laptop-kernel/arch/x86/include, branch master

x86-64/arm64/powerpc: clean up and rename __copy_from_user_flushcache

2026-04-22T11:32:21Z

commit 809b997a5ce945ab470f70c187048fe4f5df20bf upstream. This finishes the work on these odd functions that were only implemented by a handful of architectures. The 'flushcache' function was only used from the iterator code, and let's make it do the same thing that the nontemporal version does: remove the two underscores and add the user address checking. Yes, yes, the user address checking is also done at iovec import time, but we have long since walked away from the old double-underscore thing where we try to avoid address checking overhead at access time, and these functions shouldn't be so special and old-fashioned. The arm64 version already did the address check, in fact, so there it's just a matter of renaming it. For powerpc and x86-64 we now do the proper user access boilerplate. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86: rename and clean up __copy_from_user_inatomic_nocache()

2026-04-22T11:32:21Z

commit 5de7bcaadf160c1716b20a263cf8f5b06f658959 upstream. Similarly to the previous commit, this renames the somewhat confusingly named function. But in this case, it was at least less confusing: the __copy_from_user_inatomic_nocache is indeed copying from user memory, and it is indeed ok to be used in an atomic context, so it will not warn about it. But the previous commit also removed the NTB mis-use of the __copy_from_user_inatomic_nocache() function, and as a result every call-site is now _actually_ doing a real user copy. That means that we can now do the proper user pointer verification too. End result: add proper address checking, remove the double underscores, and change the "nocache" to "nontemporal" to more accurately describe what this x86-only function actually does. It might be worth noting that only the target is non-temporal: the actual user accesses are normal memory accesses. Also worth noting is that non-x86 targets (and on older 32-bit x86 CPU's before XMM2 in the Pentium III) we end up just falling back on a regular user copy, so nothing can actually depend on the non-temporal semantics, but that has always been true. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86-64: rename misleadingly named '__copy_user_nocache()' function

2026-04-22T11:32:21Z

commit d187a86de793f84766ea40b9ade7ac60aabbb4fe upstream. This function was a masterclass in bad naming, for various historical reasons. It claimed to be a non-cached user copy. It is literally _neither_ of those things. It's a specialty memory copy routine that uses non-temporal stores for the destination (but not the source), and that does exception handling for both source and destination accesses. Also note that while it works for unaligned targets, any unaligned parts (whether at beginning or end) will not use non-temporal stores, since only words and quadwords can be non-temporal on x86. The exception handling means that it _can_ be used for user space accesses, but not on its own - it needs all the normal "start user space access" logic around it. But typically the user space access would be the source, not the non-temporal destination. That was the original intention of this, where the destination was some fragile persistent memory target that needed non-temporal stores in order to catch machine check exceptions synchronously and deal with them gracefully. Thus that non-descriptive name: one use case was to copy from user space into a non-cached kernel buffer. However, the existing users are a mix of that intended use-case, and a couple of random drivers that just did this as a performance tweak. Some of those random drivers then actively misused the user copying version (with STAC/CLAC and all) to do kernel copies without ever even caring about the exception handling, _just_ for the non-temporal destination. Rename it as a first small step to actually make it halfway sane, and change the prototype to be more normal: it doesn't take a user pointer unless the caller has done the proper conversion, and the argument size is the full size_t (it still won't actually copy more than 4GB in one go, but there's also no reason to silently truncate the size argument in the caller). Finally, use this now sanely named function in the NTB code, which mis-used a user copy version (with STAC/CLAC and all) of this interface despite it not actually being a user copy at all. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86/CPU: Fix FPDSS on Zen1

2026-04-22T11:32:14Z

commit e55d98e7756135f32150b9b8f75d580d0d4b2dd3 upstream. Zen1's hardware divider can leave, under certain circumstances, partial results from previous operations. Those results can be leaked by another, attacker thread. Fix that with a chicken bit. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge tag 'kvm-x86-fixes-7.1' of https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux into HEAD

2026-04-11T12:10:44Z

KVM x86 fixes for 7.1 Declare flexible arrays in uAPI structures using __DECLARE_FLEX_ARRAY() so that KVM's uAPI headers can be included in C++ projects.

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

2026-03-15T19:22:10Z

Pull kvm fixes from Paolo Bonzini: "Quite a large pull request, partly due to skipping last week and therefore having material from ~all submaintainers in this one. About a fourth of it is a new selftest, and a couple more changes are large in number of files touched (fixing a -Wflex-array-member-not-at-end compiler warning) or lines changed (reformatting of a table in the API documentation, thanks rST). But who am I kidding---it's a lot of commits and there are a lot of bugs being fixed here, some of them on the nastier side like the RISC-V ones. ARM: - Correctly handle deactivation of interrupts that were activated from LRs. Since EOIcount only denotes deactivation of interrupts that are not present in an LR, start EOIcount deactivation walk *after* the last irq that made it into an LR - Avoid calling into the stubs to probe for ICH_VTR_EL2.TDS when pKVM is already enabled -- not only thhis isn't possible (pKVM will reject the call), but it is also useless: this can only happen for a CPU that has already booted once, and the capability will not change - Fix a couple of low-severity bugs in our S2 fault handling path, affecting the recently introduced LS64 handling and the even more esoteric handling of hwpoison in a nested context - Address yet another syzkaller finding in the vgic initialisation, where we would end-up destroying an uninitialised vgic with nasty consequences - Address an annoying case of pKVM failing to boot when some of the memblock regions that the host is faulting in are not page-aligned - Inject some sanity in the NV stage-2 walker by checking the limits against the advertised PA size, and correctly report the resulting faults PPC: - Fix a PPC e500 build error due to a long-standing wart that was exposed by the recent conversion to kmalloc_obj(); rip out all the ugliness that led to the wart RISC-V: - Prevent speculative out-of-bounds access using array_index_nospec() in APLIC interrupt handling, ONE_REG regiser access, AIA CSR access, float register access, and PMU counter access - Fix potential use-after-free issues in kvm_riscv_gstage_get_leaf(), kvm_riscv_aia_aplic_has_attr(), and kvm_riscv_aia_imsic_has_attr() - Fix potential null pointer dereference in kvm_riscv_vcpu_aia_rmw_topei() - Fix off-by-one array access in SBI PMU - Skip THP support check during dirty logging - Fix error code returned for Smstateen and Ssaia ONE_REG interface - Check host Ssaia extension when creating AIA irqchip x86: - Fix cases where CPUID mitigation features were incorrectly marked as available whenever the kernel used scattered feature words for them - Validate _all_ GVAs, rather than just the first GVA, when processing a range of GVAs for Hyper-V's TLB flush hypercalls - Fix a brown paper bug in add_atomic_switch_msr() - Use hlist_for_each_entry_srcu() when traversing mask_notifier_list, to fix a lockdep warning; KVM doesn't hold RCU, just irq_srcu - Ensure AVIC VMCB fields are initialized if the VM has an in-kernel local APIC (and AVIC is enabled at the module level) - Update CR8 write interception when AVIC is (de)activated, to fix a bug where the guest can run in perpetuity with the CR8 intercept enabled - Add a quirk to skip the consistency check on FREEZE_IN_SMM, i.e. to allow L1 hypervisors to set FREEZE_IN_SMM. This reverts (by default) an unintentional tightening of userspace ABI in 6.17, and provides some amount of backwards compatibility with hypervisors who want to freeze PMCs on VM-Entry - Validate the VMCS/VMCB on return to a nested guest from SMM, because either userspace or the guest could stash invalid values in memory and trigger the processor's consistency checks Generic: - Remove a subtle pseudo-overlay of kvm_stats_desc, which, aside from being unnecessary and confusing, triggered compiler warnings due to -Wflex-array-member-not-at-end - Document that vcpu->mutex is take outside of kvm->slots_lock and kvm->slots_arch_lock, which is intentional and desirable despite being rather unintuitive Selftests: - Increase the maximum number of NUMA nodes in the guest_memfd selftest to 64 (from 8)" * tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (43 commits) KVM: selftests: Verify SEV+ guests can read and write EFER, CR0, CR4, and CR8 Documentation: kvm: fix formatting of the quirks table KVM: x86: clarify leave_smm() return value selftests: kvm: add a test that VMX validates controls on RSM selftests: kvm: extract common functionality out of smm_test.c KVM: SVM: check validity of VMCB controls when returning from SMM KVM: VMX: check validity of VMCS controls when returning from SMM KVM: SVM: Set/clear CR8 write interception when AVIC is (de)activated KVM: SVM: Initialize AVIC VMCB fields if AVIC is enabled with in-kernel APIC KVM: x86: Introduce KVM_X86_QUIRK_VMCS12_ALLOW_FREEZE_IN_SMM KVM: x86: Fix SRCU list traversal in kvm_fire_mask_notifiers() KVM: VMX: Fix a wrong MSR update in add_atomic_switch_msr() KVM: x86: hyper-v: Validate all GVAs during PV TLB flush KVM: x86: synthesize CPUID bits only if CPU capability is set KVM: PPC: e500: Rip out "struct tlbe_ref" KVM: PPC: e500: Fix build error due to using kmalloc_obj() with wrong type KVM: selftests: Increase 'maxnode' for guest_memfd tests KVM: arm64: pkvm: Don't reprobe for ICH_VTR_EL2.TDS on CPU hotplug KVM: arm64: vgic: Pick EOIcount deactivations from AP-list tail KVM: arm64: Remove the redundant ISB in __kvm_at_s1e2() ...

KVM: x86: Use __DECLARE_FLEX_ARRAY() for UAPI structures with VLAs

2026-03-12T17:56:10Z

Commit 94dfc73e7cf4 ("treewide: uapi: Replace zero-length arrays with flexible-array members") broke the userspace API for C++. These structures ending in VLAs are typically a *header*, which can be followed by an arbitrary number of entries. Userspace typically creates a larger structure with some non-zero number of entries, for example in QEMU's kvm_arch_get_supported_msr_feature(): struct { struct kvm_msrs info; struct kvm_msr_entry entries[1]; } msr_data = {}; While that works in C, it fails in C++ with an error like: flexible array member 'kvm_msrs::entries' not at end of 'struct msr_data' Fix this by using __DECLARE_FLEX_ARRAY() for the VLA, which uses [0] for C++ compilation. Fixes: 94dfc73e7cf4 ("treewide: uapi: Replace zero-length arrays with flexible-array members") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse Link: https://patch.msgid.link/3abaf6aefd6e5efeff3b860ac38421d9dec908db.camel@infradead.org [sean: tag for stable@] Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson

KVM: x86: Introduce KVM_X86_QUIRK_VMCS12_ALLOW_FREEZE_IN_SMM

2026-03-11T17:41:11Z

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

Merge tag 'efi-fixes-for-v7.0-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/efi/efi

2026-03-08T19:13:09Z

Pull EFI fix from Ard Biesheuvel: "Fix for the x86 EFI workaround keeping boot services code and data regions reserved until after SetVirtualAddressMap() completes: deferred struct page initialization may result in some of this memory being lost permanently" * tag 'efi-fixes-for-v7.0-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/efi/efi: x86/efi: defer freeing of boot services memory

Merge tag 'x86-urgent-2026-03-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2026-03-08T01:12:06Z

Pull x86 fixes from Ingo Molnar: - Fix SEV guest boot failures in certain circumstances, due to very early code relying on a BSS-zeroed variable that isn't actually zeroed yet an may contain non-zero bootup values Move the variable into the .data section go gain even earlier zeroing - Expose & allow the IBPB-on-Entry feature on SNP guests, which was not properly exposed to guests due to initial implementational caution - Fix O= build failure when CONFIG_EFI_SBAT_FILE is using relative file paths - Fix the various SNC (Sub-NUMA Clustering) topology enumeration bugs/artifacts (sched-domain build errors mostly). SNC enumeration data got more complicated with Granite Rapids X (GNR) and Clearwater Forest X (CWF), which exposed these bugs and made their effects more serious - Also use the now sane(r) SNC code to fix resctrl SNC detection bugs - Work around a historic libgcc unwinder bug in the vdso32 sigreturn code (again), which regressed during an overly aggressive recent cleanup of DWARF annotations * tag 'x86-urgent-2026-03-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86/entry/vdso32: Work around libgcc unwinder bug x86/resctrl: Fix SNC detection x86/topo: Fix SNC topology mess x86/topo: Replace x86_has_numa_in_package x86/topo: Add topology_num_nodes_per_package() x86/numa: Store extra copy of numa_nodes_parsed x86/boot: Handle relative CONFIG_EFI_SBAT_FILE file paths x86/sev: Allow IBPB-on-Entry feature for SNP guests x86/boot/sev: Move SEV decompressor variables into the .data section