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From: Ackerley Tng <ackerleytng@google.com>
To: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	 Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
	x86@kernel.org,  "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Ashish Kalra <ashish.kalra@amd.com>,
	 Michael Roth <michael.roth@amd.com>,
	Brijesh Singh <brijesh.singh@amd.com>,
	 Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>, Oliver Upton <oupton@kernel.org>,
	Joey Gouly <joey.gouly@arm.com>,
	 Steffen Eiden <seiden@linux.ibm.com>,
	Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>,
	 Zenghui Yu <yuzenghui@huawei.com>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	 Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
	David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>,
	Fuad Tabba <tabba@google.com>,  Yan Zhao <yan.y.zhao@intel.com>,
	"Edgecombe, Rick P" <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>,
	 Vishal Annapurve <vannapurve@google.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	 linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, kvmarm@lists.linux.dev,
	 Ackerley Tng <ackerleytng@google.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3/4] KVM: SEV: Drop page refcount early in VMSA reload
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2026 08:12:37 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260818-gmem-no-return-page-v1-3-4f8d939efdbc@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260818-gmem-no-return-page-v1-0-4f8d939efdbc@google.com>

When reloading the guest VMSA for an SEV-SNP vCPU, KVM retrieves the PFN
from guest_memfd.

Drop the page reference immediately after retrieving the PFN instead of
holding it across MMU lock acquisition in preparation for a follow-up patch
to stop returning page pointers from guest_memfd PFN lookups.

This is safe because the page's validity and presence are governed by KVM's
MMU invalidation protocol rather than the page reference.

No functional change intended.

Signed-off-by: Ackerley Tng <ackerleytng@google.com>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c
index 19c31fa944e34..3fc582fa343cc 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c
@@ -4062,6 +4062,7 @@ static void __sev_snp_reload_vmsa(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gpa_t gpa)
 	 */
 	if (kvm_gmem_get_pfn(vcpu->kvm, slot, gfn, &pfn, &page, NULL))
 		return;
+	kvm_release_page_clean(page);
 
 	read_lock(&kvm->mmu_lock);
 	/*
@@ -4076,8 +4077,6 @@ static void __sev_snp_reload_vmsa(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gpa_t gpa)
 	else
 		svm->vmcb->control.vmsa_pa = pfn_to_hpa(pfn);
 	read_unlock(&kvm->mmu_lock);
-
-	kvm_release_page_clean(page);
 }
 
 /*

-- 
2.55.0.699.gb54405d56f-goog



  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-08-18  8:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-08-18  8:12 [PATCH 0/4] Stop returning struct page from guest_memfd PFN lookup Ackerley Tng
2026-08-18  8:12 ` [PATCH 1/4] KVM: SEV: Treat unassigned RMP entry as benign race on PSMASH failure Ackerley Tng
2026-08-18  8:12 ` [PATCH 2/4] KVM: SEV: Drop page refcount early during RMP fault handling Ackerley Tng
2026-08-18  8:12   ` Yan Zhao
2026-08-18  9:04     ` Ackerley Tng
2026-08-18  8:12 ` Ackerley Tng [this message]
2026-08-18  8:12 ` [PATCH 4/4] KVM: guest_memfd: Stop returning struct page from PFN lookup Ackerley Tng
2026-08-18  8:34   ` Yan Zhao
2026-08-18  9:44     ` Ackerley Tng

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