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<title>KVM: x86: Introduce KVM_X86_QUIRK_VMCS12_ALLOW_FREEZE_IN_SMM</title>
<updated>2026-03-19T15:08:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jim Mattson</name>
<email>jmattson@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-05T23:15:26+00:00</published>
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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-&gt;guest_ia32_debugctl on nested VM-Enter")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jim Mattson &lt;jmattson@google.com&gt;
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 &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
[Rename quirk. - Paolo]
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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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-&gt;guest_ia32_debugctl on nested VM-Enter")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jim Mattson &lt;jmattson@google.com&gt;
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 &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
[Rename quirk. - Paolo]
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>KVM: x86: Add x2APIC "features" to control EOI broadcast suppression</title>
<updated>2026-03-12T11:09:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Khushit Shah</name>
<email>khushit.shah@nutanix.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-01-23T12:56:25+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 6517dfbcc918f970a928d9dc17586904bac06893 ]

Add two flags for KVM_CAP_X2APIC_API to allow userspace to control support
for Suppress EOI Broadcasts when using a split IRQCHIP (I/O APIC emulated
by userspace), which KVM completely mishandles. When x2APIC support was
first added, KVM incorrectly advertised and "enabled" Suppress EOI
Broadcast, without fully supporting the I/O APIC side of the equation,
i.e. without adding directed EOI to KVM's in-kernel I/O APIC.

That flaw was carried over to split IRQCHIP support, i.e. KVM advertised
support for Suppress EOI Broadcasts irrespective of whether or not the
userspace I/O APIC implementation supported directed EOIs. Even worse,
KVM didn't actually suppress EOI broadcasts, i.e. userspace VMMs without
support for directed EOI came to rely on the "spurious" broadcasts.

KVM "fixed" the in-kernel I/O APIC implementation by completely disabling
support for Suppress EOI Broadcasts in commit 0bcc3fb95b97 ("KVM: lapic:
stop advertising DIRECTED_EOI when in-kernel IOAPIC is in use"), but
didn't do anything to remedy userspace I/O APIC implementations.

KVM's bogus handling of Suppress EOI Broadcast is problematic when the
guest relies on interrupts being masked in the I/O APIC until well after
the initial local APIC EOI. E.g. Windows with Credential Guard enabled
handles interrupts in the following order:
  1. Interrupt for L2 arrives.
  2. L1 APIC EOIs the interrupt.
  3. L1 resumes L2 and injects the interrupt.
  4. L2 EOIs after servicing.
  5. L1 performs the I/O APIC EOI.

Because KVM EOIs the I/O APIC at step #2, the guest can get an interrupt
storm, e.g. if the IRQ line is still asserted and userspace reacts to the
EOI by re-injecting the IRQ, because the guest doesn't de-assert the line
until step #4, and doesn't expect the interrupt to be re-enabled until
step #5.

Unfortunately, simply "fixing" the bug isn't an option, as KVM has no way
of knowing if the userspace I/O APIC supports directed EOIs, i.e.
suppressing EOI broadcasts would result in interrupts being stuck masked
in the userspace I/O APIC due to step #5 being ignored by userspace. And
fully disabling support for Suppress EOI Broadcast is also undesirable, as
picking up the fix would require a guest reboot, *and* more importantly
would change the virtual CPU model exposed to the guest without any buy-in
from userspace.

Add KVM_X2APIC_ENABLE_SUPPRESS_EOI_BROADCAST and
KVM_X2APIC_DISABLE_SUPPRESS_EOI_BROADCAST flags to allow userspace to
explicitly enable or disable support for Suppress EOI Broadcasts. This
gives userspace control over the virtual CPU model exposed to the guest,
as KVM should never have enabled support for Suppress EOI Broadcast without
userspace opt-in. Not setting either flag will result in legacy quirky
behavior for backward compatibility.

Disallow fully enabling SUPPRESS_EOI_BROADCAST when using an in-kernel
I/O APIC, as KVM's history/support is just as tragic.  E.g. it's not clear
that commit c806a6ad35bf ("KVM: x86: call irq notifiers with directed EOI")
was entirely correct, i.e. it may have simply papered over the lack of
Directed EOI emulation in the I/O APIC.

Note, Suppress EOI Broadcasts is defined only in Intel's SDM, not in AMD's
APM. But the bit is writable on some AMD CPUs, e.g. Turin, and KVM's ABI
is to support Directed EOI (KVM's name) irrespective of guest CPU vendor.

Fixes: 7543a635aa09 ("KVM: x86: Add KVM exit for IOAPIC EOIs")
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/7D497EF1-607D-4D37-98E7-DAF95F099342@nutanix.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Suggested-by: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw2@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Khushit Shah &lt;khushit.shah@nutanix.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260123125657.3384063-1-khushit.shah@nutanix.com
[sean: clean up minor formatting goofs and fix a comment typo]
Co-developed-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 6517dfbcc918f970a928d9dc17586904bac06893 ]

Add two flags for KVM_CAP_X2APIC_API to allow userspace to control support
for Suppress EOI Broadcasts when using a split IRQCHIP (I/O APIC emulated
by userspace), which KVM completely mishandles. When x2APIC support was
first added, KVM incorrectly advertised and "enabled" Suppress EOI
Broadcast, without fully supporting the I/O APIC side of the equation,
i.e. without adding directed EOI to KVM's in-kernel I/O APIC.

That flaw was carried over to split IRQCHIP support, i.e. KVM advertised
support for Suppress EOI Broadcasts irrespective of whether or not the
userspace I/O APIC implementation supported directed EOIs. Even worse,
KVM didn't actually suppress EOI broadcasts, i.e. userspace VMMs without
support for directed EOI came to rely on the "spurious" broadcasts.

KVM "fixed" the in-kernel I/O APIC implementation by completely disabling
support for Suppress EOI Broadcasts in commit 0bcc3fb95b97 ("KVM: lapic:
stop advertising DIRECTED_EOI when in-kernel IOAPIC is in use"), but
didn't do anything to remedy userspace I/O APIC implementations.

KVM's bogus handling of Suppress EOI Broadcast is problematic when the
guest relies on interrupts being masked in the I/O APIC until well after
the initial local APIC EOI. E.g. Windows with Credential Guard enabled
handles interrupts in the following order:
  1. Interrupt for L2 arrives.
  2. L1 APIC EOIs the interrupt.
  3. L1 resumes L2 and injects the interrupt.
  4. L2 EOIs after servicing.
  5. L1 performs the I/O APIC EOI.

Because KVM EOIs the I/O APIC at step #2, the guest can get an interrupt
storm, e.g. if the IRQ line is still asserted and userspace reacts to the
EOI by re-injecting the IRQ, because the guest doesn't de-assert the line
until step #4, and doesn't expect the interrupt to be re-enabled until
step #5.

Unfortunately, simply "fixing" the bug isn't an option, as KVM has no way
of knowing if the userspace I/O APIC supports directed EOIs, i.e.
suppressing EOI broadcasts would result in interrupts being stuck masked
in the userspace I/O APIC due to step #5 being ignored by userspace. And
fully disabling support for Suppress EOI Broadcast is also undesirable, as
picking up the fix would require a guest reboot, *and* more importantly
would change the virtual CPU model exposed to the guest without any buy-in
from userspace.

Add KVM_X2APIC_ENABLE_SUPPRESS_EOI_BROADCAST and
KVM_X2APIC_DISABLE_SUPPRESS_EOI_BROADCAST flags to allow userspace to
explicitly enable or disable support for Suppress EOI Broadcasts. This
gives userspace control over the virtual CPU model exposed to the guest,
as KVM should never have enabled support for Suppress EOI Broadcast without
userspace opt-in. Not setting either flag will result in legacy quirky
behavior for backward compatibility.

Disallow fully enabling SUPPRESS_EOI_BROADCAST when using an in-kernel
I/O APIC, as KVM's history/support is just as tragic.  E.g. it's not clear
that commit c806a6ad35bf ("KVM: x86: call irq notifiers with directed EOI")
was entirely correct, i.e. it may have simply papered over the lack of
Directed EOI emulation in the I/O APIC.

Note, Suppress EOI Broadcasts is defined only in Intel's SDM, not in AMD's
APM. But the bit is writable on some AMD CPUs, e.g. Turin, and KVM's ABI
is to support Directed EOI (KVM's name) irrespective of guest CPU vendor.

Fixes: 7543a635aa09 ("KVM: x86: Add KVM exit for IOAPIC EOIs")
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/7D497EF1-607D-4D37-98E7-DAF95F099342@nutanix.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Suggested-by: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw2@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Khushit Shah &lt;khushit.shah@nutanix.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260123125657.3384063-1-khushit.shah@nutanix.com
[sean: clean up minor formatting goofs and fix a comment typo]
Co-developed-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'kvm-x86-fixes-6.18-rc2' of https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux into HEAD</title>
<updated>2025-10-18T08:25:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Bonzini</name>
<email>pbonzini@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-18T08:25:43+00:00</published>
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KVM x86 fixes for 6.18:

 - Expand the KVM_PRE_FAULT_MEMORY selftest to add a regression test for the
   bug fixed by commit 3ccbf6f47098 ("KVM: x86/mmu: Return -EAGAIN if userspace
   deletes/moves memslot during prefault")

 - Don't try to get PMU capabbilities from perf when running a CPU with hybrid
   CPUs/PMUs, as perf will rightly WARN.

 - Rework KVM_CAP_GUEST_MEMFD_MMAP (newly introduced in 6.18) into a more
   generic KVM_CAP_GUEST_MEMFD_FLAGS

 - Add a guest_memfd INIT_SHARED flag and require userspace to explicitly set
   said flag to initialize memory as SHARED, irrespective of MMAP.  The
   behavior merged in 6.18 is that enabling mmap() implicitly initializes
   memory as SHARED, which would result in an ABI collision for x86 CoCo VMs
   as their memory is currently always initialized PRIVATE.

 - Allow mmap() on guest_memfd for x86 CoCo VMs, i.e. on VMs with private
   memory, to enable testing such setups, i.e. to hopefully flush out any
   other lurking ABI issues before 6.18 is officially released.

 - Add testcases to the guest_memfd selftest to cover guest_memfd without MMAP,
   and host userspace accesses to mmap()'d private memory.
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KVM x86 fixes for 6.18:

 - Expand the KVM_PRE_FAULT_MEMORY selftest to add a regression test for the
   bug fixed by commit 3ccbf6f47098 ("KVM: x86/mmu: Return -EAGAIN if userspace
   deletes/moves memslot during prefault")

 - Don't try to get PMU capabbilities from perf when running a CPU with hybrid
   CPUs/PMUs, as perf will rightly WARN.

 - Rework KVM_CAP_GUEST_MEMFD_MMAP (newly introduced in 6.18) into a more
   generic KVM_CAP_GUEST_MEMFD_FLAGS

 - Add a guest_memfd INIT_SHARED flag and require userspace to explicitly set
   said flag to initialize memory as SHARED, irrespective of MMAP.  The
   behavior merged in 6.18 is that enabling mmap() implicitly initializes
   memory as SHARED, which would result in an ABI collision for x86 CoCo VMs
   as their memory is currently always initialized PRIVATE.

 - Allow mmap() on guest_memfd for x86 CoCo VMs, i.e. on VMs with private
   memory, to enable testing such setups, i.e. to hopefully flush out any
   other lurking ABI issues before 6.18 is officially released.

 - Add testcases to the guest_memfd selftest to cover guest_memfd without MMAP,
   and host userspace accesses to mmap()'d private memory.
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Documentation: KVM: Update GICv3 docs for GICv5 hosts</title>
<updated>2025-10-13T13:40:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sascha Bischoff</name>
<email>Sascha.Bischoff@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-07T15:48:54+00:00</published>
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GICv5 hosts optionally include FEAT_GCIE_LEGACY, which allows them to
execute GICv3-based VMs on GICv5 hardware. Update the GICv3
documentation to reflect this now that GICv3 guests are supports on
compatible GICv5 hosts.

Signed-off-by: Sascha Bischoff &lt;sascha.bischoff@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
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GICv5 hosts optionally include FEAT_GCIE_LEGACY, which allows them to
execute GICv3-based VMs on GICv5 hardware. Update the GICv3
documentation to reflect this now that GICv3 guests are supports on
compatible GICv5 hosts.

Signed-off-by: Sascha Bischoff &lt;sascha.bischoff@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>KVM: arm64: Document vCPU event ioctls as requiring init'ed vCPU</title>
<updated>2025-10-13T13:17:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Oliver Upton</name>
<email>oliver.upton@linux.dev</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-30T23:36:20+00:00</published>
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KVM rejects calls to KVM_{GET,SET}_VCPU_EVENTS for an uninitialized vCPU
as of commit cc96679f3c03 ("KVM: arm64: Prevent access to vCPU events
before init"). Update the corresponding API documentation.

Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton &lt;oliver.upton@linux.dev&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
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KVM rejects calls to KVM_{GET,SET}_VCPU_EVENTS for an uninitialized vCPU
as of commit cc96679f3c03 ("KVM: arm64: Prevent access to vCPU events
before init"). Update the corresponding API documentation.

Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton &lt;oliver.upton@linux.dev&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: guest_memfd: Add INIT_SHARED flag, reject user page faults if not set</title>
<updated>2025-10-10T21:25:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sean Christopherson</name>
<email>seanjc@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-03T23:25:55+00:00</published>
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Add a guest_memfd flag to allow userspace to state that the underlying
memory should be configured to be initialized as shared, and reject user
page faults if the guest_memfd instance's memory isn't shared.  Because
KVM doesn't yet support in-place private&lt;=&gt;shared conversions, all
guest_memfd memory effectively follows the initial state.

Alternatively, KVM could deduce the initial state based on MMAP, which for
all intents and purposes is what KVM currently does.  However, implicitly
deriving the default state based on MMAP will result in a messy ABI when
support for in-place conversions is added.

For x86 CoCo VMs, which don't yet support MMAP, memory is currently private
by default (otherwise the memory would be unusable).  If MMAP implies
memory is shared by default, then the default state for CoCo VMs will vary
based on MMAP, and from userspace's perspective, will change when in-place
conversion support is added.  I.e. to maintain guest&lt;=&gt;host ABI, userspace
would need to immediately convert all memory from shared=&gt;private, which
is both ugly and inefficient.  The inefficiency could be avoided by adding
a flag to state that memory is _private_ by default, irrespective of MMAP,
but that would lead to an equally messy and hard to document ABI.

Bite the bullet and immediately add a flag to control the default state so
that the effective behavior is explicit and straightforward.

Fixes: 3d3a04fad25a ("KVM: Allow and advertise support for host mmap() on guest_memfd files")
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Fuad Tabba &lt;tabba@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Fuad Tabba &lt;tabba@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ackerley Tng &lt;ackerleytng@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Ackerley Tng &lt;ackerleytng@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251003232606.4070510-3-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
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Add a guest_memfd flag to allow userspace to state that the underlying
memory should be configured to be initialized as shared, and reject user
page faults if the guest_memfd instance's memory isn't shared.  Because
KVM doesn't yet support in-place private&lt;=&gt;shared conversions, all
guest_memfd memory effectively follows the initial state.

Alternatively, KVM could deduce the initial state based on MMAP, which for
all intents and purposes is what KVM currently does.  However, implicitly
deriving the default state based on MMAP will result in a messy ABI when
support for in-place conversions is added.

For x86 CoCo VMs, which don't yet support MMAP, memory is currently private
by default (otherwise the memory would be unusable).  If MMAP implies
memory is shared by default, then the default state for CoCo VMs will vary
based on MMAP, and from userspace's perspective, will change when in-place
conversion support is added.  I.e. to maintain guest&lt;=&gt;host ABI, userspace
would need to immediately convert all memory from shared=&gt;private, which
is both ugly and inefficient.  The inefficiency could be avoided by adding
a flag to state that memory is _private_ by default, irrespective of MMAP,
but that would lead to an equally messy and hard to document ABI.

Bite the bullet and immediately add a flag to control the default state so
that the effective behavior is explicit and straightforward.

Fixes: 3d3a04fad25a ("KVM: Allow and advertise support for host mmap() on guest_memfd files")
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Fuad Tabba &lt;tabba@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Fuad Tabba &lt;tabba@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ackerley Tng &lt;ackerleytng@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Ackerley Tng &lt;ackerleytng@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251003232606.4070510-3-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
</pre>
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<entry>
<title>KVM: Rework KVM_CAP_GUEST_MEMFD_MMAP into KVM_CAP_GUEST_MEMFD_FLAGS</title>
<updated>2025-10-10T21:25:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sean Christopherson</name>
<email>seanjc@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-03T23:25:54+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=d2042d8f96ddefdeee823737f813efe3ab4b4e8d'/>
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Rework the not-yet-released KVM_CAP_GUEST_MEMFD_MMAP into a more generic
KVM_CAP_GUEST_MEMFD_FLAGS capability so that adding new flags doesn't
require a new capability, and so that developers aren't tempted to bundle
multiple flags into a single capability.

Note, kvm_vm_ioctl_check_extension_generic() can only return a 32-bit
value, but that limitation can be easily circumvented by adding e.g.
KVM_CAP_GUEST_MEMFD_FLAGS2 in the unlikely event guest_memfd supports more
than 32 flags.

Reviewed-by: Ackerley Tng &lt;ackerleytng@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Ackerley Tng &lt;ackerleytng@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251003232606.4070510-2-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
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Rework the not-yet-released KVM_CAP_GUEST_MEMFD_MMAP into a more generic
KVM_CAP_GUEST_MEMFD_FLAGS capability so that adding new flags doesn't
require a new capability, and so that developers aren't tempted to bundle
multiple flags into a single capability.

Note, kvm_vm_ioctl_check_extension_generic() can only return a 32-bit
value, but that limitation can be easily circumvented by adding e.g.
KVM_CAP_GUEST_MEMFD_FLAGS2 in the unlikely event guest_memfd supports more
than 32 flags.

Reviewed-by: Ackerley Tng &lt;ackerleytng@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Ackerley Tng &lt;ackerleytng@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251003232606.4070510-2-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm</title>
<updated>2025-10-06T19:37:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-06T19:37:34+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 kvm updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "Generic:

   - Rework almost all of KVM's exports to expose symbols only to KVM's
     x86 vendor modules (kvm-{amd,intel}.ko and PPC's kvm-{pr,hv}.ko

  x86:

   - Rework almost all of KVM x86's exports to expose symbols only to
     KVM's vendor modules, i.e. to kvm-{amd,intel}.ko

   - Add support for virtualizing Control-flow Enforcement Technology
     (CET) on Intel (Shadow Stacks and Indirect Branch Tracking) and AMD
     (Shadow Stacks).

     It is worth noting that while SHSTK and IBT can be enabled
     separately in CPUID, it is not really possible to virtualize them
     separately. Therefore, Intel processors will really allow both
     SHSTK and IBT under the hood if either is made visible in the
     guest's CPUID. The alternative would be to intercept
     XSAVES/XRSTORS, which is not feasible for performance reasons

   - Fix a variety of fuzzing WARNs all caused by checking L1 intercepts
     when completing userspace I/O. KVM has already committed to
     allowing L2 to to perform I/O at that point

   - Emulate PERF_CNTR_GLOBAL_STATUS_SET for PerfMonV2 guests, as the
     MSR is supposed to exist for v2 PMUs

   - Allow Centaur CPU leaves (base 0xC000_0000) for Zhaoxin CPUs

   - Add support for the immediate forms of RDMSR and WRMSRNS, sans full
     emulator support (KVM should never need to emulate the MSRs outside
     of forced emulation and other contrived testing scenarios)

   - Clean up the MSR APIs in preparation for CET and FRED
     virtualization, as well as mediated vPMU support

   - Clean up a pile of PMU code in anticipation of adding support for
     mediated vPMUs

   - Reject in-kernel IOAPIC/PIT for TDX VMs, as KVM can't obtain EOI
     vmexits needed to faithfully emulate an I/O APIC for such guests

   - Many cleanups and minor fixes

   - Recover possible NX huge pages within the TDP MMU under read lock
     to reduce guest jitter when restoring NX huge pages

   - Return -EAGAIN during prefault if userspace concurrently
     deletes/moves the relevant memslot, to fix an issue where
     prefaulting could deadlock with the memslot update

  x86 (AMD):

   - Enable AVIC by default for Zen4+ if x2AVIC (and other prereqs) is
     supported

   - Require a minimum GHCB version of 2 when starting SEV-SNP guests
     via KVM_SEV_INIT2 so that invalid GHCB versions result in immediate
     errors instead of latent guest failures

   - Add support for SEV-SNP's CipherText Hiding, an opt-in feature that
     prevents unauthorized CPU accesses from reading the ciphertext of
     SNP guest private memory, e.g. to attempt an offline attack. This
     feature splits the shared SEV-ES/SEV-SNP ASID space into separate
     ranges for SEV-ES and SEV-SNP guests, therefore a new module
     parameter is needed to control the number of ASIDs that can be used
     for VMs with CipherText Hiding vs. how many can be used to run
     SEV-ES guests

   - Add support for Secure TSC for SEV-SNP guests, which prevents the
     untrusted host from tampering with the guest's TSC frequency, while
     still allowing the the VMM to configure the guest's TSC frequency
     prior to launch

   - Validate the XCR0 provided by the guest (via the GHCB) to avoid
     bugs resulting from bogus XCR0 values

   - Save an SEV guest's policy if and only if LAUNCH_START fully
     succeeds to avoid leaving behind stale state (thankfully not
     consumed in KVM)

   - Explicitly reject non-positive effective lengths during SNP's
     LAUNCH_UPDATE instead of subtly relying on guest_memfd to deal with
     them

   - Reload the pre-VMRUN TSC_AUX on #VMEXIT for SEV-ES guests, not the
     host's desired TSC_AUX, to fix a bug where KVM was keeping a
     different vCPU's TSC_AUX in the host MSR until return to userspace

  KVM (Intel):

   - Preparation for FRED support

   - Don't retry in TDX's anti-zero-step mitigation if the target
     memslot is invalid, i.e. is being deleted or moved, to fix a
     deadlock scenario similar to the aforementioned prefaulting case

   - Misc bugfixes and minor cleanups"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (142 commits)
  KVM: x86: Export KVM-internal symbols for sub-modules only
  KVM: x86: Drop pointless exports of kvm_arch_xxx() hooks
  KVM: x86: Move kvm_intr_is_single_vcpu() to lapic.c
  KVM: Export KVM-internal symbols for sub-modules only
  KVM: s390/vfio-ap: Use kvm_is_gpa_in_memslot() instead of open coded equivalent
  KVM: VMX: Make CR4.CET a guest owned bit
  KVM: selftests: Verify MSRs are (not) in save/restore list when (un)supported
  KVM: selftests: Add coverage for KVM-defined registers in MSRs test
  KVM: selftests: Add KVM_{G,S}ET_ONE_REG coverage to MSRs test
  KVM: selftests: Extend MSRs test to validate vCPUs without supported features
  KVM: selftests: Add support for MSR_IA32_{S,U}_CET to MSRs test
  KVM: selftests: Add an MSR test to exercise guest/host and read/write
  KVM: x86: Define AMD's #HV, #VC, and #SX exception vectors
  KVM: x86: Define Control Protection Exception (#CP) vector
  KVM: x86: Add human friendly formatting for #XM, and #VE
  KVM: SVM: Enable shadow stack virtualization for SVM
  KVM: SEV: Synchronize MSR_IA32_XSS from the GHCB when it's valid
  KVM: SVM: Pass through shadow stack MSRs as appropriate
  KVM: SVM: Update dump_vmcb with shadow stack save area additions
  KVM: nSVM: Save/load CET Shadow Stack state to/from vmcb12/vmcb02
  ...
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull x86 kvm updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "Generic:

   - Rework almost all of KVM's exports to expose symbols only to KVM's
     x86 vendor modules (kvm-{amd,intel}.ko and PPC's kvm-{pr,hv}.ko

  x86:

   - Rework almost all of KVM x86's exports to expose symbols only to
     KVM's vendor modules, i.e. to kvm-{amd,intel}.ko

   - Add support for virtualizing Control-flow Enforcement Technology
     (CET) on Intel (Shadow Stacks and Indirect Branch Tracking) and AMD
     (Shadow Stacks).

     It is worth noting that while SHSTK and IBT can be enabled
     separately in CPUID, it is not really possible to virtualize them
     separately. Therefore, Intel processors will really allow both
     SHSTK and IBT under the hood if either is made visible in the
     guest's CPUID. The alternative would be to intercept
     XSAVES/XRSTORS, which is not feasible for performance reasons

   - Fix a variety of fuzzing WARNs all caused by checking L1 intercepts
     when completing userspace I/O. KVM has already committed to
     allowing L2 to to perform I/O at that point

   - Emulate PERF_CNTR_GLOBAL_STATUS_SET for PerfMonV2 guests, as the
     MSR is supposed to exist for v2 PMUs

   - Allow Centaur CPU leaves (base 0xC000_0000) for Zhaoxin CPUs

   - Add support for the immediate forms of RDMSR and WRMSRNS, sans full
     emulator support (KVM should never need to emulate the MSRs outside
     of forced emulation and other contrived testing scenarios)

   - Clean up the MSR APIs in preparation for CET and FRED
     virtualization, as well as mediated vPMU support

   - Clean up a pile of PMU code in anticipation of adding support for
     mediated vPMUs

   - Reject in-kernel IOAPIC/PIT for TDX VMs, as KVM can't obtain EOI
     vmexits needed to faithfully emulate an I/O APIC for such guests

   - Many cleanups and minor fixes

   - Recover possible NX huge pages within the TDP MMU under read lock
     to reduce guest jitter when restoring NX huge pages

   - Return -EAGAIN during prefault if userspace concurrently
     deletes/moves the relevant memslot, to fix an issue where
     prefaulting could deadlock with the memslot update

  x86 (AMD):

   - Enable AVIC by default for Zen4+ if x2AVIC (and other prereqs) is
     supported

   - Require a minimum GHCB version of 2 when starting SEV-SNP guests
     via KVM_SEV_INIT2 so that invalid GHCB versions result in immediate
     errors instead of latent guest failures

   - Add support for SEV-SNP's CipherText Hiding, an opt-in feature that
     prevents unauthorized CPU accesses from reading the ciphertext of
     SNP guest private memory, e.g. to attempt an offline attack. This
     feature splits the shared SEV-ES/SEV-SNP ASID space into separate
     ranges for SEV-ES and SEV-SNP guests, therefore a new module
     parameter is needed to control the number of ASIDs that can be used
     for VMs with CipherText Hiding vs. how many can be used to run
     SEV-ES guests

   - Add support for Secure TSC for SEV-SNP guests, which prevents the
     untrusted host from tampering with the guest's TSC frequency, while
     still allowing the the VMM to configure the guest's TSC frequency
     prior to launch

   - Validate the XCR0 provided by the guest (via the GHCB) to avoid
     bugs resulting from bogus XCR0 values

   - Save an SEV guest's policy if and only if LAUNCH_START fully
     succeeds to avoid leaving behind stale state (thankfully not
     consumed in KVM)

   - Explicitly reject non-positive effective lengths during SNP's
     LAUNCH_UPDATE instead of subtly relying on guest_memfd to deal with
     them

   - Reload the pre-VMRUN TSC_AUX on #VMEXIT for SEV-ES guests, not the
     host's desired TSC_AUX, to fix a bug where KVM was keeping a
     different vCPU's TSC_AUX in the host MSR until return to userspace

  KVM (Intel):

   - Preparation for FRED support

   - Don't retry in TDX's anti-zero-step mitigation if the target
     memslot is invalid, i.e. is being deleted or moved, to fix a
     deadlock scenario similar to the aforementioned prefaulting case

   - Misc bugfixes and minor cleanups"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (142 commits)
  KVM: x86: Export KVM-internal symbols for sub-modules only
  KVM: x86: Drop pointless exports of kvm_arch_xxx() hooks
  KVM: x86: Move kvm_intr_is_single_vcpu() to lapic.c
  KVM: Export KVM-internal symbols for sub-modules only
  KVM: s390/vfio-ap: Use kvm_is_gpa_in_memslot() instead of open coded equivalent
  KVM: VMX: Make CR4.CET a guest owned bit
  KVM: selftests: Verify MSRs are (not) in save/restore list when (un)supported
  KVM: selftests: Add coverage for KVM-defined registers in MSRs test
  KVM: selftests: Add KVM_{G,S}ET_ONE_REG coverage to MSRs test
  KVM: selftests: Extend MSRs test to validate vCPUs without supported features
  KVM: selftests: Add support for MSR_IA32_{S,U}_CET to MSRs test
  KVM: selftests: Add an MSR test to exercise guest/host and read/write
  KVM: x86: Define AMD's #HV, #VC, and #SX exception vectors
  KVM: x86: Define Control Protection Exception (#CP) vector
  KVM: x86: Add human friendly formatting for #XM, and #VE
  KVM: SVM: Enable shadow stack virtualization for SVM
  KVM: SEV: Synchronize MSR_IA32_XSS from the GHCB when it's valid
  KVM: SVM: Pass through shadow stack MSRs as appropriate
  KVM: SVM: Update dump_vmcb with shadow stack save area additions
  KVM: nSVM: Save/load CET Shadow Stack state to/from vmcb12/vmcb02
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm</title>
<updated>2025-10-04T15:52:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-04T15:52:16+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=f3826aa9962b4572d01083c84ac0f8345f121168'/>
<id>f3826aa9962b4572d01083c84ac0f8345f121168</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull kvm updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "This excludes the bulk of the x86 changes, which I will send
  separately. They have two not complex but relatively unusual conflicts
  so I will wait for other dust to settle.

  guest_memfd:

   - Add support for host userspace mapping of guest_memfd-backed memory
     for VM types that do NOT use support KVM_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTE_PRIVATE
     (which isn't precisely the same thing as CoCo VMs, since x86's
     SEV-MEM and SEV-ES have no way to detect private vs. shared).

     This lays the groundwork for removal of guest memory from the
     kernel direct map, as well as for limited mmap() for
     guest_memfd-backed memory.

     For more information see:
       - commit a6ad54137af9 ("Merge branch 'guest-memfd-mmap' into HEAD")
       - guest_memfd in Firecracker:
           https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/tree/feature/secret-hiding
       - direct map removal:
           https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250221160728.1584559-1-roypat@amazon.co.uk/
       - mmap support:
           https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250328153133.3504118-1-tabba@google.com/

  ARM:

   - Add support for FF-A 1.2 as the secure memory conduit for pKVM,
     allowing more registers to be used as part of the message payload.

   - Change the way pKVM allocates its VM handles, making sure that the
     privileged hypervisor is never tricked into using uninitialised
     data.

   - Speed up MMIO range registration by avoiding unnecessary RCU
     synchronisation, which results in VMs starting much quicker.

   - Add the dump of the instruction stream when panic-ing in the EL2
     payload, just like the rest of the kernel has always done. This
     will hopefully help debugging non-VHE setups.

   - Add 52bit PA support to the stage-1 page-table walker, and make use
     of it to populate the fault level reported to the guest on failing
     to translate a stage-1 walk.

   - Add NV support to the GICv3-on-GICv5 emulation code, ensuring
     feature parity for guests, irrespective of the host platform.

   - Fix some really ugly architecture problems when dealing with debug
     in a nested VM. This has some bad performance impacts, but is at
     least correct.

   - Add enough infrastructure to be able to disable EL2 features and
     give effective values to the EL2 control registers. This then
     allows a bunch of features to be turned off, which helps cross-host
     migration.

   - Large rework of the selftest infrastructure to allow most tests to
     transparently run at EL2. This is the first step towards enabling
     NV testing.

   - Various fixes and improvements all over the map, including one BE
     fix, just in time for the removal of the feature.

  LoongArch:

   - Detect page table walk feature on new hardware

   - Add sign extension with kernel MMIO/IOCSR emulation

   - Improve in-kernel IPI emulation

   - Improve in-kernel PCH-PIC emulation

   - Move kvm_iocsr tracepoint out of generic code

  RISC-V:

   - Added SBI FWFT extension for Guest/VM with misaligned delegation
     and pointer masking PMLEN features

   - Added ONE_REG interface for SBI FWFT extension

   - Added Zicbop and bfloat16 extensions for Guest/VM

   - Enabled more common KVM selftests for RISC-V

   - Added SBI v3.0 PMU enhancements in KVM and perf driver

  s390:

   - Improve interrupt cpu for wakeup, in particular the heuristic to
     decide which vCPU to deliver a floating interrupt to.

   - Clear the PTE when discarding a swapped page because of CMMA; this
     bug was introduced in 6.16 when refactoring gmap code.

  x86 selftests:

   - Add #DE coverage in the fastops test (the only exception that's
     guest- triggerable in fastop-emulated instructions).

   - Fix PMU selftests errors encountered on Granite Rapids (GNR),
     Sierra Forest (SRF) and Clearwater Forest (CWF).

   - Minor cleanups and improvements

  x86 (guest side):

   - For the legacy PCI hole (memory between TOLUD and 4GiB) to UC when
     overriding guest MTRR for TDX/SNP to fix an issue where ACPI
     auto-mapping could map devices as WB and prevent the device drivers
     from mapping their devices with UC/UC-.

   - Make kvm_async_pf_task_wake() a local static helper and remove its
     export.

   - Use native qspinlocks when running in a VM with dedicated
     vCPU=&gt;pCPU bindings even when PV_UNHALT is unsupported.

  Generic:

   - Remove a redundant __GFP_NOWARN from kvm_setup_async_pf() as
     __GFP_NOWARN is now included in GFP_NOWAIT.

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (178 commits)
  KVM: s390: Fix to clear PTE when discarding a swapped page
  KVM: arm64: selftests: Cover ID_AA64ISAR3_EL1 in set_id_regs
  KVM: arm64: selftests: Remove a duplicate register listing in set_id_regs
  KVM: arm64: selftests: Cope with arch silliness in EL2 selftest
  KVM: arm64: selftests: Add basic test for running in VHE EL2
  KVM: arm64: selftests: Enable EL2 by default
  KVM: arm64: selftests: Initialize HCR_EL2
  KVM: arm64: selftests: Use the vCPU attr for setting nr of PMU counters
  KVM: arm64: selftests: Use hyp timer IRQs when test runs at EL2
  KVM: arm64: selftests: Select SMCCC conduit based on current EL
  KVM: arm64: selftests: Provide helper for getting default vCPU target
  KVM: arm64: selftests: Alias EL1 registers to EL2 counterparts
  KVM: arm64: selftests: Create a VGICv3 for 'default' VMs
  KVM: arm64: selftests: Add unsanitised helpers for VGICv3 creation
  KVM: arm64: selftests: Add helper to check for VGICv3 support
  KVM: arm64: selftests: Initialize VGICv3 only once
  KVM: arm64: selftests: Provide kvm_arch_vm_post_create() in library code
  KVM: selftests: Add ex_str() to print human friendly name of exception vectors
  selftests/kvm: remove stale TODO in xapic_state_test
  KVM: selftests: Handle Intel Atom errata that leads to PMU event overcount
  ...
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<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull kvm updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "This excludes the bulk of the x86 changes, which I will send
  separately. They have two not complex but relatively unusual conflicts
  so I will wait for other dust to settle.

  guest_memfd:

   - Add support for host userspace mapping of guest_memfd-backed memory
     for VM types that do NOT use support KVM_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTE_PRIVATE
     (which isn't precisely the same thing as CoCo VMs, since x86's
     SEV-MEM and SEV-ES have no way to detect private vs. shared).

     This lays the groundwork for removal of guest memory from the
     kernel direct map, as well as for limited mmap() for
     guest_memfd-backed memory.

     For more information see:
       - commit a6ad54137af9 ("Merge branch 'guest-memfd-mmap' into HEAD")
       - guest_memfd in Firecracker:
           https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/tree/feature/secret-hiding
       - direct map removal:
           https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250221160728.1584559-1-roypat@amazon.co.uk/
       - mmap support:
           https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250328153133.3504118-1-tabba@google.com/

  ARM:

   - Add support for FF-A 1.2 as the secure memory conduit for pKVM,
     allowing more registers to be used as part of the message payload.

   - Change the way pKVM allocates its VM handles, making sure that the
     privileged hypervisor is never tricked into using uninitialised
     data.

   - Speed up MMIO range registration by avoiding unnecessary RCU
     synchronisation, which results in VMs starting much quicker.

   - Add the dump of the instruction stream when panic-ing in the EL2
     payload, just like the rest of the kernel has always done. This
     will hopefully help debugging non-VHE setups.

   - Add 52bit PA support to the stage-1 page-table walker, and make use
     of it to populate the fault level reported to the guest on failing
     to translate a stage-1 walk.

   - Add NV support to the GICv3-on-GICv5 emulation code, ensuring
     feature parity for guests, irrespective of the host platform.

   - Fix some really ugly architecture problems when dealing with debug
     in a nested VM. This has some bad performance impacts, but is at
     least correct.

   - Add enough infrastructure to be able to disable EL2 features and
     give effective values to the EL2 control registers. This then
     allows a bunch of features to be turned off, which helps cross-host
     migration.

   - Large rework of the selftest infrastructure to allow most tests to
     transparently run at EL2. This is the first step towards enabling
     NV testing.

   - Various fixes and improvements all over the map, including one BE
     fix, just in time for the removal of the feature.

  LoongArch:

   - Detect page table walk feature on new hardware

   - Add sign extension with kernel MMIO/IOCSR emulation

   - Improve in-kernel IPI emulation

   - Improve in-kernel PCH-PIC emulation

   - Move kvm_iocsr tracepoint out of generic code

  RISC-V:

   - Added SBI FWFT extension for Guest/VM with misaligned delegation
     and pointer masking PMLEN features

   - Added ONE_REG interface for SBI FWFT extension

   - Added Zicbop and bfloat16 extensions for Guest/VM

   - Enabled more common KVM selftests for RISC-V

   - Added SBI v3.0 PMU enhancements in KVM and perf driver

  s390:

   - Improve interrupt cpu for wakeup, in particular the heuristic to
     decide which vCPU to deliver a floating interrupt to.

   - Clear the PTE when discarding a swapped page because of CMMA; this
     bug was introduced in 6.16 when refactoring gmap code.

  x86 selftests:

   - Add #DE coverage in the fastops test (the only exception that's
     guest- triggerable in fastop-emulated instructions).

   - Fix PMU selftests errors encountered on Granite Rapids (GNR),
     Sierra Forest (SRF) and Clearwater Forest (CWF).

   - Minor cleanups and improvements

  x86 (guest side):

   - For the legacy PCI hole (memory between TOLUD and 4GiB) to UC when
     overriding guest MTRR for TDX/SNP to fix an issue where ACPI
     auto-mapping could map devices as WB and prevent the device drivers
     from mapping their devices with UC/UC-.

   - Make kvm_async_pf_task_wake() a local static helper and remove its
     export.

   - Use native qspinlocks when running in a VM with dedicated
     vCPU=&gt;pCPU bindings even when PV_UNHALT is unsupported.

  Generic:

   - Remove a redundant __GFP_NOWARN from kvm_setup_async_pf() as
     __GFP_NOWARN is now included in GFP_NOWAIT.

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (178 commits)
  KVM: s390: Fix to clear PTE when discarding a swapped page
  KVM: arm64: selftests: Cover ID_AA64ISAR3_EL1 in set_id_regs
  KVM: arm64: selftests: Remove a duplicate register listing in set_id_regs
  KVM: arm64: selftests: Cope with arch silliness in EL2 selftest
  KVM: arm64: selftests: Add basic test for running in VHE EL2
  KVM: arm64: selftests: Enable EL2 by default
  KVM: arm64: selftests: Initialize HCR_EL2
  KVM: arm64: selftests: Use the vCPU attr for setting nr of PMU counters
  KVM: arm64: selftests: Use hyp timer IRQs when test runs at EL2
  KVM: arm64: selftests: Select SMCCC conduit based on current EL
  KVM: arm64: selftests: Provide helper for getting default vCPU target
  KVM: arm64: selftests: Alias EL1 registers to EL2 counterparts
  KVM: arm64: selftests: Create a VGICv3 for 'default' VMs
  KVM: arm64: selftests: Add unsanitised helpers for VGICv3 creation
  KVM: arm64: selftests: Add helper to check for VGICv3 support
  KVM: arm64: selftests: Initialize VGICv3 only once
  KVM: arm64: selftests: Provide kvm_arch_vm_post_create() in library code
  KVM: selftests: Add ex_str() to print human friendly name of exception vectors
  selftests/kvm: remove stale TODO in xapic_state_test
  KVM: selftests: Handle Intel Atom errata that leads to PMU event overcount
  ...
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<title>Merge tag 'kvm-x86-cet-6.18' of https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux into HEAD</title>
<updated>2025-09-30T17:37:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Bonzini</name>
<email>pbonzini@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-30T17:37:14+00:00</published>
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KVM x86 CET virtualization support for 6.18

Add support for virtualizing Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET) on
Intel (Shadow Stacks and Indirect Branch Tracking) and AMD (Shadow Stacks).

CET is comprised of two distinct features, Shadow Stacks (SHSTK) and Indirect
Branch Tracking (IBT), that can be utilized by software to help provide
Control-flow integrity (CFI).  SHSTK defends against backward-edge attacks
(a.k.a. Return-oriented programming (ROP)), while IBT defends against
forward-edge attacks (a.k.a. similarly CALL/JMP-oriented programming (COP/JOP)).

Attackers commonly use ROP and COP/JOP methodologies to redirect the control-
flow to unauthorized targets in order to execute small snippets of code,
a.k.a. gadgets, of the attackers choice.  By chaining together several gadgets,
an attacker can perform arbitrary operations and circumvent the system's
defenses.

SHSTK defends against backward-edge attacks, which execute gadgets by modifying
the stack to branch to the attacker's target via RET, by providing a second
stack that is used exclusively to track control transfer operations.  The
shadow stack is separate from the data/normal stack, and can be enabled
independently in user and kernel mode.

When SHSTK is is enabled, CALL instructions push the return address on both the
data and shadow stack. RET then pops the return address from both stacks and
compares the addresses.  If the return addresses from the two stacks do not
match, the CPU generates a Control Protection (#CP) exception.

IBT defends against backward-edge attacks, which branch to gadgets by executing
indirect CALL and JMP instructions with attacker controlled register or memory
state, by requiring the target of indirect branches to start with a special
marker instruction, ENDBRANCH.  If an indirect branch is executed and the next
instruction is not an ENDBRANCH, the CPU generates a #CP.  Note, ENDBRANCH
behaves as a NOP if IBT is disabled or unsupported.

From a virtualization perspective, CET presents several problems.  While SHSTK
and IBT have two layers of enabling, a global control in the form of a CR4 bit,
and a per-feature control in user and kernel (supervisor) MSRs (U_CET and S_CET
respectively), the {S,U}_CET MSRs can be context switched via XSAVES/XRSTORS.
Practically speaking, intercepting and emulating XSAVES/XRSTORS is not a viable
option due to complexity, and outright disallowing use of XSTATE to context
switch SHSTK/IBT state would render the features unusable to most guests.

To limit the overall complexity without sacrificing performance or usability,
simply ignore the potential virtualization hole, but ensure that all paths in
KVM treat SHSTK/IBT as usable by the guest if the feature is supported in
hardware, and the guest has access to at least one of SHSTK or IBT.  I.e. allow
userspace to advertise one of SHSTK or IBT if both are supported in hardware,
even though doing so would allow a misbehaving guest to use the unadvertised
feature.

Fully emulating SHSTK and IBT would also require significant complexity, e.g.
to track and update branch state for IBT, and shadow stack state for SHSTK.
Given that emulating large swaths of the guest code stream isn't necessary on
modern CPUs, punt on emulating instructions that meaningful impact or consume
SHSTK or IBT.  However, instead of doing nothing, explicitly reject emulation
of such instructions so that KVM's emulator can't be abused to circumvent CET.
Disable support for SHSTK and IBT if KVM is configured such that emulation of
arbitrary guest instructions may be required, specifically if Unrestricted
Guest (Intel only) is disabled, or if KVM will emulate a guest.MAXPHYADDR that
is smaller than host.MAXPHYADDR.

Lastly disable SHSTK support if shadow paging is enabled, as the protections
for the shadow stack are novel (shadow stacks require Writable=0,Dirty=1, so
that they can't be directly modified by software), i.e. would require
non-trivial support in the Shadow MMU.

Note, AMD CPUs currently only support SHSTK.  Explicitly disable IBT support
so that KVM doesn't over-advertise if AMD CPUs add IBT, and virtualizing IBT
in SVM requires KVM modifications.
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<pre>
KVM x86 CET virtualization support for 6.18

Add support for virtualizing Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET) on
Intel (Shadow Stacks and Indirect Branch Tracking) and AMD (Shadow Stacks).

CET is comprised of two distinct features, Shadow Stacks (SHSTK) and Indirect
Branch Tracking (IBT), that can be utilized by software to help provide
Control-flow integrity (CFI).  SHSTK defends against backward-edge attacks
(a.k.a. Return-oriented programming (ROP)), while IBT defends against
forward-edge attacks (a.k.a. similarly CALL/JMP-oriented programming (COP/JOP)).

Attackers commonly use ROP and COP/JOP methodologies to redirect the control-
flow to unauthorized targets in order to execute small snippets of code,
a.k.a. gadgets, of the attackers choice.  By chaining together several gadgets,
an attacker can perform arbitrary operations and circumvent the system's
defenses.

SHSTK defends against backward-edge attacks, which execute gadgets by modifying
the stack to branch to the attacker's target via RET, by providing a second
stack that is used exclusively to track control transfer operations.  The
shadow stack is separate from the data/normal stack, and can be enabled
independently in user and kernel mode.

When SHSTK is is enabled, CALL instructions push the return address on both the
data and shadow stack. RET then pops the return address from both stacks and
compares the addresses.  If the return addresses from the two stacks do not
match, the CPU generates a Control Protection (#CP) exception.

IBT defends against backward-edge attacks, which branch to gadgets by executing
indirect CALL and JMP instructions with attacker controlled register or memory
state, by requiring the target of indirect branches to start with a special
marker instruction, ENDBRANCH.  If an indirect branch is executed and the next
instruction is not an ENDBRANCH, the CPU generates a #CP.  Note, ENDBRANCH
behaves as a NOP if IBT is disabled or unsupported.

From a virtualization perspective, CET presents several problems.  While SHSTK
and IBT have two layers of enabling, a global control in the form of a CR4 bit,
and a per-feature control in user and kernel (supervisor) MSRs (U_CET and S_CET
respectively), the {S,U}_CET MSRs can be context switched via XSAVES/XRSTORS.
Practically speaking, intercepting and emulating XSAVES/XRSTORS is not a viable
option due to complexity, and outright disallowing use of XSTATE to context
switch SHSTK/IBT state would render the features unusable to most guests.

To limit the overall complexity without sacrificing performance or usability,
simply ignore the potential virtualization hole, but ensure that all paths in
KVM treat SHSTK/IBT as usable by the guest if the feature is supported in
hardware, and the guest has access to at least one of SHSTK or IBT.  I.e. allow
userspace to advertise one of SHSTK or IBT if both are supported in hardware,
even though doing so would allow a misbehaving guest to use the unadvertised
feature.

Fully emulating SHSTK and IBT would also require significant complexity, e.g.
to track and update branch state for IBT, and shadow stack state for SHSTK.
Given that emulating large swaths of the guest code stream isn't necessary on
modern CPUs, punt on emulating instructions that meaningful impact or consume
SHSTK or IBT.  However, instead of doing nothing, explicitly reject emulation
of such instructions so that KVM's emulator can't be abused to circumvent CET.
Disable support for SHSTK and IBT if KVM is configured such that emulation of
arbitrary guest instructions may be required, specifically if Unrestricted
Guest (Intel only) is disabled, or if KVM will emulate a guest.MAXPHYADDR that
is smaller than host.MAXPHYADDR.

Lastly disable SHSTK support if shadow paging is enabled, as the protections
for the shadow stack are novel (shadow stacks require Writable=0,Dirty=1, so
that they can't be directly modified by software), i.e. would require
non-trivial support in the Shadow MMU.

Note, AMD CPUs currently only support SHSTK.  Explicitly disable IBT support
so that KVM doesn't over-advertise if AMD CPUs add IBT, and virtualizing IBT
in SVM requires KVM modifications.
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