* kvm-arm64/pkvm-protected-guest: (41 commits)
: .
: pKVM support for protected guests, implementing the very long
: awaited support for anonymous memory, as the elusive guestmem
: has failed to deliver on its promises despite a multi-year
: effort. Patches courtesy of Will Deacon. From the initial cover
: letter:
:
: "[...] this patch series implements support for protected guest
: memory with pKVM, where pages are unmapped from the host as they are
: faulted into the guest and can be shared back from the guest using pKVM
: hypercalls. Protected guests are created using a new machine type
: identifier and can be booted to a shell using the kvmtool patches
: available at [2], which finally means that we are able to test the pVM
: logic in pKVM. Since this is an incremental step towards full isolation
: from the host (for example, the CPU register state and DMA accesses are
: not yet isolated), creating a pVM requires a developer Kconfig option to
: be enabled in addition to booting with 'kvm-arm.mode=protected' and
: results in a kernel taint."
: .
KVM: arm64: Don't hold 'vm_table_lock' across guest page reclaim
KVM: arm64: Allow get_pkvm_hyp_vm() to take a reference to a dying VM
KVM: arm64: Prevent teardown finalisation of referenced 'hyp_vm'
drivers/virt: pkvm: Add Kconfig dependency on DMA_RESTRICTED_POOL
KVM: arm64: Rename PKVM_PAGE_STATE_MASK
KVM: arm64: Extend pKVM page ownership selftests to cover guest hvcs
KVM: arm64: Extend pKVM page ownership selftests to cover forced reclaim
KVM: arm64: Register 'selftest_vm' in the VM table
KVM: arm64: Extend pKVM page ownership selftests to cover guest donation
KVM: arm64: Add some initial documentation for pKVM
KVM: arm64: Allow userspace to create protected VMs when pKVM is enabled
KVM: arm64: Implement the MEM_UNSHARE hypercall for protected VMs
KVM: arm64: Implement the MEM_SHARE hypercall for protected VMs
KVM: arm64: Add hvc handler at EL2 for hypercalls from protected VMs
KVM: arm64: Return -EFAULT from VCPU_RUN on access to a poisoned pte
KVM: arm64: Reclaim faulting page from pKVM in spurious fault handler
KVM: arm64: Introduce hypercall to force reclaim of a protected page
KVM: arm64: Annotate guest donations with handle and gfn in host stage-2
KVM: arm64: Change 'pkvm_handle_t' to u16
KVM: arm64: Introduce host_stage2_set_owner_metadata_locked()
...
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Now that all the bits are properly addressed, provide a mechanism
for testing ESA mode guests in nested configurations.
Signed-off-by: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.ibm.com>
[farman@us.ibm.com: Updated commit message]
Reviewed-by: Janosch Frank <frankja@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Farman <farman@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Janosch Frank <frankja@linux.ibm.com>
GICv5 systems will likely not support the full set of PPIs. The
presence of any virtual PPI is tied to the presence of the physical
PPI. Therefore, the available PPIs will be limited by the physical
host. Userspace cannot drive any PPIs that are not implemented.
Moreover, it is not desirable to expose all PPIs to the guest in the
first place, even if they are supported in hardware. Some devices,
such as the arch timer, are implemented in KVM, and hence those PPIs
shouldn't be driven by userspace, either.
Provided a new UAPI:
KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_CTRL => KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_USERPSPACE_PPIs
This allows userspace to query which PPIs it is able to drive via
KVM_IRQ_LINE.
Additionally, introduce a check in kvm_vm_ioctl_irq_line() to reject
any PPIs not in the userspace mask.
Signed-off-by: Sascha Bischoff <sascha.bischoff@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <jonathan.cameron@huawei.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260319154937.3619520-40-sascha.bischoff@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Make it mandatory to use the architected PPI when running a GICv5
guest. Attempts to set anything other than the architected PPI (23)
are rejected.
Additionally, KVM_ARM_VCPU_PMU_V3_INIT is relaxed to no longer require
KVM_ARM_VCPU_PMU_V3_IRQ to be called for GICv5-based guests. In this
case, the architectued PPI is automatically used.
Documentation is bumped accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Sascha Bischoff <sascha.bischoff@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <jonathan.cameron@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Joey Gouly <joey.gouly@arm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260319154937.3619520-33-sascha.bischoff@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Interrupts under GICv5 look quite different to those from older Arm
GICs. Specifically, the type is encoded in the top bits of the
interrupt ID.
Extend KVM_IRQ_LINE to cope with GICv5 PPIs and SPIs. The requires
subtly changing the KVM_IRQ_LINE API for GICv5 guests. For older Arm
GICs, PPIs had to be in the range of 16-31, and SPIs had to be
32-1019, but this no longer holds true for GICv5. Instead, for a GICv5
guest support PPIs in the range of 0-127, and SPIs in the range
0-65535. The documentation is updated accordingly.
The SPI range doesn't cover the full SPI range that a GICv5 system can
potentially cope with (GICv5 provides up to 24-bits of SPI ID space,
and we only have 16 bits to work with in KVM_IRQ_LINE). However, 65k
SPIs is more than would be reasonably expected on systems for years to
come.
In order to use vgic_is_v5(), the kvm/arm_vgic.h header is added to
kvm/arm.c.
Note: As the GICv5 KVM implementation currently doesn't support
injecting SPIs attempts to do so will fail. This restriction will by
lifted as the GICv5 KVM support evolves.
Co-authored-by: Timothy Hayes <timothy.hayes@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Timothy Hayes <timothy.hayes@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sascha Bischoff <sascha.bischoff@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <jonathan.cameron@huawei.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260319154937.3619520-28-sascha.bischoff@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
A recently added quirk does not fit in the left column of the table,
so it all has to be reformatted and realigned.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Add KVM_X86_QUIRK_VMCS12_ALLOW_FREEZE_IN_SMM to allow L1 to set
FREEZE_IN_SMM in vmcs12's GUEST_IA32_DEBUGCTL field, as permitted
prior to commit 6b1dd26544 ("KVM: VMX: Preserve host's
DEBUGCTLMSR_FREEZE_IN_SMM while running the guest"). Enable the quirk
by default for backwards compatibility (like all quirks); userspace
can disable it via KVM_CAP_DISABLE_QUIRKS2 for consistency with the
constraints on WRMSR(IA32_DEBUGCTL).
Note that the quirk only bypasses the consistency check. The vmcs02 bit is
still owned by the host, and PMCs are not frozen during virtualized SMM.
In particular, if a host administrator decides that PMCs should not be
frozen during physical SMM, then L1 has no say in the matter.
Fixes: 095686e6fc ("KVM: nVMX: Check vmcs12->guest_ia32_debugctl on nested VM-Enter")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260205231537.1278753-1-jmattson@google.com
[sean: tag for stable@, clean-up and fix goofs in the comment and docs]
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
[Rename quirk. - Paolo]
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
KVM generic changes for 7.0
- Remove a subtle pseudo-overlay of kvm_stats_desc, which, aside from being
unnecessary and confusing, triggered compiler warnings due to
-Wflex-array-member-not-at-end.
- Document that vcpu->mutex is take outside of kvm->slots_lock and
kvm->slots_arch_lock, which is intentional and desirable despite being
rather unintuitive.
Explicitly document the ordering of vcpu->mutex being taken *outside* of
kvm->slots_lock. While somewhat unintuitive since vCPUs conceptually have
narrower scope than VMs, the scope of the owning object (vCPU versus VM)
doesn't automatically carry over to the lock. In this case, vcpu->mutex
has far broader scope than kvm->slots_lock. As Paolo put it, it's a
"don't worry about multiple ioctls at the same time" mutex that's intended
to be taken at the outer edges of KVM.
More importantly, arm64 and x86 have gained flows that take kvm->slots_lock
inside of vcpu->mutex. x86's kvm_inhibit_apic_access_page() is particularly
nasty, as slots_lock is taken quite deep within KVM_RUN, i.e. simply
swapping the ordering isn't an option.
Commit to the vcpu->mutex => kvm->slots_lock ordering, as vcpu->mutex
really is intended to be a "top-level" lock, whereas kvm->slots_lock is
"just" a helper lock.
Opportunistically document that vcpu->mutex is also taken outside of
slots_arch_lock, e.g. when allocating shadow roots on x86 (which is the
entire reason slots_arch_lock exists, as shadow roots must be allocated
while holding kvm->srcu)
kvm_mmu_new_pgd()
|
-> kvm_mmu_reload()
|
-> kvm_mmu_load()
|
-> mmu_alloc_shadow_roots()
|
-> mmu_first_shadow_root_alloc()
but also when manipulating memslots in vCPU context, e.g. when inhibiting
the APIC-access page via the aforementioned kvm_inhibit_apic_access_page()
kvm_inhibit_apic_access_page()
|
-> __x86_set_memory_region()
|
-> kvm_set_internal_memslot()
|
-> kvm_set_memory_region()
|
-> kvm_set_memslot()
Cc: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260302170239.596810-1-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
KVM_CAP_SYNC_MMU is provided by KVM's MMU notifiers, which are now always
available. Move the definition from individual architectures to common
code.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Pull KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini:
"Loongarch:
- Add more CPUCFG mask bits
- Improve feature detection
- Add lazy load support for FPU and binary translation (LBT) register
state
- Fix return value for memory reads from and writes to in-kernel
devices
- Add support for detecting preemption from within a guest
- Add KVM steal time test case to tools/selftests
ARM:
- Add support for FEAT_IDST, allowing ID registers that are not
implemented to be reported as a normal trap rather than as an UNDEF
exception
- Add sanitisation of the VTCR_EL2 register, fixing a number of
UXN/PXN/XN bugs in the process
- Full handling of RESx bits, instead of only RES0, and resulting in
SCTLR_EL2 being added to the list of sanitised registers
- More pKVM fixes for features that are not supposed to be exposed to
guests
- Make sure that MTE being disabled on the pKVM host doesn't give it
the ability to attack the hypervisor
- Allow pKVM's host stage-2 mappings to use the Force Write Back
version of the memory attributes by using the "pass-through'
encoding
- Fix trapping of ICC_DIR_EL1 on GICv5 hosts emulating GICv3 for the
guest
- Preliminary work for guest GICv5 support
- A bunch of debugfs fixes, removing pointless custom iterators
stored in guest data structures
- A small set of FPSIMD cleanups
- Selftest fixes addressing the incorrect alignment of page
allocation
- Other assorted low-impact fixes and spelling fixes
RISC-V:
- Fixes for issues discoverd by KVM API fuzzing in
kvm_riscv_aia_imsic_has_attr(), kvm_riscv_aia_imsic_rw_attr(), and
kvm_riscv_vcpu_aia_imsic_update()
- Allow Zalasr, Zilsd and Zclsd extensions for Guest/VM
- Transparent huge page support for hypervisor page tables
- Adjust the number of available guest irq files based on MMIO
register sizes found in the device tree or the ACPI tables
- Add RISC-V specific paging modes to KVM selftests
- Detect paging mode at runtime for selftests
s390:
- Performance improvement for vSIE (aka nested virtualization)
- Completely new memory management. s390 was a special snowflake that
enlisted help from the architecture's page table management to
build hypervisor page tables, in particular enabling sharing the
last level of page tables. This however was a lot of code (~3K
lines) in order to support KVM, and also blocked several features.
The biggest advantages is that the page size of userspace is
completely independent of the page size used by the guest:
userspace can mix normal pages, THPs and hugetlbfs as it sees fit,
and in fact transparent hugepages were not possible before. It's
also now possible to have nested guests and guests with huge pages
running on the same host
- Maintainership change for s390 vfio-pci
- Small quality of life improvement for protected guests
x86:
- Add support for giving the guest full ownership of PMU hardware
(contexted switched around the fastpath run loop) and allowing
direct access to data MSRs and PMCs (restricted by the vPMU model).
KVM still intercepts access to control registers, e.g. to enforce
event filtering and to prevent the guest from profiling sensitive
host state. This is more accurate, since it has no risk of
contention and thus dropped events, and also has significantly less
overhead.
For more information, see the commit message for merge commit
bf2c3138ae ("Merge tag 'kvm-x86-pmu-6.20' ...")
- Disallow changing the virtual CPU model if L2 is active, for all
the same reasons KVM disallows change the model after the first
KVM_RUN
- Fix a bug where KVM would incorrectly reject host accesses to PV
MSRs when running with KVM_CAP_ENFORCE_PV_FEATURE_CPUID enabled,
even if those were advertised as supported to userspace,
- Fix a bug with protected guest state (SEV-ES/SNP and TDX) VMs,
where KVM would attempt to read CR3 configuring an async #PF entry
- Fail the build if EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL or EXPORT_SYMBOL is used in KVM
(for x86 only) to enforce usage of EXPORT_SYMBOL_FOR_KVM_INTERNAL.
Only a few exports that are intended for external usage, and those
are allowed explicitly
- When checking nested events after a vCPU is unblocked, ignore
-EBUSY instead of WARNing. Userspace can sometimes put the vCPU
into what should be an impossible state, and spurious exit to
userspace on -EBUSY does not really do anything to solve the issue
- Also throw in the towel and drop the WARN on INIT/SIPI being
blocked when vCPU is in Wait-For-SIPI, which also resulted in
playing whack-a-mole with syzkaller stuffing architecturally
impossible states into KVM
- Add support for new Intel instructions that don't require anything
beyond enumerating feature flags to userspace
- Grab SRCU when reading PDPTRs in KVM_GET_SREGS2
- Add WARNs to guard against modifying KVM's CPU caps outside of the
intended setup flow, as nested VMX in particular is sensitive to
unexpected changes in KVM's golden configuration
- Add a quirk to allow userspace to opt-in to actually suppress EOI
broadcasts when the suppression feature is enabled by the guest
(currently limited to split IRQCHIP, i.e. userspace I/O APIC).
Sadly, simply fixing KVM to honor Suppress EOI Broadcasts isn't an
option as some userspaces have come to rely on KVM's buggy behavior
(KVM advertises Supress EOI Broadcast irrespective of whether or
not userspace I/O APIC supports Directed EOIs)
- Clean up KVM's handling of marking mapped vCPU pages dirty
- Drop a pile of *ancient* sanity checks hidden behind in KVM's
unused ASSERT() macro, most of which could be trivially triggered
by the guest and/or user, and all of which were useless
- Fold "struct dest_map" into its sole user, "struct rtc_status", to
make it more obvious what the weird parameter is used for, and to
allow fropping these RTC shenanigans if CONFIG_KVM_IOAPIC=n
- Bury all of ioapic.h, i8254.h and related ioctls (including
KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP) behind CONFIG_KVM_IOAPIC=y
- Add a regression test for recent APICv update fixes
- Handle "hardware APIC ISR", a.k.a. SVI, updates in
kvm_apic_update_apicv() to consolidate the updates, and to
co-locate SVI updates with the updates for KVM's own cache of ISR
information
- Drop a dead function declaration
- Minor cleanups
x86 (Intel):
- Rework KVM's handling of VMCS updates while L2 is active to
temporarily switch to vmcs01 instead of deferring the update until
the next nested VM-Exit.
The deferred updates approach directly contributed to several bugs,
was proving to be a maintenance burden due to the difficulty in
auditing the correctness of deferred updates, and was polluting
"struct nested_vmx" with a growing pile of booleans
- Fix an SGX bug where KVM would incorrectly try to handle EPCM page
faults, and instead always reflect them into the guest. Since KVM
doesn't shadow EPCM entries, EPCM violations cannot be due to KVM
interference and can't be resolved by KVM
- Fix a bug where KVM would register its posted interrupt wakeup
handler even if loading kvm-intel.ko ultimately failed
- Disallow access to vmcb12 fields that aren't fully supported,
mostly to avoid weirdness and complexity for FRED and other
features, where KVM wants enable VMCS shadowing for fields that
conditionally exist
- Print out the "bad" offsets and values if kvm-intel.ko refuses to
load (or refuses to online a CPU) due to a VMCS config mismatch
x86 (AMD):
- Drop a user-triggerable WARN on nested_svm_load_cr3() failure
- Add support for virtualizing ERAPS. Note, correct virtualization of
ERAPS relies on an upcoming, publicly announced change in the APM
to reduce the set of conditions where hardware (i.e. KVM) *must*
flush the RAP
- Ignore nSVM intercepts for instructions that are not supported
according to L1's virtual CPU model
- Add support for expedited writes to the fast MMIO bus, a la VMX's
fastpath for EPT Misconfig
- Don't set GIF when clearing EFER.SVME, as GIF exists independently
of SVM, and allow userspace to restore nested state with GIF=0
- Treat exit_code as an unsigned 64-bit value through all of KVM
- Add support for fetching SNP certificates from userspace
- Fix a bug where KVM would use vmcb02 instead of vmcb01 when
emulating VMLOAD or VMSAVE on behalf of L2
- Misc fixes and cleanups
x86 selftests:
- Add a regression test for TPR<=>CR8 synchronization and IRQ masking
- Overhaul selftest's MMU infrastructure to genericize stage-2 MMU
support, and extend x86's infrastructure to support EPT and NPT
(for L2 guests)
- Extend several nested VMX tests to also cover nested SVM
- Add a selftest for nested VMLOAD/VMSAVE
- Rework the nested dirty log test, originally added as a regression
test for PML where KVM logged L2 GPAs instead of L1 GPAs, to
improve test coverage and to hopefully make the test easier to
understand and maintain
guest_memfd:
- Remove kvm_gmem_populate()'s preparation tracking and half-baked
hugepage handling. SEV/SNP was the only user of the tracking and it
can do it via the RMP
- Retroactively document and enforce (for SNP) that
KVM_SEV_SNP_LAUNCH_UPDATE and KVM_TDX_INIT_MEM_REGION require the
source page to be 4KiB aligned, to avoid non-trivial complexity for
something that no known VMM seems to be doing and to avoid an API
special case for in-place conversion, which simply can't support
unaligned sources
- When populating guest_memfd memory, GUP the source page in common
code and pass the refcounted page to the vendor callback, instead
of letting vendor code do the heavy lifting. Doing so avoids a
looming deadlock bug with in-place due an AB-BA conflict betwee
mmap_lock and guest_memfd's filemap invalidate lock
Generic:
- Fix a bug where KVM would ignore the vCPU's selected address space
when creating a vCPU-specific mapping of guest memory. Actually
this bug could not be hit even on x86, the only architecture with
multiple address spaces, but it's a bug nevertheless"
* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (267 commits)
KVM: s390: Increase permitted SE header size to 1 MiB
MAINTAINERS: Replace backup for s390 vfio-pci
KVM: s390: vsie: Fix race in acquire_gmap_shadow()
KVM: s390: vsie: Fix race in walk_guest_tables()
KVM: s390: Use guest address to mark guest page dirty
irqchip/riscv-imsic: Adjust the number of available guest irq files
RISC-V: KVM: Transparent huge page support
RISC-V: KVM: selftests: Add Zalasr extensions to get-reg-list test
RISC-V: KVM: Allow Zalasr extensions for Guest/VM
KVM: riscv: selftests: Add riscv vm satp modes
KVM: riscv: selftests: add Zilsd and Zclsd extension to get-reg-list test
riscv: KVM: allow Zilsd and Zclsd extensions for Guest/VM
RISC-V: KVM: Skip IMSIC update if vCPU IMSIC state is not initialized
RISC-V: KVM: Fix null pointer dereference in kvm_riscv_aia_imsic_rw_attr()
RISC-V: KVM: Fix null pointer dereference in kvm_riscv_aia_imsic_has_attr()
RISC-V: KVM: Remove unnecessary 'ret' assignment
KVM: s390: Add explicit padding to struct kvm_s390_keyop
KVM: LoongArch: selftests: Add steal time test case
LoongArch: KVM: Add paravirt vcpu_is_preempted() support in guest side
LoongArch: KVM: Add paravirt preempt feature in hypervisor side
...
- gmap rewrite: completely new memory management for kvm/s390
- vSIE improvement
- maintainership change for s390 vfio-pci
- small quality of life improvement for protected guests
KVM guest_memfd changes for 6.20
- Remove kvm_gmem_populate()'s preparation tracking and half-baked hugepage
handling, and instead rely on SNP (the only user of the tracking) to do its
own tracking via the RMP.
- Retroactively document and enforce (for SNP) that KVM_SEV_SNP_LAUNCH_UPDATE
and KVM_TDX_INIT_MEM_REGION require the source page to be 4KiB aligned, to
avoid non-trivial complexity for a non-existent usecase (and because
in-place conversion simply can't support unaligned sources).
- When populating guest_memfd memory, GUP the source page in common code and
pass the refcounted page to the vendor callback, instead of letting vendor
code do the heavy lifting. Doing so avoids a looming deadlock bug with
in-place due an AB-BA conflict betwee mmap_lock and guest_memfd's filemap
invalidate lock.
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"A slightly calmer cycle for docs this time around, though there is
still a fair amount going on, including:
- Some signs of life on the long-moribund Japanese translation
- Documentation on policies around the use of generative tools for
patch submissions, and a separate document intended for consumption
by generative tools
- The completion of the move of the documentation tools to
tools/docs. For now we're leaving a /scripts/kernel-doc symlink
behind to avoid breaking scripts
- Ongoing build-system work includes the incorporation of
documentation in Python code, better support for documenting
variables, and lots of improvements and fixes
- Automatic linking of man-page references -- cat(1), for example --
to the online pages in the HTML build
...and the usual array of typo fixes and such"
* tag 'docs-7.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/docs/linux: (107 commits)
doc: development-process: add notice on testing
tools: sphinx-build-wrapper: improve its help message
docs: sphinx-build-wrapper: allow -v override -q
docs: kdoc: Fix pdfdocs build for tools
docs: ja_JP: process: translate 'Obtain a current source tree'
docs: fix 're-use' -> 'reuse' in documentation
docs: ioctl-number: fix a typo in ioctl-number.rst
docs: filesystems: ensure proc pid substitutable is complete
docs: automarkup.py: Skip common English words as C identifiers
Documentation: use a source-read extension for the index link boilerplate
docs: parse_features: make documentation more consistent
docs: add parse_features module documentation
docs: jobserver: do some documentation improvements
docs: add jobserver module documentation
docs: kabi: helpers: add documentation for each "enum" value
docs: kabi: helpers: add helper for debug bits 7 and 8
docs: kabi: system_symbols: end docstring phrases with a dot
docs: python: abi_regex: do some improvements at documentation
docs: python: abi_parser: do some improvements at documentation
docs: add kabi modules documentation
...
KVM x86 misc changes for 6.20
- Disallow changing the virtual CPU model if L2 is active, for all the same
reasons KVM disallows change the model after the first KVM_RUN.
- Fix a bug where KVM would incorrectly reject host accesses to PV MSRs that
were advertised as supported to userspace when running with
KVM_CAP_ENFORCE_PV_FEATURE_CPUID enabled.
- Fix a bug where KVM would attempt to read protect guest state (CR3) when
configuring an async #PF entry.
- Fail the build if EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL or EXPORT_SYMBOL is used in KVM (for x86
only) to enforce usage of EXPORT_SYMBOL_FOR_KVM_INTERNAL. Explicitly allow
the few exports that are intended for external usage.
- Ignore -EBUSY when checking nested events after a vCPU exits blocking as
the WARN is user-triggerable, and because exiting to userspace on -EBUSY
does more harm than good in pretty much every situation.
- Throw in the towel and drop the WARN on INIT/SIPI being blocked when vCPU is
in Wait-For-SIPI, as playing whack-a-mole with syzkaller turned out to be an
unwinnable game.
- Add support for new Intel instructions that don't require anything beyond
enumerating feature flags to userspace.
- Grab SRCU when reading PDPTRs in KVM_GET_SREGS2.
- Add WARNs to guard against modifying KVM's CPU caps outside of the intended
setup flow, as nested VMX in particular is sensitive to unexpected changes
in KVM's golden configuration.
- Add a quirk to allow userspace to opt-in to actually suppress EOI broadcasts
when the suppression feature is enabled by the guest (currently limited to
split IRQCHIP, i.e. userspace I/O APIC). Sadly, simply fixing KVM to honor
Suppress EOI Broadcasts isn't an option as some userspaces have come to rely
on KVM's buggy behavior (KVM advertises Supress EOI Broadcast irrespective
of whether or not userspace I/O APIC supports Directed EOIs).
- Minor cleanups.
KVM SVM changes for 6.20
- Drop a user-triggerable WARN on nested_svm_load_cr3() failure.
- Add support for virtualizing ERAPS. Note, correct virtualization of ERAPS
relies on an upcoming, publicly announced change in the APM to reduce the
set of conditions where hardware (i.e. KVM) *must* flush the RAP.
- Ignore nSVM intercepts for instructions that are not supported according to
L1's virtual CPU model.
- Add support for expedited writes to the fast MMIO bus, a la VMX's fastpath
for EPT Misconfig.
- Don't set GIF when clearing EFER.SVME, as GIF exists independently of SVM,
and allow userspace to restore nested state with GIF=0.
- Treat exit_code as an unsigned 64-bit value through all of KVM.
- Add support for fetching SNP certificates from userspace.
- Fix a bug where KVM would use vmcb02 instead of vmcb01 when emulating VMLOAD
or VMSAVE on behalf of L2.
- Misc fixes and cleanups.
Add a new IOCTL to allow userspace to manipulate storage keys directly.
This will make it easier to write selftests related to storage keys.
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>
Add two flags for KVM_CAP_X2APIC_API to allow userspace to control support
for Suppress EOI Broadcasts when using a split IRQCHIP (I/O APIC emulated
by userspace), which KVM completely mishandles. When x2APIC support was
first added, KVM incorrectly advertised and "enabled" Suppress EOI
Broadcast, without fully supporting the I/O APIC side of the equation,
i.e. without adding directed EOI to KVM's in-kernel I/O APIC.
That flaw was carried over to split IRQCHIP support, i.e. KVM advertised
support for Suppress EOI Broadcasts irrespective of whether or not the
userspace I/O APIC implementation supported directed EOIs. Even worse,
KVM didn't actually suppress EOI broadcasts, i.e. userspace VMMs without
support for directed EOI came to rely on the "spurious" broadcasts.
KVM "fixed" the in-kernel I/O APIC implementation by completely disabling
support for Suppress EOI Broadcasts in commit 0bcc3fb95b ("KVM: lapic:
stop advertising DIRECTED_EOI when in-kernel IOAPIC is in use"), but
didn't do anything to remedy userspace I/O APIC implementations.
KVM's bogus handling of Suppress EOI Broadcast is problematic when the
guest relies on interrupts being masked in the I/O APIC until well after
the initial local APIC EOI. E.g. Windows with Credential Guard enabled
handles interrupts in the following order:
1. Interrupt for L2 arrives.
2. L1 APIC EOIs the interrupt.
3. L1 resumes L2 and injects the interrupt.
4. L2 EOIs after servicing.
5. L1 performs the I/O APIC EOI.
Because KVM EOIs the I/O APIC at step #2, the guest can get an interrupt
storm, e.g. if the IRQ line is still asserted and userspace reacts to the
EOI by re-injecting the IRQ, because the guest doesn't de-assert the line
until step #4, and doesn't expect the interrupt to be re-enabled until
step #5.
Unfortunately, simply "fixing" the bug isn't an option, as KVM has no way
of knowing if the userspace I/O APIC supports directed EOIs, i.e.
suppressing EOI broadcasts would result in interrupts being stuck masked
in the userspace I/O APIC due to step #5 being ignored by userspace. And
fully disabling support for Suppress EOI Broadcast is also undesirable, as
picking up the fix would require a guest reboot, *and* more importantly
would change the virtual CPU model exposed to the guest without any buy-in
from userspace.
Add KVM_X2APIC_ENABLE_SUPPRESS_EOI_BROADCAST and
KVM_X2APIC_DISABLE_SUPPRESS_EOI_BROADCAST flags to allow userspace to
explicitly enable or disable support for Suppress EOI Broadcasts. This
gives userspace control over the virtual CPU model exposed to the guest,
as KVM should never have enabled support for Suppress EOI Broadcast without
userspace opt-in. Not setting either flag will result in legacy quirky
behavior for backward compatibility.
Disallow fully enabling SUPPRESS_EOI_BROADCAST when using an in-kernel
I/O APIC, as KVM's history/support is just as tragic. E.g. it's not clear
that commit c806a6ad35 ("KVM: x86: call irq notifiers with directed EOI")
was entirely correct, i.e. it may have simply papered over the lack of
Directed EOI emulation in the I/O APIC.
Note, Suppress EOI Broadcasts is defined only in Intel's SDM, not in AMD's
APM. But the bit is writable on some AMD CPUs, e.g. Turin, and KVM's ABI
is to support Directed EOI (KVM's name) irrespective of guest CPU vendor.
Fixes: 7543a635aa ("KVM: x86: Add KVM exit for IOAPIC EOIs")
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/7D497EF1-607D-4D37-98E7-DAF95F099342@nutanix.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Suggested-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Khushit Shah <khushit.shah@nutanix.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260123125657.3384063-1-khushit.shah@nutanix.com
[sean: clean up minor formatting goofs and fix a comment typo]
Co-developed-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
The root document usually has a special :ref:`genindex` link to the
generated index. This is also the case for Documentation/index.rst. The
other index.rst files deeper in the directory hierarchy usually don't.
For SPHINXDIRS builds, the root document isn't Documentation/index.rst,
but some other index.rst in the hierarchy. Currently they have a
".. only::" block to add the index link when doing SPHINXDIRS html
builds.
This is obviously very tedious and repetitive. The link is also added to
all index.rst files in the hierarchy for SPHINXDIRS builds, not just the
root document.
Put the boilerplate in a sphinx-includes/subproject-index.rst file, and
include it at the end of the root document for subproject builds in an
ad-hoc source-read extension defined in conf.py.
For now, keep having the boilerplate in translations, because this
approach currently doesn't cover translated index link headers.
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Tested-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
[jc: did s/doctree/kern_doc_dir/ ]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20260123143149.2024303-1-jani.nikula@intel.com>
For SEV-SNP, the host can optionally provide a certificate table to the
guest when it issues an attestation request to firmware (see GHCB 2.0
specification regarding "SNP Extended Guest Requests"). This certificate
table can then be used to verify the endorsement key used by firmware to
sign the attestation report.
While it is possible for guests to obtain the certificates through other
means, handling it via the host provides more flexibility in being able
to keep the certificate data in sync with the endorsement key throughout
host-side operations that might resulting in the endorsement key
changing.
In the case of KVM, userspace will be responsible for fetching the
certificate table and keeping it in sync with any modifications to the
endorsement key by other userspace management tools. Define a new
KVM_EXIT_SNP_REQ_CERTS event where userspace is provided with the GPA of
the buffer the guest has provided as part of the attestation request so
that userspace can write the certificate data into it while relying on
filesystem-based locking to keep the certificates up-to-date relative to
the endorsement keys installed/utilized by firmware at the time the
certificates are fetched.
[Melody: Update the documentation scheme about how file locking is
expected to happen.]
Reviewed-by: Liam Merwick <liam.merwick@oracle.com>
Tested-by: Liam Merwick <liam.merwick@oracle.com>
Tested-by: Dionna Glaze <dionnaglaze@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <michael.roth@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Melody Wang <huibo.wang@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <michael.roth@amd.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260109231732.1160759-2-michael.roth@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
In the past, KVM_SEV_SNP_LAUNCH_UPDATE accepted a non-page-aligned
'uaddr' parameter to copy data from, but continuing to support this with
new functionality like in-place conversion and hugepages in the pipeline
has proven to be more trouble than it is worth, since there are no known
users that have been identified who use a non-page-aligned 'uaddr'
parameter.
Rather than locking guest_memfd into continuing to support this, go
ahead and document page-alignment as a requirement and begin enforcing
this in the handling function.
Reviewed-by: Vishal Annapurve <vannapurve@google.com>
Tested-by: Kai Huang <kai.huang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <michael.roth@amd.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260108214622.1084057-5-michael.roth@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Pull hyperv updates from Wei Liu:
- Enhancements to Linux as the root partition for Microsoft Hypervisor:
- Support a new mode called L1VH, which allows Linux to drive the
hypervisor running the Azure Host directly
- Support for MSHV crash dump collection
- Allow Linux's memory management subsystem to better manage guest
memory regions
- Fix issues that prevented a clean shutdown of the whole system on
bare metal and nested configurations
- ARM64 support for the MSHV driver
- Various other bug fixes and cleanups
- Add support for Confidential VMBus for Linux guest on Hyper-V
- Secure AVIC support for Linux guests on Hyper-V
- Add the mshv_vtl driver to allow Linux to run as the secure kernel in
a higher virtual trust level for Hyper-V
* tag 'hyperv-next-signed-20251207' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hyperv/linux: (58 commits)
mshv: Cleanly shutdown root partition with MSHV
mshv: Use reboot notifier to configure sleep state
mshv: Add definitions for MSHV sleep state configuration
mshv: Add support for movable memory regions
mshv: Add refcount and locking to mem regions
mshv: Fix huge page handling in memory region traversal
mshv: Move region management to mshv_regions.c
mshv: Centralize guest memory region destruction
mshv: Refactor and rename memory region handling functions
mshv: adjust interrupt control structure for ARM64
Drivers: hv: use kmalloc_array() instead of kmalloc()
mshv: Add ioctl for self targeted passthrough hvcalls
Drivers: hv: Introduce mshv_vtl driver
Drivers: hv: Export some symbols for mshv_vtl
static_call: allow using STATIC_CALL_TRAMP_STR() from assembly
mshv: Extend create partition ioctl to support cpu features
mshv: Allow mappings that overlap in uaddr
mshv: Fix create memory region overlap check
mshv: add WQ_PERCPU to alloc_workqueue users
Drivers: hv: Use kmalloc_array() instead of kmalloc()
...
KVM/arm64 updates for 6.19
- Support for userspace handling of synchronous external aborts (SEAs),
allowing the VMM to potentially handle the abort in a non-fatal
manner.
- Large rework of the VGIC's list register handling with the goal of
supporting more active/pending IRQs than available list registers in
hardware. In addition, the VGIC now supports EOImode==1 style
deactivations for IRQs which may occur on a separate vCPU than the
one that acked the IRQ.
- Support for FEAT_XNX (user / privileged execute permissions) and
FEAT_HAF (hardware update to the Access Flag) in the software page
table walkers and shadow MMU.
- Allow page table destruction to reschedule, fixing long need_resched
latencies observed when destroying a large VM.
- Minor fixes to KVM and selftests
KVM/riscv changes for 6.19
- SBI MPXY support for KVM guest
- New KVM_EXIT_FAIL_ENTRY_NO_VSFILE for the case when in-kernel
AIA virtualization fails to allocate IMSIC VS-file
- Support enabling dirty log gradually in small chunks
- Fix guest page fault within HLV* instructions
- Flush VS-stage TLB after VCPU migration for Andes cores
KVM SVM changes for 6.19:
- Fix a few missing "VMCB dirty" bugs.
- Fix the worst of KVM's lack of EFER.LMSLE emulation.
- Add AVIC support for addressing 4k vCPUs in x2AVIC mode.
- Fix incorrect handling of selective CR0 writes when checking intercepts
during emulation of L2 instructions.
- Fix a currently-benign bug where KVM would clobber SPEC_CTRL[63:32] on
VMRUN and #VMEXIT.
- Fix a bug where KVM corrupt the guest code stream when re-injecting a soft
interrupt if the guest patched the underlying code after the VM-Exit, e.g.
when Linux patches code with a temporary INT3.
- Add KVM_X86_SNP_POLICY_BITS to advertise supported SNP policy bits to
userspace, and extend KVM "support" to all policy bits that don't require
any actual support from KVM.
KVM generic changes for 6.19:
- Use the recently-added WQ_PERCPU when creating the per-CPU workqueue for
irqfd cleanup.
- Fix a goof in the dirty ring documentation.
There is already support of enabling dirty log gradually in small chunks
for x86 in commit 3c9bd4006b ("KVM: x86: enable dirty log gradually in
small chunks") and c862626 ("KVM: arm64: Support enabling dirty log
gradually in small chunks"). This adds support for riscv.
x86 and arm64 writes protect both huge pages and normal pages now, so
riscv protect also protects both huge pages and normal pages.
On a nested virtualization setup (RISC-V KVM running inside a QEMU VM
on an [Intel® Core™ i5-12500H] host), I did some tests with a 2G Linux
VM using different backing page sizes. The time taken for
memory_global_dirty_log_start in the L2 QEMU is listed below:
Page Size Before After Optimization
4K 4490.23ms 31.94ms
2M 48.97ms 45.46ms
1G 28.40ms 30.93ms
Signed-off-by: Quan Zhou <zhouquan@iscas.ac.cn>
Signed-off-by: Dong Yang <dayss1224@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251103062825.9084-1-dayss1224@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org>
Setting KVM_CAP_S390_USER_OPEREXEC will forward all operation
exceptions to user space. This also includes the 0x0000 instructions
managed by KVM_CAP_S390_USER_INSTR0. It's helpful if user space wants
to emulate instructions which do not (yet) have an opcode.
While we're at it refine the documentation for
KVM_CAP_S390_USER_INSTR0.
Signed-off-by: Janosch Frank <frankja@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Janosch Frank <frankja@linux.ibm.com>
According to the APM Volume #2, Section 15.17, Table 15-10 (24593—Rev.
3.42—March 2024), When "GIF==0", an "Debug exception or trap, due to
breakpoint register match" should be "Ignored and discarded".
KVM lacks any handling of this. Even when vGIF is enabled and vGIF==0,
the CPU does not ignore #DBs and relies on the VMM to do so.
Handling this is possible, but the complexity is unjustified given the
rarity of using HW breakpoints when GIF==0 (e.g. near VMRUN). KVM would
need to intercept the #DB, temporarily disable the breakpoint,
singe-step over the instruction (probably reusing NMI singe-stepping),
and re-enable the breakpoint.
Instead, document this as an erratum.
Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosry.ahmed@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251030223757.2950309-1-yosry.ahmed@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Document the new userspace-visible features and APIs for handling
synchronous external abort (SEA)
- KVM_CAP_ARM_SEA_TO_USER: How userspace enables the new feature.
- KVM_EXIT_ARM_SEA: exit userspace gets when it needs to handle SEA
and what userspace gets while taking the SEA.
Signed-off-by: Jiaqi Yan <jiaqiyan@google.com>
Link: https://msgid.link/20251013185903.1372553-4-jiaqiyan@google.com
[ oliver: make documentation concise, remove implementation detail ]
Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton <oupton@kernel.org>
7.43 has been assigned twice, make
KVM_CAP_ARM_CACHEABLE_PFNMAP_SUPPORTED 7.44.
Fixes: f55ce5a6cd ("KVM: arm64: Expose new KVM cap for cacheable PFNMAP")
Reviewed-by: Ankit Agrawal <ankita@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Janosch Frank <frankja@linux.ibm.com>
KVM x86 fixes for 6.18:
- Expand the KVM_PRE_FAULT_MEMORY selftest to add a regression test for the
bug fixed by commit 3ccbf6f470 ("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.
GICv5 hosts optionally include FEAT_GCIE_LEGACY, which allows them to
execute GICv3-based VMs on GICv5 hardware. Update the GICv3
documentation to reflect this now that GICv3 guests are supports on
compatible GICv5 hosts.
Signed-off-by: Sascha Bischoff <sascha.bischoff@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
KVM rejects calls to KVM_{GET,SET}_VCPU_EVENTS for an uninitialized vCPU
as of commit cc96679f3c03 ("KVM: arm64: Prevent access to vCPU events
before init"). Update the corresponding API documentation.
Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Add a guest_memfd flag to allow userspace to state that the underlying
memory should be configured to be initialized as shared, and reject user
page faults if the guest_memfd instance's memory isn't shared. Because
KVM doesn't yet support in-place private<=>shared conversions, all
guest_memfd memory effectively follows the initial state.
Alternatively, KVM could deduce the initial state based on MMAP, which for
all intents and purposes is what KVM currently does. However, implicitly
deriving the default state based on MMAP will result in a messy ABI when
support for in-place conversions is added.
For x86 CoCo VMs, which don't yet support MMAP, memory is currently private
by default (otherwise the memory would be unusable). If MMAP implies
memory is shared by default, then the default state for CoCo VMs will vary
based on MMAP, and from userspace's perspective, will change when in-place
conversion support is added. I.e. to maintain guest<=>host ABI, userspace
would need to immediately convert all memory from shared=>private, which
is both ugly and inefficient. The inefficiency could be avoided by adding
a flag to state that memory is _private_ by default, irrespective of MMAP,
but that would lead to an equally messy and hard to document ABI.
Bite the bullet and immediately add a flag to control the default state so
that the effective behavior is explicit and straightforward.
Fixes: 3d3a04fad2 ("KVM: Allow and advertise support for host mmap() on guest_memfd files")
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Fuad Tabba <tabba@google.com>
Tested-by: Fuad Tabba <tabba@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Ackerley Tng <ackerleytng@google.com>
Tested-by: Ackerley Tng <ackerleytng@google.com>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251003232606.4070510-3-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Rework the not-yet-released KVM_CAP_GUEST_MEMFD_MMAP into a more generic
KVM_CAP_GUEST_MEMFD_FLAGS capability so that adding new flags doesn't
require a new capability, and so that developers aren't tempted to bundle
multiple flags into a single capability.
Note, kvm_vm_ioctl_check_extension_generic() can only return a 32-bit
value, but that limitation can be easily circumvented by adding e.g.
KVM_CAP_GUEST_MEMFD_FLAGS2 in the unlikely event guest_memfd supports more
than 32 flags.
Reviewed-by: Ackerley Tng <ackerleytng@google.com>
Tested-by: Ackerley Tng <ackerleytng@google.com>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251003232606.4070510-2-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Pull x86 kvm updates from Paolo Bonzini:
"Generic:
- Rework almost all of KVM's exports to expose symbols only to KVM's
x86 vendor modules (kvm-{amd,intel}.ko and PPC's kvm-{pr,hv}.ko
x86:
- Rework almost all of KVM x86's exports to expose symbols only to
KVM's vendor modules, i.e. to kvm-{amd,intel}.ko
- Add support for virtualizing Control-flow Enforcement Technology
(CET) on Intel (Shadow Stacks and Indirect Branch Tracking) and AMD
(Shadow Stacks).
It is worth noting that while SHSTK and IBT can be enabled
separately in CPUID, it is not really possible to virtualize them
separately. Therefore, Intel processors will really allow both
SHSTK and IBT under the hood if either is made visible in the
guest's CPUID. The alternative would be to intercept
XSAVES/XRSTORS, which is not feasible for performance reasons
- Fix a variety of fuzzing WARNs all caused by checking L1 intercepts
when completing userspace I/O. KVM has already committed to
allowing L2 to to perform I/O at that point
- Emulate PERF_CNTR_GLOBAL_STATUS_SET for PerfMonV2 guests, as the
MSR is supposed to exist for v2 PMUs
- Allow Centaur CPU leaves (base 0xC000_0000) for Zhaoxin CPUs
- Add support for the immediate forms of RDMSR and WRMSRNS, sans full
emulator support (KVM should never need to emulate the MSRs outside
of forced emulation and other contrived testing scenarios)
- Clean up the MSR APIs in preparation for CET and FRED
virtualization, as well as mediated vPMU support
- Clean up a pile of PMU code in anticipation of adding support for
mediated vPMUs
- Reject in-kernel IOAPIC/PIT for TDX VMs, as KVM can't obtain EOI
vmexits needed to faithfully emulate an I/O APIC for such guests
- Many cleanups and minor fixes
- Recover possible NX huge pages within the TDP MMU under read lock
to reduce guest jitter when restoring NX huge pages
- Return -EAGAIN during prefault if userspace concurrently
deletes/moves the relevant memslot, to fix an issue where
prefaulting could deadlock with the memslot update
x86 (AMD):
- Enable AVIC by default for Zen4+ if x2AVIC (and other prereqs) is
supported
- Require a minimum GHCB version of 2 when starting SEV-SNP guests
via KVM_SEV_INIT2 so that invalid GHCB versions result in immediate
errors instead of latent guest failures
- Add support for SEV-SNP's CipherText Hiding, an opt-in feature that
prevents unauthorized CPU accesses from reading the ciphertext of
SNP guest private memory, e.g. to attempt an offline attack. This
feature splits the shared SEV-ES/SEV-SNP ASID space into separate
ranges for SEV-ES and SEV-SNP guests, therefore a new module
parameter is needed to control the number of ASIDs that can be used
for VMs with CipherText Hiding vs. how many can be used to run
SEV-ES guests
- Add support for Secure TSC for SEV-SNP guests, which prevents the
untrusted host from tampering with the guest's TSC frequency, while
still allowing the the VMM to configure the guest's TSC frequency
prior to launch
- Validate the XCR0 provided by the guest (via the GHCB) to avoid
bugs resulting from bogus XCR0 values
- Save an SEV guest's policy if and only if LAUNCH_START fully
succeeds to avoid leaving behind stale state (thankfully not
consumed in KVM)
- Explicitly reject non-positive effective lengths during SNP's
LAUNCH_UPDATE instead of subtly relying on guest_memfd to deal with
them
- Reload the pre-VMRUN TSC_AUX on #VMEXIT for SEV-ES guests, not the
host's desired TSC_AUX, to fix a bug where KVM was keeping a
different vCPU's TSC_AUX in the host MSR until return to userspace
KVM (Intel):
- Preparation for FRED support
- Don't retry in TDX's anti-zero-step mitigation if the target
memslot is invalid, i.e. is being deleted or moved, to fix a
deadlock scenario similar to the aforementioned prefaulting case
- Misc bugfixes and minor cleanups"
* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (142 commits)
KVM: x86: Export KVM-internal symbols for sub-modules only
KVM: x86: Drop pointless exports of kvm_arch_xxx() hooks
KVM: x86: Move kvm_intr_is_single_vcpu() to lapic.c
KVM: Export KVM-internal symbols for sub-modules only
KVM: s390/vfio-ap: Use kvm_is_gpa_in_memslot() instead of open coded equivalent
KVM: VMX: Make CR4.CET a guest owned bit
KVM: selftests: Verify MSRs are (not) in save/restore list when (un)supported
KVM: selftests: Add coverage for KVM-defined registers in MSRs test
KVM: selftests: Add KVM_{G,S}ET_ONE_REG coverage to MSRs test
KVM: selftests: Extend MSRs test to validate vCPUs without supported features
KVM: selftests: Add support for MSR_IA32_{S,U}_CET to MSRs test
KVM: selftests: Add an MSR test to exercise guest/host and read/write
KVM: x86: Define AMD's #HV, #VC, and #SX exception vectors
KVM: x86: Define Control Protection Exception (#CP) vector
KVM: x86: Add human friendly formatting for #XM, and #VE
KVM: SVM: Enable shadow stack virtualization for SVM
KVM: SEV: Synchronize MSR_IA32_XSS from the GHCB when it's valid
KVM: SVM: Pass through shadow stack MSRs as appropriate
KVM: SVM: Update dump_vmcb with shadow stack save area additions
KVM: nSVM: Save/load CET Shadow Stack state to/from vmcb12/vmcb02
...
Pull kvm updates from Paolo Bonzini:
"This excludes the bulk of the x86 changes, which I will send
separately. They have two not complex but relatively unusual conflicts
so I will wait for other dust to settle.
guest_memfd:
- Add support for host userspace mapping of guest_memfd-backed memory
for VM types that do NOT use support KVM_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTE_PRIVATE
(which isn't precisely the same thing as CoCo VMs, since x86's
SEV-MEM and SEV-ES have no way to detect private vs. shared).
This lays the groundwork for removal of guest memory from the
kernel direct map, as well as for limited mmap() for
guest_memfd-backed memory.
For more information see:
- commit a6ad54137a ("Merge branch 'guest-memfd-mmap' into HEAD")
- guest_memfd in Firecracker:
https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/tree/feature/secret-hiding
- direct map removal:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250221160728.1584559-1-roypat@amazon.co.uk/
- mmap support:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250328153133.3504118-1-tabba@google.com/
ARM:
- Add support for FF-A 1.2 as the secure memory conduit for pKVM,
allowing more registers to be used as part of the message payload.
- Change the way pKVM allocates its VM handles, making sure that the
privileged hypervisor is never tricked into using uninitialised
data.
- Speed up MMIO range registration by avoiding unnecessary RCU
synchronisation, which results in VMs starting much quicker.
- Add the dump of the instruction stream when panic-ing in the EL2
payload, just like the rest of the kernel has always done. This
will hopefully help debugging non-VHE setups.
- Add 52bit PA support to the stage-1 page-table walker, and make use
of it to populate the fault level reported to the guest on failing
to translate a stage-1 walk.
- Add NV support to the GICv3-on-GICv5 emulation code, ensuring
feature parity for guests, irrespective of the host platform.
- Fix some really ugly architecture problems when dealing with debug
in a nested VM. This has some bad performance impacts, but is at
least correct.
- Add enough infrastructure to be able to disable EL2 features and
give effective values to the EL2 control registers. This then
allows a bunch of features to be turned off, which helps cross-host
migration.
- Large rework of the selftest infrastructure to allow most tests to
transparently run at EL2. This is the first step towards enabling
NV testing.
- Various fixes and improvements all over the map, including one BE
fix, just in time for the removal of the feature.
LoongArch:
- Detect page table walk feature on new hardware
- Add sign extension with kernel MMIO/IOCSR emulation
- Improve in-kernel IPI emulation
- Improve in-kernel PCH-PIC emulation
- Move kvm_iocsr tracepoint out of generic code
RISC-V:
- Added SBI FWFT extension for Guest/VM with misaligned delegation
and pointer masking PMLEN features
- Added ONE_REG interface for SBI FWFT extension
- Added Zicbop and bfloat16 extensions for Guest/VM
- Enabled more common KVM selftests for RISC-V
- Added SBI v3.0 PMU enhancements in KVM and perf driver
s390:
- Improve interrupt cpu for wakeup, in particular the heuristic to
decide which vCPU to deliver a floating interrupt to.
- Clear the PTE when discarding a swapped page because of CMMA; this
bug was introduced in 6.16 when refactoring gmap code.
x86 selftests:
- Add #DE coverage in the fastops test (the only exception that's
guest- triggerable in fastop-emulated instructions).
- Fix PMU selftests errors encountered on Granite Rapids (GNR),
Sierra Forest (SRF) and Clearwater Forest (CWF).
- Minor cleanups and improvements
x86 (guest side):
- For the legacy PCI hole (memory between TOLUD and 4GiB) to UC when
overriding guest MTRR for TDX/SNP to fix an issue where ACPI
auto-mapping could map devices as WB and prevent the device drivers
from mapping their devices with UC/UC-.
- Make kvm_async_pf_task_wake() a local static helper and remove its
export.
- Use native qspinlocks when running in a VM with dedicated
vCPU=>pCPU bindings even when PV_UNHALT is unsupported.
Generic:
- Remove a redundant __GFP_NOWARN from kvm_setup_async_pf() as
__GFP_NOWARN is now included in GFP_NOWAIT.
* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (178 commits)
KVM: s390: Fix to clear PTE when discarding a swapped page
KVM: arm64: selftests: Cover ID_AA64ISAR3_EL1 in set_id_regs
KVM: arm64: selftests: Remove a duplicate register listing in set_id_regs
KVM: arm64: selftests: Cope with arch silliness in EL2 selftest
KVM: arm64: selftests: Add basic test for running in VHE EL2
KVM: arm64: selftests: Enable EL2 by default
KVM: arm64: selftests: Initialize HCR_EL2
KVM: arm64: selftests: Use the vCPU attr for setting nr of PMU counters
KVM: arm64: selftests: Use hyp timer IRQs when test runs at EL2
KVM: arm64: selftests: Select SMCCC conduit based on current EL
KVM: arm64: selftests: Provide helper for getting default vCPU target
KVM: arm64: selftests: Alias EL1 registers to EL2 counterparts
KVM: arm64: selftests: Create a VGICv3 for 'default' VMs
KVM: arm64: selftests: Add unsanitised helpers for VGICv3 creation
KVM: arm64: selftests: Add helper to check for VGICv3 support
KVM: arm64: selftests: Initialize VGICv3 only once
KVM: arm64: selftests: Provide kvm_arch_vm_post_create() in library code
KVM: selftests: Add ex_str() to print human friendly name of exception vectors
selftests/kvm: remove stale TODO in xapic_state_test
KVM: selftests: Handle Intel Atom errata that leads to PMU event overcount
...
KVM x86 CET virtualization support for 6.18
Add support for virtualizing Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET) on
Intel (Shadow Stacks and Indirect Branch Tracking) and AMD (Shadow Stacks).
CET is comprised of two distinct features, Shadow Stacks (SHSTK) and Indirect
Branch Tracking (IBT), that can be utilized by software to help provide
Control-flow integrity (CFI). SHSTK defends against backward-edge attacks
(a.k.a. Return-oriented programming (ROP)), while IBT defends against
forward-edge attacks (a.k.a. similarly CALL/JMP-oriented programming (COP/JOP)).
Attackers commonly use ROP and COP/JOP methodologies to redirect the control-
flow to unauthorized targets in order to execute small snippets of code,
a.k.a. gadgets, of the attackers choice. By chaining together several gadgets,
an attacker can perform arbitrary operations and circumvent the system's
defenses.
SHSTK defends against backward-edge attacks, which execute gadgets by modifying
the stack to branch to the attacker's target via RET, by providing a second
stack that is used exclusively to track control transfer operations. The
shadow stack is separate from the data/normal stack, and can be enabled
independently in user and kernel mode.
When SHSTK is is enabled, CALL instructions push the return address on both the
data and shadow stack. RET then pops the return address from both stacks and
compares the addresses. If the return addresses from the two stacks do not
match, the CPU generates a Control Protection (#CP) exception.
IBT defends against backward-edge attacks, which branch to gadgets by executing
indirect CALL and JMP instructions with attacker controlled register or memory
state, by requiring the target of indirect branches to start with a special
marker instruction, ENDBRANCH. If an indirect branch is executed and the next
instruction is not an ENDBRANCH, the CPU generates a #CP. Note, ENDBRANCH
behaves as a NOP if IBT is disabled or unsupported.
From a virtualization perspective, CET presents several problems. While SHSTK
and IBT have two layers of enabling, a global control in the form of a CR4 bit,
and a per-feature control in user and kernel (supervisor) MSRs (U_CET and S_CET
respectively), the {S,U}_CET MSRs can be context switched via XSAVES/XRSTORS.
Practically speaking, intercepting and emulating XSAVES/XRSTORS is not a viable
option due to complexity, and outright disallowing use of XSTATE to context
switch SHSTK/IBT state would render the features unusable to most guests.
To limit the overall complexity without sacrificing performance or usability,
simply ignore the potential virtualization hole, but ensure that all paths in
KVM treat SHSTK/IBT as usable by the guest if the feature is supported in
hardware, and the guest has access to at least one of SHSTK or IBT. I.e. allow
userspace to advertise one of SHSTK or IBT if both are supported in hardware,
even though doing so would allow a misbehaving guest to use the unadvertised
feature.
Fully emulating SHSTK and IBT would also require significant complexity, e.g.
to track and update branch state for IBT, and shadow stack state for SHSTK.
Given that emulating large swaths of the guest code stream isn't necessary on
modern CPUs, punt on emulating instructions that meaningful impact or consume
SHSTK or IBT. However, instead of doing nothing, explicitly reject emulation
of such instructions so that KVM's emulator can't be abused to circumvent CET.
Disable support for SHSTK and IBT if KVM is configured such that emulation of
arbitrary guest instructions may be required, specifically if Unrestricted
Guest (Intel only) is disabled, or if KVM will emulate a guest.MAXPHYADDR that
is smaller than host.MAXPHYADDR.
Lastly disable SHSTK support if shadow paging is enabled, as the protections
for the shadow stack are novel (shadow stacks require Writable=0,Dirty=1, so
that they can't be directly modified by software), i.e. would require
non-trivial support in the Shadow MMU.
Note, AMD CPUs currently only support SHSTK. Explicitly disable IBT support
so that KVM doesn't over-advertise if AMD CPUs add IBT, and virtualizing IBT
in SVM requires KVM modifications.
KVM x86 changes for 6.18
- Don't (re)check L1 intercepts when completing userspace I/O to fix a flaw
where a misbehaving usersepace (a.k.a. syzkaller) could swizzle L1's
intercepts and trigger a variety of WARNs in KVM.
- Emulate PERF_CNTR_GLOBAL_STATUS_SET for PerfMonV2 guests, as the MSR is
supposed to exist for v2 PMUs.
- Allow Centaur CPU leaves (base 0xC000_0000) for Zhaoxin CPUs.
- Clean up KVM's vector hashing code for delivering lowest priority IRQs.
- Clean up the fastpath handler code to only handle IPIs and WRMSRs that are
actually "fast", as opposed to handling those that KVM _hopes_ are fast, and
in the process of doing so add fastpath support for TSC_DEADLINE writes on
AMD CPUs.
- Clean up a pile of PMU code in anticipation of adding support for mediated
vPMUs.
- Add support for the immediate forms of RDMSR and WRMSRNS, sans full
emulator support (KVM should never need to emulate the MSRs outside of
forced emulation and other contrived testing scenarios).
- Clean up the MSR APIs in preparation for CET and FRED virtualization, as
well as mediated vPMU support.
- Rejecting a fully in-kernel IRQCHIP if EOIs are protected, i.e. for TDX VMs,
as KVM can't faithfully emulate an I/O APIC for such guests.
- KVM_REQ_MSR_FILTER_CHANGED into a generic RECALC_INTERCEPTS in preparation
for mediated vPMU support, as KVM will need to recalculate MSR intercepts in
response to PMU refreshes for guests with mediated vPMUs.
- Misc cleanups and minor fixes.
Add a KVM-defined ONE_REG register, KVM_REG_GUEST_SSP, to let userspace
save and restore the guest's Shadow Stack Pointer (SSP). On both Intel
and AMD, SSP is a hardware register that can only be accessed by software
via dedicated ISA (e.g. RDSSP) or via VMCS/VMCB fields (used by hardware
to context switch SSP at entry/exit). As a result, SSP doesn't fit in
any of KVM's existing interfaces for saving/restoring state.
Internally, treat SSP as a fake/synthetic MSR, as the semantics of writes
to SSP follow that of several other Shadow Stack MSRs, e.g. the PLx_SSP
MSRs. Use a translation layer to hide the KVM-internal MSR index so that
the arbitrary index doesn't become ABI, e.g. so that KVM can rework its
implementation as needed, so long as the ONE_REG ABI is maintained.
Explicitly reject accesses to SSP if the vCPU doesn't have Shadow Stack
support to avoid running afoul of ignore_msrs, which unfortunately applies
to host-initiated accesses (which is a discussion for another day). I.e.
ensure consistent behavior for KVM-defined registers irrespective of
ignore_msrs.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/aca9d389-f11e-4811-90cf-d98e345a5cc2@intel.com
Suggested-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Yang Weijiang <weijiang.yang@intel.com>
Tested-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@grsecurity.net>
Tested-by: John Allen <john.allen@amd.com>
Tested-by: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Chao Gao <chao.gao@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Binbin Wu <binbin.wu@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250919223258.1604852-14-seanjc@google.com
Co-developed-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
