From: Binbin Wu <binbin.wu@linux.intel.com>
To: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
Kiryl Shutsemau <kas@kernel.org>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, linux-coco@lists.linux.dev,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Sashiko Bot <sashiko-bot@kernel.org>,
Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>,
Yan Zhao <yan.y.zhao@intel.com>,
Ackerley Tng <ackerleytng@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] KVM: TDX: Return EINVAL, not EOPNOTSUPP, for NULL INIT_MEM_REGION source
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2026 09:12:40 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ab5f7b2e-6df6-40bd-83c5-5f245b679548@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <akVKgY6JK9im5aDZ@google.com>
On 7/2/2026 1:12 AM, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 01, 2026, Binbin Wu wrote:
>> On 7/1/2026 5:37 AM, Sean Christopherson wrote:
>>> Return EINVAL instead of EOPNOTSUPP if userspace attempts to pass a NULL
>>> pointer for the source page of INIT_MEM_REGION, so that KVM's ABI is
>>> consistent between TDX and SNP (for LAUNCH_UPDATE). EOPNOTSUPP was chosen
>>> to be a forward-looking error code for when guest_memfd supports in-place
>>> conversion, but even when in-place conversion comes along, it's an awkward
>>> error code as KVM is deliberately choosing to disallow virtual address '0',
>>> which is technically a legal userspace address. I.e. it's not so much a
>>> lack of support as it is that KVM reserves address '0' to simplify KVM's
>>> internal implementation.
>>
>> Nit:
>> Do you think it's worth calling this out in the documentation?
>
> Yes, though that can be done separate since this series doesn't change ABI.
> E.g. we can probably do it opportunistically as part of the in-place conversion
> series?
Yes, make sense.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-02 1:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-06-30 21:37 [PATCH v2 0/2] KVM: x86: gmem populate fix and cleanups Sean Christopherson
2026-06-30 21:37 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] KVM: SEV: Explicitly disallow NULL user address for SNP_LAUNCH_UPDATE Sean Christopherson
2026-07-01 21:15 ` Ackerley Tng
2026-07-01 21:22 ` Sean Christopherson
2026-06-30 21:37 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] KVM: TDX: Return EINVAL, not EOPNOTSUPP, for NULL INIT_MEM_REGION source Sean Christopherson
2026-06-30 21:49 ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-01 20:13 ` Ackerley Tng
2026-07-01 20:54 ` Sean Christopherson
2026-07-01 7:27 ` Yan Zhao
2026-07-01 8:02 ` Binbin Wu
2026-07-01 17:12 ` Sean Christopherson
2026-07-02 1:12 ` Binbin Wu [this message]
2026-07-01 9:22 ` Kiryl Shutsemau
2026-07-02 2:32 ` Xiaoyao Li
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