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11 daysKVM: arm64: Reject guest_memfd memslots when the VM has MTEAlexandru Elisei1-0/+6
The user cannot use MTE on VMAs created by mapping a guest_memfd file, as arch_calc_vm_flag_bits() does not set VM_MTE_ALLOWED. When creating a guest_memfd backed memslot, kvm_arch_prepare_memory_region() rejects the memslot if MTE is enabled for the VM and if guest_memfd has been mapped in a VMA that intersects the memslot. However, the documentation for KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION2 explicitly states that the only condition for userspace_addr is for it to be a legal userspace address, but the mapping is not required to be valid nor populated at memslot creation. If userspace sets userspace_addr to an address that hasn't been mapped, or if userspace_addr belongs to a VMA that isn't backed by the guest_memfd file, or if the VMA doesn't intersect the memslot, memslot creation is successful and KVM ends up with a VM with MTE and guest_memfd-backed memslots. The same happens if the order is reversed: when userspace enables MTE, KVM does not check if memslots backed by guest_memfd are already present. Fix both issues by rejecting guest_memfd-backed memslots when MTE is enabled, and by rejecting MTE when guest_memfd-backed memslots are already present. Fixes: 32e200bd6e44 ("KVM: arm64: Enable support for guest_memfd backed memory") Tested-by: Fuad Tabba <fuad.tabba@linux.dev> Reviewed-by: Fuad Tabba <fuad.tabba@linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei@arm.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260722090354.94245-1-alexandru.elisei@arm.com Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
2026-06-24Merge tag 'kvm-s390-next-7.2-2' of ↵Paolo Bonzini1-1/+1
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvms390/linux into HEAD * Fix S390_USER_OPEREXEC so it can now be enabled regardless of other unrelated capabilities * Fix handling of the _PAGE_UNUSED pte bit that could lead to guest memory corruption in some scenarios * A bunch of misc gmap fixes (locking, behaviour under memory pressure) * Fix CMMA dirty tracking
2026-06-24KVM: s390: Fix typo in UCONTROL documentationEric Farman1-1/+1
Small typo noticed while writing the USER_OPEREXEC selftest. Signed-off-by: Eric Farman <farman@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com> Message-ID: <20260507200836.3500368-4-farman@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>
2026-06-15Merge tag 'kvm-s390-next-7.2-1' of ↵Paolo Bonzini1-2/+18
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvms390/linux into HEAD KVM: s390: New features for 7.2 New features for 7.2 for KVM/s390: * KVM_PRE_FAULT_MEMORY support * Support for 2G hugepages * Support for the ASTFLEIE 2 facility * kvm_arch_set_irq_inatomic Fast Inject * Fix potential leak of uninitialized bytes
2026-06-12Merge tag 'kvm-x86-svm-7.2' of https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux into HEADPaolo Bonzini1-0/+26
KVM SVM changes for 7.2 - Add support for virtualizing gPAT (KVM previously just used L1's PAT when running L2). - Fix goofs where KVM mishandles side effects (e.g. single-step and PMC updates) when emulating VMRUN. - Fix a variety of bugs in AVIC's handling of x2APIC MSR interception, most notably where KVM didn't disable interception of IRR, ISR, and TMR regs. - Add support for virtualizing Host-Only/Guest-Only bits in the mediated PMU.
2026-06-09KVM: s390: Document the KVM_CAP_S390_HPAGE_2G capabilityClaudio Imbrenda1-0/+15
Document the KVM_CAP_S390_HPAGE_2G capability, which behaves very similarly to the existing KVM_CAP_S390_HPAGE_1M. Signed-off-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com> Message-ID: <20260609150930.665370-5-imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>
2026-06-08Documentation: KVM: Synchronize x86 VM typesCarlos López1-0/+2
KVM has reflected KVM_X86_SNP_VM to userspace since 1dfe571c12cf ("KVM: SEV: Add initial SEV-SNP support"), and KVM_X86_TDX_VM since 161d34609f9b ("KVM: TDX: Make TDX VM type supported"). Update the documentation to reflect this fact. Fixes: 1dfe571c12cf ("KVM: SEV: Add initial SEV-SNP support") Fixes: 161d34609f9b ("KVM: TDX: Make TDX VM type supported") Signed-off-by: Carlos López <clopez@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Binbin Wu <binbin.wu@linux.intel.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260603114504.814647-2-clopez@suse.de [sean: use one tab instead of two] Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2026-05-28KVM: s390: Update KVM_PRE_FAULT_MEMORY API documentationClaudio Imbrenda1-2/+3
Update the API documentation for KVM_PRE_FAULT_MEMORY to account for its s390 implementation. Reviewed-by: Steffen Eiden <seiden@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com> Message-ID: <20260527144358.186359-4-imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>
2026-05-27KVM: TDX: Allow userspace to return errors to guest for MAPGPAVishal Annapurve1-0/+3
MAPGPA request from TDX VMs gets split into chunks by KVM using a loop of userspace exits until the complete range is handled. In some cases userspace VMM might decide to break the MAPGPA operation and continue it later. For example: in the case of intrahost migration userspace might decide to continue the MAPGPA operation after the migration is completed. Allow userspace to signal to TDX guests that the MAPGPA operation should be retried the next time the guest is scheduled. This is potentially a breaking change since if userspace sets hypercall.ret to a value other than EBUSY or EINVAL an EINVAL error code will be returned to userspace. As of now QEMU never sets hypercall.ret to a non-zero value after handling KVM_EXIT_HYPERCALL so this change should be safe. Reviewed-by: Michael Roth <michael.roth@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Vishal Annapurve <vannapurve@google.com> Co-developed-by: Sagi Shahar <sagis@google.com> Signed-off-by: Sagi Shahar <sagis@google.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260305222627.4193305-2-sagis@google.com Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2026-05-14KVM: x86: nSVM: Save/restore gPAT with KVM_{GET,SET}_NESTED_STATEJim Mattson1-0/+1
Add a 'gpat' field to kvm_svm_nested_state_hdr to carry L2's guest PAT value across save and restore. When KVM_X86_QUIRK_NESTED_SVM_SHARED_PAT is disabled and the vCPU is in guest mode with nested NPT enabled, save vmcb02's g_pat into the header on KVM_GET_NESTED_STATE, and restore it on KVM_SET_NESTED_STATE. Host-initiated accesses to IA32_PAT (via KVM_GET/SET_MSRS) always target L1's hPAT, so they cannot be used to save or restore gPAT. The separate header field ensures that KVM_GET/SET_MSRS and KVM_GET/SET_NESTED_STATE are independent and can be ordered arbitrarily during save and restore. Note that struct kvm_svm_nested_state_hdr is included in a union padded to 120 bytes, so there is room to add the gpat field without changing any offsets. Fixes: cc440cdad5b7 ("KVM: nSVM: implement KVM_GET_NESTED_STATE and KVM_SET_NESTED_STATE") Signed-off-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260407190343.325299-9-jmattson@google.com Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2026-05-14KVM: Documentation: document KVM_{GET,SET}_NESTED_STATE for SVMJim Mattson1-0/+11
Document the nested state constants and structures for SVM that were added by commit cc440cdad5b7 ("KVM: nSVM: implement KVM_GET_NESTED_STATE and KVM_SET_NESTED_STATE"). Fixes: cc440cdad5b7 ("KVM: nSVM: implement KVM_GET_NESTED_STATE and KVM_SET_NESTED_STATE") Signed-off-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260407190343.325299-8-jmattson@google.com Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2026-05-14KVM: x86: Define KVM_X86_QUIRK_NESTED_SVM_SHARED_PATJim Mattson1-0/+14
Define a quirk to control whether nested SVM shares L1's PAT with L2 (legacy behavior) or gives L2 its own independent gPAT (correct behavior per the APM). When the quirk is enabled (default), L2 shares L1's PAT, preserving the legacy KVM behavior. When userspace disables the quirk, KVM correctly virtualizes the PAT for nested SVM guests, giving L2 a separate gPAT as specified in the AMD architecture. Signed-off-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260407190343.325299-2-jmattson@google.com Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2026-04-13Merge tag 'kvm-s390-next-7.1-1' of ↵Paolo Bonzini1-0/+8
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvms390/linux into HEAD - ESA nesting support - 4k memslots - LPSW/E fix
2026-04-02KVM: s390: Add KVM capability for ESA mode guestsHendrik Brueckner1-0/+8
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>
2026-03-19KVM: arm64: gic-v5: Support GICv5 interrupts with KVM_IRQ_LINESascha Bischoff1-2/+4
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>
2026-03-11Documentation: kvm: fix formatting of the quirks tablePaolo Bonzini1-115/+115
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>
2026-03-11KVM: x86: Introduce KVM_X86_QUIRK_VMCS12_ALLOW_FREEZE_IN_SMMJim Mattson1-0/+8
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 6b1dd26544d0 ("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: 095686e6fcb4 ("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>
2026-02-28KVM: always define KVM_CAP_SYNC_MMUPaolo Bonzini1-6/+4
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>
2026-02-11Merge tag 'kvm-s390-next-7.0-1' of ↵Paolo Bonzini1-0/+42
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvms390/linux into HEAD - 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
2026-02-09Merge tag 'kvm-x86-misc-6.20' of https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux into HEADPaolo Bonzini1-2/+26
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.
2026-02-09Merge tag 'kvm-x86-svm-6.20' of https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux into HEADPaolo Bonzini1-0/+44
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.
2026-02-04KVM: s390: Storage key manipulation IOCTLClaudio Imbrenda1-0/+42
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>
2026-01-30KVM: x86: Add x2APIC "features" to control EOI broadcast suppressionKhushit Shah1-2/+26
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 0bcc3fb95b97 ("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 c806a6ad35bf ("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: 7543a635aa09 ("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>
2026-01-23KVM: Introduce KVM_EXIT_SNP_REQ_CERTS for SNP certificate-fetchingMichael Roth1-0/+44
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>
2026-01-22KVM: arm64: Add documentation for KVM_EXIT_ARM_LDST64BMarc Zyngier1-7/+36
Add a bit of documentation for KVM_EXIT_ARM_LDST64B so that userspace knows what to expect. Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Oliver Upton <oupton@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Yicong Yang <yangyicong@hisilicon.com> Signed-off-by: Zhou Wang <wangzhou1@hisilicon.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
2025-12-02Merge tag 'kvm-s390-next-6.19-1' of ↵Paolo Bonzini1-2/+17
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvms390/linux into HEAD - SCA rework - VIRT_XFER_TO_GUEST_WORK support - Operation exception forwarding support - Cleanups
2025-12-02Merge tag 'kvmarm-6.19' of ↵Paolo Bonzini1-0/+47
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvmarm/kvmarm into HEAD 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
2025-12-02Merge tag 'kvm-riscv-6.19-1' of https://github.com/kvm-riscv/linux into HEADPaolo Bonzini1-1/+1
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
2025-11-26Merge tag 'kvm-x86-generic-6.19' of https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux into HEADPaolo Bonzini1-1/+1
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.
2025-11-24KVM: riscv: Support enabling dirty log gradually in small chunksDong Yang1-1/+1
There is already support of enabling dirty log gradually in small chunks for x86 in commit 3c9bd4006bfc ("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>
2025-11-21KVM: s390: Add capability that forwards operation exceptionsJanosch Frank1-1/+16
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>
2025-11-12Documentation: kvm: new UAPI for handling SEAJiaqi Yan1-0/+47
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>
2025-10-20Documentation: kvm: Fix orderingJanosch Frank1-1/+1
7.43 has been assigned twice, make KVM_CAP_ARM_CACHEABLE_PFNMAP_SUPPORTED 7.44. Fixes: f55ce5a6cd33 ("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>
2025-10-18Merge tag 'kvm-x86-fixes-6.18-rc2' of https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux into HEADPaolo Bonzini1-3/+12
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.
2025-10-14KVM: Fix VM exit code for full dirty ring in API documentationLeonardo Bras1-1/+1
While reading the documentation, I saw a exit code I could not grep for, to figure out it has a slightly different name. Fix that name in documentation so it points to the right exit code. Signed-off-by: Leonardo Bras <leo.bras@arm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251014152802.13563-1-leo.bras@arm.com Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2025-10-13KVM: arm64: Document vCPU event ioctls as requiring init'ed vCPUOliver Upton1-0/+5
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>
2025-10-10KVM: guest_memfd: Add INIT_SHARED flag, reject user page faults if not setSean Christopherson1-0/+5
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: 3d3a04fad25a ("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>
2025-10-10KVM: Rework KVM_CAP_GUEST_MEMFD_MMAP into KVM_CAP_GUEST_MEMFD_FLAGSSean Christopherson1-3/+7
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>
2025-09-30Merge tag 'kvm-x86-cet-6.18' of https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux into HEADPaolo Bonzini1-1/+13
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.
2025-09-30Merge tag 'kvm-x86-misc-6.18' of https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux into HEADPaolo Bonzini1-0/+6
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.
2025-09-23KVM: x86: Enable guest SSP read/write interface with new uAPIsYang Weijiang1-0/+8
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>
2025-09-23KVM: x86: Introduce KVM_{G,S}ET_ONE_REG uAPIs supportYang Weijiang1-1/+5
Enable KVM_{G,S}ET_ONE_REG uAPIs so that userspace can access MSRs and other non-MSR registers through them, along with support for KVM_GET_REG_LIST to enumerate support for KVM-defined registers. This is in preparation for allowing userspace to read/write the guest SSP register, which is needed for the upcoming CET virtualization support. Currently, two types of registers are supported: KVM_X86_REG_TYPE_MSR and KVM_X86_REG_TYPE_KVM. All MSRs are in the former type; the latter type is added for registers that lack existing KVM uAPIs to access them. The "KVM" in the name is intended to be vague to give KVM flexibility to include other potential registers. More precise names like "SYNTHETIC" and "SYNTHETIC_MSR" were considered, but were deemed too confusing (e.g. can be conflated with synthetic guest-visible MSRs) and may put KVM into a corner (e.g. if KVM wants to change how a KVM-defined register is modeled internally). Enumerate only KVM-defined registers in KVM_GET_REG_LIST to avoid duplicating KVM_GET_MSR_INDEX_LIST, and so that KVM can return _only_ registers that are fully supported (KVM_GET_REG_LIST is vCPU-scoped, i.e. can be precise, whereas KVM_GET_MSR_INDEX_LIST is system-scoped). Suggested-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Yang Weijiang <weijiang.yang@intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240219074733.122080-18-weijiang.yang@intel.com [1] 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> Co-developed-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250919223258.1604852-5-seanjc@google.com Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2025-09-16Documentation: KVM: Call out that KVM strictly follows the 8254 PIT specJiaming Zhang1-0/+6
Explicitly document that the behavior of KVM_SET_PIT2 strictly conforms to the Intel 8254 PIT hardware specification, specifically that a write of '0' adheres to the spec's definition that a programmed count of '0' is converted to the maximum possible value (2^16). E.g. an unaware userspace might attempt to validate that KVM_GET_PIT2 returns the exact state set via KVM_SET_PIT2, and be surprised when the returned count is 65536, not 0. Add a references to the Intel 8254 PIT datasheet that will hopefully stay fresh for some time (the internet isn't exactly brimming with copies of the 8254 datasheet). Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CANypQFbEySjKOFLqtFFf2vrEe=NBr7XJfbkjQhqXuZGg7Rpoxw@mail.gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jiaming Zhang <r772577952@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250905174736.260694-1-r772577952@gmail.com [sean: add context Link, drop local APIC change, massage changelog accordingly] Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2025-08-27KVM: Allow and advertise support for host mmap() on guest_memfd filesFuad Tabba1-0/+9
Now that all the x86 and arm64 plumbing for mmap() on guest_memfd is in place, allow userspace to set GUEST_MEMFD_FLAG_MMAP and advertise support via a new capability, KVM_CAP_GUEST_MEMFD_MMAP. The availability of this capability is determined per architecture, and its enablement for a specific guest_memfd instance is controlled by the GUEST_MEMFD_FLAG_MMAP flag at creation time. Update the KVM API documentation to detail the KVM_CAP_GUEST_MEMFD_MMAP capability, the associated GUEST_MEMFD_FLAG_MMAP, and provide essential information regarding support for mm