvm_create_lapic() to speculatively set apicv_active if AVIC is enabled *and* to defer updates until the first KVM_RUN. In quotes because KVM likely won't do the right thing if kvm_apicv_activated() is false, i.e. if a vCPU is created while APICv is inhibited at the VM level for whatever reason. E.g. if the inhibit is *removed* before KVM_REQ_APICV_UPDATE is handled in KVM_RUN, then __kvm_vcpu_update_apicv() will elide calls to vendor code due to seeing "apicv_active == activate". Cleaning up the initialization code will also allow fixing a bug where KVM incorrectly leaves CR8 interception enabled when AVIC is activated without creating a mess with respect to whether AVIC is activated or not. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 67034bb9dd5e ("KVM: SVM: Add irqchip_split() checks before enabling AVIC") Fixes: 6c3e4422dd20 ("svm: Add support for dynamic APICv") Reviewed-by: Naveen N Rao (AMD) Reviewed-by: Jim Mattson Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260203190711.458413-2-seanjc@google.com Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

KVM: x86: Introduce KVM_X86_QUIRK_VMCS12_ALLOW_FREEZE_IN_SMM

2026-03-19T15:08:24Z

commit e2ffe85b6d2bb7780174b87aa4468a39be17eb81 upstream. 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: Greg Kroah-Hartman

kbuild: Split .modinfo out from ELF_DETAILS

2026-03-12T11:09:44Z

commit 8678591b47469fe16357234efef9b260317b8be4 upstream. Commit 3e86e4d74c04 ("kbuild: keep .modinfo section in vmlinux.unstripped") added .modinfo to ELF_DETAILS while removing it from COMMON_DISCARDS, as it was needed in vmlinux.unstripped and ELF_DETAILS was present in all architecture specific vmlinux linker scripts. While this shuffle is fine for vmlinux, ELF_DETAILS and COMMON_DISCARDS may be used by other linker scripts, such as the s390 and x86 compressed boot images, which may not expect to have a .modinfo section. In certain circumstances, this could result in a bootloader failing to load the compressed kernel [1]. Commit ddc6cbef3ef1 ("s390/boot/vmlinux.lds.S: Ensure bzImage ends with SecureBoot trailer") recently addressed this for the s390 bzImage but the same bug remains for arm, parisc, and x86. The presence of .modinfo in the x86 bzImage was the root cause of the issue worked around with commit d50f21091358 ("kbuild: align modinfo section for Secureboot Authenticode EDK2 compat"). misc.c in arch/x86/boot/compressed includes lib/decompress_unzstd.c, which in turn includes lib/xxhash.c and its MODULE_LICENSE / MODULE_DESCRIPTION macros due to the STATIC definition. Split .modinfo out from ELF_DETAILS into its own macro and handle it in all vmlinux linker scripts. Discard .modinfo in the places where it was previously being discarded from being in COMMON_DISCARDS, as it has never been necessary in those uses. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 3e86e4d74c04 ("kbuild: keep .modinfo section in vmlinux.unstripped") Reported-by: Ed W Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/587f25e0-a80e-46a5-9f01-87cb40cfa377@wildgooses.com/ [1] Tested-by: Ed W # x86_64 Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260225-separate-modinfo-from-elf-details-v1-1-387ced6baf4b@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86/boot/sev: Move SEV decompressor variables into the .data section

2026-03-12T11:09:37Z

commit 4ca191cec17a997d0e3b2cd312f3a884288acc27 upstream. As part of the work to remove the dependency on calling into the decompressor code (startup_64()) for a UEFI boot, a call to rmpadjust() was removed from sev_enable() in favor of checking the value of the snp_vmpl variable. When booting through a non-UEFI path and calling startup_64(), the call to sev_enable() is performed before the BSS section is zeroed. With the removal of the rmpadjust() call and the corresponding check of the return code, the snp_vmpl variable is checked. Since the kernel is running at VMPL0, the snp_vmpl variable will not have been set and should be the default value of 0. However, since the call occurs before the BSS is zeroed, the snp_vmpl variable may not actually be zero, which will cause the guest boot to fail. Since the decompressor relocates itself, the BSS would need to be cleared both before and after the relocation, but this would, in effect, cause all of the changes to BSS variables before relocation to be lost after relocation. Instead, move the snp_vmpl variable into the .data section so that it is initialized and the value made safe during relocation. As a pre-caution against future changes, move other SEV-related decompressor variables into the .data section, too. Fixes: 68a501d7fd82 ("x86/boot: Drop redundant RMPADJUST in SEV SVSM presence check") Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel Reviewed-by: Changyuan Lyu Tested-by: Kevin Hui Tested-by: Changyuan Lyu Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://patch.msgid.link/5648b7de5b0a5d0dfef3785f9582b718678c6448.1770217260.git.thomas.lendacky@amd.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86/sev: Allow IBPB-on-Entry feature for SNP guests

2026-03-12T11:09:37Z

commit 9073428bb204d921ae15326bb7d4558d9d269aab upstream. The SEV-SNP IBPB-on-Entry feature does not require a guest-side implementation. It was added in Zen5 h/w, after the first SNP Zen implementation, and thus was not accounted for when the initial set of SNP features were added to the kernel. In its abundant precaution, commit 8c29f0165405 ("x86/sev: Add SEV-SNP guest feature negotiation support") included SEV_STATUS' IBPB-on-Entry bit as a reserved bit, thereby masking guests from using the feature. Allow guests to make use of IBPB-on-Entry when supported by the hypervisor, as the bit is now architecturally defined and safe to expose. Fixes: 8c29f0165405 ("x86/sev: Add SEV-SNP guest feature negotiation support") Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) Reviewed-by: Nikunj A Dadhania Reviewed-by: Tom Lendacky Cc: stable@kernel.org Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260203222405.4065706-2-kim.phillips@amd.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86/boot: Handle relative CONFIG_EFI_SBAT_FILE file paths

2026-03-12T11:09:37Z

commit 3d1973a0c76a78a4728cff13648a188ed486cf44 upstream. CONFIG_EFI_SBAT_FILE can be a relative path. When compiling using a different output directory (O=) the build currently fails because it can't find the filename set in CONFIG_EFI_SBAT_FILE: arch/x86/boot/compressed/sbat.S: Assembler messages: arch/x86/boot/compressed/sbat.S:6: Error: file not found: kernel.sbat Add $(srctree) as include dir for sbat.o. [ bp: Massage commit message. ] Fixes: 61b57d35396a ("x86/efi: Implement support for embedding SBAT data for x86") Signed-off-by: Jan Stancek Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) Reviewed-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov Cc: Link: https://patch.msgid.link/f4eda155b0cef91d4d316b4e92f5771cb0aa7187.1772047658.git.jstancek@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman