On Fri, Aug 22, 2025 at 03:04:02PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
Upstream commit fbc7e61195e2 ("KVM: arm64: Unconditionally save+flush host FPSIMD/SVE/SME state") relies on interrupts being disabled during fpsimd_save_and_flush_cpu_state() so that a softirq cannot be taken while the host floating point context is being saved and potentially try to use kernel-mode NEON.
Unfortunately, stable kernels without 9b19700e623f ("arm64: fpsimd: Drop unneeded 'busy' flag") leave interrupts enabled in fpsimd_save_and_flush_cpu_state() and so the BUG_ON(!may_use_simd()) in kernel_neon_begin() has been observed to trigger in real-world usage:
| kernel BUG at arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c:1904! | Internal error: Oops - BUG: 00000000f2000800 [#1] PREEMPT SMP | | Call trace: | kernel_neon_begin+0xdc/0x12c | ... | crypto_aead_decrypt+0x5c/0x6c | seqiv_aead_decrypt+0x88/0x9c | crypto_aead_decrypt+0x5c/0x6c | esp_input+0x280/0x364 | xfrm_input+0x6ac/0x16f8 | ... | net_rx_action+0x13c/0x31c | handle_softirqs+0x124/0x3d0 | __do_softirq+0x14/0x20 | ____do_softirq+0x10/0x20 | call_on_irq_stack+0x3c/0x74 | do_softirq_own_stack+0x1c/0x2c | __irq_exit_rcu+0x54/0xb4 | irq_exit_rcu+0x10/0x1c | el1_interrupt+0x38/0x58 | el1h_64_irq_handler+0x18/0x24 | el1h_64_irq+0x68/0x6c | fpsimd_save+0xe4/0x130 | kvm_arch_vcpu_load_fp+0x2c/0x58 | kvm_arch_vcpu_load+0x88/0x26c | kvm_sched_in+0x2c/0x3c
Given that 9b19700e623f ("arm64: fpsimd: Drop unneeded 'busy' flag") is not a fix in its own right, has non-trivial dependencies and is a reasonably invasive change to the in-kernel use of fpsimd, opt instead for a simple fix to use the softirq-safe {get,put}_cpu_fpsimd_context() helpers in fpsimd_save_and_flush_cpu_state().
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel ardb@kernel.org Cc: Lee Jones lee@kernel.org Cc: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Cc: Mark Rutland mark.rutland@arm.com Cc: Fuad Tabba tabba@google.com Cc: Marc Zyngier maz@kernel.org Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.15.y, 6.1.y and 6.6.y
Now queued up to these trees, thanks!
greg k-h