Re: [PATCH v2] KVM: arm64: Don't WARN on SMCCC filter reserved range allocation failure

[Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>]

On 13/10/2026 17:43, Fuad Tabba wrote:
> The first time userspace sets an SMCCC filter, kvm_smccc_set_filter()
> inserts the reserved architecture ranges into the maple tree and WARNs
> if that fails. The insertion allocates with GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT, so a
> tight memory cgroup limit is enough for userspace to hit the WARN, even
> though the -ENOMEM is also returned to it. The WARN dates back to when
> the ranges were inserted at VM creation.
> 
> Leave -ENOMEM out of the WARN and keep it for every other error. The
> two reserved ranges are fixed and disjoint and go into an empty tree
> under config_lock, so any other error is a KVM bug.
> 
> Fixes: fb88707dd39bd ("KVM: arm64: Use a maple tree to represent the SMCCC filter")
> Reported-by: Sashiko <sashiko-bot@kernel.org>
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260829055809.29AD31F000E9@smtp.kernel.org/
> Suggested-by: Oliver Upton <oupton@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Fuad Tabba <fuad.tabba@linux.dev>

Reviewed-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>


> ---
> Changes since v1 [1]:
>    - Keep the WARN for any error other than -ENOMEM. (Oliver)
>    - Split out of v1 as its own patch. (Marc)
> 
> Based on Linux 7.3-rc3 (fd73f4a665989).
> 
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260928152507.2116110-2-fuad.tabba@linux.dev/
> 
>   arch/arm64/kvm/hypercalls.c | 4 +++-
>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hypercalls.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hypercalls.c
> index b11b8821c9fbc..c9d488c586e5f 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hypercalls.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hypercalls.c
> @@ -197,8 +197,10 @@ static int kvm_smccc_set_filter(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_smccc_filter __user
>   
>   	if (!kvm_smccc_filter_configured(kvm)) {
>   		r = kvm_smccc_filter_insert_reserved(kvm);
> -		if (WARN_ON_ONCE(r))
> +		if (r) {
> +			WARN_ON_ONCE(r != -ENOMEM);
>   			goto out_unlock;
> +		}
>   	}
>   
>   	r = mtree_insert_range(&kvm->arch.smccc_filter, start, end,
> 
> base-commit: fd73f4a6659897191fa0d40695fe370925dd3780