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<title>x86/efistub: Add missing boot_params for mixed mode compat entry</title>
<updated>2024-03-26T07:45:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ardb@kernel.org</email>
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<published>2024-03-24T16:10:53+00:00</published>
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The pure EFI stub entry point does not take a struct boot_params from
the boot loader, but creates it from scratch, and populates only the
fields that still have meaning in this context (command line, initrd
base and size, etc)

The original mixed mode implementation used the EFI handover protocol
instead, where the boot loader (i.e., GRUB) populates a boot_params
struct and passes it to a special Linux specific EFI entry point that
takes the boot_params pointer as its third argument.

When the new mixed mode implementation was introduced, using a special
32-bit PE entrypoint in the 64-bit kernel, it adopted the pure approach,
and relied on the EFI stub to create the struct boot_params.  This is
preferred because it makes the bootloader side much easier to implement,
as it does not need any x86-specific knowledge on how struct boot_params
and struct setup_header are put together. This mixed mode implementation
was adopted by systemd-boot version 252 and later.

When commit

  e2ab9eab324c ("x86/boot/compressed: Move 32-bit entrypoint code into .text section")

refactored this code and moved it out of head_64.S, the fact that ESI
was populated with the address of the base of the image was overlooked,
and to simplify the code flow, ESI is now zeroed and stored to memory
unconditionally in shared code, so that the NULL-ness of that variable
can still be used later to determine which mixed mode boot protocol is
in use.

With ESI pointing to the base of the image, it can serve as a struct
boot_params pointer for startup_32(), which only accesses the init_data
and kernel_alignment fields (and the scratch field as a temporary
stack). Zeroing ESI means that those accesses produce garbage now, even
though things appear to work if the first page of memory happens to be
zeroed, and the region right before LOAD_PHYSICAL_ADDR (== 16 MiB)
happens to be free.

The solution is to pass a special, temporary struct boot_params to
startup_32() via ESI, one that is sufficient for getting it to create
the page tables correctly and is discarded right after. This involves
setting a minimal alignment of 4k, only to get the statically allocated
page tables line up correctly, and setting init_size to the executable
image size (_end - startup_32). This ensures that the page tables are
covered by the static footprint of the PE image.

Given that EFI boot no longer calls the decompressor and no longer pads
the image to permit the decompressor to execute in place, the same
temporary struct boot_params should be used in the EFI handover protocol
based mixed mode implementation as well, to prevent the page tables from
being placed outside of allocated memory.

Fixes: e2ab9eab324c ("x86/boot/compressed: Move 32-bit entrypoint code into .text section")
Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt; # v6.1+
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240321150510.GI8211@craftyguy.net/
Reported-by: Clayton Craft &lt;clayton@craftyguy.net&gt;
Tested-by: Clayton Craft &lt;clayton@craftyguy.net&gt;
Tested-by: Hans de Goede &lt;hdegoede@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
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The pure EFI stub entry point does not take a struct boot_params from
the boot loader, but creates it from scratch, and populates only the
fields that still have meaning in this context (command line, initrd
base and size, etc)

The original mixed mode implementation used the EFI handover protocol
instead, where the boot loader (i.e., GRUB) populates a boot_params
struct and passes it to a special Linux specific EFI entry point that
takes the boot_params pointer as its third argument.

When the new mixed mode implementation was introduced, using a special
32-bit PE entrypoint in the 64-bit kernel, it adopted the pure approach,
and relied on the EFI stub to create the struct boot_params.  This is
preferred because it makes the bootloader side much easier to implement,
as it does not need any x86-specific knowledge on how struct boot_params
and struct setup_header are put together. This mixed mode implementation
was adopted by systemd-boot version 252 and later.

When commit

  e2ab9eab324c ("x86/boot/compressed: Move 32-bit entrypoint code into .text section")

refactored this code and moved it out of head_64.S, the fact that ESI
was populated with the address of the base of the image was overlooked,
and to simplify the code flow, ESI is now zeroed and stored to memory
unconditionally in shared code, so that the NULL-ness of that variable
can still be used later to determine which mixed mode boot protocol is
in use.

With ESI pointing to the base of the image, it can serve as a struct
boot_params pointer for startup_32(), which only accesses the init_data
and kernel_alignment fields (and the scratch field as a temporary
stack). Zeroing ESI means that those accesses produce garbage now, even
though things appear to work if the first page of memory happens to be
zeroed, and the region right before LOAD_PHYSICAL_ADDR (== 16 MiB)
happens to be free.

The solution is to pass a special, temporary struct boot_params to
startup_32() via ESI, one that is sufficient for getting it to create
the page tables correctly and is discarded right after. This involves
setting a minimal alignment of 4k, only to get the statically allocated
page tables line up correctly, and setting init_size to the executable
image size (_end - startup_32). This ensures that the page tables are
covered by the static footprint of the PE image.

Given that EFI boot no longer calls the decompressor and no longer pads
the image to permit the decompressor to execute in place, the same
temporary struct boot_params should be used in the EFI handover protocol
based mixed mode implementation as well, to prevent the page tables from
being placed outside of allocated memory.

Fixes: e2ab9eab324c ("x86/boot/compressed: Move 32-bit entrypoint code into .text section")
Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt; # v6.1+
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240321150510.GI8211@craftyguy.net/
Reported-by: Clayton Craft &lt;clayton@craftyguy.net&gt;
Tested-by: Clayton Craft &lt;clayton@craftyguy.net&gt;
Tested-by: Hans de Goede &lt;hdegoede@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'efi-fixes-for-v6.9-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/efi/efi</title>
<updated>2024-03-24T20:54:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-24T20:54:06+00:00</published>
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Pull EFI fixes from Ard Biesheuvel:

 - Fix logic that is supposed to prevent placement of the kernel image
   below LOAD_PHYSICAL_ADDR

 - Use the firmware stack in the EFI stub when running in mixed mode

 - Clear BSS only once when using mixed mode

 - Check efi.get_variable() function pointer for NULL before trying to
   call it

* tag 'efi-fixes-for-v6.9-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/efi/efi:
  efi: fix panic in kdump kernel
  x86/efistub: Don't clear BSS twice in mixed mode
  x86/efistub: Call mixed mode boot services on the firmware's stack
  efi/libstub: fix efi_random_alloc() to allocate memory at alloc_min or higher address
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Pull EFI fixes from Ard Biesheuvel:

 - Fix logic that is supposed to prevent placement of the kernel image
   below LOAD_PHYSICAL_ADDR

 - Use the firmware stack in the EFI stub when running in mixed mode

 - Clear BSS only once when using mixed mode

 - Check efi.get_variable() function pointer for NULL before trying to
   call it

* tag 'efi-fixes-for-v6.9-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/efi/efi:
  efi: fix panic in kdump kernel
  x86/efistub: Don't clear BSS twice in mixed mode
  x86/efistub: Call mixed mode boot services on the firmware's stack
  efi/libstub: fix efi_random_alloc() to allocate memory at alloc_min or higher address
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<entry>
<title>x86/efistub: Call mixed mode boot services on the firmware's stack</title>
<updated>2024-03-24T08:28:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ardb@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-22T15:03:58+00:00</published>
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Normally, the EFI stub calls into the EFI boot services using the stack
that was live when the stub was entered. According to the UEFI spec,
this stack needs to be at least 128k in size - this might seem large but
all asynchronous processing and event handling in EFI runs from the same
stack and so quite a lot of space may be used in practice.

In mixed mode, the situation is a bit different: the bootloader calls
the 32-bit EFI stub entry point, which calls the decompressor's 32-bit
entry point, where the boot stack is set up, using a fixed allocation
of 16k. This stack is still in use when the EFI stub is started in
64-bit mode, and so all calls back into the EFI firmware will be using
the decompressor's limited boot stack.

Due to the placement of the boot stack right after the boot heap, any
stack overruns have gone unnoticed. However, commit

  5c4feadb0011983b ("x86/decompressor: Move global symbol references to C code")

moved the definition of the boot heap into C code, and now the boot
stack is placed right at the base of BSS, where any overruns will
corrupt the end of the .data section.

While it would be possible to work around this by increasing the size of
the boot stack, doing so would affect all x86 systems, and mixed mode
systems are a tiny (and shrinking) fraction of the x86 installed base.

So instead, record the firmware stack pointer value when entering from
the 32-bit firmware, and switch to this stack every time a EFI boot
service call is made.

Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt; # v6.1+
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
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Normally, the EFI stub calls into the EFI boot services using the stack
that was live when the stub was entered. According to the UEFI spec,
this stack needs to be at least 128k in size - this might seem large but
all asynchronous processing and event handling in EFI runs from the same
stack and so quite a lot of space may be used in practice.

In mixed mode, the situation is a bit different: the bootloader calls
the 32-bit EFI stub entry point, which calls the decompressor's 32-bit
entry point, where the boot stack is set up, using a fixed allocation
of 16k. This stack is still in use when the EFI stub is started in
64-bit mode, and so all calls back into the EFI firmware will be using
the decompressor's limited boot stack.

Due to the placement of the boot stack right after the boot heap, any
stack overruns have gone unnoticed. However, commit

  5c4feadb0011983b ("x86/decompressor: Move global symbol references to C code")

moved the definition of the boot heap into C code, and now the boot
stack is placed right at the base of BSS, where any overruns will
corrupt the end of the .data section.

While it would be possible to work around this by increasing the size of
the boot stack, doing so would affect all x86 systems, and mixed mode
systems are a tiny (and shrinking) fraction of the x86 installed base.

So instead, record the firmware stack pointer value when entering from
the 32-bit firmware, and switch to this stack every time a EFI boot
service call is made.

Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt; # v6.1+
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mm-stable-2024-03-13-20-04' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2024-03-15T00:43:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-15T00:43:30+00:00</published>
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - Sumanth Korikkar has taught s390 to allocate hotplug-time page frames
   from hotplugged memory rather than only from main memory. Series
   "implement "memmap on memory" feature on s390".

 - More folio conversions from Matthew Wilcox in the series

	"Convert memcontrol charge moving to use folios"
	"mm: convert mm counter to take a folio"

 - Chengming Zhou has optimized zswap's rbtree locking, providing
   significant reductions in system time and modest but measurable
   reductions in overall runtimes. The series is "mm/zswap: optimize the
   scalability of zswap rb-tree".

 - Chengming Zhou has also provided the series "mm/zswap: optimize zswap
   lru list" which provides measurable runtime benefits in some
   swap-intensive situations.

 - And Chengming Zhou further optimizes zswap in the series "mm/zswap:
   optimize for dynamic zswap_pools". Measured improvements are modest.

 - zswap cleanups and simplifications from Yosry Ahmed in the series
   "mm: zswap: simplify zswap_swapoff()".

 - In the series "Add DAX ABI for memmap_on_memory", Vishal Verma has
   contributed several DAX cleanups as well as adding a sysfs tunable to
   control the memmap_on_memory setting when the dax device is
   hotplugged as system memory.

 - Johannes Weiner has added the large series "mm: zswap: cleanups",
   which does that.

 - More DAMON work from SeongJae Park in the series

	"mm/damon: make DAMON debugfs interface deprecation unignorable"
	"selftests/damon: add more tests for core functionalities and corner cases"
	"Docs/mm/damon: misc readability improvements"
	"mm/damon: let DAMOS feeds and tame/auto-tune itself"

 - In the series "mm/mempolicy: weighted interleave mempolicy and sysfs
   extension" Rakie Kim has developed a new mempolicy interleaving
   policy wherein we allocate memory across nodes in a weighted fashion
   rather than uniformly. This is beneficial in heterogeneous memory
   environments appearing with CXL.

 - Christophe Leroy has contributed some cleanup and consolidation work
   against the ARM pagetable dumping code in the series "mm: ptdump:
   Refactor CONFIG_DEBUG_WX and check_wx_pages debugfs attribute".

 - Luis Chamberlain has added some additional xarray selftesting in the
   series "test_xarray: advanced API multi-index tests".

 - Muhammad Usama Anjum has reworked the selftest code to make its
   human-readable output conform to the TAP ("Test Anything Protocol")
   format. Amongst other things, this opens up the use of third-party
   tools to parse and process out selftesting results.

 - Ryan Roberts has added fork()-time PTE batching of THP ptes in the
   series "mm/memory: optimize fork() with PTE-mapped THP". Mainly
   targeted at arm64, this significantly speeds up fork() when the
   process has a large number of pte-mapped folios.

 - David Hildenbrand also gets in on the THP pte batching game in his
   series "mm/memory: optimize unmap/zap with PTE-mapped THP". It
   implements batching during munmap() and other pte teardown
   situations. The microbenchmark improvements are nice.

 - And in the series "Transparent Contiguous PTEs for User Mappings"
   Ryan Roberts further utilizes arm's pte's contiguous bit ("contpte
   mappings"). Kernel build times on arm64 improved nicely. Ryan's
   series "Address some contpte nits" provides some followup work.

 - In the series "mm/hugetlb: Restore the reservation" Breno Leitao has
   fixed an obscure hugetlb race which was causing unnecessary page
   faults. He has also added a reproducer under the selftest code.

 - In the series "selftests/mm: Output cleanups for the compaction
   test", Mark Brown did what the title claims.

 - Kinsey Ho has added the series "mm/mglru: code cleanup and
   refactoring".

 - Even more zswap material from Nhat Pham. The series "fix and extend
   zswap kselftests" does as claimed.

 - In the series "Introduce cpu_dcache_is_aliasing() to fix DAX
   regression" Mathieu Desnoyers has cleaned up and fixed rather a mess
   in our handling of DAX on archiecctures which have virtually aliasing
   data caches. The arm architecture is the main beneficiary.

 - Lokesh Gidra's series "per-vma locks in userfaultfd" provides
   dramatic improvements in worst-case mmap_lock hold times during
   certain userfaultfd operations.

 - Some page_owner enhancements and maintenance work from Oscar Salvador
   in his series

	"page_owner: print stacks and their outstanding allocations"
	"page_owner: Fixup and cleanup"

 - Uladzislau Rezki has contributed some vmalloc scalability
   improvements in his series "Mitigate a vmap lock contention". It
   realizes a 12x improvement for a certain microbenchmark.

 - Some kexec/crash cleanup work from Baoquan He in the series "Split
   crash out from kexec and clean up related config items".

 - Some zsmalloc maintenance work from Chengming Zhou in the series

	"mm/zsmalloc: fix and optimize objects/page migration"
	"mm/zsmalloc: some cleanup for get/set_zspage_mapping()"

 - Zi Yan has taught the MM to perform compaction on folios larger than
   order=0. This a step along the path to implementaton of the merging
   of large anonymous folios. The series is named "Enable &gt;0 order folio
   memory compaction".

 - Christoph Hellwig has done quite a lot of cleanup work in the
   pagecache writeback code in his series "convert write_cache_pages()
   to an iterator".

 - Some modest hugetlb cleanups and speedups in Vishal Moola's series
   "Handle hugetlb faults under the VMA lock".

 - Zi Yan has changed the page splitting code so we can split huge pages
   into sizes other than order-0 to better utilize large folios. The
   series is named "Split a folio to any lower order folios".

 - David Hildenbrand has contributed the series "mm: remove
   total_mapcount()", a cleanup.

 - Matthew Wilcox has sought to improve the performance of bulk memory
   freeing in his series "Rearrange batched folio freeing".

 - Gang Li's series "hugetlb: parallelize hugetlb page init on boot"
   provides large improvements in bootup times on large machines which
   are configured to use large numbers of hugetlb pages.

 - Matthew Wilcox's series "PageFlags cleanups" does that.

 - Qi Zheng's series "minor fixes and supplement for ptdesc" does that
   also. S390 is affected.

 - Cleanups to our pagemap utility functions from Peter Xu in his series
   "mm/treewide: Replace pXd_large() with pXd_leaf()".

 - Nico Pache has fixed a few things with our hugepage selftests in his
   series "selftests/mm: Improve Hugepage Test Handling in MM
   Selftests".

 - Also, of course, many singleton patches to many things. Please see
   the individual changelogs for details.

* tag 'mm-stable-2024-03-13-20-04' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (435 commits)
  mm/zswap: remove the memcpy if acomp is not sleepable
  crypto: introduce: acomp_is_async to expose if comp drivers might sleep
  memtest: use {READ,WRITE}_ONCE in memory scanning
  mm: prohibit the last subpage from reusing the entire large folio
  mm: recover pud_leaf() definitions in nopmd case
  selftests/mm: skip the hugetlb-madvise tests on unmet hugepage requirements
  selftests/mm: skip uffd hugetlb tests with insufficient hugepages
  selftests/mm: dont fail testsuite due to a lack of hugepages
  mm/huge_memory: skip invalid debugfs new_order input for folio split
  mm/huge_memory: check new folio order when split a folio
  mm, vmscan: retry kswapd's priority loop with cache_trim_mode off on failure
  mm: add an explicit smp_wmb() to UFFDIO_CONTINUE
  mm: fix list corruption in put_pages_list
  mm: remove folio from deferred split list before uncharging it
  filemap: avoid unnecessary major faults in filemap_fault()
  mm,page_owner: drop unnecessary check
  mm,page_owner: check for null stack_record before bumping its refcount
  mm: swap: fix race between free_swap_and_cache() and swapoff()
  mm/treewide: align up pXd_leaf() retval across archs
  mm/treewide: drop pXd_large()
  ...
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - Sumanth Korikkar has taught s390 to allocate hotplug-time page frames
   from hotplugged memory rather than only from main memory. Series
   "implement "memmap on memory" feature on s390".

 - More folio conversions from Matthew Wilcox in the series

	"Convert memcontrol charge moving to use folios"
	"mm: convert mm counter to take a folio"

 - Chengming Zhou has optimized zswap's rbtree locking, providing
   significant reductions in system time and modest but measurable
   reductions in overall runtimes. The series is "mm/zswap: optimize the
   scalability of zswap rb-tree".

 - Chengming Zhou has also provided the series "mm/zswap: optimize zswap
   lru list" which provides measurable runtime benefits in some
   swap-intensive situations.

 - And Chengming Zhou further optimizes zswap in the series "mm/zswap:
   optimize for dynamic zswap_pools". Measured improvements are modest.

 - zswap cleanups and simplifications from Yosry Ahmed in the series
   "mm: zswap: simplify zswap_swapoff()".

 - In the series "Add DAX ABI for memmap_on_memory", Vishal Verma has
   contributed several DAX cleanups as well as adding a sysfs tunable to
   control the memmap_on_memory setting when the dax device is
   hotplugged as system memory.

 - Johannes Weiner has added the large series "mm: zswap: cleanups",
   which does that.

 - More DAMON work from SeongJae Park in the series

	"mm/damon: make DAMON debugfs interface deprecation unignorable"
	"selftests/damon: add more tests for core functionalities and corner cases"
	"Docs/mm/damon: misc readability improvements"
	"mm/damon: let DAMOS feeds and tame/auto-tune itself"

 - In the series "mm/mempolicy: weighted interleave mempolicy and sysfs
   extension" Rakie Kim has developed a new mempolicy interleaving
   policy wherein we allocate memory across nodes in a weighted fashion
   rather than uniformly. This is beneficial in heterogeneous memory
   environments appearing with CXL.

 - Christophe Leroy has contributed some cleanup and consolidation work
   against the ARM pagetable dumping code in the series "mm: ptdump:
   Refactor CONFIG_DEBUG_WX and check_wx_pages debugfs attribute".

 - Luis Chamberlain has added some additional xarray selftesting in the
   series "test_xarray: advanced API multi-index tests".

 - Muhammad Usama Anjum has reworked the selftest code to make its
   human-readable output conform to the TAP ("Test Anything Protocol")
   format. Amongst other things, this opens up the use of third-party
   tools to parse and process out selftesting results.

 - Ryan Roberts has added fork()-time PTE batching of THP ptes in the
   series "mm/memory: optimize fork() with PTE-mapped THP". Mainly
   targeted at arm64, this significantly speeds up fork() when the
   process has a large number of pte-mapped folios.

 - David Hildenbrand also gets in on the THP pte batching game in his
   series "mm/memory: optimize unmap/zap with PTE-mapped THP". It
   implements batching during munmap() and other pte teardown
   situations. The microbenchmark improvements are nice.

 - And in the series "Transparent Contiguous PTEs for User Mappings"
   Ryan Roberts further utilizes arm's pte's contiguous bit ("contpte
   mappings"). Kernel build times on arm64 improved nicely. Ryan's
   series "Address some contpte nits" provides some followup work.

 - In the series "mm/hugetlb: Restore the reservation" Breno Leitao has
   fixed an obscure hugetlb race which was causing unnecessary page
   faults. He has also added a reproducer under the selftest code.

 - In the series "selftests/mm: Output cleanups for the compaction
   test", Mark Brown did what the title claims.

 - Kinsey Ho has added the series "mm/mglru: code cleanup and
   refactoring".

 - Even more zswap material from Nhat Pham. The series "fix and extend
   zswap kselftests" does as claimed.

 - In the series "Introduce cpu_dcache_is_aliasing() to fix DAX
   regression" Mathieu Desnoyers has cleaned up and fixed rather a mess
   in our handling of DAX on archiecctures which have virtually aliasing
   data caches. The arm architecture is the main beneficiary.

 - Lokesh Gidra's series "per-vma locks in userfaultfd" provides
   dramatic improvements in worst-case mmap_lock hold times during
   certain userfaultfd operations.

 - Some page_owner enhancements and maintenance work from Oscar Salvador
   in his series

	"page_owner: print stacks and their outstanding allocations"
	"page_owner: Fixup and cleanup"

 - Uladzislau Rezki has contributed some vmalloc scalability
   improvements in his series "Mitigate a vmap lock contention". It
   realizes a 12x improvement for a certain microbenchmark.

 - Some kexec/crash cleanup work from Baoquan He in the series "Split
   crash out from kexec and clean up related config items".

 - Some zsmalloc maintenance work from Chengming Zhou in the series

	"mm/zsmalloc: fix and optimize objects/page migration"
	"mm/zsmalloc: some cleanup for get/set_zspage_mapping()"

 - Zi Yan has taught the MM to perform compaction on folios larger than
   order=0. This a step along the path to implementaton of the merging
   of large anonymous folios. The series is named "Enable &gt;0 order folio
   memory compaction".

 - Christoph Hellwig has done quite a lot of cleanup work in the
   pagecache writeback code in his series "convert write_cache_pages()
   to an iterator".

 - Some modest hugetlb cleanups and speedups in Vishal Moola's series
   "Handle hugetlb faults under the VMA lock".

 - Zi Yan has changed the page splitting code so we can split huge pages
   into sizes other than order-0 to better utilize large folios. The
   series is named "Split a folio to any lower order folios".

 - David Hildenbrand has contributed the series "mm: remove
   total_mapcount()", a cleanup.

 - Matthew Wilcox has sought to improve the performance of bulk memory
   freeing in his series "Rearrange batched folio freeing".

 - Gang Li's series "hugetlb: parallelize hugetlb page init on boot"
   provides large improvements in bootup times on large machines which
   are configured to use large numbers of hugetlb pages.

 - Matthew Wilcox's series "PageFlags cleanups" does that.

 - Qi Zheng's series "minor fixes and supplement for ptdesc" does that
   also. S390 is affected.

 - Cleanups to our pagemap utility functions from Peter Xu in his series
   "mm/treewide: Replace pXd_large() with pXd_leaf()".

 - Nico Pache has fixed a few things with our hugepage selftests in his
   series "selftests/mm: Improve Hugepage Test Handling in MM
   Selftests".

 - Also, of course, many singleton patches to many things. Please see
   the individual changelogs for details.

* tag 'mm-stable-2024-03-13-20-04' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (435 commits)
  mm/zswap: remove the memcpy if acomp is not sleepable
  crypto: introduce: acomp_is_async to expose if comp drivers might sleep
  memtest: use {READ,WRITE}_ONCE in memory scanning
  mm: prohibit the last subpage from reusing the entire large folio
  mm: recover pud_leaf() definitions in nopmd case
  selftests/mm: skip the hugetlb-madvise tests on unmet hugepage requirements
  selftests/mm: skip uffd hugetlb tests with insufficient hugepages
  selftests/mm: dont fail testsuite due to a lack of hugepages
  mm/huge_memory: skip invalid debugfs new_order input for folio split
  mm/huge_memory: check new folio order when split a folio
  mm, vmscan: retry kswapd's priority loop with cache_trim_mode off on failure
  mm: add an explicit smp_wmb() to UFFDIO_CONTINUE
  mm: fix list corruption in put_pages_list
  mm: remove folio from deferred split list before uncharging it
  filemap: avoid unnecessary major faults in filemap_fault()
  mm,page_owner: drop unnecessary check
  mm,page_owner: check for null stack_record before bumping its refcount
  mm: swap: fix race between free_swap_and_cache() and swapoff()
  mm/treewide: align up pXd_leaf() retval across archs
  mm/treewide: drop pXd_large()
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'efi-next-for-v6.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/efi/efi</title>
<updated>2024-03-13T19:37:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-13T19:37:41+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=70ef654469b371d0a71bcf967fa3dcbca05d4b25'/>
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Pull EFI updates from Ard Biesheuvel:

 - Measure initrd and command line using the CC protocol if the ordinary
   TCG2 protocol is not implemented, typically on TDX confidential VMs

 - Avoid creating mappings that are both writable and executable while
   running in the EFI boot services. This is a prerequisite for getting
   the x86 shim loader signed by MicroSoft again, which allows the
   distros to install on x86 PCs that ship with EFI secure boot enabled.

 - API update for struct platform_driver::remove()

* tag 'efi-next-for-v6.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/efi/efi:
  virt: efi_secret: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
  x86/efistub: Remap kernel text read-only before dropping NX attribute
  efi/libstub: Add get_event_log() support for CC platforms
  efi/libstub: Measure into CC protocol if TCG2 protocol is absent
  efi/libstub: Add Confidential Computing (CC) measurement typedefs
  efi/tpm: Use symbolic GUID name from spec for final events table
  efi/libstub: Use TPM event typedefs from the TCG PC Client spec
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<pre>
Pull EFI updates from Ard Biesheuvel:

 - Measure initrd and command line using the CC protocol if the ordinary
   TCG2 protocol is not implemented, typically on TDX confidential VMs

 - Avoid creating mappings that are both writable and executable while
   running in the EFI boot services. This is a prerequisite for getting
   the x86 shim loader signed by MicroSoft again, which allows the
   distros to install on x86 PCs that ship with EFI secure boot enabled.

 - API update for struct platform_driver::remove()

* tag 'efi-next-for-v6.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/efi/efi:
  virt: efi_secret: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
  x86/efistub: Remap kernel text read-only before dropping NX attribute
  efi/libstub: Add get_event_log() support for CC platforms
  efi/libstub: Measure into CC protocol if TCG2 protocol is absent
  efi/libstub: Add Confidential Computing (CC) measurement typedefs
  efi/tpm: Use symbolic GUID name from spec for final events table
  efi/libstub: Use TPM event typedefs from the TCG PC Client spec
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'hardening-v6.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux</title>
<updated>2024-03-12T21:49:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-12T21:49:30+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=216532e147b2fee6ee830f4a844bbc3cbb9137af'/>
<id>216532e147b2fee6ee830f4a844bbc3cbb9137af</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull hardening updates from Kees Cook:
 "As is pretty normal for this tree, there are changes all over the
  place, especially for small fixes, selftest improvements, and improved
  macro usability.

  Some header changes ended up landing via this tree as they depended on
  the string header cleanups. Also, a notable set of changes is the work
  for the reintroduction of the UBSAN signed integer overflow sanitizer
  so that we can continue to make improvements on the compiler side to
  make this sanitizer a more viable future security hardening option.

  Summary:

   - string.h and related header cleanups (Tanzir Hasan, Andy
     Shevchenko)

   - VMCI memcpy() usage and struct_size() cleanups (Vasiliy Kovalev,
     Harshit Mogalapalli)

   - selftests/powerpc: Fix load_unaligned_zeropad build failure
     (Michael Ellerman)

   - hardened Kconfig fragment updates (Marco Elver, Lukas Bulwahn)

   - Handle tail call optimization better in LKDTM (Douglas Anderson)

   - Use long form types in overflow.h (Andy Shevchenko)

   - Add flags param to string_get_size() (Andy Shevchenko)

   - Add Coccinelle script for potential struct_size() use (Jacob
     Keller)

   - Fix objtool corner case under KCFI (Josh Poimboeuf)

   - Drop 13 year old backward compat CAP_SYS_ADMIN check (Jingzi Meng)

   - Add str_plural() helper (Michal Wajdeczko, Kees Cook)

   - Ignore relocations in .notes section

   - Add comments to explain how __is_constexpr() works

   - Fix m68k stack alignment expectations in stackinit Kunit test

   - Convert string selftests to KUnit

   - Add KUnit tests for fortified string functions

   - Improve reporting during fortified string warnings

   - Allow non-type arg to type_max() and type_min()

   - Allow strscpy() to be called with only 2 arguments

   - Add binary mode to leaking_addresses scanner

   - Various small cleanups to leaking_addresses scanner

   - Adding wrapping_*() arithmetic helper

   - Annotate initial signed integer wrap-around in refcount_t

   - Add explicit UBSAN section to MAINTAINERS

   - Fix UBSAN self-test warnings

   - Simplify UBSAN build via removal of CONFIG_UBSAN_SANITIZE_ALL

   - Reintroduce UBSAN's signed overflow sanitizer"

* tag 'hardening-v6.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux: (51 commits)
  selftests/powerpc: Fix load_unaligned_zeropad build failure
  string: Convert helpers selftest to KUnit
  string: Convert selftest to KUnit
  sh: Fix build with CONFIG_UBSAN=y
  compiler.h: Explain how __is_constexpr() works
  overflow: Allow non-type arg to type_max() and type_min()
  VMCI: Fix possible memcpy() run-time warning in vmci_datagram_invoke_guest_handler()
  lib/string_helpers: Add flags param to string_get_size()
  x86, relocs: Ignore relocations in .notes section
  objtool: Fix UNWIND_HINT_{SAVE,RESTORE} across basic blocks
  overflow: Use POD in check_shl_overflow()
  lib: stackinit: Adjust target string to 8 bytes for m68k
  sparc: vdso: Disable UBSAN instrumentation
  kernel.h: Move lib/cmdline.c prototypes to string.h
  leaking_addresses: Provide mechanism to scan binary files
  leaking_addresses: Ignore input device status lines
  leaking_addresses: Use File::Temp for /tmp files
  MAINTAINERS: Update LEAKING_ADDRESSES details
  fortify: Improve buffer overflow reporting
  fortify: Add KUnit tests for runtime overflows
  ...
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<pre>
Pull hardening updates from Kees Cook:
 "As is pretty normal for this tree, there are changes all over the
  place, especially for small fixes, selftest improvements, and improved
  macro usability.

  Some header changes ended up landing via this tree as they depended on
  the string header cleanups. Also, a notable set of changes is the work
  for the reintroduction of the UBSAN signed integer overflow sanitizer
  so that we can continue to make improvements on the compiler side to
  make this sanitizer a more viable future security hardening option.

  Summary:

   - string.h and related header cleanups (Tanzir Hasan, Andy
     Shevchenko)

   - VMCI memcpy() usage and struct_size() cleanups (Vasiliy Kovalev,
     Harshit Mogalapalli)

   - selftests/powerpc: Fix load_unaligned_zeropad build failure
     (Michael Ellerman)

   - hardened Kconfig fragment updates (Marco Elver, Lukas Bulwahn)

   - Handle tail call optimization better in LKDTM (Douglas Anderson)

   - Use long form types in overflow.h (Andy Shevchenko)

   - Add flags param to string_get_size() (Andy Shevchenko)

   - Add Coccinelle script for potential struct_size() use (Jacob
     Keller)

   - Fix objtool corner case under KCFI (Josh Poimboeuf)

   - Drop 13 year old backward compat CAP_SYS_ADMIN check (Jingzi Meng)

   - Add str_plural() helper (Michal Wajdeczko, Kees Cook)

   - Ignore relocations in .notes section

   - Add comments to explain how __is_constexpr() works

   - Fix m68k stack alignment expectations in stackinit Kunit test

   - Convert string selftests to KUnit

   - Add KUnit tests for fortified string functions

   - Improve reporting during fortified string warnings

   - Allow non-type arg to type_max() and type_min()

   - Allow strscpy() to be called with only 2 arguments

   - Add binary mode to leaking_addresses scanner

   - Various small cleanups to leaking_addresses scanner

   - Adding wrapping_*() arithmetic helper

   - Annotate initial signed integer wrap-around in refcount_t

   - Add explicit UBSAN section to MAINTAINERS

   - Fix UBSAN self-test warnings

   - Simplify UBSAN build via removal of CONFIG_UBSAN_SANITIZE_ALL

   - Reintroduce UBSAN's signed overflow sanitizer"

* tag 'hardening-v6.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux: (51 commits)
  selftests/powerpc: Fix load_unaligned_zeropad build failure
  string: Convert helpers selftest to KUnit
  string: Convert selftest to KUnit
  sh: Fix build with CONFIG_UBSAN=y
  compiler.h: Explain how __is_constexpr() works
  overflow: Allow non-type arg to type_max() and type_min()
  VMCI: Fix possible memcpy() run-time warning in vmci_datagram_invoke_guest_handler()
  lib/string_helpers: Add flags param to string_get_size()
  x86, relocs: Ignore relocations in .notes section
  objtool: Fix UNWIND_HINT_{SAVE,RESTORE} across basic blocks
  overflow: Use POD in check_shl_overflow()
  lib: stackinit: Adjust target string to 8 bytes for m68k
  sparc: vdso: Disable UBSAN instrumentation
  kernel.h: Move lib/cmdline.c prototypes to string.h
  leaking_addresses: Provide mechanism to scan binary files
  leaking_addresses: Ignore input device status lines
  leaking_addresses: Use File::Temp for /tmp files
  MAINTAINERS: Update LEAKING_ADDRESSES details
  fortify: Improve buffer overflow reporting
  fortify: Add KUnit tests for runtime overflows
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'linus' into x86/boot, to resolve conflict</title>
<updated>2024-03-12T08:55:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-12T08:49:52+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=2e2bc42c8381d2c0e9604b59e49264821da29368'/>
<id>2e2bc42c8381d2c0e9604b59e49264821da29368</id>
<content type='text'>
There's a new conflict with Linus's upstream tree, because
in the following merge conflict resolution in &lt;asm/coco.h&gt;:

  38b334fc767e Merge tag 'x86_sev_for_v6.9_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Linus has resolved the conflicting placement of 'cc_mask' better
than the original commit:

  1c811d403afd x86/sev: Fix position dependent variable references in startup code

... which was also done by an internal merge resolution:

  2e5fc4786b7a Merge branch 'x86/sev' into x86/boot, to resolve conflicts and to pick up dependent tree

But Linus is right in 38b334fc767e, the 'cc_mask' declaration is sufficient
within the #ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_CC_PLATFORM block.

So instead of forcing Linus to do the same resolution again, merge in Linus's
tree and follow his conflict resolution.

 Conflicts:
	arch/x86/include/asm/coco.h

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
There's a new conflict with Linus's upstream tree, because
in the following merge conflict resolution in &lt;asm/coco.h&gt;:

  38b334fc767e Merge tag 'x86_sev_for_v6.9_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Linus has resolved the conflicting placement of 'cc_mask' better
than the original commit:

  1c811d403afd x86/sev: Fix position dependent variable references in startup code

... which was also done by an internal merge resolution:

  2e5fc4786b7a Merge branch 'x86/sev' into x86/boot, to resolve conflicts and to pick up dependent tree

But Linus is right in 38b334fc767e, the 'cc_mask' declaration is sufficient
within the #ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_CC_PLATFORM block.

So instead of forcing Linus to do the same resolution again, merge in Linus's
tree and follow his conflict resolution.

 Conflicts:
	arch/x86/include/asm/coco.h

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'x86-core-2024-03-11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2024-03-12T02:53:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-12T02:53:15+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=685d98211273f60e38a6d361b62d7016c545297e'/>
<id>685d98211273f60e38a6d361b62d7016c545297e</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull core x86 updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - The biggest change is the rework of the percpu code, to support the
   'Named Address Spaces' GCC feature, by Uros Bizjak:

      - This allows C code to access GS and FS segment relative memory
        via variables declared with such attributes, which allows the
        compiler to better optimize those accesses than the previous
        inline assembly code.

      - The series also includes a number of micro-optimizations for
        various percpu access methods, plus a number of cleanups of %gs
        accesses in assembly code.

      - These changes have been exposed to linux-next testing for the
        last ~5 months, with no known regressions in this area.

 - Fix/clean up __switch_to()'s broken but accidentally working handling
   of FPU switching - which also generates better code

 - Propagate more RIP-relative addressing in assembly code, to generate
   slightly better code

 - Rework the CPU mitigations Kconfig space to be less idiosyncratic, to
   make it easier for distros to follow &amp; maintain these options

 - Rework the x86 idle code to cure RCU violations and to clean up the
   logic

 - Clean up the vDSO Makefile logic

 - Misc cleanups and fixes

* tag 'x86-core-2024-03-11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (52 commits)
  x86/idle: Select idle routine only once
  x86/idle: Let prefer_mwait_c1_over_halt() return bool
  x86/idle: Cleanup idle_setup()
  x86/idle: Clean up idle selection
  x86/idle: Sanitize X86_BUG_AMD_E400 handling
  sched/idle: Conditionally handle tick broadcast in default_idle_call()
  x86: Increase brk randomness entropy for 64-bit systems
  x86/vdso: Move vDSO to mmap region
  x86/vdso/kbuild: Group non-standard build attributes and primary object file rules together
  x86/vdso: Fix rethunk patching for vdso-image-{32,64}.o
  x86/retpoline: Ensure default return thunk isn't used at runtime
  x86/vdso: Use CONFIG_COMPAT_32 to specify vdso32
  x86/vdso: Use $(addprefix ) instead of $(foreach )
  x86/vdso: Simplify obj-y addition
  x86/vdso: Consolidate targets and clean-files
  x86/bugs: Rename CONFIG_RETHUNK              =&gt; CONFIG_MITIGATION_RETHUNK
  x86/bugs: Rename CONFIG_CPU_SRSO             =&gt; CONFIG_MITIGATION_SRSO
  x86/bugs: Rename CONFIG_CPU_IBRS_ENTRY       =&gt; CONFIG_MITIGATION_IBRS_ENTRY
  x86/bugs: Rename CONFIG_CPU_UNRET_ENTRY      =&gt; CONFIG_MITIGATION_UNRET_ENTRY
  x86/bugs: Rename CONFIG_SLS                  =&gt; CONFIG_MITIGATION_SLS
  ...
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull core x86 updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - The biggest change is the rework of the percpu code, to support the
   'Named Address Spaces' GCC feature, by Uros Bizjak:

      - This allows C code to access GS and FS segment relative memory
        via variables declared with such attributes, which allows the
        compiler to better optimize those accesses than the previous
        inline assembly code.

      - The series also includes a number of micro-optimizations for
        various percpu access methods, plus a number of cleanups of %gs
        accesses in assembly code.

      - These changes have been exposed to linux-next testing for the
        last ~5 months, with no known regressions in this area.

 - Fix/clean up __switch_to()'s broken but accidentally working handling
   of FPU switching - which also generates better code

 - Propagate more RIP-relative addressing in assembly code, to generate
   slightly better code

 - Rework the CPU mitigations Kconfig space to be less idiosyncratic, to
   make it easier for distros to follow &amp; maintain these options

 - Rework the x86 idle code to cure RCU violations and to clean up the
   logic

 - Clean up the vDSO Makefile logic

 - Misc cleanups and fixes

* tag 'x86-core-2024-03-11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (52 commits)
  x86/idle: Select idle routine only once
  x86/idle: Let prefer_mwait_c1_over_halt() return bool
  x86/idle: Cleanup idle_setup()
  x86/idle: Clean up idle selection
  x86/idle: Sanitize X86_BUG_AMD_E400 handling
  sched/idle: Conditionally handle tick broadcast in default_idle_call()
  x86: Increase brk randomness entropy for 64-bit systems
  x86/vdso: Move vDSO to mmap region
  x86/vdso/kbuild: Group non-standard build attributes and primary object file rules together
  x86/vdso: Fix rethunk patching for vdso-image-{32,64}.o
  x86/retpoline: Ensure default return thunk isn't used at runtime
  x86/vdso: Use CONFIG_COMPAT_32 to specify vdso32
  x86/vdso: Use $(addprefix ) instead of $(foreach )
  x86/vdso: Simplify obj-y addition
  x86/vdso: Consolidate targets and clean-files
  x86/bugs: Rename CONFIG_RETHUNK              =&gt; CONFIG_MITIGATION_RETHUNK
  x86/bugs: Rename CONFIG_CPU_SRSO             =&gt; CONFIG_MITIGATION_SRSO
  x86/bugs: Rename CONFIG_CPU_IBRS_ENTRY       =&gt; CONFIG_MITIGATION_IBRS_ENTRY
  x86/bugs: Rename CONFIG_CPU_UNRET_ENTRY      =&gt; CONFIG_MITIGATION_UNRET_ENTRY
  x86/bugs: Rename CONFIG_SLS                  =&gt; CONFIG_MITIGATION_SLS
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'x86-build-2024-03-11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2024-03-12T02:23:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-12T02:23:16+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=d69ad12c786f0a4593c48c0658043aa4a5116b09'/>
<id>d69ad12c786f0a4593c48c0658043aa4a5116b09</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull x86 build updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - Reduce &lt;asm/bootparam.h&gt; dependencies

 - Simplify &lt;asm/efi.h&gt;

 - Unify *_setup_data definitions into &lt;asm/setup_data.h&gt;

 - Reduce the size of &lt;asm/bootparam.h&gt;

* tag 'x86-build-2024-03-11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86: Do not include &lt;asm/bootparam.h&gt; in several files
  x86/efi: Implement arch_ima_efi_boot_mode() in source file
  x86/setup: Move internal setup_data structures into setup_data.h
  x86/setup: Move UAPI setup structures into setup_data.h
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull x86 build updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - Reduce &lt;asm/bootparam.h&gt; dependencies

 - Simplify &lt;asm/efi.h&gt;

 - Unify *_setup_data definitions into &lt;asm/setup_data.h&gt;

 - Reduce the size of &lt;asm/bootparam.h&gt;

* tag 'x86-build-2024-03-11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86: Do not include &lt;asm/bootparam.h&gt; in several files
  x86/efi: Implement arch_ima_efi_boot_mode() in source file
  x86/setup: Move internal setup_data structures into setup_data.h
  x86/setup: Move UAPI setup structures into setup_data.h
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'x86_sev_for_v6.9_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2024-03-12T00:44:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-12T00:44:11+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=38b334fc767e44816be087b3ec5d84b1438b735f'/>
<id>38b334fc767e44816be087b3ec5d84b1438b735f</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull x86 SEV updates from Borislav Petkov:

 - Add the x86 part of the SEV-SNP host support.

   This will allow the kernel to be used as a KVM hypervisor capable of
   running SNP (Secure Nested Paging) guests. Roughly speaking, SEV-SNP
   is the ultimate goal of the AMD confidential computing side,
   providing the most comprehensive confidential computing environment
   up to date.

   This is the x86 part and there is a KVM part which did not get ready
   in time for the merge window so latter will be forthcoming in the
   next cycle.

 - Rework the early code's position-dependent SEV variable references in
   order to allow building the kernel with clang and -fPIE/-fPIC and
   -mcmodel=kernel

 - The usual set of fixes, cleanups and improvements all over the place

* tag 'x86_sev_for_v6.9_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (36 commits)
  x86/sev: Disable KMSAN for memory encryption TUs
  x86/sev: Dump SEV_STATUS
  crypto: ccp - Have it depend on AMD_IOMMU
  iommu/amd: Fix failure return from snp_lookup_rmpentry()
  x86/sev: Fix position dependent variable references in startup code
  crypto: ccp: Make snp_range_list static
  x86/Kconfig: Remove CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT
  Documentation: virt: Fix up pre-formatted text block for SEV ioctls
  crypto: ccp: Add the SNP_SET_CONFIG command
  crypto: ccp: Add the SNP_COMMIT command
  crypto: ccp: Add the SNP_PLATFORM_STATUS command
  x86/cpufeatures: Enable/unmask SEV-SNP CPU feature
  KVM: SEV: Make AVIC backing, VMSA and VMCB memory allocation SNP safe
  crypto: ccp: Add panic notifier for SEV/SNP firmware shutdown on kdump
  iommu/amd: Clean up RMP entries for IOMMU pages during SNP shutdown
  crypto: ccp: Handle legacy SEV commands when SNP is enabled
  crypto: ccp: Handle non-volatile INIT_EX data when SNP is enabled
  crypto: ccp: Handle the legacy TMR allocation when SNP is enabled
  x86/sev: Introduce an SNP leaked pages list
  crypto: ccp: Provide an API to issue SEV and SNP commands
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Pull x86 SEV updates from Borislav Petkov:

 - Add the x86 part of the SEV-SNP host support.

   This will allow the kernel to be used as a KVM hypervisor capable of
   running SNP (Secure Nested Paging) guests. Roughly speaking, SEV-SNP
   is the ultimate goal of the AMD confidential computing side,
   providing the most comprehensive confidential computing environment
   up to date.

   This is the x86 part and there is a KVM part which did not get ready
   in time for the merge window so latter will be forthcoming in the
   next cycle.

 - Rework the early code's position-dependent SEV variable references in
   order to allow building the kernel with clang and -fPIE/-fPIC and
   -mcmodel=kernel

 - The usual set of fixes, cleanups and improvements all over the place

* tag 'x86_sev_for_v6.9_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (36 commits)
  x86/sev: Disable KMSAN for memory encryption TUs
  x86/sev: Dump SEV_STATUS
  crypto: ccp - Have it depend on AMD_IOMMU
  iommu/amd: Fix failure return from snp_lookup_rmpentry()
  x86/sev: Fix position dependent variable references in startup code
  crypto: ccp: Make snp_range_list static
  x86/Kconfig: Remove CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT
  Documentation: virt: Fix up pre-formatted text block for SEV ioctls
  crypto: ccp: Add the SNP_SET_CONFIG command
  crypto: ccp: Add the SNP_COMMIT command
  crypto: ccp: Add the SNP_PLATFORM_STATUS command
  x86/cpufeatures: Enable/unmask SEV-SNP CPU feature
  KVM: SEV: Make AVIC backing, VMSA and VMCB memory allocation SNP safe
  crypto: ccp: Add panic notifier for SEV/SNP firmware shutdown on kdump
  iommu/amd: Clean up RMP entries for IOMMU pages during SNP shutdown
  crypto: ccp: Handle legacy SEV commands when SNP is enabled
  crypto: ccp: Handle non-volatile INIT_EX data when SNP is enabled
  crypto: ccp: Handle the legacy TMR allocation when SNP is enabled
  x86/sev: Introduce an SNP leaked pages list
  crypto: ccp: Provide an API to issue SEV and SNP commands
  ...
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