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<title>KVM: x86: Use scratch field in MMIO fragment to hold small write values</title>
<updated>2026-06-01T15:35:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sean Christopherson</name>
<email>seanjc@google.com</email>
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<published>2026-02-25T01:20:36+00:00</published>
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commit 0b16e69d17d8c35c5c9d5918bf596c75a44655d3 upstream.

When exiting to userspace to service an emulated MMIO write, copy the
to-be-written value to a scratch field in the MMIO fragment if the size
of the data payload is 8 bytes or less, i.e. can fit in a single chunk,
instead of pointing the fragment directly at the source value.

This fixes a class of use-after-free bugs that occur when the emulator
initiates a write using an on-stack, local variable as the source, the
write splits a page boundary, *and* both pages are MMIO pages.  Because
KVM's ABI only allows for physically contiguous MMIO requests, accesses
that split MMIO pages are separated into two fragments, and are sent to
userspace one at a time.  When KVM attempts to complete userspace MMIO in
response to KVM_RUN after the first fragment, KVM will detect the second
fragment and generate a second userspace exit, and reference the on-stack
variable.

The issue is most visible if the second KVM_RUN is performed by a separate
task, in which case the stack of the initiating task can show up as truly
freed data.

  ==================================================================
  BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in complete_emulated_mmio+0x305/0x420
  Read of size 1 at addr ffff888009c378d1 by task syz-executor417/984

  CPU: 1 PID: 984 Comm: syz-executor417 Not tainted 5.10.0-182.0.0.95.h2627.eulerosv2r13.x86_64 #3
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.15.0-0-g2dd4b9b3f840-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014 Call Trace:
  dump_stack+0xbe/0xfd
  print_address_description.constprop.0+0x19/0x170
  __kasan_report.cold+0x6c/0x84
  kasan_report+0x3a/0x50
  check_memory_region+0xfd/0x1f0
  memcpy+0x20/0x60
  complete_emulated_mmio+0x305/0x420
  kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x63f/0x6d0
  kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x413/0xb20
  __se_sys_ioctl+0x111/0x160
  do_syscall_64+0x30/0x40
  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x67/0xd1
  RIP: 0033:0x42477d
  Code: &lt;48&gt; 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 b0 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
  RSP: 002b:00007faa8e6890e8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010
  RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00000000004d7338 RCX: 000000000042477d
  RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 000000000000ae80 RDI: 0000000000000005
  RBP: 00000000004d7330 R08: 00007fff28d546df R09: 0000000000000000
  R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00000000004d733c
  R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 000000000040a200 R15: 00007fff28d54720

  The buggy address belongs to the page:
  page:0000000029f6a428 refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x9c37
  flags: 0xfffffc0000000(node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x1fffff)
  raw: 000fffffc0000000 0000000000000000 ffffea0000270dc8 0000000000000000
  raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000000 page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected

  Memory state around the buggy address:
  ffff888009c37780: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
  ffff888009c37800: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
  &gt;ffff888009c37880: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
                                                   ^
  ffff888009c37900: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
  ffff888009c37980: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
  ==================================================================

The bug can also be reproduced with a targeted KVM-Unit-Test by hacking
KVM to fill a large on-stack variable in complete_emulated_mmio(), i.e. by
overwrite the data value with garbage.

Limit the use of the scratch fields to 8-byte or smaller accesses, and to
just writes, as larger accesses and reads are not affected thanks to
implementation details in the emulator, but add a sanity check to ensure
those details don't change in the future.  Specifically, KVM never uses
on-stack variables for accesses larger that 8 bytes, e.g. uses an operand
in the emulator context, and *all* reads are buffered through the mem_read
cache.

Note!  Using the scratch field for reads is not only unnecessary, it's
also extremely difficult to handle correctly.  As above, KVM buffers all
reads through the mem_read cache, and heavily relies on that behavior when
re-emulating the instruction after a userspace MMIO read exit.  If a read
splits a page, the first page is NOT an MMIO page, and the second page IS
an MMIO page, then the MMIO fragment needs to point at _just_ the second
chunk of the destination, i.e. its position in the mem_read cache.  Taking
the "obvious" approach of copying the fragment value into the destination
when re-emulating the instruction would clobber the first chunk of the
destination, i.e. would clobber the data that was read from guest memory.

Fixes: f78146b0f923 ("KVM: Fix page-crossing MMIO")
Suggested-by: Yashu Zhang &lt;zhangjiaji1@huawei.com&gt;
Reported-by: Yashu Zhang &lt;zhangjiaji1@huawei.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/369eaaa2b3c1425c85e8477066391bc7@huawei.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Tested-by: Tom Lendacky &lt;thomas.lendacky@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Rick Edgecombe &lt;rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260225012049.920665-2-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 0b16e69d17d8c35c5c9d5918bf596c75a44655d3 upstream.

When exiting to userspace to service an emulated MMIO write, copy the
to-be-written value to a scratch field in the MMIO fragment if the size
of the data payload is 8 bytes or less, i.e. can fit in a single chunk,
instead of pointing the fragment directly at the source value.

This fixes a class of use-after-free bugs that occur when the emulator
initiates a write using an on-stack, local variable as the source, the
write splits a page boundary, *and* both pages are MMIO pages.  Because
KVM's ABI only allows for physically contiguous MMIO requests, accesses
that split MMIO pages are separated into two fragments, and are sent to
userspace one at a time.  When KVM attempts to complete userspace MMIO in
response to KVM_RUN after the first fragment, KVM will detect the second
fragment and generate a second userspace exit, and reference the on-stack
variable.

The issue is most visible if the second KVM_RUN is performed by a separate
task, in which case the stack of the initiating task can show up as truly
freed data.

  ==================================================================
  BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in complete_emulated_mmio+0x305/0x420
  Read of size 1 at addr ffff888009c378d1 by task syz-executor417/984

  CPU: 1 PID: 984 Comm: syz-executor417 Not tainted 5.10.0-182.0.0.95.h2627.eulerosv2r13.x86_64 #3
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.15.0-0-g2dd4b9b3f840-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014 Call Trace:
  dump_stack+0xbe/0xfd
  print_address_description.constprop.0+0x19/0x170
  __kasan_report.cold+0x6c/0x84
  kasan_report+0x3a/0x50
  check_memory_region+0xfd/0x1f0
  memcpy+0x20/0x60
  complete_emulated_mmio+0x305/0x420
  kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x63f/0x6d0
  kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x413/0xb20
  __se_sys_ioctl+0x111/0x160
  do_syscall_64+0x30/0x40
  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x67/0xd1
  RIP: 0033:0x42477d
  Code: &lt;48&gt; 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 b0 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
  RSP: 002b:00007faa8e6890e8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010
  RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00000000004d7338 RCX: 000000000042477d
  RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 000000000000ae80 RDI: 0000000000000005
  RBP: 00000000004d7330 R08: 00007fff28d546df R09: 0000000000000000
  R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00000000004d733c
  R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 000000000040a200 R15: 00007fff28d54720

  The buggy address belongs to the page:
  page:0000000029f6a428 refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x9c37
  flags: 0xfffffc0000000(node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x1fffff)
  raw: 000fffffc0000000 0000000000000000 ffffea0000270dc8 0000000000000000
  raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000000 page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected

  Memory state around the buggy address:
  ffff888009c37780: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
  ffff888009c37800: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
  &gt;ffff888009c37880: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
                                                   ^
  ffff888009c37900: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
  ffff888009c37980: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
  ==================================================================

The bug can also be reproduced with a targeted KVM-Unit-Test by hacking
KVM to fill a large on-stack variable in complete_emulated_mmio(), i.e. by
overwrite the data value with garbage.

Limit the use of the scratch fields to 8-byte or smaller accesses, and to
just writes, as larger accesses and reads are not affected thanks to
implementation details in the emulator, but add a sanity check to ensure
those details don't change in the future.  Specifically, KVM never uses
on-stack variables for accesses larger that 8 bytes, e.g. uses an operand
in the emulator context, and *all* reads are buffered through the mem_read
cache.

Note!  Using the scratch field for reads is not only unnecessary, it's
also extremely difficult to handle correctly.  As above, KVM buffers all
reads through the mem_read cache, and heavily relies on that behavior when
re-emulating the instruction after a userspace MMIO read exit.  If a read
splits a page, the first page is NOT an MMIO page, and the second page IS
an MMIO page, then the MMIO fragment needs to point at _just_ the second
chunk of the destination, i.e. its position in the mem_read cache.  Taking
the "obvious" approach of copying the fragment value into the destination
when re-emulating the instruction would clobber the first chunk of the
destination, i.e. would clobber the data that was read from guest memory.

Fixes: f78146b0f923 ("KVM: Fix page-crossing MMIO")
Suggested-by: Yashu Zhang &lt;zhangjiaji1@huawei.com&gt;
Reported-by: Yashu Zhang &lt;zhangjiaji1@huawei.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/369eaaa2b3c1425c85e8477066391bc7@huawei.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Tested-by: Tom Lendacky &lt;thomas.lendacky@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Rick Edgecombe &lt;rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260225012049.920665-2-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: Explicitly verify target vCPU is online in kvm_get_vcpu()</title>
<updated>2025-03-13T11:50:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sean Christopherson</name>
<email>seanjc@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-10-09T15:04:50+00:00</published>
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commit 1e7381f3617d14b3c11da80ff5f8a93ab14cfc46 upstream.

Explicitly verify the target vCPU is fully online _prior_ to clamping the
index in kvm_get_vcpu().  If the index is "bad", the nospec clamping will
generate '0', i.e. KVM will return vCPU0 instead of NULL.

In practice, the bug is unlikely to cause problems, as it will only come
into play if userspace or the guest is buggy or misbehaving, e.g. KVM may
send interrupts to vCPU0 instead of dropping them on the floor.

However, returning vCPU0 when it shouldn't exist per online_vcpus is
problematic now that KVM uses an xarray for the vCPUs array, as KVM needs
to insert into the xarray before publishing the vCPU to userspace (see
commit c5b077549136 ("KVM: Convert the kvm-&gt;vcpus array to a xarray")),
i.e. before vCPU creation is guaranteed to succeed.

As a result, incorrectly providing access to vCPU0 will trigger a
use-after-free if vCPU0 is dereferenced and kvm_vm_ioctl_create_vcpu()
bails out of vCPU creation due to an error and frees vCPU0.  Commit
afb2acb2e3a3 ("KVM: Fix vcpu_array[0] races") papered over that issue, but
in doing so introduced an unsolvable teardown conundrum.  Preventing
accesses to vCPU0 before it's fully online will allow reverting commit
afb2acb2e3a3, without re-introducing the vcpu_array[0] UAF race.

Fixes: 1d487e9bf8ba ("KVM: fix spectrev1 gadgets")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Luczaj &lt;mhal@rbox.co&gt;
Reviewed-by: Pankaj Gupta &lt;pankaj.gupta@amd.com&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241009150455.1057573-2-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 1e7381f3617d14b3c11da80ff5f8a93ab14cfc46 upstream.

Explicitly verify the target vCPU is fully online _prior_ to clamping the
index in kvm_get_vcpu().  If the index is "bad", the nospec clamping will
generate '0', i.e. KVM will return vCPU0 instead of NULL.

In practice, the bug is unlikely to cause problems, as it will only come
into play if userspace or the guest is buggy or misbehaving, e.g. KVM may
send interrupts to vCPU0 instead of dropping them on the floor.

However, returning vCPU0 when it shouldn't exist per online_vcpus is
problematic now that KVM uses an xarray for the vCPUs array, as KVM needs
to insert into the xarray before publishing the vCPU to userspace (see
commit c5b077549136 ("KVM: Convert the kvm-&gt;vcpus array to a xarray")),
i.e. before vCPU creation is guaranteed to succeed.

As a result, incorrectly providing access to vCPU0 will trigger a
use-after-free if vCPU0 is dereferenced and kvm_vm_ioctl_create_vcpu()
bails out of vCPU creation due to an error and frees vCPU0.  Commit
afb2acb2e3a3 ("KVM: Fix vcpu_array[0] races") papered over that issue, but
in doing so introduced an unsolvable teardown conundrum.  Preventing
accesses to vCPU0 before it's fully online will allow reverting commit
afb2acb2e3a3, without re-introducing the vcpu_array[0] UAF race.

Fixes: 1d487e9bf8ba ("KVM: fix spectrev1 gadgets")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Luczaj &lt;mhal@rbox.co&gt;
Reviewed-by: Pankaj Gupta &lt;pankaj.gupta@amd.com&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241009150455.1057573-2-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: Add support for arch compat vm ioctls</title>
<updated>2022-10-29T08:12:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Graf</name>
<email>graf@amazon.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-17T18:45:39+00:00</published>
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commit ed51862f2f57cbce6fed2d4278cfe70a490899fd upstream.

We will introduce the first architecture specific compat vm ioctl in the
next patch. Add all necessary boilerplate to allow architectures to
override compat vm ioctls when necessary.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf &lt;graf@amazon.com&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;20221017184541.2658-2-graf@amazon.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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 ed51862f2f57cbce6fed2d4278cfe70a490899fd upstream.

We will introduce the first architecture specific compat vm ioctl in the
next patch. Add all necessary boilerplate to allow architectures to
override compat vm ioctls when necessary.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf &lt;graf@amazon.com&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;20221017184541.2658-2-graf@amazon.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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>
<entry>
<title>KVM: SEV: add cache flush to solve SEV cache incoherency issues</title>
<updated>2022-09-23T12:15:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mingwei Zhang</name>
<email>mizhang@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-04-21T03:14:07+00:00</published>
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commit 683412ccf61294d727ead4a73d97397396e69a6b upstream.

Flush the CPU caches when memory is reclaimed from an SEV guest (where
reclaim also includes it being unmapped from KVM's memslots).  Due to lack
of coherency for SEV encrypted memory, failure to flush results in silent
data corruption if userspace is malicious/broken and doesn't ensure SEV
guest memory is properly pinned and unpinned.

Cache coherency is not enforced across the VM boundary in SEV (AMD APM
vol.2 Section 15.34.7). Confidential cachelines, generated by confidential
VM guests have to be explicitly flushed on the host side. If a memory page
containing dirty confidential cachelines was released by VM and reallocated
to another user, the cachelines may corrupt the new user at a later time.

KVM takes a shortcut by assuming all confidential memory remain pinned
until the end of VM lifetime. Therefore, KVM does not flush cache at
mmu_notifier invalidation events. Because of this incorrect assumption and
the lack of cache flushing, malicous userspace can crash the host kernel:
creating a malicious VM and continuously allocates/releases unpinned
confidential memory pages when the VM is running.

Add cache flush operations to mmu_notifier operations to ensure that any
physical memory leaving the guest VM get flushed. In particular, hook
mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start and mmu_notifier_release events and
flush cache accordingly. The hook after releasing the mmu lock to avoid
contention with other vCPUs.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Suggested-by: Sean Christpherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: Mingwei Zhang &lt;mizhang@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mingwei Zhang &lt;mizhang@google.com&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;20220421031407.2516575-4-mizhang@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
[OP: adjusted KVM_X86_OP_OPTIONAL() -&gt; KVM_X86_OP_NULL, applied
kvm_arch_guest_memory_reclaimed() call in kvm_set_memslot()]
Signed-off-by: Ovidiu Panait &lt;ovidiu.panait@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 683412ccf61294d727ead4a73d97397396e69a6b upstream.

Flush the CPU caches when memory is reclaimed from an SEV guest (where
reclaim also includes it being unmapped from KVM's memslots).  Due to lack
of coherency for SEV encrypted memory, failure to flush results in silent
data corruption if userspace is malicious/broken and doesn't ensure SEV
guest memory is properly pinned and unpinned.

Cache coherency is not enforced across the VM boundary in SEV (AMD APM
vol.2 Section 15.34.7). Confidential cachelines, generated by confidential
VM guests have to be explicitly flushed on the host side. If a memory page
containing dirty confidential cachelines was released by VM and reallocated
to another user, the cachelines may corrupt the new user at a later time.

KVM takes a shortcut by assuming all confidential memory remain pinned
until the end of VM lifetime. Therefore, KVM does not flush cache at
mmu_notifier invalidation events. Because of this incorrect assumption and
the lack of cache flushing, malicous userspace can crash the host kernel:
creating a malicious VM and continuously allocates/releases unpinned
confidential memory pages when the VM is running.

Add cache flush operations to mmu_notifier operations to ensure that any
physical memory leaving the guest VM get flushed. In particular, hook
mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start and mmu_notifier_release events and
flush cache accordingly. The hook after releasing the mmu lock to avoid
contention with other vCPUs.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Suggested-by: Sean Christpherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: Mingwei Zhang &lt;mizhang@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mingwei Zhang &lt;mizhang@google.com&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;20220421031407.2516575-4-mizhang@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
[OP: adjusted KVM_X86_OP_OPTIONAL() -&gt; KVM_X86_OP_NULL, applied
kvm_arch_guest_memory_reclaimed() call in kvm_set_memslot()]
Signed-off-by: Ovidiu Panait &lt;ovidiu.panait@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>lockdep: Fix -Wunused-parameter for _THIS_IP_</title>
<updated>2022-09-20T10:39:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nick Desaulniers</name>
<email>ndesaulniers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-03-14T22:19:03+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 8b023accc8df70e72f7704d29fead7ca914d6837 ]

While looking into a bug related to the compiler's handling of addresses
of labels, I noticed some uses of _THIS_IP_ seemed unused in lockdep.
Drive by cleanup.

-Wunused-parameter:
kernel/locking/lockdep.c:1383:22: warning: unused parameter 'ip'
kernel/locking/lockdep.c:4246:48: warning: unused parameter 'ip'
kernel/locking/lockdep.c:4844:19: warning: unused parameter 'ip'

Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Waiman Long &lt;longman@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220314221909.2027027-1-ndesaulniers@google.com
Stable-dep-of: 54c3931957f6 ("tracing: hold caller_addr to hardirq_{enable,disable}_ip")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 8b023accc8df70e72f7704d29fead7ca914d6837 ]

While looking into a bug related to the compiler's handling of addresses
of labels, I noticed some uses of _THIS_IP_ seemed unused in lockdep.
Drive by cleanup.

-Wunused-parameter:
kernel/locking/lockdep.c:1383:22: warning: unused parameter 'ip'
kernel/locking/lockdep.c:4246:48: warning: unused parameter 'ip'
kernel/locking/lockdep.c:4844:19: warning: unused parameter 'ip'

Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Waiman Long &lt;longman@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220314221909.2027027-1-ndesaulniers@google.com
Stable-dep-of: 54c3931957f6 ("tracing: hold caller_addr to hardirq_{enable,disable}_ip")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/kvm/vmx: Make noinstr clean</title>
<updated>2022-07-23T10:53:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-06-14T21:15:32+00:00</published>
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commit 742ab6df974ae8384a2dd213db1a3a06cf6d8936 upstream.

The recent mmio_stale_data fixes broke the noinstr constraints:

  vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: vmx_vcpu_enter_exit+0x15b: call to wrmsrl.constprop.0() leaves .noinstr.text section
  vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: vmx_vcpu_enter_exit+0x1bf: call to kvm_arch_has_assigned_device() leaves .noinstr.text section

make it all happy again.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo &lt;cascardo@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 742ab6df974ae8384a2dd213db1a3a06cf6d8936 upstream.

The recent mmio_stale_data fixes broke the noinstr constraints:

  vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: vmx_vcpu_enter_exit+0x15b: call to wrmsrl.constprop.0() leaves .noinstr.text section
  vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: vmx_vcpu_enter_exit+0x1bf: call to kvm_arch_has_assigned_device() leaves .noinstr.text section

make it all happy again.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo &lt;cascardo@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>kvm: add guest_state_{enter,exit}_irqoff()</title>
<updated>2022-02-08T17:34:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
<email>mark.rutland@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-02-01T13:29:22+00:00</published>
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commit ef9989afda73332df566852d6e9ca695c05f10ce upstream.

When transitioning to/from guest mode, it is necessary to inform
lockdep, tracing, and RCU in a specific order, similar to the
requirements for transitions to/from user mode. Additionally, it is
necessary to perform vtime accounting for a window around running the
guest, with RCU enabled, such that timer interrupts taken from the guest
can be accounted as guest time.

Most architectures don't handle all the necessary pieces, and a have a
number of common bugs, including unsafe usage of RCU during the window
between guest_enter() and guest_exit().

On x86, this was dealt with across commits:

  87fa7f3e98a1310e ("x86/kvm: Move context tracking where it belongs")
  0642391e2139a2c1 ("x86/kvm/vmx: Add hardirq tracing to guest enter/exit")
  9fc975e9efd03e57 ("x86/kvm/svm: Add hardirq tracing on guest enter/exit")
  3ebccdf373c21d86 ("x86/kvm/vmx: Move guest enter/exit into .noinstr.text")
  135961e0a7d555fc ("x86/kvm/svm: Move guest enter/exit into .noinstr.text")
  160457140187c5fb ("KVM: x86: Defer vtime accounting 'til after IRQ handling")
  bc908e091b326467 ("KVM: x86: Consolidate guest enter/exit logic to common helpers")

... but those fixes are specific to x86, and as the resulting logic
(while correct) is split across generic helper functions and
x86-specific helper functions, it is difficult to see that the
entry/exit accounting is balanced.

This patch adds generic helpers which architectures can use to handle
guest entry/exit consistently and correctly. The guest_{enter,exit}()
helpers are split into guest_timing_{enter,exit}() to perform vtime
accounting, and guest_context_{enter,exit}() to perform the necessary
context tracking and RCU management. The existing guest_{enter,exit}()
heleprs are left as wrappers of these.

Atop this, new guest_state_enter_irqoff() and guest_state_exit_irqoff()
helpers are added to handle the ordering of lockdep, tracing, and RCU
manageent. These are inteneded to mirror exit_to_user_mode() and
enter_from_user_mode().

Subsequent patches will migrate architectures over to the new helpers,
following a sequence:

	guest_timing_enter_irqoff();

	guest_state_enter_irqoff();
	&lt; run the vcpu &gt;
	guest_state_exit_irqoff();

	&lt; take any pending IRQs &gt;

	guest_timing_exit_irqoff();

This sequences handles all of the above correctly, and more clearly
balances the entry and exit portions, making it easier to understand.

The existing helpers are marked as deprecated, and will be removed once
all architectures have been converted.

There should be no functional change as a result of this patch.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne &lt;nsaenzju@redhat.com&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;20220201132926.3301912-2-mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
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 ef9989afda73332df566852d6e9ca695c05f10ce upstream.

When transitioning to/from guest mode, it is necessary to inform
lockdep, tracing, and RCU in a specific order, similar to the
requirements for transitions to/from user mode. Additionally, it is
necessary to perform vtime accounting for a window around running the
guest, with RCU enabled, such that timer interrupts taken from the guest
can be accounted as guest time.

Most architectures don't handle all the necessary pieces, and a have a
number of common bugs, including unsafe usage of RCU during the window
between guest_enter() and guest_exit().

On x86, this was dealt with across commits:

  87fa7f3e98a1310e ("x86/kvm: Move context tracking where it belongs")
  0642391e2139a2c1 ("x86/kvm/vmx: Add hardirq tracing to guest enter/exit")
  9fc975e9efd03e57 ("x86/kvm/svm: Add hardirq tracing on guest enter/exit")
  3ebccdf373c21d86 ("x86/kvm/vmx: Move guest enter/exit into .noinstr.text")
  135961e0a7d555fc ("x86/kvm/svm: Move guest enter/exit into .noinstr.text")
  160457140187c5fb ("KVM: x86: Defer vtime accounting 'til after IRQ handling")
  bc908e091b326467 ("KVM: x86: Consolidate guest enter/exit logic to common helpers")

... but those fixes are specific to x86, and as the resulting logic
(while correct) is split across generic helper functions and
x86-specific helper functions, it is difficult to see that the
entry/exit accounting is balanced.

This patch adds generic helpers which architectures can use to handle
guest entry/exit consistently and correctly. The guest_{enter,exit}()
helpers are split into guest_timing_{enter,exit}() to perform vtime
accounting, and guest_context_{enter,exit}() to perform the necessary
context tracking and RCU management. The existing guest_{enter,exit}()
heleprs are left as wrappers of these.

Atop this, new guest_state_enter_irqoff() and guest_state_exit_irqoff()
helpers are added to handle the ordering of lockdep, tracing, and RCU
manageent. These are inteneded to mirror exit_to_user_mode() and
enter_from_user_mode().

Subsequent patches will migrate architectures over to the new helpers,
following a sequence:

	guest_timing_enter_irqoff();

	guest_state_enter_irqoff();
	&lt; run the vcpu &gt;
	guest_state_exit_irqoff();

	&lt; take any pending IRQs &gt;

	guest_timing_exit_irqoff();

This sequences handles all of the above correctly, and more clearly
balances the entry and exit portions, making it easier to understand.

The existing helpers are marked as deprecated, and will be removed once
all architectures have been converted.

There should be no functional change as a result of this patch.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne &lt;nsaenzju@redhat.com&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;20220201132926.3301912-2-mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
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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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: Remove tlbs_dirty</title>
<updated>2021-09-23T15:01:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lai Jiangshan</name>
<email>laijs@linux.alibaba.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-09-18T00:56:29+00:00</published>
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There is no user of tlbs_dirty.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan &lt;laijs@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;20210918005636.3675-4-jiangshanlai@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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There is no user of tlbs_dirty.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan &lt;laijs@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;20210918005636.3675-4-jiangshanlai@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: x86: Query vcpu-&gt;vcpu_idx directly and drop its accessor</title>
<updated>2021-09-22T14:33:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sean Christopherson</name>
<email>seanjc@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-09-10T18:32:19+00:00</published>
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Read vcpu-&gt;vcpu_idx directly instead of bouncing through the one-line
wrapper, kvm_vcpu_get_idx(), and drop the wrapper.  The wrapper is a
remnant of the original implementation and serves no purpose; remove it
before it gains more users.

Back when kvm_vcpu_get_idx() was added by commit 497d72d80a78 ("KVM: Add
kvm_vcpu_get_idx to get vcpu index in kvm-&gt;vcpus"), the implementation
was more than just a simple wrapper as vcpu-&gt;vcpu_idx did not exist and
retrieving the index meant walking over the vCPU array to find the given
vCPU.

When vcpu_idx was introduced by commit 8750e72a79dd ("KVM: remember
position in kvm-&gt;vcpus array"), the helper was left behind, likely to
avoid extra thrash (but even then there were only two users, the original
arm usage having been removed at some point in the past).

No functional change intended.

Suggested-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov &lt;vkuznets@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Maxim Levitsky &lt;mlevitsk@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov &lt;vkuznets@redhat.com&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;20210910183220.2397812-2-seanjc@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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Read vcpu-&gt;vcpu_idx directly instead of bouncing through the one-line
wrapper, kvm_vcpu_get_idx(), and drop the wrapper.  The wrapper is a
remnant of the original implementation and serves no purpose; remove it
before it gains more users.

Back when kvm_vcpu_get_idx() was added by commit 497d72d80a78 ("KVM: Add
kvm_vcpu_get_idx to get vcpu index in kvm-&gt;vcpus"), the implementation
was more than just a simple wrapper as vcpu-&gt;vcpu_idx did not exist and
retrieving the index meant walking over the vCPU array to find the given
vCPU.

When vcpu_idx was introduced by commit 8750e72a79dd ("KVM: remember
position in kvm-&gt;vcpus array"), the helper was left behind, likely to
avoid extra thrash (but even then there were only two users, the original
arm usage having been removed at some point in the past).

No functional change intended.

Suggested-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov &lt;vkuznets@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Maxim Levitsky &lt;mlevitsk@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov &lt;vkuznets@redhat.com&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;20210910183220.2397812-2-seanjc@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'kvmarm-5.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvmarm/kvmarm into HEAD</title>
<updated>2021-09-06T10:34:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Bonzini</name>
<email>pbonzini@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-09-06T10:34:11+00:00</published>
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KVM/arm64 updates for 5.15

- Page ownership tracking between host EL1 and EL2

- Rely on userspace page tables to create large stage-2 mappings

- Fix incompatibility between pKVM and kmemleak

- Fix the PMU reset state, and improve the performance of the virtual PMU

- Move over to the generic KVM entry code

- Address PSCI reset issues w.r.t. save/restore

- Preliminary rework for the upcoming pKVM fixed feature

- A bunch of MM cleanups

- a vGIC fix for timer spurious interrupts

- Various cleanups
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KVM/arm64 updates for 5.15

- Page ownership tracking between host EL1 and EL2

- Rely on userspace page tables to create large stage-2 mappings

- Fix incompatibility between pKVM and kmemleak

- Fix the PMU reset state, and improve the performance of the virtual PMU

- Move over to the generic KVM entry code

- Address PSCI reset issues w.r.t. save/restore

- Preliminary rework for the upcoming pKVM fixed feature

- A bunch of MM cleanups

- a vGIC fix for timer spurious interrupts

- Various cleanups
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