From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>,
"David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>,
Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 6.12.y 2/2] KVM: Only bind memslot to guest_memfd instance for CREATE operations
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2026 08:34:24 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261106133356.250405-2-sashal@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261106133356.250405-1-sashal@kernel.org>
From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
[ Upstream commit 513333a5546017da2a4a6173bfb70372f83733b3 ]
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>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 12 ++++++------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
index 0d017f75c5a11..c574cd2f4f722 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -1740,10 +1740,10 @@ 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);
@@ -2102,7 +2102,7 @@ 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;
@@ -2115,7 +2115,7 @@ 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);
--
2.53.0
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-11-06 13:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-11-04 19:16 FAILED: patch "[PATCH] KVM: Only bind memslot to guest_memfd instance for CREATE" failed to apply to 6.12-stable tree gregkh
2026-11-06 13:34 ` [PATCH 6.12.y 1/2] KVM: Harden and prepare for modifying existing guest_memfd memslots Sasha Levin
2026-11-06 13:34 ` Sasha Levin [this message]
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