Re: [PATCH v4 6/9] KVM: Add a helper function to validate vcpu gpa range

[Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>]

On Mon, Jul 21, 2025, Atish Patra wrote:
> diff --git a/include/linux/kvm_host.h b/include/linux/kvm_host.h
> index 3bde4fb5c6aa..9532da14b451 100644
> --- a/include/linux/kvm_host.h
> +++ b/include/linux/kvm_host.h
> @@ -1387,6 +1387,8 @@ static inline int kvm_vcpu_map_readonly(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gpa_t gpa,
>  
>  unsigned long kvm_vcpu_gfn_to_hva(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gfn_t gfn);
>  unsigned long kvm_vcpu_gfn_to_hva_prot(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gfn_t gfn, bool *writable);
> +int kvm_vcpu_validate_gpa_range(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gpa_t gpa, unsigned long len,
> +				bool write_access);
>  int kvm_vcpu_read_guest_page(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gfn_t gfn, void *data, int offset,
>  			     int len);
>  int kvm_vcpu_read_guest_atomic(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gpa_t gpa, void *data,
> diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> index 222f0e894a0c..11bb5c24ed0d 100644
> --- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> +++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> @@ -3361,6 +3361,27 @@ int kvm_vcpu_write_guest(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gpa_t gpa, const void *data,
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kvm_vcpu_write_guest);
>  
> +int kvm_vcpu_validate_gpa_range(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gpa_t gpa, unsigned long len,
> +				bool write_access)

Please no.  "validate" is way too ambiguous, the result is inherently unstable,
I don't want to add vCPU-scoped APIs (too much x86-centric baggage), taking an
arbitrary range without a user adds complexity for no benefit, and this is basically
the same as kvm_is_gpa_in_memslot(), but with write requirements.

I would much prefer to add a simpler helper to complement kvm_is_gpa_in_memslot(),
that makes it as obvious as possible exactly what is being "validated", e.g.

diff --git a/include/linux/kvm_host.h b/include/linux/kvm_host.h
index 3bde4fb5c6aa..29be907d28b0 100644
--- a/include/linux/kvm_host.h
+++ b/include/linux/kvm_host.h
@@ -1915,6 +1915,14 @@ static inline bool kvm_is_gpa_in_memslot(struct kvm *kvm, gpa_t gpa)
        return !kvm_is_error_hva(hva);
 }
 
+static inline bool kvm_is_gpa_in_writable_memslot(struct kvm *kvm, gpa_t gpa)
+{
+       bool writable;
+       unsigned long hva = gfn_to_hva_prot(kvm, gpa_to_gfn(gpa), &writable);
+
+       return !kvm_is_error_hva(hva) && writable;
+}
+
 static inline void kvm_gpc_mark_dirty_in_slot(struct gfn_to_pfn_cache *gpc)
 {
        lockdep_assert_held(&gpc->lock);