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x86/CPU/AMD: Fix AMD TLBI Erratum #1718

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PATCH 1/1 x86/CPU/AMD: Fix AMD TLBI Erratum #1718

From: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" <[email protected]>

The processor may fail to invalidate a TLB entry while executing an INVLPGB/TLBSYNC instruction pair.

Detect the erratum and apply a software workaround when a microcode fix is not present.

Fixes 82378c6c2f43 ("x86/mm: Use INVLPGB for kernel TLB flushes")
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h | 3 +++
 arch/x86/include/asm/tlb.h         | 6 ++++++
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c          | 4 ++++
 3 files changed, 13 insertions(+)
arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h +3 -0
index f70ee74b5f92..fe84cf4e97d3 100644
@@ -477,6 +477,8 @@
 #define X86_FEATURE_NO_NESTED_DATA_BP	(20*32+ 0) /* No Nested Data Breakpoints */
 #define X86_FEATURE_WRMSR_XX_BASE_NS	(20*32+ 1) /* WRMSR to {FS,GS,KERNEL_GS}_BASE is non-serializing */
 #define X86_FEATURE_LFENCE_RDTSC	(20*32+ 2) /* LFENCE always serializing / synchronizes RDTSC */
+
+#define X86_FEATURE_TLBSYNC_SFW_NO	(20*32+ 4) /* TLBI Erratum #1718 fixed in microcode */
 #define X86_FEATURE_VERW_CLEAR		(20*32+ 5) /* The memory form of VERW mitigates TSA */
 #define X86_FEATURE_NULL_SEL_CLR_BASE	(20*32+ 6) /* Null Selector Clears Base */
 
@@ -587,4 +589,5 @@
 #define X86_BUG_TSA			X86_BUG( 1*32+ 9) /* "tsa" CPU is affected by Transient Scheduler Attacks */
 #define X86_BUG_VMSCAPE			X86_BUG( 1*32+10) /* "vmscape" CPU is affected by VMSCAPE attacks from guests */
 #define X86_BUG_SEAMRET_INVD_VMCS	X86_BUG( 1*32+11) /* "seamret_invd_vmcs" SEAMRET from P-SEAMLDR clears the current VMCS */
+#define X86_BUG_TLBI			X86_BUG( 1*32+12) /* "tlbi" AMD TLBI Erratum #1718 */
 #endif /* _ASM_X86_CPUFEATURES_H */
arch/x86/include/asm/tlb.h +6 -0
index 866ea78ba156..eba925c85f52 100644
@@ -110,6 +110,12 @@ static inline void __tlbsync(void)
 
 	/* TLBSYNC: supported in binutils >= 0.36. */
 	asm volatile(".byte 0x0f, 0x01, 0xff" ::: "memory");
+
+	if (!static_cpu_has_bug(X86_BUG_TLBI))
+		return;
+
+	/* TLBSYNC: supported in binutils >= 0.36. */
+	asm volatile(".byte 0x0f, 0x01, 0xff" ::: "memory");
 }
 #else
 /* Some compilers (I'm looking at you clang!) simply can't do DCE */
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c +4 -0
index 54e14ed276b5..40463bad1078 100644
@@ -1049,6 +1049,10 @@ static void init_amd_zen5(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
 		msr_clear_bit(MSR_AMD64_CPUID_FN_7, 18);
 		pr_emerg_once("RDSEED32 is broken. Disabling the corresponding CPUID bit.\n");
 	}
+
+	if (cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_INVLPGB) &&
+	    !cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_TLBSYNC_SFW_NO))
+		set_cpu_bug(c, X86_BUG_TLBI);
 }
 
 static void init_amd(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
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Quoted 5 lines · Borislav Petkov

From: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" <[email protected]>

The processor may fail to invalidate a TLB entry while executing an INVLPGB/TLBSYNC instruction pair.

Quoted 8 lines

Detect the erratum and apply a software workaround when a microcode fix
is not present.

Fixes 82378c6c2f43 ("x86/mm: Use INVLPGB for kernel TLB flushes")

This same change fell out of my testing with a reproducer earlier this year, so I know it works, at least for the test case I have.

I am surprised that it was good enough to be a real workaround, but I'll take it ;)

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Quoted 6 lines · Rik van Riel

This same change fell out of my testing with a reproducer earlier this year, so I know it works, at least for the test case I have.

I am surprised that it was good enough to be a real workaround, but I'll take it ;)

Me too, but it really is - there's a good reason why :)

But the most proper workaround is for everyone to update microcode anyway - it is released too, so we don't even need the sw fallback.

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Thanks, my plan is to queue it next week so that we have it in 7.3 and it percolates to stable.

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    Boris.

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In reply to Borislav Petkov

+cc Rik FYI!

Quoted 4 lines · Borislav Petkov

From: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" <[email protected]>

The processor may fail to invalidate a TLB entry while executing an INVLPGB/TLBSYNC instruction pair.

Hi,

I've repro'd the issue on a threadripper - a Ryzen Threadripper 9980X (family 0x1a model 0x08 stepping 1) on microcode 0x0b008121 (the latest I believe).

It failed Matt's repro in seconds on 7.2.7 (round 3 on the first run, round 1 on the second, same stale-offset signature Rik described).

It doesn't seem there's a microcode fix for the threadripper yet.

I confirmed tlbi=ipi fixed it, 20 rounds with no failures.

And I built and ran a kernel with this patch applied (and tlbi=ipi removed from the kernel command line) and this patch fixes it it too - 40 rounds with no failures.

So:

Hopefully some useful datapoints also - + I hope there'll be a firmware fix for the threadripper too :)

--
Cheers, Lorenzo

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Quoted 2 lines · Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)

Hopefully some useful datapoints also - + I hope there'll be a firmware fix for the threadripper too :)

Yeah, working on it. We'll see.

Thx for the datapoints - very useful.

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    Boris.

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In reply to Borislav Petkov
The following commit has been merged into the x86/urgent branch of tip:

The following commit has been merged into the x86/urgent branch of tip:

Commit-ID:     87db7795cbaaf636ae22ae031f4906db7bb77803
Gitweb:        https://git.kernel.org/tip/87db7795cbaaf636ae22ae031f4906db7bb77803
Author:        Borislav Petkov (AMD) <[email protected]>
AuthorDate:    Fri, 02 Oct 2026 14:16:17 -07:00
Committer:     Borislav Petkov (AMD) <[email protected]>
CommitterDate: Mon, 05 Oct 2026 10:29:08 -07:00

x86/CPU/AMD: Fix AMD TLBI Erratum #1718

The processor may fail to invalidate a TLB entry while executing an INVLPGB/TLBSYNC instruction pair.

Detect the erratum and apply a software workaround when a microcode fix is not present.

---
 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h | 3 +++
 arch/x86/include/asm/tlb.h         | 6 ++++++
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c          | 4 ++++
 3 files changed, 13 insertions(+)
arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h +3 -0
index f70ee74..fe84cf4 100644
@@ -477,6 +477,8 @@
 #define X86_FEATURE_NO_NESTED_DATA_BP	(20*32+ 0) /* No Nested Data Breakpoints */
 #define X86_FEATURE_WRMSR_XX_BASE_NS	(20*32+ 1) /* WRMSR to {FS,GS,KERNEL_GS}_BASE is non-serializing */
 #define X86_FEATURE_LFENCE_RDTSC	(20*32+ 2) /* LFENCE always serializing / synchronizes RDTSC */
+
+#define X86_FEATURE_TLBSYNC_SFW_NO	(20*32+ 4) /* TLBI Erratum #1718 fixed in microcode */
 #define X86_FEATURE_VERW_CLEAR		(20*32+ 5) /* The memory form of VERW mitigates TSA */
 #define X86_FEATURE_NULL_SEL_CLR_BASE	(20*32+ 6) /* Null Selector Clears Base */
 
@@ -587,4 +589,5 @@
 #define X86_BUG_TSA			X86_BUG( 1*32+ 9) /* "tsa" CPU is affected by Transient Scheduler Attacks */
 #define X86_BUG_VMSCAPE			X86_BUG( 1*32+10) /* "vmscape" CPU is affected by VMSCAPE attacks from guests */
 #define X86_BUG_SEAMRET_INVD_VMCS	X86_BUG( 1*32+11) /* "seamret_invd_vmcs" SEAMRET from P-SEAMLDR clears the current VMCS */
+#define X86_BUG_TLBI			X86_BUG( 1*32+12) /* "tlbi" AMD TLBI Erratum #1718 */
 #endif /* _ASM_X86_CPUFEATURES_H */
arch/x86/include/asm/tlb.h +6 -0
index 866ea78..eba925c 100644
@@ -110,6 +110,12 @@ static inline void __tlbsync(void)
 
 	/* TLBSYNC: supported in binutils >= 0.36. */
 	asm volatile(".byte 0x0f, 0x01, 0xff" ::: "memory");
+
+	if (!static_cpu_has_bug(X86_BUG_TLBI))
+		return;
+
+	/* TLBSYNC: supported in binutils >= 0.36. */
+	asm volatile(".byte 0x0f, 0x01, 0xff" ::: "memory");
 }
 #else
 /* Some compilers (I'm looking at you clang!) simply can't do DCE */
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c +4 -0
index 54e14ed..40463ba 100644
@@ -1049,6 +1049,10 @@ static void init_amd_zen5(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
 		msr_clear_bit(MSR_AMD64_CPUID_FN_7, 18);
 		pr_emerg_once("RDSEED32 is broken. Disabling the corresponding CPUID bit.\n");
 	}
+
+	if (cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_INVLPGB) &&
+	    !cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_TLBSYNC_SFW_NO))
+		set_cpu_bug(c, X86_BUG_TLBI);
 }
 
 static void init_amd(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)