[PATCH v3 1/1] x86/mce/amd: Guard SMCA DESTAT access on non-SMCA machines

From: “William Roche

Date: Tue Mar 17 2026 - 06:46:32 EST


From: William Roche <william.roche@xxxxxxxxxx>

Access to SMCA specific registers like MCA_DESTAT should only be done
after having checked the smca bit. Avoiding a non-SMCA machine (like
AMD QEMU/KVM VMs) crash during deferred error handling.

Fixes: 7cb735d7c0cb ("x86/mce: Unify AMD DFR handler with MCA Polling")
Signed-off-by: William Roche <william.roche@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Yazen Ghannam <yazen.ghannam@xxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/amd.c | 17 +++++++++++------
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/amd.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/amd.c
index da13c1e37f87..a030ee4cecc2 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/amd.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/amd.c
@@ -875,13 +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);
+ 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;
+ /* 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);
}
--
2.47.3