From: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
To: kvmarm@lists.linux.dev
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>, Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>,
Oliver Upton <oupton@kernel.org>, Joey Gouly <joey.gouly@arm.com>,
Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>,
Zenghui Yu <yuzenghui@huawei.com>,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
Quentin Perret <qperret@google.com>,
Fuad Tabba <tabba@google.com>,
Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com>,
Mostafa Saleh <smostafa@google.com>,
Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei@arm.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3 25/36] KVM: arm64: Reclaim faulting page from pKVM in spurious fault handler
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2026 14:43:38 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260305144351.17071-26-will@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260305144351.17071-1-will@kernel.org>
Host kernel accesses to pages that are inaccessible at stage-2 result in
the injection of a translation fault, which is fatal unless an exception
table fixup is registered for the faulting PC (e.g. for user access
routines). This is undesirable, since a get_user_pages() call could be
used to obtain a reference to a donated page and then a subsequent
access via a kernel mapping would lead to a panic().
Rework the spurious fault handler so that stage-2 faults injected back
into the host result in the target page being forcefully reclaimed when
no exception table fixup handler is registered.
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
---
arch/arm64/include/asm/virt.h | 9 +++++++++
arch/arm64/kvm/pkvm.c | 12 ++++++++++++
arch/arm64/mm/fault.c | 17 +++++++++++------
3 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/virt.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/virt.h
index b51ab6840f9c..b546703c3ab9 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/virt.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/virt.h
@@ -94,6 +94,15 @@ static inline bool is_pkvm_initialized(void)
static_branch_likely(&kvm_protected_mode_initialized);
}
+#ifdef CONFIG_KVM
+bool pkvm_force_reclaim_guest_page(phys_addr_t phys);
+#else
+static inline bool pkvm_force_reclaim_guest_page(phys_addr_t phys)
+{
+ return false;
+}
+#endif
+
/* Reports the availability of HYP mode */
static inline bool is_hyp_mode_available(void)
{
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/pkvm.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/pkvm.c
index 8be91051699e..32294bd21dde 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/pkvm.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/pkvm.c
@@ -563,3 +563,15 @@ int pkvm_pgtable_stage2_split(struct kvm_pgtable *pgt, u64 addr, u64 size,
WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
return -EINVAL;
}
+
+/*
+ * Forcefully reclaim a page from the guest, zeroing its contents and
+ * poisoning the stage-2 pte so that pages can no longer be mapped at
+ * the same IPA. The page remains pinned until the guest is destroyed.
+ */
+bool pkvm_force_reclaim_guest_page(phys_addr_t phys)
+{
+ int ret = kvm_call_hyp_nvhe(__pkvm_force_reclaim_guest_page, phys);
+
+ return !ret || ret == -EAGAIN;
+}
diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c b/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c
index 3abfc7272d63..7eacc7b45c1f 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c
@@ -289,9 +289,6 @@ static bool __kprobes is_spurious_el1_translation_fault(unsigned long addr,
if (!is_el1_data_abort(esr) || !esr_fsc_is_translation_fault(esr))
return false;
- if (is_pkvm_stage2_abort(esr))
- return false;
-
local_irq_save(flags);
asm volatile("at s1e1r, %0" :: "r" (addr));
isb();
@@ -302,8 +299,14 @@ static bool __kprobes is_spurious_el1_translation_fault(unsigned long addr,
* If we now have a valid translation, treat the translation fault as
* spurious.
*/
- if (!(par & SYS_PAR_EL1_F))
+ if (!(par & SYS_PAR_EL1_F)) {
+ if (is_pkvm_stage2_abort(esr)) {
+ par &= SYS_PAR_EL1_PA;
+ return pkvm_force_reclaim_guest_page(par);
+ }
+
return true;
+ }
/*
* If we got a different type of fault from the AT instruction,
@@ -389,9 +392,11 @@ static void __do_kernel_fault(unsigned long addr, unsigned long esr,
if (!is_el1_instruction_abort(esr) && fixup_exception(regs, esr))
return;
- if (WARN_RATELIMIT(is_spurious_el1_translation_fault(addr, esr, regs),
- "Ignoring spurious kernel translation fault at virtual address %016lx\n", addr))
+ if (is_spurious_el1_translation_fault(addr, esr, regs)) {
+ WARN_RATELIMIT(!is_pkvm_stage2_abort(esr),
+ "Ignoring spurious kernel translation fault at virtual address %016lx\n", addr);
return;
+ }
if (is_el1_mte_sync_tag_check_fault(esr)) {
do_tag_recovery(addr, esr, regs);
--
2.53.0.473.g4a7958ca14-goog
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-05 14:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-05 14:43 [PATCH v3 00/36] KVM: arm64: Add support for protected guest memory with pKVM Will Deacon
2026-03-05 14:43 ` [PATCH v3 01/36] KVM: arm64: Don't leak stage-2 page-table if VM fails to init under pKVM Will Deacon
2026-03-11 12:48 ` Fuad Tabba
2026-03-05 14:43 ` [PATCH v3 02/36] KVM: arm64: Move handle check into pkvm_pgtable_stage2_destroy_range() Will Deacon
2026-03-11 10:15 ` Fuad Tabba
2026-03-05 14:43 ` [PATCH v3 03/36] KVM: arm64: Rename __pkvm_pgtable_stage2_unmap() Will Deacon
2026-03-11 12:49 ` Fuad Tabba
2026-03-05 14:43 ` [PATCH v3 04/36] KVM: arm64: Don't advertise unsupported features for protected guests Will Deacon
2026-03-11 10:15 ` Fuad Tabba
2026-03-05 14:43 ` [PATCH v3 05/36] KVM: arm64: Expose self-hosted debug regs as RAZ/WI " Will Deacon
2026-03-05 14:43 ` [PATCH v3 06/36] KVM: arm64: Remove is_protected_kvm_enabled() checks from hypercalls Will Deacon
2026-03-11 10:16 ` Fuad Tabba
2026-03-05 14:43 ` [PATCH v3 07/36] KVM: arm64: Ignore MMU notifier callbacks for protected VMs Will Deacon
2026-03-11 12:50 ` Fuad Tabba
2026-03-05 14:43 ` [PATCH v3 08/36] KVM: arm64: Prevent unsupported memslot operations on " Will Deacon
2026-03-11 10:16 ` Fuad Tabba
2026-03-05 14:43 ` [PATCH v3 09/36] KVM: arm64: Ignore -EAGAIN when mapping in pages for the pKVM host Will Deacon
2026-03-11 10:10 ` Fuad Tabba
2026-03-05 14:43 ` [PATCH v3 10/36] KVM: arm64: Split teardown hypercall into two phases Will Deacon
2026-03-11 10:22 ` Fuad Tabba
2026-03-05 14:43 ` [PATCH v3 11/36] KVM: arm64: Introduce __pkvm_host_donate_guest() Will Deacon
2026-03-20 12:38 ` Marc Zyngier
2026-03-23 14:55 ` Will Deacon
2026-03-05 14:43 ` [PATCH v3 12/36] KVM: arm64: Hook up donation hypercall to pkvm_pgtable_stage2_map() Will Deacon
2026-03-05 14:43 ` [PATCH v3 13/36] KVM: arm64: Handle aborts from protected VMs Will Deacon
2026-03-11 10:22 ` Fuad Tabba
2026-03-05 14:43 ` [PATCH v3 14/36] KVM: arm64: Introduce __pkvm_reclaim_dying_guest_page() Will Deacon
2026-03-05 14:43 ` [PATCH v3 15/36] KVM: arm64: Hook up reclaim hypercall to pkvm_pgtable_stage2_destroy() Will Deacon
2026-03-05 14:43 ` [PATCH v3 16/36] KVM: arm64: Factor out pKVM host exception injection logic Will Deacon
2026-03-11 10:12 ` Fuad Tabba
2026-03-05 14:43 ` [PATCH v3 17/36] KVM: arm64: Support translation faults in inject_host_exception() Will Deacon
2026-03-11 10:12 ` Fuad Tabba
2026-03-05 14:43 ` [PATCH v3 18/36] KVM: arm64: Inject SIGSEGV on illegal accesses Will Deacon
2026-03-11 10:13 ` Fuad Tabba
2026-03-05 14:43 ` [PATCH v3 19/36] KVM: arm64: Avoid pointless annotation when mapping host-owned pages Will Deacon
2026-03-05 14:43 ` [PATCH v3 20/36] KVM: arm64: Generalise kvm_pgtable_stage2_set_owner() Will Deacon
2026-03-05 14:43 ` [PATCH v3 21/36] KVM: arm64: Introduce host_stage2_set_owner_metadata_locked() Will Deacon
2026-03-05 14:43 ` [PATCH v3 22/36] KVM: arm64: Change 'pkvm_handle_t' to u16 Will Deacon
2026-03-05 14:43 ` [PATCH v3 23/36] KVM: arm64: Annotate guest donations with handle and gfn in host stage-2 Will Deacon
2026-03-05 14:43 ` [PATCH v3 24/36] KVM: arm64: Introduce hypercall to force reclaim of a protected page Will Deacon
2026-03-05 14:43 ` Will Deacon [this message]
2026-03-20 16:20 ` [PATCH v3 25/36] KVM: arm64: Reclaim faulting page from pKVM in spurious fault handler Marc Zyngier
2026-03-21 9:39 ` Marc Zyngier
2026-03-23 14:58 ` Will Deacon
2026-03-05 14:43 ` [PATCH v3 26/36] KVM: arm64: Return -EFAULT from VCPU_RUN on access to a poisoned pte Will Deacon
2026-03-20 16:35 ` Marc Zyngier
2026-03-23 14:58 ` Will Deacon
2026-03-05 14:43 ` [PATCH v3 27/36] KVM: arm64: Add hvc handler at EL2 for hypercalls from protected VMs Will Deacon
2026-03-05 14:43 ` [PATCH v3 28/36] KVM: arm64: Implement the MEM_SHARE hypercall for " Will Deacon
2026-03-05 14:43 ` [PATCH v3 29/36] KVM: arm64: Implement the MEM_UNSHARE " Will Deacon
2026-03-05 14:43 ` [PATCH v3 30/36] KVM: arm64: Allow userspace to create protected VMs when pKVM is enabled Will Deacon
2026-03-11 10:25 ` Fuad Tabba
2026-03-20 13:22 ` Marc Zyngier
2026-03-23 15:00 ` Will Deacon
2026-03-05 14:43 ` [PATCH v3 31/36] KVM: arm64: Add some initial documentation for pKVM Will Deacon
2026-03-11 10:25 ` Fuad Tabba
2026-03-05 14:43 ` [PATCH v3 32/36] KVM: arm64: Extend pKVM page ownership selftests to cover guest donation Will Deacon
2026-03-05 14:43 ` [PATCH v3 33/36] KVM: arm64: Register 'selftest_vm' in the VM table Will Deacon
2026-03-05 14:43 ` [PATCH v3 34/36] KVM: arm64: Extend pKVM page ownership selftests to cover forced reclaim Will Deacon
2026-03-05 14:43 ` [PATCH v3 35/36] KVM: arm64: Extend pKVM page ownership selftests to cover guest hvcs Will Deacon
2026-03-05 14:43 ` [PATCH v3 36/36] KVM: arm64: Rename PKVM_PAGE_STATE_MASK Will Deacon
2026-03-11 10:26 ` Fuad Tabba
2026-03-11 10:07 ` [PATCH v3 00/36] KVM: arm64: Add support for protected guest memory with pKVM Fuad Tabba
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