Re: [PATCH] KVM: TDX: Charge misc cgroup before allocating HKID

["Edgecombe, Rick P" <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>]

On Fri, 2026-08-21 at 17:39 +0800, Binbin Wu wrote:
> Add a tdx_hkid_alloc() helper that charges the misc cgroup before
> allocating an HKID, and unwind the charge if HKID allocation fails.
> 
> __tdx_td_init() currently allocates an HKID before charging the misc
> cgroup. If the charge fails, the error path calls tdx_hkid_free(), which
> uncharges a resource that was never successfully charged. This can make
> the misc-cgroup usage negative.
> 
> Charge the cgroup before allocating the HKID.  Wrapping both steps in
> tdx_hkid_alloc() makes it the exact counterpart of tdx_hkid_free(), i.e.
> keeps resource allocation and release symmetric, and lets __tdx_td_init()
> simply bail on failure instead of open coding the unwind.
> 
> Reported-by: sashiko-bot@kernel.org
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260710040153.D8EA71F000E9@smtp.kernel.org
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260718020348.3B4221F000E9@smtp.kernel.org
> Fixes: 7c035bea9407 ("KVM: TDX: Register TDX host key IDs to cgroup misc controller")
> Signed-off-by: Binbin Wu <binbin.wu@linux.intel.com>

As a straightforward bug fix:
Reviewed-by: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>

But it seems a bit awkward how the keyid allocator is carefully hidden away in
arch/x86 but the KVM caller does the cgroup maintenance. Hmm, I'd wonder if we
could move the struct misc_cg pointer to struct tdx_td or otherwise pass it in,
and make this stuff managed by arch/x86.

I think the only reason it is KVM managed is that an old cgroup patch got
applied on top of the base series. The old design from the era of that patch had
the keyid range exported, and KVM used it to manage the keyid allocation. Then
when the keyid range got hidden, it resulted in the alloc/free functions getting
exported. So I wonder if the new tdx_hkid_alloc() should live in arch/x86.
Otherwise we are doing the thing where KVM just wraps arch/x86 exports to do
what it needed to do in the first place.

But not needed for this patch in any case.

> ---
>  arch/x86/kvm/vmx/tdx.c | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
>  1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/tdx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/tdx.c
> index b272c20586a7..d1fe279b5bc3 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/tdx.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/tdx.c
> @@ -260,6 +260,31 @@ static __always_inline void tdvmcall_set_return_val(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
>  	to_tdx(vcpu)->vp_enter_args.r11 = val;
>  }
>  
> +static int tdx_hkid_alloc(struct kvm_tdx *kvm_tdx)
> +{
> +	int ret;
> +
> +	kvm_tdx->misc_cg = get_current_misc_cg();
> +	ret = misc_cg_try_charge(MISC_CG_RES_TDX, kvm_tdx->misc_cg, 1);
> +	if (ret)
> +		goto put_misc_cg;
> +
> +	ret = tdx_guest_keyid_alloc();
> +	if (ret < 0)
> +		goto uncharge_misc_cg;
> +
> +	kvm_tdx->hkid = ret;
> +	return 0;
> +
> +uncharge_misc_cg:
> +	misc_cg_uncharge(MISC_CG_RES_TDX, kvm_tdx->misc_cg, 1);
> +put_misc_cg:
> +	put_misc_cg(kvm_tdx->misc_cg);
> +	kvm_tdx->misc_cg = NULL;
> +
> +	return ret;
> +}
> +
>  static inline void tdx_hkid_free(struct kvm_tdx *kvm_tdx)
>  {
>  	tdx_guest_keyid_free(kvm_tdx->hkid);
> @@ -2445,14 +2470,9 @@ static int __tdx_td_init(struct kvm *kvm, struct td_params *td_params,
>  	u64 err, rcx;
>  
>  	*seamcall_err = 0;
> -	ret = tdx_guest_keyid_alloc();
> -	if (ret < 0)
> -		return ret;
> -	kvm_tdx->hkid = ret;
> -	kvm_tdx->misc_cg = get_current_misc_cg();
> -	ret = misc_cg_try_charge(MISC_CG_RES_TDX, kvm_tdx->misc_cg, 1);
> +	ret = tdx_hkid_alloc(kvm_tdx);
>  	if (ret)
> -		goto free_hkid;
> +		return ret;
>  
>  	ret = -ENOMEM;
>  
> 
> base-commit: 1b731e5ded480bd1e5546aed35584238661ce72e