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Paolo Bonzini a104e0a305 KVM SVM changes for 6.18
- 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 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.
 
  - Mitigate the potential for TOCTOU bugs when accessing GHCB fields by
    wrapping all accesses via READ_ONCE().
 
  - Validate the XCR0 provided by the guest (via the GHCB) to avoid tracking a
    bogous XCR0 value in KVM's software model.
 
  - 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 do the "heavy" lifting.
 
  - 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 could clobber a different vCPU's
    TSC_AUX due to hardware not matching the value cached in the user-return MSR
    infrastructure.
 
  - Enable AVIC by default for Zen4+ if x2AVIC (and other prereqs) is supported,
    and clean up the AVIC initialization code along the way.
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Merge tag 'kvm-x86-svm-6.18' of https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux into HEAD

KVM SVM changes for 6.18

 - 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 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.

 - Mitigate the potential for TOCTOU bugs when accessing GHCB fields by
   wrapping all accesses via READ_ONCE().

 - Validate the XCR0 provided by the guest (via the GHCB) to avoid tracking a
   bogous XCR0 value in KVM's software model.

 - 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 do the "heavy" lifting.

 - 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 could clobber a different vCPU's
   TSC_AUX due to hardware not matching the value cached in the user-return MSR
   infrastructure.

 - Enable AVIC by default for Zen4+ if x2AVIC (and other prereqs) is supported,
   and clean up the AVIC initialization code along the way.
2025-09-30 13:34:12 -04:00
arch KVM SVM changes for 6.18 2025-09-30 13:34:12 -04:00
block vfs-6.17-rc6.fixes 2025-09-08 07:53:01 -07:00
certs sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2024-09-20 19:52:48 +03:00
crypto This push fixes a NULL pointer dereference in ccp and a couple of 2025-09-19 09:58:21 -07:00
Documentation LoongArch KVM changes for v6.18 2025-09-30 13:23:44 -04:00
drivers LoongArch KVM changes for v6.18 2025-09-30 13:23:44 -04:00
fs for-6.17-rc6-tag 2025-09-20 21:41:26 -07:00
include LoongArch KVM changes for v6.18 2025-09-30 13:23:44 -04:00
init 20 hotfixes. 15 are cc:stable and the remainder address post-6.16 issues 2025-09-10 21:19:34 -07:00
io_uring io_uring-6.17-20250919 2025-09-19 12:10:49 -07:00
ipc vfs-6.17-rc1.mmap_prepare 2025-07-28 13:43:25 -07:00
kernel Runtime Verifier fixes for v6.17 2025-09-18 15:22:00 -07:00
lib hardening fixes for v6.17-rc4 2025-08-31 08:56:45 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Replace the obsolete address of the FSF in the GFDL-1.2 2025-07-24 11:15:39 +02:00
mm 15 hotfixes. 11 are cc:stable and the remainder address post-6.16 issues 2025-09-17 21:34:26 -07:00
net Including fixes from wireless. No known regressions at this point. 2025-09-18 10:22:02 -07:00
rust Driver core fixes for 6.17-rc6 2025-09-13 10:36:06 -07:00
samples 15 hotfixes. 11 are cc:stable and the remainder address post-6.16 issues 2025-09-17 21:34:26 -07:00
scripts Rust fixes for v6.17 (2nd) 2025-09-06 12:33:09 -07:00
security + Features 2025-08-04 08:17:28 -07:00
sound ALSA: hda/realtek: Fix mute led for HP Laptop 15-dw4xx 2025-09-18 21:10:05 +02:00
tools KVM selftests changes for 6.18 2025-09-30 13:23:54 -04:00
usr usr/include: openrisc: don't HDRTEST bpf_perf_event.h 2025-05-12 15:03:17 +09:00
virt KVM SVM changes for 6.18 2025-09-30 13:34:12 -04:00
.clang-format Linux 6.15-rc5 2025-05-06 16:39:25 +10:00
.clippy.toml rust: clean Rust 1.88.0's warning about clippy::disallowed_macros configuration 2025-05-07 00:11:47 +02:00
.cocciconfig
.editorconfig .editorconfig: remove trim_trailing_whitespace option 2024-06-13 16:47:52 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore MAINTAINERS: Retire Ralf Baechle 2024-11-12 15:48:59 +01:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore gitignore: allow .pylintrc to be tracked 2025-07-02 17:10:04 -06:00
.mailmap MAINTAINERS: Update Nobuhiro Iwamatsu's email address 2025-09-01 10:36:10 +02:00
.pylintrc docs: add a .pylintrc file with sys path for docs scripts 2025-04-09 12:10:33 -06:00
.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: retire Boris from TLS maintainers 2025-08-26 17:36:01 -07:00
Kbuild drm: ensure drm headers are self-contained and pass kernel-doc 2025-02-12 10:44:43 +02:00
Kconfig io_uring: Rename KConfig to Kconfig 2025-02-19 14:53:27 -07:00
MAINTAINERS Runtime Verifier fixes for v6.17 2025-09-18 15:22:00 -07:00
Makefile Linux 6.17-rc7 2025-09-21 15:08:52 -07:00
README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -06:00

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.