From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Hyunwoo Kim <imv4bel@gmail.com>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Subject: [PATCH 6.18.y] KVM: x86/mmu: Preserve nested TDP shadow page tables if they are used as roots
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2026 19:12:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261021021221.1703700-1-seanjc@google.com> (raw)
From: Hyunwoo Kim <imv4bel@gmail.com>
kvm_mmu_zap_oldest_mmu_pages() excludes a shadow page whose root_count
is non-zero from top-level reclaim, because such a page cannot be
freed. The path in mmu_page_zap_pte() that recursively zaps a parentless
nested TDP child has no such check. As a result, a shadow page can
be zapped even if the page itself can't be freed; as the comment in
kvm_mmu_zap_oldest_mmu_pages() notes, zapping it will just force vCPUs
to rebuild the page.
As in top-level reclaim, do not recursively prepare zapping of a
nested TDP child whose root_count is non-zero.
Fixes: 2de4085cccea ("KVM: x86/MMU: Recursively zap nested TDP SPs when zapping last/only parent")
Signed-off-by: Hyunwoo Kim <imv4bel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
---
arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
index 205d314a7583..1fa251ca4dcc 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
@@ -2630,6 +2630,7 @@ static int mmu_page_zap_pte(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_mmu_page *sp,
*/
if (tdp_enabled && invalid_list &&
child->role.guest_mode &&
+ !child->root_count &&
!atomic_long_read(&child->parent_ptes.val))
return kvm_mmu_prepare_zap_page(kvm, child,
invalid_list);
base-commit: 2ff600d29ee478d0a8d46ef8a58afb5e038fe692
--
2.56.0.218.g1ec904b173-goog
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