FAILED: patch "[PATCH] KVM: Only bind memslot to guest_memfd instance for CREATE" failed to apply to 6.18-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

The patch below does not apply to the 6.18-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-6.18.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x 513333a5546017da2a4a6173bfb70372f83733b3
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<stable@vger.kernel.org>' --in-reply-to '2026110458-mobility-lucid-2243@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 6.18.y' 'HEAD^..'

Possible dependencies:



thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 513333a5546017da2a4a6173bfb70372f83733b3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2026 17:13:29 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] KVM: Only bind memslot to guest_memfd instance for CREATE
 operations

For additional defense-in-depth, and to avoid having to handle impossible
unwind scenarios when binding to a memslot fails, bind a memslot to a gmem
instance only for CREATE operations, i.e. don't attempt to establish a
binding for MOVE and FLAGS_ONLY operations.  And when FLAGS_ONLY operations
are eventually supported (this is currently all dead code), creating a new
binding would be incorrect; KVM instead needs to do a 1:1 replacement of
the existing binding, i.e. FLAGS_ONLY will need its own dedicated handling.

Update the relevant TODO to make a better guess as to what needs to be done
to support toggling dirty logging for guest_memfd memslots.

Because it's dead code, no functional change intended.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260922001332.1121266-4-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>

diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
index 3c0dbe60a5b4..c53a88cea1f2 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -1742,10 +1742,10 @@ static void kvm_commit_memory_region(struct kvm *kvm,
 			kvm_destroy_dirty_bitmap(old);
 
 		/*
-		 * Unbind the guest_memfd instance as needed; the @new slot has
-		 * already created its own binding.  TODO: Drop the WARN when
-		 * dirty logging guest_memfd memslots is supported.  Until then,
-		 * flags-only changes on guest_memfd slots should be impossible.
+		 * TODO: Drop the WARN and do the unbind() call only for MOVE
+		 * when dirty logging guest_memfd memslots is supported.  Until
+		 * then, flags-only changes on guest_memfd slots should also be
+		 * impossible; unbind the old memslot for defense-in-depth.
 		 */
 		if (WARN_ON_ONCE(old->flags & KVM_MEM_GUEST_MEMFD))
 			kvm_gmem_unbind(old);
@@ -2106,7 +2106,7 @@ static int kvm_set_memory_region(struct kvm *kvm,
 	new->npages = npages;
 	new->flags = mem->flags;
 	new->userspace_addr = mem->userspace_addr;
-	if (mem->flags & KVM_MEM_GUEST_MEMFD) {
+	if (change == KVM_MR_CREATE && (mem->flags & KVM_MEM_GUEST_MEMFD)) {
 		r = kvm_gmem_bind(kvm, new, mem->guest_memfd, mem->guest_memfd_offset);
 		if (r)
 			goto out;
@@ -2119,7 +2119,7 @@ static int kvm_set_memory_region(struct kvm *kvm,
 	return 0;
 
 out_unbind:
-	if (mem->flags & KVM_MEM_GUEST_MEMFD)
+	if (change == KVM_MR_CREATE && (mem->flags & KVM_MEM_GUEST_MEMFD))
 		kvm_gmem_unbind(new);
 out:
 	kfree(new);