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<title>Merge tag 'x86_urgent_for_v6.18_rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2025-10-19T14:41:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-19T14:41:27+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 fixes from Borislav Petkov:

 - Reset the why-the-system-rebooted register on AMD to avoid stale bits
   remaining from previous boots

 - Add a missing barrier in the TLB flushing code to prevent erroneously
   not flushing a TLB generation

 - Make sure cpa_flush() does not overshoot when computing the end range
   of a flush region

 - Fix resctrl bandwidth counting on AMD systems when the amount of
   monitoring groups created exceeds the number the hardware can track

* tag 'x86_urgent_for_v6.18_rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/CPU/AMD: Prevent reset reasons from being retained across reboot
  x86/mm: Fix SMP ordering in switch_mm_irqs_off()
  x86/mm: Fix overflow in __cpa_addr()
  x86/resctrl: Fix miscount of bandwidth event when reactivating previously unavailable RMID
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Pull x86 fixes from Borislav Petkov:

 - Reset the why-the-system-rebooted register on AMD to avoid stale bits
   remaining from previous boots

 - Add a missing barrier in the TLB flushing code to prevent erroneously
   not flushing a TLB generation

 - Make sure cpa_flush() does not overshoot when computing the end range
   of a flush region

 - Fix resctrl bandwidth counting on AMD systems when the amount of
   monitoring groups created exceeds the number the hardware can track

* tag 'x86_urgent_for_v6.18_rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/CPU/AMD: Prevent reset reasons from being retained across reboot
  x86/mm: Fix SMP ordering in switch_mm_irqs_off()
  x86/mm: Fix overflow in __cpa_addr()
  x86/resctrl: Fix miscount of bandwidth event when reactivating previously unavailable RMID
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm</title>
<updated>2025-10-18T17:07:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-18T17:07:14+00:00</published>
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Pull kvm fixes from Paolo Bonzini:
 "ARM:

   - Fix the handling of ZCR_EL2 in NV VMs

   - Pick the correct translation regime when doing a PTW on the back of
     a SEA

   - Prevent userspace from injecting an event into a vcpu that isn't
     initialised yet

   - Move timer save/restore to the sysreg handling code, fixing EL2
     timer access in the process

   - Add FGT-based trapping of MDSCR_EL1 to reduce the overhead of debug

   - Fix trapping configuration when the host isn't GICv3

   - Improve the detection of HCR_EL2.E2H being RES1

   - Drop a spurious 'break' statement in the S1 PTW

   - Don't try to access SPE when owned by EL3

  Documentation updates:

   - Document the failure modes of event injection

   - Document that a GICv3 guest can be created on a GICv5 host with
     FEAT_GCIE_LEGACY

  Selftest improvements:

   - Add a selftest for the effective value of HCR_EL2.AMO

   - Address build warning in the timer selftest when building with
     clang

   - Teach irqfd selftests about non-x86 architectures

   - Add missing sysregs to the set_id_regs selftest

   - Fix vcpu allocation in the vgic_lpi_stress selftest

   - Correctly enable interrupts in the vgic_lpi_stress selftest

  x86:

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

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

  guest_memfd:

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

   - Add a guest_memfd INIT_SHARED flag and require userspace to
     explicitly set said flag to initialize memory as SHARED,
     irrespective of MMAP.

     The behavior merged in 6.18 is that enabling mmap() implicitly
     initializes memory as SHARED, which would result in an ABI
     collision for x86 CoCo VMs as their memory is currently always
     initialized PRIVATE.

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

   - Add testcases to the guest_memfd selftest to cover guest_memfd
     without MMAP, and host userspace accesses to mmap()'d private
     memory"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (46 commits)
  arm64: Revamp HCR_EL2.E2H RES1 detection
  KVM: arm64: nv: Use FGT write trap of MDSCR_EL1 when available
  KVM: arm64: Compute per-vCPU FGTs at vcpu_load()
  KVM: arm64: selftests: Fix misleading comment about virtual timer encoding
  KVM: arm64: selftests: Add an E2H=0-specific configuration to get_reg_list
  KVM: arm64: selftests: Make dependencies on VHE-specific registers explicit
  KVM: arm64: Kill leftovers of ad-hoc timer userspace access
  KVM: arm64: Fix WFxT handling of nested virt
  KVM: arm64: Move CNT*CT_EL0 userspace accessors to generic infrastructure
  KVM: arm64: Move CNT*_CVAL_EL0 userspace accessors to generic infrastructure
  KVM: arm64: Move CNT*_CTL_EL0 userspace accessors to generic infrastructure
  KVM: arm64: Add timer UAPI workaround to sysreg infrastructure
  KVM: arm64: Make timer_set_offset() generally accessible
  KVM: arm64: Replace timer context vcpu pointer with timer_id
  KVM: arm64: Introduce timer_context_to_vcpu() helper
  KVM: arm64: Hide CNTHV_*_EL2 from userspace for nVHE guests
  Documentation: KVM: Update GICv3 docs for GICv5 hosts
  KVM: arm64: gic-v3: Only set ICH_HCR traps for v2-on-v3 or v3 guests
  KVM: arm64: selftests: Actually enable IRQs in vgic_lpi_stress
  KVM: arm64: selftests: Allocate vcpus with correct size
  ...
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Pull kvm fixes from Paolo Bonzini:
 "ARM:

   - Fix the handling of ZCR_EL2 in NV VMs

   - Pick the correct translation regime when doing a PTW on the back of
     a SEA

   - Prevent userspace from injecting an event into a vcpu that isn't
     initialised yet

   - Move timer save/restore to the sysreg handling code, fixing EL2
     timer access in the process

   - Add FGT-based trapping of MDSCR_EL1 to reduce the overhead of debug

   - Fix trapping configuration when the host isn't GICv3

   - Improve the detection of HCR_EL2.E2H being RES1

   - Drop a spurious 'break' statement in the S1 PTW

   - Don't try to access SPE when owned by EL3

  Documentation updates:

   - Document the failure modes of event injection

   - Document that a GICv3 guest can be created on a GICv5 host with
     FEAT_GCIE_LEGACY

  Selftest improvements:

   - Add a selftest for the effective value of HCR_EL2.AMO

   - Address build warning in the timer selftest when building with
     clang

   - Teach irqfd selftests about non-x86 architectures

   - Add missing sysregs to the set_id_regs selftest

   - Fix vcpu allocation in the vgic_lpi_stress selftest

   - Correctly enable interrupts in the vgic_lpi_stress selftest

  x86:

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

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

  guest_memfd:

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

   - Add a guest_memfd INIT_SHARED flag and require userspace to
     explicitly set said flag to initialize memory as SHARED,
     irrespective of MMAP.

     The behavior merged in 6.18 is that enabling mmap() implicitly
     initializes memory as SHARED, which would result in an ABI
     collision for x86 CoCo VMs as their memory is currently always
     initialized PRIVATE.

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

   - Add testcases to the guest_memfd selftest to cover guest_memfd
     without MMAP, and host userspace accesses to mmap()'d private
     memory"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (46 commits)
  arm64: Revamp HCR_EL2.E2H RES1 detection
  KVM: arm64: nv: Use FGT write trap of MDSCR_EL1 when available
  KVM: arm64: Compute per-vCPU FGTs at vcpu_load()
  KVM: arm64: selftests: Fix misleading comment about virtual timer encoding
  KVM: arm64: selftests: Add an E2H=0-specific configuration to get_reg_list
  KVM: arm64: selftests: Make dependencies on VHE-specific registers explicit
  KVM: arm64: Kill leftovers of ad-hoc timer userspace access
  KVM: arm64: Fix WFxT handling of nested virt
  KVM: arm64: Move CNT*CT_EL0 userspace accessors to generic infrastructure
  KVM: arm64: Move CNT*_CVAL_EL0 userspace accessors to generic infrastructure
  KVM: arm64: Move CNT*_CTL_EL0 userspace accessors to generic infrastructure
  KVM: arm64: Add timer UAPI workaround to sysreg infrastructure
  KVM: arm64: Make timer_set_offset() generally accessible
  KVM: arm64: Replace timer context vcpu pointer with timer_id
  KVM: arm64: Introduce timer_context_to_vcpu() helper
  KVM: arm64: Hide CNTHV_*_EL2 from userspace for nVHE guests
  Documentation: KVM: Update GICv3 docs for GICv5 hosts
  KVM: arm64: gic-v3: Only set ICH_HCR traps for v2-on-v3 or v3 guests
  KVM: arm64: selftests: Actually enable IRQs in vgic_lpi_stress
  KVM: arm64: selftests: Allocate vcpus with correct size
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'powerpc-6.18-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux</title>
<updated>2025-10-18T17:02:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-18T17:02:28+00:00</published>
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Pull powerpc fixes from Madhavan Srinivasan:

 - Fix to handle NULL pointer dereference at irq domain teardown

 - Fix for handling extraction of struct xive_irq_data

 - Fix to skip parameter area allocation when fadump disabled

Thanks to Ganesh Goudar, Hari Bathini, Nam Cao, Ritesh Harjani (IBM),
Sourabh Jain, and Venkat Rao Bagalkote,

* tag 'powerpc-6.18-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux:
  powerpc/fadump: skip parameter area allocation when fadump is disabled
  powerpc, ocxl: Fix extraction of struct xive_irq_data
  powerpc/pseries/msi: Fix NULL pointer dereference at irq domain teardown
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Pull powerpc fixes from Madhavan Srinivasan:

 - Fix to handle NULL pointer dereference at irq domain teardown

 - Fix for handling extraction of struct xive_irq_data

 - Fix to skip parameter area allocation when fadump disabled

Thanks to Ganesh Goudar, Hari Bathini, Nam Cao, Ritesh Harjani (IBM),
Sourabh Jain, and Venkat Rao Bagalkote,

* tag 'powerpc-6.18-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux:
  powerpc/fadump: skip parameter area allocation when fadump is disabled
  powerpc, ocxl: Fix extraction of struct xive_irq_data
  powerpc/pseries/msi: Fix NULL pointer dereference at irq domain teardown
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'kvm-x86-fixes-6.18-rc2' of https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux into HEAD</title>
<updated>2025-10-18T08:25:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Bonzini</name>
<email>pbonzini@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-18T08:25:43+00:00</published>
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KVM x86 fixes for 6.18:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 - Add testcases to the guest_memfd selftest to cover guest_memfd without MMAP,
   and host userspace accesses to mmap()'d private memory.
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'arm64-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux</title>
<updated>2025-10-17T23:04:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-17T23:04:21+00:00</published>
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Pull arm64 fixes from Catalin Marinas:

 - Explicitly encode the XZR register if the value passed to
   write_sysreg_s() is 0.

   The GIC CDEOI instruction is encoded as a system register write with
   XZR as the source register. However, clang does not honour the "Z"
   register constraint, leading to incorrect code generation

 - Ensure the interrupts (DAIF.IF) are unmasked when completing
   single-step of a suspended breakpoint before calling
   exit_to_user_mode().

   With pseudo-NMIs, interrupts are (additionally) masked at the PMR_EL1
   register, handled by local_irq_*()

* tag 'arm64-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux:
  arm64: debug: always unmask interrupts in el0_softstp()
  arm64/sysreg: Fix GIC CDEOI instruction encoding
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Pull arm64 fixes from Catalin Marinas:

 - Explicitly encode the XZR register if the value passed to
   write_sysreg_s() is 0.

   The GIC CDEOI instruction is encoded as a system register write with
   XZR as the source register. However, clang does not honour the "Z"
   register constraint, leading to incorrect code generation

 - Ensure the interrupts (DAIF.IF) are unmasked when completing
   single-step of a suspended breakpoint before calling
   exit_to_user_mode().

   With pseudo-NMIs, interrupts are (additionally) masked at the PMR_EL1
   register, handled by local_irq_*()

* tag 'arm64-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux:
  arm64: debug: always unmask interrupts in el0_softstp()
  arm64/sysreg: Fix GIC CDEOI instruction encoding
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'riscv-for-linux-6.18-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux</title>
<updated>2025-10-17T22:59:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-17T22:59:31+00:00</published>
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Pull RISC-V fixes from Paul Walmsley:

 - Disable CFI with Rust for any platform other than x86 and ARM64

 - Keep task mm_cpumasks up-to-date to avoid triggering M-mode firmware
   warnings if the kernel tries to send an IPI to an offline CPU

 - Improve kprobe address validation performance and avoid desyncs
   (following x86)

 - Avoid duplicate device probes by avoiding DT hardware probing when
   ACPI is enabled in early boot

 - Use the correct set of dependencies for
   CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_ELF_CORE_EFLAGS, avoiding an allnoconfig warning

 - Fix a few other minor issues

* tag 'riscv-for-linux-6.18-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux:
  riscv: kprobes: convert one final __ASSEMBLY__ to __ASSEMBLER__
  riscv: Respect dependencies of ARCH_HAS_ELF_CORE_EFLAGS
  riscv: acpi: avoid errors caused by probing DT devices when ACPI is used
  riscv: kprobes: Fix probe address validation
  riscv: entry: fix typo in comment 'instruciton' -&gt; 'instruction'
  RISC-V: clear hot-unplugged cores from all task mm_cpumasks to avoid rfence errors
  riscv: kgdb: Ensure that BUFMAX &gt; NUMREGBYTES
  rust: cfi: only 64-bit arm and x86 support CFI_CLANG
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Pull RISC-V fixes from Paul Walmsley:

 - Disable CFI with Rust for any platform other than x86 and ARM64

 - Keep task mm_cpumasks up-to-date to avoid triggering M-mode firmware
   warnings if the kernel tries to send an IPI to an offline CPU

 - Improve kprobe address validation performance and avoid desyncs
   (following x86)

 - Avoid duplicate device probes by avoiding DT hardware probing when
   ACPI is enabled in early boot

 - Use the correct set of dependencies for
   CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_ELF_CORE_EFLAGS, avoiding an allnoconfig warning

 - Fix a few other minor issues

* tag 'riscv-for-linux-6.18-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux:
  riscv: kprobes: convert one final __ASSEMBLY__ to __ASSEMBLER__
  riscv: Respect dependencies of ARCH_HAS_ELF_CORE_EFLAGS
  riscv: acpi: avoid errors caused by probing DT devices when ACPI is used
  riscv: kprobes: Fix probe address validation
  riscv: entry: fix typo in comment 'instruciton' -&gt; 'instruction'
  RISC-V: clear hot-unplugged cores from all task mm_cpumasks to avoid rfence errors
  riscv: kgdb: Ensure that BUFMAX &gt; NUMREGBYTES
  rust: cfi: only 64-bit arm and x86 support CFI_CLANG
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<entry>
<title>arm64: debug: always unmask interrupts in el0_softstp()</title>
<updated>2025-10-17T17:08:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ada Couprie Diaz</name>
<email>ada.coupriediaz@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-14T09:25:36+00:00</published>
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We intend that EL0 exception handlers unmask all DAIF exceptions
before calling exit_to_user_mode().

When completing single-step of a suspended breakpoint, we do not call
local_daif_restore(DAIF_PROCCTX) before calling exit_to_user_mode(),
leaving all DAIF exceptions masked.

When pseudo-NMIs are not in use this is benign.

When pseudo-NMIs are in use, this is unsound. At this point interrupts
are masked by both DAIF.IF and PMR_EL1, and subsequent irq flag
manipulation may not work correctly. For example, a subsequent
local_irq_enable() within exit_to_user_mode_loop() will only unmask
interrupts via PMR_EL1 (leaving those masked via DAIF.IF), and
anything depending on interrupts being unmasked (e.g. delivery of
signals) will not work correctly.

This was detected by CONFIG_ARM64_DEBUG_PRIORITY_MASKING.

Move the call to `try_step_suspended_breakpoints()` outside of the check
so that interrupts can be unmasked even if we don't call the step handler.

Fixes: 0ac7584c08ce ("arm64: debug: split single stepping exception entry")
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 6.17
Signed-off-by: Ada Couprie Diaz &lt;ada.coupriediaz@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
[catalin.marinas@arm.com: added Mark's rewritten commit log and some whitespace]
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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We intend that EL0 exception handlers unmask all DAIF exceptions
before calling exit_to_user_mode().

When completing single-step of a suspended breakpoint, we do not call
local_daif_restore(DAIF_PROCCTX) before calling exit_to_user_mode(),
leaving all DAIF exceptions masked.

When pseudo-NMIs are not in use this is benign.

When pseudo-NMIs are in use, this is unsound. At this point interrupts
are masked by both DAIF.IF and PMR_EL1, and subsequent irq flag
manipulation may not work correctly. For example, a subsequent
local_irq_enable() within exit_to_user_mode_loop() will only unmask
interrupts via PMR_EL1 (leaving those masked via DAIF.IF), and
anything depending on interrupts being unmasked (e.g. delivery of
signals) will not work correctly.

This was detected by CONFIG_ARM64_DEBUG_PRIORITY_MASKING.

Move the call to `try_step_suspended_breakpoints()` outside of the check
so that interrupts can be unmasked even if we don't call the step handler.

Fixes: 0ac7584c08ce ("arm64: debug: split single stepping exception entry")
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 6.17
Signed-off-by: Ada Couprie Diaz &lt;ada.coupriediaz@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
[catalin.marinas@arm.com: added Mark's rewritten commit log and some whitespace]
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64/sysreg: Fix GIC CDEOI instruction encoding</title>
<updated>2025-10-17T16:55:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lorenzo Pieralisi</name>
<email>lpieralisi@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-07T10:26:00+00:00</published>
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The GIC CDEOI system instruction requires the Rt field to be set to 0b11111
otherwise the instruction behaviour becomes CONSTRAINED UNPREDICTABLE.

Currenly, its usage is encoded as a system register write, with a constant
0 value:

write_sysreg_s(0, GICV5_OP_GIC_CDEOI)

While compiling with GCC, the 0 constant value, through these asm
constraints and modifiers ('x' modifier and 'Z' constraint combo):

asm volatile(__msr_s(r, "%x0") : : "rZ" (__val));

forces the compiler to issue the XZR register for the MSR operation (ie
that corresponds to Rt == 0b11111) issuing the right instruction encoding.

Unfortunately LLVM does not yet understand that modifier/constraint
combo so it ends up issuing a different register from XZR for the MSR
source, which in turns means that it encodes the GIC CDEOI instruction
wrongly and the instruction behaviour becomes CONSTRAINED UNPREDICTABLE
that we must prevent.

Add a conditional to write_sysreg_s() macro that detects whether it
is passed a constant 0 value and issues an MSR write with XZR as source
register - explicitly doing what the asm modifier/constraint is meant to
achieve through constraints/modifiers, fixing the LLVM compilation issue.

Fixes: 7ec80fb3f025 ("irqchip/gic-v5: Add GICv5 PPI support")
Suggested-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi &lt;lpieralisi@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Sascha Bischoff &lt;sascha.bischoff@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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<pre>
The GIC CDEOI system instruction requires the Rt field to be set to 0b11111
otherwise the instruction behaviour becomes CONSTRAINED UNPREDICTABLE.

Currenly, its usage is encoded as a system register write, with a constant
0 value:

write_sysreg_s(0, GICV5_OP_GIC_CDEOI)

While compiling with GCC, the 0 constant value, through these asm
constraints and modifiers ('x' modifier and 'Z' constraint combo):

asm volatile(__msr_s(r, "%x0") : : "rZ" (__val));

forces the compiler to issue the XZR register for the MSR operation (ie
that corresponds to Rt == 0b11111) issuing the right instruction encoding.

Unfortunately LLVM does not yet understand that modifier/constraint
combo so it ends up issuing a different register from XZR for the MSR
source, which in turns means that it encodes the GIC CDEOI instruction
wrongly and the instruction behaviour becomes CONSTRAINED UNPREDICTABLE
that we must prevent.

Add a conditional to write_sysreg_s() macro that detects whether it
is passed a constant 0 value and issues an MSR write with XZR as source
register - explicitly doing what the asm modifier/constraint is meant to
achieve through constraints/modifiers, fixing the LLVM compilation issue.

Fixes: 7ec80fb3f025 ("irqchip/gic-v5: Add GICv5 PPI support")
Suggested-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi &lt;lpieralisi@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Sascha Bischoff &lt;sascha.bischoff@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/CPU/AMD: Prevent reset reasons from being retained across reboot</title>
<updated>2025-10-15T19:38:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rong Zhang</name>
<email>i@rong.moe</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-10T16:59:58+00:00</published>
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The S5_RESET_STATUS register is parsed on boot and printed to kmsg.
However, this could sometimes be misleading and lead to users wasting a
lot of time on meaningless debugging for two reasons:

* Some bits are never cleared by hardware. It's the software's
responsibility to clear them as per the Processor Programming Reference
(see [1]).

* Some rare hardware-initiated platform resets do not update the
register at all.

In both cases, a previous reboot could leave its trace in the register,
resulting in users seeing unrelated reboot reasons while debugging random
reboots afterward.

Write the read value back to the register in order to clear all reason bits
since they are write-1-to-clear while the others must be preserved.

  [1]: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206537#attach_303991

  [ bp: Massage commit message. ]

Fixes: ab8131028710 ("x86/CPU/AMD: Print the reason for the last reset")
Signed-off-by: Rong Zhang &lt;i@rong.moe&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mario Limonciello (AMD) &lt;superm1@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Yazen Ghannam &lt;yazen.ghannam@amd.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250913144245.23237-1-i@rong.moe/
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<pre>
The S5_RESET_STATUS register is parsed on boot and printed to kmsg.
However, this could sometimes be misleading and lead to users wasting a
lot of time on meaningless debugging for two reasons:

* Some bits are never cleared by hardware. It's the software's
responsibility to clear them as per the Processor Programming Reference
(see [1]).

* Some rare hardware-initiated platform resets do not update the
register at all.

In both cases, a previous reboot could leave its trace in the register,
resulting in users seeing unrelated reboot reasons while debugging random
reboots afterward.

Write the read value back to the register in order to clear all reason bits
since they are write-1-to-clear while the others must be preserved.

  [1]: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206537#attach_303991

  [ bp: Massage commit message. ]

Fixes: ab8131028710 ("x86/CPU/AMD: Print the reason for the last reset")
Signed-off-by: Rong Zhang &lt;i@rong.moe&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mario Limonciello (AMD) &lt;superm1@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Yazen Ghannam &lt;yazen.ghannam@amd.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250913144245.23237-1-i@rong.moe/
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Remove long-stale ext3 defconfig option</title>
<updated>2025-10-15T14:57:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-15T14:57:28+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=1f4a222b0e334540343fbb5d3eac4584a6bfe180'/>
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<content type='text'>
Inspired by commit c065b6046b34 ("Use CONFIG_EXT4_FS instead of
CONFIG_EXT3_FS in all of the defconfigs") I looked around for any other
left-over EXT3 config options, and found some old defconfig files still
mentioned CONFIG_EXT3_DEFAULTS_TO_ORDERED.

That config option was removed a decade ago in commit c290ea01abb7 ("fs:
Remove ext3 filesystem driver").  It had a good run, but let's remove it
for good.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
Inspired by commit c065b6046b34 ("Use CONFIG_EXT4_FS instead of
CONFIG_EXT3_FS in all of the defconfigs") I looked around for any other
left-over EXT3 config options, and found some old defconfig files still
mentioned CONFIG_EXT3_DEFAULTS_TO_ORDERED.

That config option was removed a decade ago in commit c290ea01abb7 ("fs:
Remove ext3 filesystem driver").  It had a good run, but let's remove it
for good.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
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