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<title>KVM: SVM: Fix page overflow in sev_dbg_crypt() for ENCRYPT path</title>
<updated>2026-07-04T11:42:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ashutosh Desai</name>
<email>ashutoshdesai993@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-01T20:35:32+00:00</published>
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commit 78ee2d50185a037b3d2452a97f3dad69c3f7f389 upstream.

In sev_dbg_crypt(), the per-iteration transfer length is bounded by
the source page offset (PAGE_SIZE - s_off) but not by the destination
page offset (PAGE_SIZE - d_off).  When d_off &gt; s_off, the encrypt
path (__sev_dbg_encrypt_user) performs a read-modify-write using a
single-page intermediate buffer (dst_tpage):

  1. __sev_dbg_decrypt() expands the size to round_up(len + (d_off &amp; 15), 16)
     before issuing the PSP command.  If len + (d_off &amp; 15) &gt; PAGE_SIZE,
     the PSP writes beyond the end of the 4096-byte dst_tpage allocation.

  2. The subsequent memcpy()/copy_from_user() into
     page_address(dst_tpage) + (d_off &amp; 15) of 'len' bytes overflows
     by up to 15 bytes under the same condition.

Trigger example: s_off = 0, d_off = 1, debug.len = PAGE_SIZE -
the PSP is instructed to write round_up(4097, 16) = 4112 bytes to
a 4096-byte buffer.

Fix by also bounding len by (PAGE_SIZE - d_off), the same check that
sev_send_update_data() already performs for its single-page guest
region.

 ==================================================================
 BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in sev_dbg_crypt+0x993/0xd10 [kvm_amd]
 Write of size 4095 at addr ff110062293bb009 by task sev_dbg_test/228214

 CPU: 96 UID: 0 PID: 228214 Comm: sev_dbg_test Tainted: G     U  W           7.0.0-smp--5ce9b0c48211-dbg #156 PREEMPTLAZY
 Tainted: [U]=USER, [W]=WARN
 Hardware name: Google Astoria/astoria, BIOS 0.20250817.1-0 08/25/2025
 Call Trace:
  &lt;TASK&gt;
  dump_stack_lvl+0x54/0x70
  print_report+0xbc/0x260
  kasan_report+0xa2/0xd0
  kasan_check_range+0x25f/0x2c0
  __asan_memcpy+0x40/0x70
  sev_dbg_crypt+0x993/0xd10 [kvm_amd]
  sev_mem_enc_ioctl+0x33c/0x450 [kvm_amd]
  kvm_vm_ioctl+0x65d/0x6d0 [kvm]
  __se_sys_ioctl+0xb2/0x100
  do_syscall_64+0xe8/0x870
  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53
  &lt;/TASK&gt;

 The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
 page: refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x7fe72b6a0 pfn:0x62293bb
 memcg:ff11000112827d82
 flags: 0x1400000000000000(node=1|zone=1)
 raw: 1400000000000000 0000000000000000 dead000000000122 0000000000000000
 raw: 00000007fe72b6a0 0000000000000000 00000001ffffffff ff11000112827d82
 page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected

 Memory state around the buggy address:
  ff110062293bbf00: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
  ff110062293bbf80: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 &gt;ff110062293bc000: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
                    ^
  ff110062293bc080: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
  ff110062293bc100: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ==================================================================
 Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint

Fixes: 24f41fb23a39 ("KVM: SVM: Add support for SEV DEBUG_DECRYPT command")
Fixes: 7d1594f5d94b ("KVM: SVM: Add support for SEV DEBUG_ENCRYPT command")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ashutosh Desai &lt;ashutoshdesai993@gmail.com&gt;
[sean: add sample KASAN splat, Fixes, and stable@]
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260501203537.2120074-2-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 78ee2d50185a037b3d2452a97f3dad69c3f7f389 upstream.

In sev_dbg_crypt(), the per-iteration transfer length is bounded by
the source page offset (PAGE_SIZE - s_off) but not by the destination
page offset (PAGE_SIZE - d_off).  When d_off &gt; s_off, the encrypt
path (__sev_dbg_encrypt_user) performs a read-modify-write using a
single-page intermediate buffer (dst_tpage):

  1. __sev_dbg_decrypt() expands the size to round_up(len + (d_off &amp; 15), 16)
     before issuing the PSP command.  If len + (d_off &amp; 15) &gt; PAGE_SIZE,
     the PSP writes beyond the end of the 4096-byte dst_tpage allocation.

  2. The subsequent memcpy()/copy_from_user() into
     page_address(dst_tpage) + (d_off &amp; 15) of 'len' bytes overflows
     by up to 15 bytes under the same condition.

Trigger example: s_off = 0, d_off = 1, debug.len = PAGE_SIZE -
the PSP is instructed to write round_up(4097, 16) = 4112 bytes to
a 4096-byte buffer.

Fix by also bounding len by (PAGE_SIZE - d_off), the same check that
sev_send_update_data() already performs for its single-page guest
region.

 ==================================================================
 BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in sev_dbg_crypt+0x993/0xd10 [kvm_amd]
 Write of size 4095 at addr ff110062293bb009 by task sev_dbg_test/228214

 CPU: 96 UID: 0 PID: 228214 Comm: sev_dbg_test Tainted: G     U  W           7.0.0-smp--5ce9b0c48211-dbg #156 PREEMPTLAZY
 Tainted: [U]=USER, [W]=WARN
 Hardware name: Google Astoria/astoria, BIOS 0.20250817.1-0 08/25/2025
 Call Trace:
  &lt;TASK&gt;
  dump_stack_lvl+0x54/0x70
  print_report+0xbc/0x260
  kasan_report+0xa2/0xd0
  kasan_check_range+0x25f/0x2c0
  __asan_memcpy+0x40/0x70
  sev_dbg_crypt+0x993/0xd10 [kvm_amd]
  sev_mem_enc_ioctl+0x33c/0x450 [kvm_amd]
  kvm_vm_ioctl+0x65d/0x6d0 [kvm]
  __se_sys_ioctl+0xb2/0x100
  do_syscall_64+0xe8/0x870
  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53
  &lt;/TASK&gt;

 The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
 page: refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x7fe72b6a0 pfn:0x62293bb
 memcg:ff11000112827d82
 flags: 0x1400000000000000(node=1|zone=1)
 raw: 1400000000000000 0000000000000000 dead000000000122 0000000000000000
 raw: 00000007fe72b6a0 0000000000000000 00000001ffffffff ff11000112827d82
 page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected

 Memory state around the buggy address:
  ff110062293bbf00: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
  ff110062293bbf80: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 &gt;ff110062293bc000: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
                    ^
  ff110062293bc080: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
  ff110062293bc100: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ==================================================================
 Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint

Fixes: 24f41fb23a39 ("KVM: SVM: Add support for SEV DEBUG_DECRYPT command")
Fixes: 7d1594f5d94b ("KVM: SVM: Add support for SEV DEBUG_ENCRYPT command")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ashutosh Desai &lt;ashutoshdesai993@gmail.com&gt;
[sean: add sample KASAN splat, Fixes, and stable@]
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260501203537.2120074-2-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: x86: hyper-v: Bound the bank index when querying sparse banks</title>
<updated>2026-07-04T11:42:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hyunwoo Kim</name>
<email>imv4bel@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-06T14:44:52+00:00</published>
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commit 4721f8160f17554b003e8928bb61e6c9b2fe92a3 upstream.

When checking if a VP ID is included in a sparse bank set, explicitly check
that the ID can actually be contained in a sparse bank (the TLFS allows for
a maximum of 64 banks of 64 vCPUs each).  When handling a paravirtual TLB
flush for L2, the VP ID is copied verbatim from the enlightened VMCS,
without any bounds check, i.e. isn't guaranteed to be under the limit of
4096.

Failure to check the bounds of the VP ID leads to an out-of-bounds read
when testing the sparse bank, and super strictly speaking could lead to KVM
performing an unnecessary TLB flush for an L2 vCPU.

  ==================================================================
  BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in hv_is_vp_in_sparse_set+0x85/0x100 [kvm]
  Read of size 8 at addr ffff88811ba5f598 by task hyperv_evmcs/2802

  CPU: 12 UID: 1000 PID: 2802 Comm: hyperv_evmcs Not tainted 7.1.0-rc2 #7 PREEMPT
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015
  Call Trace:
   &lt;TASK&gt;
   dump_stack_lvl+0x51/0x60
   print_report+0xcb/0x5d0
   kasan_report+0xb4/0xe0
   kasan_check_range+0x35/0x1b0
   hv_is_vp_in_sparse_set+0x85/0x100 [kvm]
   kvm_hv_flush_tlb+0xe9e/0x16c0 [kvm]
   kvm_hv_hypercall+0xe6b/0x1e60 [kvm]
   vmx_handle_exit+0x485/0x1b60 [kvm_intel]
   kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x22e3/0x5070 [kvm]
   kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x5d0/0x10c0 [kvm]
   __x64_sys_ioctl+0x129/0x1a0
   do_syscall_64+0xb9/0xcf0
   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53
  RIP: 0033:0x7f0e62d1a9bf
   &lt;/TASK&gt;

  The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
  page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0xffffffffffffffff pfn:0x11ba5f
  flags: 0x4000000000000000(zone=1)
  raw: 4000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000000
  raw: ffffffffffffffff 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000000
  page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected

  Memory state around the buggy address:
   ffff88811ba5f480: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
   ffff88811ba5f500: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
  &gt;ffff88811ba5f580: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
                              ^
   ffff88811ba5f600: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
   ffff88811ba5f680: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
  ==================================================================
  Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint

Opportunistically add a compile time assertion to ensure the maximum number
of sparse banks exactly matches the number of possible bits in the passed
in mask.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: c58a318f6090 ("KVM: x86: hyper-v: L2 TLB flush")
Signed-off-by: Hyunwoo Kim &lt;imv4bel@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov &lt;vkuznets@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/aiQyZIJtO-2Aj_xN@v4bel
[sean: add KASAN splat, drop comment, add assert, massage changelog]
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 4721f8160f17554b003e8928bb61e6c9b2fe92a3 upstream.

When checking if a VP ID is included in a sparse bank set, explicitly check
that the ID can actually be contained in a sparse bank (the TLFS allows for
a maximum of 64 banks of 64 vCPUs each).  When handling a paravirtual TLB
flush for L2, the VP ID is copied verbatim from the enlightened VMCS,
without any bounds check, i.e. isn't guaranteed to be under the limit of
4096.

Failure to check the bounds of the VP ID leads to an out-of-bounds read
when testing the sparse bank, and super strictly speaking could lead to KVM
performing an unnecessary TLB flush for an L2 vCPU.

  ==================================================================
  BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in hv_is_vp_in_sparse_set+0x85/0x100 [kvm]
  Read of size 8 at addr ffff88811ba5f598 by task hyperv_evmcs/2802

  CPU: 12 UID: 1000 PID: 2802 Comm: hyperv_evmcs Not tainted 7.1.0-rc2 #7 PREEMPT
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015
  Call Trace:
   &lt;TASK&gt;
   dump_stack_lvl+0x51/0x60
   print_report+0xcb/0x5d0
   kasan_report+0xb4/0xe0
   kasan_check_range+0x35/0x1b0
   hv_is_vp_in_sparse_set+0x85/0x100 [kvm]
   kvm_hv_flush_tlb+0xe9e/0x16c0 [kvm]
   kvm_hv_hypercall+0xe6b/0x1e60 [kvm]
   vmx_handle_exit+0x485/0x1b60 [kvm_intel]
   kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x22e3/0x5070 [kvm]
   kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x5d0/0x10c0 [kvm]
   __x64_sys_ioctl+0x129/0x1a0
   do_syscall_64+0xb9/0xcf0
   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53
  RIP: 0033:0x7f0e62d1a9bf
   &lt;/TASK&gt;

  The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
  page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0xffffffffffffffff pfn:0x11ba5f
  flags: 0x4000000000000000(zone=1)
  raw: 4000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000000
  raw: ffffffffffffffff 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000000
  page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected

  Memory state around the buggy address:
   ffff88811ba5f480: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
   ffff88811ba5f500: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
  &gt;ffff88811ba5f580: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
                              ^
   ffff88811ba5f600: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
   ffff88811ba5f680: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
  ==================================================================
  Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint

Opportunistically add a compile time assertion to ensure the maximum number
of sparse banks exactly matches the number of possible bits in the passed
in mask.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: c58a318f6090 ("KVM: x86: hyper-v: L2 TLB flush")
Signed-off-by: Hyunwoo Kim &lt;imv4bel@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov &lt;vkuznets@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/aiQyZIJtO-2Aj_xN@v4bel
[sean: add KASAN splat, drop comment, add assert, massage changelog]
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: DEC: Prevent initial console buffer from landing in XKPHYS</title>
<updated>2026-07-04T11:42:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Maciej W. Rozycki</name>
<email>macro@orcam.me.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-06T22:42:27+00:00</published>
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commit 7fb13fd35110ebe95eb053faf79d018f51144d85 upstream.

In 64-bit configurations calling the initial console output handler from
a kernel thread other than the initial one will result in a situation
where the stack has been placed in the XKPHYS 64-bit memory segment and
consequently so has been the buffer allocated there that is used as the
argument corresponding to the `%s' output conversion specifier for the
firmware's printf() entry point.

This 64-bit address will then be truncated by 32-bit firmware, resulting
in an attempt to access the wrong memory location, which in turn will
cause all kinds of unpredictable behaviour, such as a kernel crash:

  Console: colour dummy device 160x64
  Calibrating delay loop... 49.36 BogoMIPS (lpj=192512)
  pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301
  CPU 0 Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 000000000203bd00, epc == ffffffffbfc08364, ra == ffffffffbfc08800
  Oops[#1]:
  CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 5.18.0-rc2-00254-gfb649bda6f56-dirty #121
  $ 0   : 0000000000000000 0000000000000001 0000000000000023 ffffffff80684ba0
  $ 4   : 000000000203bd00 ffffffffbfc0f3b4 ffffffffffffffff 0000000000000073
  $ 8   : 0a303d7469000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000073 ffffffffbfc0f473
  $12   : 0000000000000002 0000000000000000 ffffffff80684c1c 0000000000000000
  $16   : 0000000000000000 ffffffff80596dc9 0000000000000000 ffffffffbfc09240
  $20   : ffffffff80684c40 ffffffffbfc0f400 000000000000002d 000000000000002b
  $24   : ffffffffffffffbf 000000000203bd00
  $28   : ffffffff805f0000 ffffffff80684b58 0000000000000030 ffffffffbfc08800
  Hi    : 0000000000000000
  Lo    : 0000000000000aa8
  epc   : ffffffffbfc08364 0xffffffffbfc08364
  ra    : ffffffffbfc08800 0xffffffffbfc08800
  Status: 140120e2        KX SX UX KERNEL EXL
  Cause : 00000008 (ExcCode 02)
  BadVA : 000000000203bd00
  PrId  : 00000430 (R4000SC)
  Modules linked in:
  Process swapper (pid: 0, threadinfo=(____ptrval____), task=(____ptrval____), tls=0000000000000000)
  Stack : 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000004d0000004d
          80684cc0806a2a40 80596dc80000004d 8061000000000000 bfc0850c80684c38
          0000000000000000 000000000203bd00 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
          0000000000000000 00000000bfc0f3b4 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
          0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
          0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
          0000002500000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 802c1a7400000000
          0203bd0080596dc8 0203bd4d69000000 6c61632000000018 5f746567646e6172
          6c616320625f6d6f 5f736e5f6d6f7266 206361323778302b 303d74696e726320
          806a0a38806b0000 806a0a38806b0000 00000000806b0000 80683c58806b0000
          ...
  Call Trace:

  Code: a082ffff  03e00008  00601021 &lt;80820000&gt; 00001821  10400005  24840001  80820000  24630001

  ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
  Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt

  KN04 V2.1k    (PC: 0xa0026768, SP: 0x806848e8)
  &gt;&gt;

In this case the pointer in $4 was truncated from 0x980000000203bd00 to
0x000000000203bd00.

This may happen when no final console driver has been enabled in the
configuration and consequently the initial console continues being used
late into bootstrap or with an upcoming change that will switch the zs
driver to use a platform device, which in turn will make the console
handover happen only after other kernel threads have already been
started.

Fix the issue by making the buffer static and initdata, and therefore
placed in the CKSEG0 32-bit compatibility segment, observing that the
console output handler is called with the console lock held, implying
no need for this code to be reentrant.  Add an assertion to verify the
buffer actually has been placed in a compatibility segment.

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki &lt;macro@orcam.me.uk&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v2.6.12+
Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 7fb13fd35110ebe95eb053faf79d018f51144d85 upstream.

In 64-bit configurations calling the initial console output handler from
a kernel thread other than the initial one will result in a situation
where the stack has been placed in the XKPHYS 64-bit memory segment and
consequently so has been the buffer allocated there that is used as the
argument corresponding to the `%s' output conversion specifier for the
firmware's printf() entry point.

This 64-bit address will then be truncated by 32-bit firmware, resulting
in an attempt to access the wrong memory location, which in turn will
cause all kinds of unpredictable behaviour, such as a kernel crash:

  Console: colour dummy device 160x64
  Calibrating delay loop... 49.36 BogoMIPS (lpj=192512)
  pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301
  CPU 0 Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 000000000203bd00, epc == ffffffffbfc08364, ra == ffffffffbfc08800
  Oops[#1]:
  CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 5.18.0-rc2-00254-gfb649bda6f56-dirty #121
  $ 0   : 0000000000000000 0000000000000001 0000000000000023 ffffffff80684ba0
  $ 4   : 000000000203bd00 ffffffffbfc0f3b4 ffffffffffffffff 0000000000000073
  $ 8   : 0a303d7469000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000073 ffffffffbfc0f473
  $12   : 0000000000000002 0000000000000000 ffffffff80684c1c 0000000000000000
  $16   : 0000000000000000 ffffffff80596dc9 0000000000000000 ffffffffbfc09240
  $20   : ffffffff80684c40 ffffffffbfc0f400 000000000000002d 000000000000002b
  $24   : ffffffffffffffbf 000000000203bd00
  $28   : ffffffff805f0000 ffffffff80684b58 0000000000000030 ffffffffbfc08800
  Hi    : 0000000000000000
  Lo    : 0000000000000aa8
  epc   : ffffffffbfc08364 0xffffffffbfc08364
  ra    : ffffffffbfc08800 0xffffffffbfc08800
  Status: 140120e2        KX SX UX KERNEL EXL
  Cause : 00000008 (ExcCode 02)
  BadVA : 000000000203bd00
  PrId  : 00000430 (R4000SC)
  Modules linked in:
  Process swapper (pid: 0, threadinfo=(____ptrval____), task=(____ptrval____), tls=0000000000000000)
  Stack : 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000004d0000004d
          80684cc0806a2a40 80596dc80000004d 8061000000000000 bfc0850c80684c38
          0000000000000000 000000000203bd00 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
          0000000000000000 00000000bfc0f3b4 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
          0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
          0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
          0000002500000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 802c1a7400000000
          0203bd0080596dc8 0203bd4d69000000 6c61632000000018 5f746567646e6172
          6c616320625f6d6f 5f736e5f6d6f7266 206361323778302b 303d74696e726320
          806a0a38806b0000 806a0a38806b0000 00000000806b0000 80683c58806b0000
          ...
  Call Trace:

  Code: a082ffff  03e00008  00601021 &lt;80820000&gt; 00001821  10400005  24840001  80820000  24630001

  ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
  Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt

  KN04 V2.1k    (PC: 0xa0026768, SP: 0x806848e8)
  &gt;&gt;

In this case the pointer in $4 was truncated from 0x980000000203bd00 to
0x000000000203bd00.

This may happen when no final console driver has been enabled in the
configuration and consequently the initial console continues being used
late into bootstrap or with an upcoming change that will switch the zs
driver to use a platform device, which in turn will make the console
handover happen only after other kernel threads have already been
started.

Fix the issue by making the buffer static and initdata, and therefore
placed in the CKSEG0 32-bit compatibility segment, observing that the
console output handler is called with the console lock held, implying
no need for this code to be reentrant.  Add an assertion to verify the
buffer actually has been placed in a compatibility segment.

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki &lt;macro@orcam.me.uk&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v2.6.12+
Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: x86/mmu: Ensure hugepage is in by slot before checking max mapping level</title>
<updated>2026-07-04T11:42:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sean Christopherson</name>
<email>seanjc@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-26T11:24:25+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=48b91ed7e22bb82571c34f8b80b6ecdc90a6fab8'/>
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commit ef057cbf825e03b63f6edf5980f96abf3c53089d upstream.

When recovering hugepages in the shadow MMU, verify that the base gfn of
the shadow page is actually contained within the target memslot, *before*
querying the max mapping level given the shadow page's gfn.  Failure to
pre-check the validity of the gfn can lead to an out-of-bounds access to
the slot's lpage_info (which typically manifests as a host #PF because the
lpage_info is vmalloc'd) if the guest creates a hugepage mapping (in its
PTEs) that extends "below" the bounds of a memslot.

When faulting in memory for a guest, and the size of the guest mapping is
greater than KVM's (current) max mapping, then KVM will create a "direct"
shadow page (direct in that there are no gPTEs to shadow, and so the target
gfn is a direct calculation given the base gfn of the shadow page).  The
hugepage recovery flow looks for such direct shadow pages, as forcing 4KiB
mappings when dirty logging generates the guest &gt; host mapping size case.
When the 4KiB restriction is lifted, then KVM can replace the shadow page
with a hugepage.

But if KVM originally used a smaller mapping than the guest because the
range of memory covered by the guest hugepage exceeds the bounds of a
memslot, then KVM will link a direct shadow page with a gfn that is outside
the bounds of the memslot being used to fault in memory.  The rmap entry
added for the leaf mapping is correct and within bounds, but the gfn of the
leaf SPTE's parent shadow page will be out of bounds.

  BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffc90000806ffc
  #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
  #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
  PGD 100000067 P4D 100000067 PUD 1002a7067 PMD 10612f067 PTE 0
  Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
  CPU: 13 UID: 1000 PID: 757 Comm: mmu_stress_test Not tainted 7.1.0-rc1-48ce1e26eace-x86_pir_to_irr_comments-vm #341 PREEMPT
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015
  RIP: 0010:kvm_mmu_max_mapping_level+0x79/0x2b0 [kvm]
  Call Trace:
   &lt;TASK&gt;
   kvm_mmu_recover_huge_pages+0x21b/0x320 [kvm]
   kvm_set_memslot+0x1ee/0x590 [kvm]
   kvm_set_memory_region.part.0+0x3a1/0x4d0 [kvm]
   kvm_vm_ioctl+0x9bf/0x15d0 [kvm]
   __x64_sys_ioctl+0x8a/0xd0
   do_syscall_64+0xb7/0xbb0
   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53
  RIP: 0033:0x7f21c0f1a9bf
   &lt;/TASK&gt;

Don't bother pre-checking the bounds of the potential hugepage, i.e. don't
check that e.g. sp-&gt;gfn + KVM_PAGES_PER_HPAGE(sp-&gt;role.level + 1) is also
within the memslot, as the checks performed by kvm_mmu_max_mapping_level()
are a superset of the basic bounds checks.  I.e. pre-checking the full
range would be a dubious micro-optimization.

Fixes: 9eba50f8d7fc ("KVM: x86/mmu: Consult max mapping level when zapping collapsible SPTEs")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: David Matlack &lt;dmatlack@google.com&gt;
Cc: James Houghton &lt;jthoughton@google.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Bulekov &lt;bkov@amazon.com&gt;
Cc: Fred Griffoul &lt;fgriffo@amazon.co.uk&gt;
Cc: Alexander Graf &lt;graf@amazon.de&gt;
Cc: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw@amazon.co.uk&gt;
Cc: Filippo Sironi &lt;sironi@amazon.de&gt;
Cc: Ivan Orlov &lt;iorlov@amazon.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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commit ef057cbf825e03b63f6edf5980f96abf3c53089d upstream.

When recovering hugepages in the shadow MMU, verify that the base gfn of
the shadow page is actually contained within the target memslot, *before*
querying the max mapping level given the shadow page's gfn.  Failure to
pre-check the validity of the gfn can lead to an out-of-bounds access to
the slot's lpage_info (which typically manifests as a host #PF because the
lpage_info is vmalloc'd) if the guest creates a hugepage mapping (in its
PTEs) that extends "below" the bounds of a memslot.

When faulting in memory for a guest, and the size of the guest mapping is
greater than KVM's (current) max mapping, then KVM will create a "direct"
shadow page (direct in that there are no gPTEs to shadow, and so the target
gfn is a direct calculation given the base gfn of the shadow page).  The
hugepage recovery flow looks for such direct shadow pages, as forcing 4KiB
mappings when dirty logging generates the guest &gt; host mapping size case.
When the 4KiB restriction is lifted, then KVM can replace the shadow page
with a hugepage.

But if KVM originally used a smaller mapping than the guest because the
range of memory covered by the guest hugepage exceeds the bounds of a
memslot, then KVM will link a direct shadow page with a gfn that is outside
the bounds of the memslot being used to fault in memory.  The rmap entry
added for the leaf mapping is correct and within bounds, but the gfn of the
leaf SPTE's parent shadow page will be out of bounds.

  BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffc90000806ffc
  #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
  #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
  PGD 100000067 P4D 100000067 PUD 1002a7067 PMD 10612f067 PTE 0
  Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
  CPU: 13 UID: 1000 PID: 757 Comm: mmu_stress_test Not tainted 7.1.0-rc1-48ce1e26eace-x86_pir_to_irr_comments-vm #341 PREEMPT
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015
  RIP: 0010:kvm_mmu_max_mapping_level+0x79/0x2b0 [kvm]
  Call Trace:
   &lt;TASK&gt;
   kvm_mmu_recover_huge_pages+0x21b/0x320 [kvm]
   kvm_set_memslot+0x1ee/0x590 [kvm]
   kvm_set_memory_region.part.0+0x3a1/0x4d0 [kvm]
   kvm_vm_ioctl+0x9bf/0x15d0 [kvm]
   __x64_sys_ioctl+0x8a/0xd0
   do_syscall_64+0xb7/0xbb0
   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53
  RIP: 0033:0x7f21c0f1a9bf
   &lt;/TASK&gt;

Don't bother pre-checking the bounds of the potential hugepage, i.e. don't
check that e.g. sp-&gt;gfn + KVM_PAGES_PER_HPAGE(sp-&gt;role.level + 1) is also
within the memslot, as the checks performed by kvm_mmu_max_mapping_level()
are a superset of the basic bounds checks.  I.e. pre-checking the full
range would be a dubious micro-optimization.

Fixes: 9eba50f8d7fc ("KVM: x86/mmu: Consult max mapping level when zapping collapsible SPTEs")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: David Matlack &lt;dmatlack@google.com&gt;
Cc: James Houghton &lt;jthoughton@google.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Bulekov &lt;bkov@amazon.com&gt;
Cc: Fred Griffoul &lt;fgriffo@amazon.co.uk&gt;
Cc: Alexander Graf &lt;graf@amazon.de&gt;
Cc: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw@amazon.co.uk&gt;
Cc: Filippo Sironi &lt;sironi@amazon.de&gt;
Cc: Ivan Orlov &lt;iorlov@amazon.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: x86: Fix shadow paging use-after-free due to unexpected role</title>
<updated>2026-07-04T11:42:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Bonzini</name>
<email>pbonzini@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-26T11:24:24+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=9291654d69e08542de37755cebe4d5b02c3170d1'/>
<id>9291654d69e08542de37755cebe4d5b02c3170d1</id>
<content type='text'>
commit 81ccda30b4e83d8f5cc4fd50503c44e3a33abfeb upstream.

Commit 0cb2af2ea66ad ("KVM: x86: Fix shadow paging use-after-free due
to unexpected GFN") fixed a shadow paging mismatch between stored and
computed GFNs; the bug could be triggered by changing a PDE mapping from
outside the guest, and then deleting a memslot.  The rmap_remove()
call would miss entries created after the PDE change because the GFN
of the leaf SPTE does not match the GFN of the struct kvm_mmu_page.

A similar hole however remains if the modified PDE points to a non-leaf
page.  In this case the gfn can be made to match, but the role does not
match: the original large 2MB page creates a kvm_mmu_page with direct=1,
while the new 4KB needs a kvm_mmu_page with direct=0.  However,
kvm_mmu_get_child_sp() does not compare the role, and therefore reuses
the page.

The next step is installing a leaf (4KB) SPTE on the new path which
records an rmap entry under the gfn resolved by the walk.  But when
that child is zapped its parent kvm_mmu_page has direct=1 and
kvm_mmu_page_get_gfn() computes the gfn for the 4KB page as
sp-&gt;gfn + index instead of using sp-&gt;shadowed_translation[] (or sp-&gt;gfns[]
in older kernels).  It therefore fails to remove the recorded entry.

When the memslot is dropped the shadow page is freed but the rmap
entry survives, as in the scenario that was already fixed.  Code that
later walks that gfn (dirty logging, MMU notifier invalidation, and
so on) dereferences an sptep that lies in the freed page, causing the
use-after-free.

Fixes: 2032a93d66fa ("KVM: MMU: Don't allocate gfns page for direct mmu pages")
Reported-by: Hyunwoo Kim &lt;imv4bel@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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commit 81ccda30b4e83d8f5cc4fd50503c44e3a33abfeb upstream.

Commit 0cb2af2ea66ad ("KVM: x86: Fix shadow paging use-after-free due
to unexpected GFN") fixed a shadow paging mismatch between stored and
computed GFNs; the bug could be triggered by changing a PDE mapping from
outside the guest, and then deleting a memslot.  The rmap_remove()
call would miss entries created after the PDE change because the GFN
of the leaf SPTE does not match the GFN of the struct kvm_mmu_page.

A similar hole however remains if the modified PDE points to a non-leaf
page.  In this case the gfn can be made to match, but the role does not
match: the original large 2MB page creates a kvm_mmu_page with direct=1,
while the new 4KB needs a kvm_mmu_page with direct=0.  However,
kvm_mmu_get_child_sp() does not compare the role, and therefore reuses
the page.

The next step is installing a leaf (4KB) SPTE on the new path which
records an rmap entry under the gfn resolved by the walk.  But when
that child is zapped its parent kvm_mmu_page has direct=1 and
kvm_mmu_page_get_gfn() computes the gfn for the 4KB page as
sp-&gt;gfn + index instead of using sp-&gt;shadowed_translation[] (or sp-&gt;gfns[]
in older kernels).  It therefore fails to remove the recorded entry.

When the memslot is dropped the shadow page is freed but the rmap
entry survives, as in the scenario that was already fixed.  Code that
later walks that gfn (dirty logging, MMU notifier invalidation, and
so on) dereferences an sptep that lies in the freed page, causing the
use-after-free.

Fixes: 2032a93d66fa ("KVM: MMU: Don't allocate gfns page for direct mmu pages")
Reported-by: Hyunwoo Kim &lt;imv4bel@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: scripts/sorttable: Implement sorting mcount_loc at boot for arm64</title>
<updated>2026-07-04T11:42:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-18T20:38:54+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=fe0434d604a947cd4e98935d10e2734fb4b4ee1d'/>
<id>fe0434d604a947cd4e98935d10e2734fb4b4ee1d</id>
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[ Upstream commit b3d09d06e052e1d754645acea4e4d1e96f81c934 ]

The mcount_loc section holds the addresses of the functions that get
patched by ftrace when enabling function callbacks. It can contain tens of
thousands of entries. These addresses must be sorted. If they are not
sorted at compile time, they are sorted at boot. Sorting at boot does take
some time and does have a small impact on boot performance.

x86 and arm32 have the addresses in the mcount_loc section of the ELF
file. But for arm64, the section just contains zeros. The .rela.dyn
Elf_Rela section holds the addresses and they get patched at boot during
the relocation phase.

In order to sort these addresses, the Elf_Rela needs to be updated instead
of the location in the binary that holds the mcount_loc section. Have the
sorttable code, allocate an array to hold the functions, load the
addresses from the Elf_Rela entries, sort them, then put them back in
order into the Elf_rela entries so that they will be sorted at boot up
without having to sort them during boot up.

Cc: bpf &lt;bpf@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Nicolas Schier &lt;nicolas@fjasle.eu&gt;
Cc: Zheng Yejian &lt;zhengyejian1@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Martin  Kelly &lt;martin.kelly@crowdstrike.com&gt;
Cc: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250218200022.373319428@goodmis.org
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrey Grodzovsky &lt;andrey.grodzovsky@crowdstrike.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
[ Upstream commit b3d09d06e052e1d754645acea4e4d1e96f81c934 ]

The mcount_loc section holds the addresses of the functions that get
patched by ftrace when enabling function callbacks. It can contain tens of
thousands of entries. These addresses must be sorted. If they are not
sorted at compile time, they are sorted at boot. Sorting at boot does take
some time and does have a small impact on boot performance.

x86 and arm32 have the addresses in the mcount_loc section of the ELF
file. But for arm64, the section just contains zeros. The .rela.dyn
Elf_Rela section holds the addresses and they get patched at boot during
the relocation phase.

In order to sort these addresses, the Elf_Rela needs to be updated instead
of the location in the binary that holds the mcount_loc section. Have the
sorttable code, allocate an array to hold the functions, load the
addresses from the Elf_Rela entries, sort them, then put them back in
order into the Elf_rela entries so that they will be sorted at boot up
without having to sort them during boot up.

Cc: bpf &lt;bpf@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Nicolas Schier &lt;nicolas@fjasle.eu&gt;
Cc: Zheng Yejian &lt;zhengyejian1@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Martin  Kelly &lt;martin.kelly@crowdstrike.com&gt;
Cc: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250218200022.373319428@goodmis.org
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrey Grodzovsky &lt;andrey.grodzovsky@crowdstrike.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: VMX: Update SVI during runtime APICv activation</title>
<updated>2026-07-04T11:42:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dongli Zhang</name>
<email>dongli.zhang@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-22T10:03:43+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=218c24bfc3334a55024293dcbbcfd7af8eb44c36'/>
<id>218c24bfc3334a55024293dcbbcfd7af8eb44c36</id>
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[ Upstream commit b2849bec936be642b5420801f902337f2507648e ]

The APICv (apic-&gt;apicv_active) can be activated or deactivated at runtime,
for instance, because of APICv inhibit reasons. Intel VMX employs different
mechanisms to virtualize LAPIC based on whether APICv is active.

When APICv is activated at runtime, GUEST_INTR_STATUS is used to configure
and report the current pending IRR and ISR states. Unless a specific vector
is explicitly included in EOI_EXIT_BITMAP, its EOI will not be trapped to
KVM. Intel VMX automatically clears the corresponding ISR bit based on the
GUEST_INTR_STATUS.SVI field.

When APICv is deactivated at runtime, the VM_ENTRY_INTR_INFO_FIELD is used
to specify the next interrupt vector to invoke upon VM-entry. The
VMX IDT_VECTORING_INFO_FIELD is used to report un-invoked vectors on
VM-exit. EOIs are always trapped to KVM, so the software can manually clear
pending ISR bits.

There are scenarios where, with APICv activated at runtime, a guest-issued
EOI may not be able to clear the pending ISR bit.

Taking vector 236 as an example, here is one scenario.

1. Suppose APICv is inactive. Vector 236 is pending in the IRR.
2. To handle KVM_REQ_EVENT, KVM moves vector 236 from the IRR to the ISR,
and configures the VM_ENTRY_INTR_INFO_FIELD via vmx_inject_irq().
3. After VM-entry, vector 236 is invoked through the guest IDT. At this
point, the data in VM_ENTRY_INTR_INFO_FIELD is no longer valid. The guest
interrupt handler for vector 236 is invoked.
4. Suppose a VM exit occurs very early in the guest interrupt handler,
before the EOI is issued.
5. Nothing is reported through the IDT_VECTORING_INFO_FIELD because
vector 236 has already been invoked in the guest.
6. Now, suppose APICv is activated. Before the next VM-entry, KVM calls
kvm_vcpu_update_apicv() to activate APICv.
7. Unfortunately, GUEST_INTR_STATUS.SVI is not configured, although
vector 236 is still pending in the ISR.
8. After VM-entry, the guest finally issues the EOI for vector 236.
However, because SVI is not configured, vector 236 is not cleared.
9. ISR is stalled forever on vector 236.

Here is another scenario.

1. Suppose APICv is inactive. Vector 236 is pending in the IRR.
2. To handle KVM_REQ_EVENT, KVM moves vector 236 from the IRR to the ISR,
and configures the VM_ENTRY_INTR_INFO_FIELD via vmx_inject_irq().
3. VM-exit occurs immediately after the next VM-entry. The vector 236 is
not invoked through the guest IDT. Instead, it is saved to the
IDT_VECTORING_INFO_FIELD during the VM-exit.
4. KVM calls kvm_queue_interrupt() to re-queue the un-invoked vector 236
into vcpu-&gt;arch.interrupt. A KVM_REQ_EVENT is requested.
5. Now, suppose APICv is activated. Before the next VM-entry, KVM calls
kvm_vcpu_update_apicv() to activate APICv.
6. Although APICv is now active, KVM still uses the legacy
VM_ENTRY_INTR_INFO_FIELD to re-inject vector 236. GUEST_INTR_STATUS.SVI is
not configured.
7. After the next VM-entry, vector 236 is invoked through the guest IDT.
Finally, an EOI occurs. However, due to the lack of GUEST_INTR_STATUS.SVI
configuration, vector 236 is not cleared from the ISR.
8. ISR is stalled forever on vector 236.

Using QEMU as an example, vector 236 is stuck in ISR forever.

(qemu) info lapic 1
dumping local APIC state for CPU 1

LVT0	 0x00010700 active-hi edge  masked                      ExtINT (vec 0)
LVT1	 0x00010400 active-hi edge  masked                      NMI
LVTPC	 0x00000400 active-hi edge                              NMI
LVTERR	 0x000000fe active-hi edge                              Fixed  (vec 254)
LVTTHMR	 0x00010000 active-hi edge  masked                      Fixed  (vec 0)
LVTT	 0x000400ec active-hi edge                 tsc-deadline Fixed  (vec 236)
Timer	 DCR=0x0 (divide by 2) initial_count = 0 current_count = 0
SPIV	 0x000001ff APIC enabled, focus=off, spurious vec 255
ICR	 0x000000fd physical edge de-assert no-shorthand
ICR2	 0x00000000 cpu 0 (X2APIC ID)
ESR	 0x00000000
ISR	 236
IRR	 37(level) 236

The issue isn't applicable to AMD SVM as KVM simply writes vmcb01 directly
irrespective of whether L1 (vmcs01) or L2 (vmcb02) is active (unlike VMX,
there is no need/cost to switch between VMCBs).  In addition,
APICV_INHIBIT_REASON_IRQWIN ensures AMD SVM AVIC is not activated until
the last interrupt is EOI'd.

Fix the bug by configuring Intel VMX GUEST_INTR_STATUS.SVI if APICv is
activated at runtime.

Signed-off-by: Dongli Zhang &lt;dongli.zhang@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Chao Gao &lt;chao.gao@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251110063212.34902-1-dongli.zhang@oracle.com
[sean: call out that SVM writes vmcb01 directly, tweak comment]
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251205231913.441872-2-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
[gulshan: resolved a minor conflict in vmx.c arising from a comment]
Signed-off-by: Gulshan Gabel &lt;gulshan.gabel@nutanix.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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The APICv (apic-&gt;apicv_active) can be activated or deactivated at runtime,
for instance, because of APICv inhibit reasons. Intel VMX employs different
mechanisms to virtualize LAPIC based on whether APICv is active.

When APICv is activated at runtime, GUEST_INTR_STATUS is used to configure
and report the current pending IRR and ISR states. Unless a specific vector
is explicitly included in EOI_EXIT_BITMAP, its EOI will not be trapped to
KVM. Intel VMX automatically clears the corresponding ISR bit based on the
GUEST_INTR_STATUS.SVI field.

When APICv is deactivated at runtime, the VM_ENTRY_INTR_INFO_FIELD is used
to specify the next interrupt vector to invoke upon VM-entry. The
VMX IDT_VECTORING_INFO_FIELD is used to report un-invoked vectors on
VM-exit. EOIs are always trapped to KVM, so the software can manually clear
pending ISR bits.

There are scenarios where, with APICv activated at runtime, a guest-issued
EOI may not be able to clear the pending ISR bit.

Taking vector 236 as an example, here is one scenario.

1. Suppose APICv is inactive. Vector 236 is pending in the IRR.
2. To handle KVM_REQ_EVENT, KVM moves vector 236 from the IRR to the ISR,
and configures the VM_ENTRY_INTR_INFO_FIELD via vmx_inject_irq().
3. After VM-entry, vector 236 is invoked through the guest IDT. At this
point, the data in VM_ENTRY_INTR_INFO_FIELD is no longer valid. The guest
interrupt handler for vector 236 is invoked.
4. Suppose a VM exit occurs very early in the guest interrupt handler,
before the EOI is issued.
5. Nothing is reported through the IDT_VECTORING_INFO_FIELD because
vector 236 has already been invoked in the guest.
6. Now, suppose APICv is activated. Before the next VM-entry, KVM calls
kvm_vcpu_update_apicv() to activate APICv.
7. Unfortunately, GUEST_INTR_STATUS.SVI is not configured, although
vector 236 is still pending in the ISR.
8. After VM-entry, the guest finally issues the EOI for vector 236.
However, because SVI is not configured, vector 236 is not cleared.
9. ISR is stalled forever on vector 236.

Here is another scenario.

1. Suppose APICv is inactive. Vector 236 is pending in the IRR.
2. To handle KVM_REQ_EVENT, KVM moves vector 236 from the IRR to the ISR,
and configures the VM_ENTRY_INTR_INFO_FIELD via vmx_inject_irq().
3. VM-exit occurs immediately after the next VM-entry. The vector 236 is
not invoked through the guest IDT. Instead, it is saved to the
IDT_VECTORING_INFO_FIELD during the VM-exit.
4. KVM calls kvm_queue_interrupt() to re-queue the un-invoked vector 236
into vcpu-&gt;arch.interrupt. A KVM_REQ_EVENT is requested.
5. Now, suppose APICv is activated. Before the next VM-entry, KVM calls
kvm_vcpu_update_apicv() to activate APICv.
6. Although APICv is now active, KVM still uses the legacy
VM_ENTRY_INTR_INFO_FIELD to re-inject vector 236. GUEST_INTR_STATUS.SVI is
not configured.
7. After the next VM-entry, vector 236 is invoked through the guest IDT.
Finally, an EOI occurs. However, due to the lack of GUEST_INTR_STATUS.SVI
configuration, vector 236 is not cleared from the ISR.
8. ISR is stalled forever on vector 236.

Using QEMU as an example, vector 236 is stuck in ISR forever.

(qemu) info lapic 1
dumping local APIC state for CPU 1

LVT0	 0x00010700 active-hi edge  masked                      ExtINT (vec 0)
LVT1	 0x00010400 active-hi edge  masked                      NMI
LVTPC	 0x00000400 active-hi edge                              NMI
LVTERR	 0x000000fe active-hi edge                              Fixed  (vec 254)
LVTTHMR	 0x00010000 active-hi edge  masked                      Fixed  (vec 0)
LVTT	 0x000400ec active-hi edge                 tsc-deadline Fixed  (vec 236)
Timer	 DCR=0x0 (divide by 2) initial_count = 0 current_count = 0
SPIV	 0x000001ff APIC enabled, focus=off, spurious vec 255
ICR	 0x000000fd physical edge de-assert no-shorthand
ICR2	 0x00000000 cpu 0 (X2APIC ID)
ESR	 0x00000000
ISR	 236
IRR	 37(level) 236

The issue isn't applicable to AMD SVM as KVM simply writes vmcb01 directly
irrespective of whether L1 (vmcs01) or L2 (vmcb02) is active (unlike VMX,
there is no need/cost to switch between VMCBs).  In addition,
APICV_INHIBIT_REASON_IRQWIN ensures AMD SVM AVIC is not activated until
the last interrupt is EOI'd.

Fix the bug by configuring Intel VMX GUEST_INTR_STATUS.SVI if APICv is
activated at runtime.

Signed-off-by: Dongli Zhang &lt;dongli.zhang@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Chao Gao &lt;chao.gao@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251110063212.34902-1-dongli.zhang@oracle.com
[sean: call out that SVM writes vmcb01 directly, tweak comment]
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251205231913.441872-2-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
[gulshan: resolved a minor conflict in vmx.c arising from a comment]
Signed-off-by: Gulshan Gabel &lt;gulshan.gabel@nutanix.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ARM: fix branch predictor hardening</title>
<updated>2026-07-04T11:42:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King (Oracle)</name>
<email>rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-22T10:26:34+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=de1ba6c93868f8112cc55a17ae0dfbee3a39cb38'/>
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commit fd2dee1c6e2256f726ba33fd3083a7be0efc80d3 upstream.

__do_user_fault() may be called with indeterminent interrupt enable
state, which means we may be preemptive at this point. This causes
problems when calling harden_branch_predictor(). For example, when
called from a data abort, do_alignment_fault()-&gt;do_bad_area().

Move harden_branch_predictor() out of __do_user_fault() and into the
calling contexts.

Moving it into do_kernel_address_page_fault(), we can be sure that
interrupts will be disabled here.

Converting do_translation_fault() to use do_kernel_address_page_fault()
rather than do_bad_area() means that we keep branch predictor handling
for translation faults. Interrupts will also be disabled at this call
site.

do_sect_fault() needs special handling, so detect user mode accesses
to kernel-addresses, and add an explicit call to branch predictor
hardening.

Finally, add branch predictor hardening to do_alignment() for the
faulting case (user mode accessing kernel addresses) before interrupts
are enabled.

This should cover all cases where harden_branch_predictor() is called,
ensuring that it is always has interrupts disabled, also ensuring that
it is called early in each call path.

Reviewed-by: Xie Yuanbin &lt;xieyuanbin1@huawei.com&gt;
Tested-by: Xie Yuanbin &lt;xieyuanbin1@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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commit fd2dee1c6e2256f726ba33fd3083a7be0efc80d3 upstream.

__do_user_fault() may be called with indeterminent interrupt enable
state, which means we may be preemptive at this point. This causes
problems when calling harden_branch_predictor(). For example, when
called from a data abort, do_alignment_fault()-&gt;do_bad_area().

Move harden_branch_predictor() out of __do_user_fault() and into the
calling contexts.

Moving it into do_kernel_address_page_fault(), we can be sure that
interrupts will be disabled here.

Converting do_translation_fault() to use do_kernel_address_page_fault()
rather than do_bad_area() means that we keep branch predictor handling
for translation faults. Interrupts will also be disabled at this call
site.

do_sect_fault() needs special handling, so detect user mode accesses
to kernel-addresses, and add an explicit call to branch predictor
hardening.

Finally, add branch predictor hardening to do_alignment() for the
faulting case (user mode accessing kernel addresses) before interrupts
are enabled.

This should cover all cases where harden_branch_predictor() is called,
ensuring that it is always has interrupts disabled, also ensuring that
it is called early in each call path.

Reviewed-by: Xie Yuanbin &lt;xieyuanbin1@huawei.com&gt;
Tested-by: Xie Yuanbin &lt;xieyuanbin1@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: fix hash_name() fault</title>
<updated>2026-07-04T11:42:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King (Oracle)</name>
<email>rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-22T10:26:33+00:00</published>
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commit 7733bc7d299d682f2723dc38fc7f370b9bf973e9 upstream.

Zizhi Wo reports:

"During the execution of hash_name()-&gt;load_unaligned_zeropad(), a
 potential memory access beyond the PAGE boundary may occur. For
 example, when the filename length is near the PAGE_SIZE boundary.
 This triggers a page fault, which leads to a call to
 do_page_fault()-&gt;mmap_read_trylock(). If we can't acquire the lock,
 we have to fall back to the mmap_read_lock() path, which calls
 might_sleep(). This breaks RCU semantics because path lookup occurs
 under an RCU read-side critical section."

This is seen with CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP=y and CONFIG_KFENCE=y.

Kernel addresses (with the exception of the vectors/kuser helper
page) do not have VMAs associated with them. If the vectors/kuser
helper page faults, then there are two possibilities:

1. if the fault happened while in kernel mode, then we're basically
   dead, because the CPU won't be able to vector through this page
   to handle the fault.
2. if the fault happened while in user mode, that means the page was
   protected from user access, and we want to fault anyway.

Thus, we can handle kernel addresses from any context entirely
separately without going anywhere near the mmap lock. This gives us
an entirely non-sleeping path for all kernel mode kernel address
faults.

As we handle the kernel address faults before interrupts are enabled,
this change has the side effect of improving the branch predictor
hardening, but does not completely solve the issue.

Reported-by: Zizhi Wo &lt;wozizhi@huaweicloud.com&gt;
Reported-by: Xie Yuanbin &lt;xieyuanbin1@huawei.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251126090505.3057219-1-wozizhi@huaweicloud.com
Reviewed-by: Xie Yuanbin &lt;xieyuanbin1@huawei.com&gt;
Tested-by: Xie Yuanbin &lt;xieyuanbin1@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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commit 7733bc7d299d682f2723dc38fc7f370b9bf973e9 upstream.

Zizhi Wo reports:

"During the execution of hash_name()-&gt;load_unaligned_zeropad(), a
 potential memory access beyond the PAGE boundary may occur. For
 example, when the filename length is near the PAGE_SIZE boundary.
 This triggers a page fault, which leads to a call to
 do_page_fault()-&gt;mmap_read_trylock(). If we can't acquire the lock,
 we have to fall back to the mmap_read_lock() path, which calls
 might_sleep(). This breaks RCU semantics because path lookup occurs
 under an RCU read-side critical section."

This is seen with CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP=y and CONFIG_KFENCE=y.

Kernel addresses (with the exception of the vectors/kuser helper
page) do not have VMAs associated with them. If the vectors/kuser
helper page faults, then there are two possibilities:

1. if the fault happened while in kernel mode, then we're basically
   dead, because the CPU won't be able to vector through this page
   to handle the fault.
2. if the fault happened while in user mode, that means the page was
   protected from user access, and we want to fault anyway.

Thus, we can handle kernel addresses from any context entirely
separately without going anywhere near the mmap lock. This gives us
an entirely non-sleeping path for all kernel mode kernel address
faults.

As we handle the kernel address faults before interrupts are enabled,
this change has the side effect of improving the branch predictor
hardening, but does not completely solve the issue.

Reported-by: Zizhi Wo &lt;wozizhi@huaweicloud.com&gt;
Reported-by: Xie Yuanbin &lt;xieyuanbin1@huawei.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251126090505.3057219-1-wozizhi@huaweicloud.com
Reviewed-by: Xie Yuanbin &lt;xieyuanbin1@huawei.com&gt;
Tested-by: Xie Yuanbin &lt;xieyuanbin1@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: allow __do_kernel_fault() to report execution of memory faults</title>
<updated>2026-07-04T11:42:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King (Oracle)</name>
<email>rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-22T10:26:32+00:00</published>
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commit 40b466db1dffb41f0529035c59c5739636d0e5b8 upstream

Allow __do_kernel_fault() to detect the execution of memory, so we can
provide the same fault message as do_page_fault() would do. This is
required when we split the kernel address fault handling from the
main do_page_fault() code path.

Reviewed-by: Xie Yuanbin &lt;xieyuanbin1@huawei.com&gt;
Tested-by: Xie Yuanbin &lt;xieyuanbin1@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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commit 40b466db1dffb41f0529035c59c5739636d0e5b8 upstream

Allow __do_kernel_fault() to detect the execution of memory, so we can
provide the same fault message as do_page_fault() would do. This is
required when we split the kernel address fault handling from the
main do_page_fault() code path.

Reviewed-by: Xie Yuanbin &lt;xieyuanbin1@huawei.com&gt;
Tested-by: Xie Yuanbin &lt;xieyuanbin1@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
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