From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 2a38e4ca302280fdcce370ba2bee79bac16c4587 upstream. tl;dr: CPUs with CPUID.80000008H but without CPUID.01H:EDX[CLFSH] will end up reporting cache_line_size()==0 and bad things happen. Fill in a default on those to avoid the problem. Long Story: The kernel dies a horrible death if c->x86_cache_alignment (aka. cache_line_size() is 0. Normally, this value is populated from c->x86_clflush_size. Right now the code is set up to get c->x86_clflush_size from two places. First, modern CPUs get it from CPUID. Old CPUs that don't have leaf 0x80000008 (or CPUID at all) just get some sane defaults from the kernel in get_cpu_address_sizes(). The vast majority of CPUs that have leaf 0x80000008 also get ->x86_clflush_size from CPUID. But there are oddballs. Intel Quark CPUs[1] and others[2] have leaf 0x80000008 but don't set CPUID.01H:EDX[CLFSH], so they skip over filling in ->x86_clflush_size: cpuid(0x00000001, &tfms, &misc, &junk, &cap0); if (cap0 & (1<<19)) c->x86_clflush_size = ((misc >> 8) & 0xff) * 8; So they: land in get_cpu_address_sizes() and see that CPUID has level 0x80000008 and jump into the side of the if() that does not fill in c->x86_clflush_size. That assigns a 0 to c->x86_cache_alignment, and hilarity ensues in code like: buffer = kzalloc(ALIGN(sizeof(*buffer), cache_line_size()), GFP_KERNEL); To fix this, always provide a sane value for ->x86_clflush_size. Big thanks to Andy Shevchenko for finding and reporting this and also providing a first pass at a fix. But his fix was only partial and only worked on the Quark CPUs. It would not, for instance, have worked on the QEMU config. 1. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/InstLatx64/InstLatx64/master/GenuineIntel/GenuineIntel0000590_Clanton_03_CPUID.txt 2. You can also get this behavior if you use "-cpu 486,+clzero" in QEMU. [ dhansen: remove 'vp_bits_from_cpuid' reference in changelog because bpetkov brutally murdered it recently. ] Fixes: fbf6449f84bf ("x86/sev-es: Set x86_virt_bits to the correct value straight away, instead of a two-phase approach") Reported-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Jörn Heusipp <osmanx@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240516173928.3960193-1-andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/5e31cad3-ad4d-493e-ab07-724cfbfaba44@xxxxxxxxxx/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240517200534.8EC5F33E%40davehans-spike.ostc.intel.com Signed-off-by: Jörn Heusipp <osmanx@xxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c index ae987a26f26e..fc76b5197565 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c @@ -1064,6 +1064,10 @@ void get_cpu_address_sizes(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c) c->x86_virt_bits = (eax >> 8) & 0xff; c->x86_phys_bits = eax & 0xff; + + /* Provide a sane default if not enumerated: */ + if (!c->x86_clflush_size) + c->x86_clflush_size = 32; } else { if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_X86_64)) { c->x86_clflush_size = 64; -- 2.39.2