[PATCH v1 1/1] x86/mce: AMD deferred error handling crashes Qemu VMs

From: “William Roche

Date: Fri Feb 13 2026 - 13:27:21 EST


From: William Roche <william.roche@xxxxxxxxxx>

A non Scalable MCA system may prevent access to SMCA specific registers
like MCA_DESTAT. This is the case of Qemu/kvm VMs, and the VM kernel
needs to avoid accessing SMCA registers on non-SMCA platforms.

Fixes: 7cb735d7c0cb ("x86/mce: Unify AMD DFR handler with MCA Polling")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: William Roche <william.roche@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/amd.c | 18 +++++++++++-------
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/amd.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/amd.c
index 3f1dda355307..53c4b032ad35 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/amd.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/amd.c
@@ -875,14 +875,18 @@ void amd_clear_bank(struct mce *m)
{
amd_reset_thr_limit(m->bank);

- /* Clear MCA_DESTAT for all deferred errors even those logged in MCA_STATUS. */
- if (m->status & MCI_STATUS_DEFERRED)
- mce_wrmsrq(MSR_AMD64_SMCA_MCx_DESTAT(m->bank), 0);
-
- /* Don't clear MCA_STATUS if MCA_DESTAT was used exclusively. */
- if (m->kflags & MCE_CHECK_DFR_REGS)
- return;
+ if (mce_flags.smca) {
+ /*
+ * Clear MCA_DESTAT for all deferred errors even those
+ * logged in MCA_STATUS.
+ */
+ if (m->status & MCI_STATUS_DEFERRED)
+ mce_wrmsrq(MSR_AMD64_SMCA_MCx_DESTAT(m->bank), 0);

+ /* Don't clear MCA_STATUS if MCA_DESTAT was used exclusively. */
+ if (m->kflags & MCE_CHECK_DFR_REGS)
+ return;
+ }
mce_wrmsrq(mca_msr_reg(m->bank, MCA_STATUS), 0);
}

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2.47.3