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Maxim Levitsky 7ea3763d3a KVM: VMX: Preserve host's DEBUGCTLMSR_FREEZE_IN_SMM while running the guest 
[ Upstream commit 6b1dd26544 ]

Set/clear DEBUGCTLMSR_FREEZE_IN_SMM in GUEST_IA32_DEBUGCTL based on the
host's pre-VM-Enter value, i.e. preserve the host's FREEZE_IN_SMM setting
while running the guest.  When running with the "default treatment of SMIs"
in effect (the only mode KVM supports), SMIs do not generate a VM-Exit that
is visible to host (non-SMM) software, and instead transitions directly
from VMX non-root to SMM.  And critically, DEBUGCTL isn't context switched
by hardware on SMI or RSM, i.e. SMM will run with whatever value was
resident in hardware at the time of the SMI.

Failure to preserve FREEZE_IN_SMM results in the PMU unexpectedly counting
events while the CPU is executing in SMM, which can pollute profiling and
potentially leak information into the guest.

Check for changes in FREEZE_IN_SMM prior to every entry into KVM's inner
run loop, as the bit can be toggled in IRQ context via IPI callback (SMP
function call), by way of /sys/devices/cpu/freeze_on_smi.

Add a field in kvm_x86_ops to communicate which DEBUGCTL bits need to be
preserved, as FREEZE_IN_SMM is only supported and defined for Intel CPUs,
i.e. explicitly checking FREEZE_IN_SMM in common x86 is at best weird, and
at worst could lead to undesirable behavior in the future if AMD CPUs ever
happened to pick up a collision with the bit.

Exempt TDX vCPUs, i.e. protected guests, from the check, as the TDX Module
owns and controls GUEST_IA32_DEBUGCTL.

WARN in SVM if KVM_RUN_LOAD_DEBUGCTL is set, mostly to document that the
lack of handling isn't a KVM bug (TDX already WARNs on any run_flag).

Lastly, explicitly reload GUEST_IA32_DEBUGCTL on a VM-Fail that is missed
by KVM but detected by hardware, i.e. in nested_vmx_restore_host_state().
Doing so avoids the need to track host_debugctl on a per-VMCS basis, as
GUEST_IA32_DEBUGCTL is unconditionally written by prepare_vmcs02() and
load_vmcs12_host_state().  For the VM-Fail case, even though KVM won't
have actually entered the guest, vcpu_enter_guest() will have run with
vmcs02 active and thus could result in vmcs01 being run with a stale value.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@redhat.com>
Co-developed-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250610232010.162191-9-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
[sean: resolve syntactic conflict in vt_x86_ops definition]
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
History 2025-08-20 18:30:17 +02:00
arch KVM: VMX: Preserve host's DEBUGCTLMSR_FREEZE_IN_SMM while running the guest 2025-08-20 18:30:17 +02:00
block block: ensure discard_granularity is zero when discard is not supported 2025-08-15 12:14:05 +02:00
certs sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2024-09-20 19:52:48 +03:00
crypto crypto: ecdsa - Harden against integer overflows in DIV_ROUND_UP() 2025-07-17 18:37:24 +02:00
Documentation Documentation: ACPI: Fix parent device references 2025-08-20 18:30:15 +02:00
drivers ACPI: processor: perflib: Move problematic pr->performance check 2025-08-20 18:30:16 +02:00
fs smb: client: don't wait for info->send_pending == 0 on error 2025-08-20 18:30:16 +02:00
include mm/memory-tier: fix abstract distance calculation overflow 2025-08-20 18:30:16 +02:00
init io_uring: fix breakage in EXPERT menu 2025-08-15 12:13:32 +02:00
io_uring io_uring/poll: fix POLLERR handling 2025-07-24 08:56:23 +02:00
ipc ipc: fix to protect IPCS lookups using RCU 2025-06-27 11:11:22 +01:00
kernel perf/core: Prevent VMA split of buffer mappings 2025-08-15 12:14:09 +02:00
lib lib/alloc_tag: do not acquire non-existent lock in alloc_tag_top_users() 2025-07-17 18:37:14 +02:00
LICENSES LICENSES: add 0BSD license text 2024-09-01 20:43:24 -07:00
mm mm: swap: fix potential buffer overflow in setup_clusters() 2025-08-15 12:14:14 +02:00
net netlink: avoid infinite retry looping in netlink_unicast() 2025-08-20 18:30:13 +02:00
rust rust: use #[used(compiler)] to fix build and modpost with Rust >= 1.89.0 2025-07-24 08:56:37 +02:00
samples samples: mei: Fix building on musl libc 2025-08-15 12:13:38 +02:00
scripts kconfig: qconf: fix ConfigList::updateListAllforAll() 2025-08-15 12:14:03 +02:00
security apparmor: Fix unaligned memory accesses in KUnit test 2025-08-15 12:13:59 +02:00
sound ALSA: hda/realtek: Add Framework Laptop 13 (AMD Ryzen AI 300) to quirks 2025-08-20 18:30:12 +02:00
tools selftests/bpf: Fix build error with llvm 19 2025-08-15 12:14:10 +02:00
usr kbuild: hdrcheck: fix cross build with clang 2025-03-13 13:02:18 +01:00
virt KVM: Allow CPU to reschedule while setting per-page memory attributes 2025-07-17 18:37:08 +02:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with v6.11-rc1's for_each macro list 2024-08-02 13:20:31 +02:00
.clippy.toml rust: give Clippy the minimum supported Rust version 2025-08-01 09:48:44 +01:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.editorconfig .editorconfig: remove trim_trailing_whitespace option 2024-06-13 16:47:52 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add Jeff Kirsher to .get_maintainer.ignore 2024-03-08 11:36:54 +00:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore rust: introduce .clippy.toml 2025-03-13 13:01:42 +01:00
.mailmap mailmap: add entry for Thorsten Blum 2024-11-07 14:14:59 -08:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Remove self from DSA entry 2024-11-03 12:52:38 -08:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: Update Alexey Makhalov's email address 2025-05-22 14:29:46 +02:00
Makefile Linux 6.12.42 2025-08-15 12:14:14 +02:00
README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.