[PATCH v5 0/9] x86/bugs: KVM: L1TF and MMIO Stale Data cleanups

Sean Christopherson posted 9 patches 2 months, 3 weeks ago
arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h   |   5 +
arch/x86/include/asm/hardirq.h       |   4 +-
arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h      |   3 -
arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h |  25 ++-
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c           |  22 +--
arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c               |   2 +-
arch/x86/kvm/mmu/spte.c              |   2 +-
arch/x86/kvm/svm/vmenter.S           |   6 +-
arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c            |   2 +-
arch/x86/kvm/vmx/run_flags.h         |  10 +-
arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmenter.S           |  29 ++--
arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c               | 235 ++++++++++++++-------------
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c                   |   6 +-
arch/x86/kvm/x86.h                   |  14 ++
14 files changed, 193 insertions(+), 172 deletions(-)
[PATCH v5 0/9] x86/bugs: KVM: L1TF and MMIO Stale Data cleanups
Posted by Sean Christopherson 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Clean up KVM's handling of L1TF and MMIO Stale data, as the code has bit
rotted a bit and is harder than it should be to understand, and has a few
warts.

TL;DR:

 - Unify L1TF flushing under per-CPU variable
 - Bury L1TF L1D flushing under CONFIG_CPU_MITIGATIONS=y
 - Move MMIO Stale Data into asm, and do VERW at most once per VM-Enter

To allow VMX to use ALTERNATIVE_2 to select slightly different flows for doing
VERW, tweak the low lever macros in nospec-branch.h to define the instruction
sequence, and then wrap it with __stringify() as needed.

As before, the non-VMX code is lightly tested (but there's far less chance
for breakage there).  For the VMX code, I verified the KVM side of things by
hacking the code to force/clear various mitigations, and using ud2 to confirm
the right path got selected.

v5:
 - Collect reviews and acks.
 - Add/improve comments for various macros and flows. [Everyone]
 - s/CLEAR_CPU_BUFFERS_SEQ/VERW [Pawan, Boris]
 - Use the on-stack copy of @flags instead of stashing information in
   RFLAGS' arithmetic flags. [Boris]
 - Fix typos (hopefully). [Boris]

v4:
 - https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251031003040.3491385-1-seanjc@google.com
 - Drop the patch to fallback to handling the MMIO mitigation if
   vmx_l1d_flush() doesn't flush, and instead use Pawan's approach of
   decoupling the two entirely.
 - Replace the static branch with X86_FEATURE_CLEAR_CPU_BUF_MMIO so that
   it can be referenced in ALTERNATIVE macros.
 - Decouple X86_FEATURE_CLEAR_CPU_BUF_VM from X86_FEATURE_CLEAR_CPU_BUF_MMIO
   (though they still interact and can both be set)

v3:
 - https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251016200417.97003-1-seanjc@google.com
 - [Pawan's series] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251029-verw-vm-v1-0-babf9b961519@linux.intel.com
 - Put the "raw" variant in KVM, dress it up with KVM's "request" terminology,
   and add a comment explaining why _KVM_ knows its usage doesn't need to
   disable virtualization.
 - Add the prep patches.

v2:
 - https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251015-b4-l1tf-percpu-v2-1-6d7a8d3d40e9@google.com
 - Moved the bit back to irq_stat
 - Fixed DEBUG_PREEMPT issues by adding a _raw variant

v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251013-b4-l1tf-percpu-v1-1-d65c5366ea1a@google.com

Brendan Jackman (1):
  KVM: x86: Unify L1TF flushing under per-CPU variable

Pawan Gupta (1):
  x86/bugs: Use VM_CLEAR_CPU_BUFFERS in VMX as well

Sean Christopherson (7):
  KVM: VMX: Use on-stack copy of @flags in __vmx_vcpu_run()
  x86/bugs: Decouple ALTERNATIVE usage from VERW macro definition
  x86/bugs: Use an x86 feature to track the MMIO Stale Data mitigation
  KVM: VMX: Handle MMIO Stale Data in VM-Enter assembly via
    ALTERNATIVES_2
  x86/bugs: KVM: Move VM_CLEAR_CPU_BUFFERS into SVM as
    SVM_CLEAR_CPU_BUFFERS
  KVM: VMX: Bundle all L1 data cache flush mitigation code together
  KVM: VMX: Disable L1TF L1 data cache flush if CONFIG_CPU_MITIGATIONS=n

 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h   |   5 +
 arch/x86/include/asm/hardirq.h       |   4 +-
 arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h      |   3 -
 arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h |  25 ++-
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c           |  22 +--
 arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c               |   2 +-
 arch/x86/kvm/mmu/spte.c              |   2 +-
 arch/x86/kvm/svm/vmenter.S           |   6 +-
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c            |   2 +-
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx/run_flags.h         |  10 +-
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmenter.S           |  29 ++--
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c               | 235 ++++++++++++++-------------
 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c                   |   6 +-
 arch/x86/kvm/x86.h                   |  14 ++
 14 files changed, 193 insertions(+), 172 deletions(-)


base-commit: 16ec4fb4ac95d878b879192d280db2baeec43272
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2.52.0.rc1.455.g30608eb744-goog
Re: [PATCH v5 0/9] x86/bugs: KVM: L1TF and MMIO Stale Data cleanups
Posted by Sean Christopherson 2 months, 2 weeks ago
On Thu, 13 Nov 2025 15:37:37 -0800, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> Clean up KVM's handling of L1TF and MMIO Stale data, as the code has bit
> rotted a bit and is harder than it should be to understand, and has a few
> warts.
> 
> TL;DR:
> 
>  - Unify L1TF flushing under per-CPU variable
>  - Bury L1TF L1D flushing under CONFIG_CPU_MITIGATIONS=y
>  - Move MMIO Stale Data into asm, and do VERW at most once per VM-Enter
> 
> [...]

Applied to kvm-x86 misc, with fixups for Boris' feedback.

[1/9] KVM: VMX: Use on-stack copy of @flags in __vmx_vcpu_run()
      https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux/commit/844afc1af3a9
[2/9] x86/bugs: Use VM_CLEAR_CPU_BUFFERS in VMX as well
      https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux/commit/aba7de6088be
[3/9] x86/bugs: Decouple ALTERNATIVE usage from VERW macro definition
      https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux/commit/afb99ffbd582
[4/9] x86/bugs: Use an x86 feature to track the MMIO Stale Data mitigation
      https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux/commit/f6106d41ec84
[5/9] KVM: VMX: Handle MMIO Stale Data in VM-Enter assembly via ALTERNATIVES_2
      https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux/commit/e6ff1d61de51
[6/9] x86/bugs: KVM: Move VM_CLEAR_CPU_BUFFERS into SVM as SVM_CLEAR_CPU_BUFFERS
      https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux/commit/fc704b578976
[7/9] KVM: VMX: Bundle all L1 data cache flush mitigation code together
      https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux/commit/0abd9610d6c6
[8/9] KVM: VMX: Disable L1TF L1 data cache flush if CONFIG_CPU_MITIGATIONS=n
      https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux/commit/05bd63959a9d
[9/9] KVM: x86: Unify L1TF flushing under per-CPU variable
      https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux/commit/38ee66cb1845

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