* [PATCH v4 1/2] KVM: arm64: nv: Fix life cycle of the nested_mmus array
2026-09-11 16:22 [PATCH v4 0/2] KVM: arm64: nv: Shadow S2 life-cycle fixes Marc Zyngier
@ 2026-09-11 16:22 ` Marc Zyngier
2026-09-11 18:57 ` Wei-Lin Chang
2026-09-11 16:22 ` [PATCH v4 2/2] KVM: arm64: nv: Delay freeing of shadow S2 structures until VM destruction Marc Zyngier
1 sibling, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Marc Zyngier @ 2026-09-11 16:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: kvmarm, linux-arm-kernel
Cc: Steffen Eiden, Joey Gouly, Suzuki K Poulose, Oliver Upton,
Zenghui Yu, Fuad Tabba, ljs, Shen Yongchao, Karl Mehltretter,
Wei-Lin Chang, stable
The nested_mmus array holds the shadow page tables that are used when
a guest is running a nested context. These structures are allocated on
VCPU_INIT for whole guest, which implies that they may have to be
relocated as the array grows.
Should a VCPU_INIT occur whilst a vcpu is actively running an L2 and
that the allocation requires relocation, that vcpu will still be
running with a pointer to the previous structure, which will have been
freed.
Fix this by turning the array of structures to an array of pointers,
which is now allocated at VM creation, sized to the absolute maximum
that KVM can handle.
In turn, each VCPU_INIT contributes S2_MMU_PER_VCPU to the pool. No
reallocation is ever performed, and the life cycle of each object is
much clearer:
- the nested_mmus array is allocated in kvm_init_nested(), and freed
in kvm_arch_destroy_vm()
- s2_mmu structures are allocated in kvm_vcpu_init_nested(), and freed
on kvm_arch_flush_shadow_all()
Finally, the freeing of vcpu->arch.vncr_array is made consistent
rather than being done on some failure paths, but not others.
Fixes: 4f128f8e1aaa ("KVM: arm64: nv: Support multiple nested Stage-2 mmu structures")
Reported-by: Shen Yongchao <grayhat@foxmail.com>
Reported-by: Karl Mehltretter <kmehltretter@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Karl Mehltretter <kmehltretter@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260803224405.41468-1-kmehltretter@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
---
arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 2 +-
arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_nested.h | 2 +-
arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c | 8 ++-
arch/arm64/kvm/nested.c | 93 +++++++++++++----------------
4 files changed, 51 insertions(+), 54 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
index 27fe0cd5b2d7a..cd9b9d2462f96 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
@@ -322,7 +322,7 @@ struct kvm_arch {
* Stage 2 paging state for VMs with nested S2 using a virtual
* VMID.
*/
- struct kvm_s2_mmu *nested_mmus;
+ struct kvm_s2_mmu **nested_mmus;
size_t nested_mmus_size;
int nested_mmus_next;
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_nested.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_nested.h
index 1ed7083358096..5b8edb2e8a87d 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_nested.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_nested.h
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ static inline u64 translate_ttbr0_el2_to_ttbr0_el1(u64 ttbr0)
extern bool forward_smc_trap(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
extern bool forward_debug_exception(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
-extern void kvm_init_nested(struct kvm *kvm);
+extern int kvm_init_nested(struct kvm *kvm);
extern int kvm_vcpu_init_nested(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
extern void kvm_init_nested_s2_mmu(struct kvm_s2_mmu *mmu);
extern struct kvm_s2_mmu *lookup_s2_mmu(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c
index 8b080804bc90b..b53219e048bdf 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c
@@ -236,8 +236,6 @@ int kvm_arch_init_vm(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned long type)
mutex_unlock(&kvm->lock);
#endif
- kvm_init_nested(kvm);
-
ret = kvm_share_hyp(kvm, kvm + 1);
if (ret)
return ret;
@@ -252,6 +250,10 @@ int kvm_arch_init_vm(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned long type)
if (ret)
goto err_free_cpumask;
+ ret = kvm_init_nested(kvm);
+ if (ret)
+ goto err_uninit_mmu;
+
if (is_protected_kvm_enabled()) {
/*
* If any failures occur after this is successful, make sure to
@@ -280,6 +282,7 @@ int kvm_arch_init_vm(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned long type)
err_uninit_mmu:
kvm_uninit_stage2_mmu(kvm);
+ kvfree(kvm->arch.nested_mmus);
err_free_cpumask:
free_cpumask_var(kvm->arch.supported_cpus);
err_unshare_kvm:
@@ -337,6 +340,7 @@ void kvm_arch_destroy_vm(struct kvm *kvm)
kvm_unshare_hyp(kvm, kvm + 1);
+ kvfree(kvm->arch.nested_mmus);
kvm_arm_teardown_hypercalls(kvm);
}
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/nested.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/nested.c
index 3c4fc566eafc6..0a32d6bd3f6c6 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/nested.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/nested.c
@@ -45,11 +45,15 @@ struct vncr_tlb {
*/
#define S2_MMU_PER_VCPU 2
-void kvm_init_nested(struct kvm *kvm)
+int kvm_init_nested(struct kvm *kvm)
{
- kvm->arch.nested_mmus = NULL;
+ kvm->arch.nested_mmus = kvmalloc_objs(struct kvm_s2_mmu *,
+ KVM_MAX_VCPUS * S2_MMU_PER_VCPU,
+ GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT);
kvm->arch.nested_mmus_size = 0;
atomic_set(&kvm->arch.vncr_tlb_count, 0);
+
+ return kvm->arch.nested_mmus ? 0 : -ENOMEM;
}
static int init_nested_s2_mmu(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_s2_mmu *mmu)
@@ -70,8 +74,9 @@ static int init_nested_s2_mmu(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_s2_mmu *mmu)
int kvm_vcpu_init_nested(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
{
struct kvm *kvm = vcpu->kvm;
- struct kvm_s2_mmu *tmp;
- int num_mmus, ret = 0;
+ int num_mmus;
+
+ lockdep_assert_held(&kvm->arch.config_lock);
if (test_bit(KVM_ARM_VCPU_HAS_EL2_E2H0, kvm->arch.vcpu_features) &&
!cpus_have_final_cap(ARM64_HAS_HCR_NV1))
@@ -84,51 +89,40 @@ int kvm_vcpu_init_nested(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
if (!vcpu->arch.ctxt.vncr_array)
return -ENOMEM;
- /*
- * Let's treat memory allocation failures as benign: If we fail to
- * allocate anything, return an error and keep the allocated array
- * alive. Userspace may try to recover by initializing the vcpu
- * again, and there is no reason to affect the whole VM for this.
- */
num_mmus = atomic_read(&kvm->online_vcpus) * S2_MMU_PER_VCPU;
if (num_mmus > kvm->arch.nested_mmus_size) {
- tmp = kvzalloc_objs(*tmp, num_mmus, GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT);
+ struct kvm_s2_mmu *tmp;
+ int i, ret = 0;
+
+ tmp = kvzalloc_objs(*tmp, S2_MMU_PER_VCPU, GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT);
if (!tmp)
- return -ENOMEM;
+ ret = -ENOMEM;
- write_lock(&kvm->mmu_lock);
-
- if (kvm->arch.nested_mmus_size) {
- memcpy(tmp, kvm->arch.nested_mmus,
- size_mul(sizeof(*tmp), kvm->arch.nested_mmus_size));
-
- for (int i = 0; i < kvm->arch.nested_mmus_size; i++)
- tmp[i].pgt->mmu = &tmp[i];
+ for (i = 0; !ret && i < S2_MMU_PER_VCPU; i++) {
+ ret = init_nested_s2_mmu(kvm, &tmp[i]);
+ if (ret)
+ break;
}
- swap(kvm->arch.nested_mmus, tmp);
+ if (ret) {
+ while (--i >= 0)
+ kvm_free_stage2_pgd(&tmp[i]);
- write_unlock(&kvm->mmu_lock);
+ kvfree(tmp);
+ free_page((unsigned long)vcpu->arch.ctxt.vncr_array);
+ vcpu->arch.ctxt.vncr_array = NULL;
+ return ret;
+ }
- kvfree(tmp);
+ guard(write_lock)(&kvm->mmu_lock);
+
+ for (i = 0; i < S2_MMU_PER_VCPU; i++)
+ kvm->arch.nested_mmus[i + kvm->arch.nested_mmus_size] = &tmp[i];
+
+ kvm->arch.nested_mmus_size += S2_MMU_PER_VCPU;
}
- for (int i = kvm->arch.nested_mmus_size; !ret && i < num_mmus; i++)
- ret = init_nested_s2_mmu(kvm, &kvm->arch.nested_mmus[i]);
-
- if (ret) {
- for (int i = kvm->arch.nested_mmus_size; i < num_mmus; i++)
- kvm_free_stage2_pgd(&kvm->arch.nested_mmus[i]);
-
- free_page((unsigned long)vcpu->arch.ctxt.vncr_array);
- vcpu->arch.ctxt.vncr_array = NULL;
-
- return ret;
- }
-
- kvm->arch.nested_mmus_size = num_mmus;
-
return 0;
}
@@ -742,7 +736,7 @@ void kvm_s2_mmu_iterate_by_vmid(struct kvm *kvm, u16 vmid,
write_lock(&kvm->mmu_lock);
for (int i = 0; i < kvm->arch.nested_mmus_size; i++) {
- struct kvm_s2_mmu *mmu = &kvm->arch.nested_mmus[i];
+ struct kvm_s2_mmu *mmu = kvm->arch.nested_mmus[i];
if (!kvm_s2_mmu_valid(mmu))
continue;
@@ -784,7 +778,7 @@ struct kvm_s2_mmu *lookup_s2_mmu(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
* if S2 translation is disabled.
*/
for (int i = 0; i < kvm->arch.nested_mmus_size; i++) {
- struct kvm_s2_mmu *mmu = &kvm->arch.nested_mmus[i];
+ struct kvm_s2_mmu *mmu = kvm->arch.nested_mmus[i];
if (!kvm_s2_mmu_valid(mmu))
continue;
@@ -823,7 +817,7 @@ static struct kvm_s2_mmu *get_s2_mmu_nested(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
for (i = kvm->arch.nested_mmus_next;
i < (kvm->arch.nested_mmus_size + kvm->arch.nested_mmus_next);
i++) {
- s2_mmu = &kvm->arch.nested_mmus[i % kvm->arch.nested_mmus_size];
+ s2_mmu = kvm->arch.nested_mmus[i % kvm->arch.nested_mmus_size];
if (atomic_read(&s2_mmu->refcnt) == 0)
break;
@@ -1270,7 +1264,7 @@ void kvm_nested_s2_wp(struct kvm *kvm)
return;
for (i = 0; i < kvm->arch.nested_mmus_size; i++) {
- struct kvm_s2_mmu *mmu = &kvm->arch.nested_mmus[i];
+ struct kvm_s2_mmu *mmu = kvm->arch.nested_mmus[i];
if (kvm_s2_mmu_valid(mmu))
kvm_stage2_wp_range(mmu, 0, kvm_phys_size(mmu));
@@ -1289,7 +1283,7 @@ void kvm_nested_s2_unmap(struct kvm *kvm, bool may_block)
return;
for (i = 0; i < kvm->arch.nested_mmus_size; i++) {
- struct kvm_s2_mmu *mmu = &kvm->arch.nested_mmus[i];
+ struct kvm_s2_mmu *mmu = kvm->arch.nested_mmus[i];
if (kvm_s2_mmu_valid(mmu))
kvm_stage2_unmap_range(mmu, 0, kvm_phys_size(mmu), may_block);
@@ -1308,7 +1302,7 @@ void kvm_nested_s2_flush(struct kvm *kvm)
return;
for (i = 0; i < kvm->arch.nested_mmus_size; i++) {
- struct kvm_s2_mmu *mmu = &kvm->arch.nested_mmus[i];
+ struct kvm_s2_mmu *mmu = kvm->arch.nested_mmus[i];
if (kvm_s2_mmu_valid(mmu))
kvm_stage2_flush_range(mmu, 0, kvm_phys_size(mmu));
@@ -1317,16 +1311,15 @@ void kvm_nested_s2_flush(struct kvm *kvm)
void kvm_arch_flush_shadow_all(struct kvm *kvm)
{
- int i;
-
- for (i = 0; i < kvm->arch.nested_mmus_size; i++) {
- struct kvm_s2_mmu *mmu = &kvm->arch.nested_mmus[i];
+ for (int i = kvm->arch.nested_mmus_size - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
+ struct kvm_s2_mmu *mmu = kvm->arch.nested_mmus[i];
if (!WARN_ON(atomic_read(&mmu->refcnt)))
kvm_free_stage2_pgd(mmu);
+
+ if ((i % S2_MMU_PER_VCPU) == 0)
+ kvfree(mmu);
}
- kvfree(kvm->arch.nested_mmus);
- kvm->arch.nested_mmus = NULL;
kvm->arch.nested_mmus_size = 0;
kvm_uninit_stage2_mmu(kvm);
}
--
2.47.3
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2026-09-11 16:22 [PATCH v4 0/2] KVM: arm64: nv: Shadow S2 life-cycle fixes Marc Zyngier
2026-09-11 16:22 ` [PATCH v4 1/2] KVM: arm64: nv: Fix life cycle of the nested_mmus array Marc Zyngier
@ 2026-09-11 16:22 ` Marc Zyngier
2026-09-11 18:59 ` Wei-Lin Chang
1 sibling, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Marc Zyngier @ 2026-09-11 16:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: kvmarm, linux-arm-kernel
Cc: Steffen Eiden, Joey Gouly, Suzuki K Poulose, Oliver Upton,
Zenghui Yu, Fuad Tabba, ljs, Shen Yongchao, Karl Mehltretter,
Wei-Lin Chang, stable
We free the shadow S2 structures from kvm_arch_flush_shadow_all(), which
is a Bad Idea(tm). Freeing the page tables is fair game (this is what
this callback is for), but freeing the container that could still be
referenced by another part of the system is not great.
Instead, grow separate destructors that gets called when we tear the VM
down for good. From there, we can nuke both the individual MMUs as well
as the global array that points to them, safe in the knowledge that the
vcpus themselves have been destroyed already.
Fixes: 4f128f8e1aaac ("KVM: arm64: nv: Support multiple nested Stage-2 mmu structures")
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
---
arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_nested.h | 1 +
arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c | 4 ++--
arch/arm64/kvm/nested.c | 15 ++++++++++-----
3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_nested.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_nested.h
index 5b8edb2e8a87d..586026e859030 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_nested.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_nested.h
@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ static inline u64 translate_ttbr0_el2_to_ttbr0_el1(u64 ttbr0)
extern bool forward_smc_trap(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
extern bool forward_debug_exception(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
extern int kvm_init_nested(struct kvm *kvm);
+extern void kvm_destroy_nested(struct kvm *kvm);
extern int kvm_vcpu_init_nested(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
extern void kvm_init_nested_s2_mmu(struct kvm_s2_mmu *mmu);
extern struct kvm_s2_mmu *lookup_s2_mmu(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c
index b53219e048bdf..eaf583b771931 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c
@@ -282,7 +282,7 @@ int kvm_arch_init_vm(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned long type)
err_uninit_mmu:
kvm_uninit_stage2_mmu(kvm);
- kvfree(kvm->arch.nested_mmus);
+ kvm_destroy_nested(kvm);
err_free_cpumask:
free_cpumask_var(kvm->arch.supported_cpus);
err_unshare_kvm:
@@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ void kvm_arch_destroy_vm(struct kvm *kvm)
kvm_unshare_hyp(kvm, kvm + 1);
- kvfree(kvm->arch.nested_mmus);
+ kvm_destroy_nested(kvm);
kvm_arm_teardown_hypercalls(kvm);
}
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/nested.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/nested.c
index 0a32d6bd3f6c6..d60f6f69e293d 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/nested.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/nested.c
@@ -56,6 +56,15 @@ int kvm_init_nested(struct kvm *kvm)
return kvm->arch.nested_mmus ? 0 : -ENOMEM;
}
+void kvm_destroy_nested(struct kvm *kvm)
+{
+ for (int i = 0; i < kvm->arch.nested_mmus_size; i+= S2_MMU_PER_VCPU)
+ kvfree(kvm->arch.nested_mmus[i]);
+
+ kvm->arch.nested_mmus_size = 0;
+ kvfree(kvm->arch.nested_mmus);
+}
+
static int init_nested_s2_mmu(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_s2_mmu *mmu)
{
/*
@@ -1311,16 +1320,12 @@ void kvm_nested_s2_flush(struct kvm *kvm)
void kvm_arch_flush_shadow_all(struct kvm *kvm)
{
- for (int i = kvm->arch.nested_mmus_size - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
+ for (int i = 0; i < kvm->arch.nested_mmus_size; i++) {
struct kvm_s2_mmu *mmu = kvm->arch.nested_mmus[i];
if (!WARN_ON(atomic_read(&mmu->refcnt)))
kvm_free_stage2_pgd(mmu);
-
- if ((i % S2_MMU_PER_VCPU) == 0)
- kvfree(mmu);
}
- kvm->arch.nested_mmus_size = 0;
kvm_uninit_stage2_mmu(kvm);
}
--
2.47.3
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