6.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Sean Christopherson seanjc@google.com
commit c631a2de7ae48d50434bdc205d901423f8577c65 upstream.
Explicitly clear DEBUGCTL.LBR when a CPU is starting, prior to purging the LBR MSRs themselves, as at least one system has been found to transfer control to the kernel with LBRs enabled (it's unclear whether it's a BIOS flaw or a CPU goof). Because the kernel preserves the original DEBUGCTL, even when toggling LBRs, leaving DEBUGCTL.LBR as is results in running with LBRs enabled at all times.
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/c9d8269bff69f6359731d758e3b1135dedd7cc61.camel@r... Reported-by: Maxim Levitsky mlevitsk@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson seanjc@google.com Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) peterz@infradead.org Reviewed-by: Maxim Levitsky mlevitsk@redhat.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250131010721.470503-1-seanjc@google.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- arch/x86/events/intel/core.c | 5 ++++- arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h | 3 ++- 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/x86/events/intel/core.c +++ b/arch/x86/events/intel/core.c @@ -4993,8 +4993,11 @@ static void intel_pmu_cpu_starting(int c
init_debug_store_on_cpu(cpu); /* - * Deal with CPUs that don't clear their LBRs on power-up. + * Deal with CPUs that don't clear their LBRs on power-up, and that may + * even boot with LBRs enabled. */ + if (!static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_ARCH_LBR) && x86_pmu.lbr_nr) + msr_clear_bit(MSR_IA32_DEBUGCTLMSR, DEBUGCTLMSR_LBR_BIT); intel_pmu_lbr_reset();
cpuc->lbr_sel = NULL; --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h @@ -395,7 +395,8 @@ #define MSR_IA32_PASID_VALID BIT_ULL(31)
/* DEBUGCTLMSR bits (others vary by model): */ -#define DEBUGCTLMSR_LBR (1UL << 0) /* last branch recording */ +#define DEBUGCTLMSR_LBR_BIT 0 /* last branch recording */ +#define DEBUGCTLMSR_LBR (1UL << DEBUGCTLMSR_LBR_BIT) #define DEBUGCTLMSR_BTF_SHIFT 1 #define DEBUGCTLMSR_BTF (1UL << 1) /* single-step on branches */ #define DEBUGCTLMSR_BUS_LOCK_DETECT (1UL << 2)