FAILED: patch "[PATCH] KVM: arm64: Ensure level is always initialized when relaxing" failed to apply to 6.18-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

The patch below does not apply to the 6.18-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-6.18.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x 100baf0184896f859290a684f864b8200d8ac872
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<stable@vger.kernel.org>' --in-reply-to '2026072032-musty-tightly-d28e@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 6.18.y' 'HEAD^..'

Possible dependencies:



thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 100baf0184896f859290a684f864b8200d8ac872 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Oliver Upton <oupton@kernel.org>
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2026 16:16:19 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] KVM: arm64: Ensure level is always initialized when relaxing
 perms

stage2_update_leaf_attrs() returns early before writing to @level if the
table walker returned an error. At the same time,
kvm_pgtable_stage2_relax_perms() uses the level as a TLBI TTL hint when the
error was EAGAIN, indicating the vCPU raced with a table update and the TLB
entry it hit is now stale.

Fall back to an unknown TTL if none was provided by the walk.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: be097997a273 ("KVM: arm64: Always invalidate TLB for stage-2 permission faults")
Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton <oupton@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Wei-Lin Chang <weilin.chang@arm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260701231620.3300204-2-oupton@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c
index 0c1defa5fb0f..386a7468136a 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c
@@ -1356,7 +1356,7 @@ int kvm_pgtable_stage2_relax_perms(struct kvm_pgtable *pgt, u64 addr,
 				   enum kvm_pgtable_prot prot, enum kvm_pgtable_walk_flags flags)
 {
 	kvm_pte_t xn = 0, set = 0, clr = 0;
-	s8 level;
+	s8 level = TLBI_TTL_UNKNOWN;
 	int ret;
 
 	if (prot & KVM_PTE_LEAF_ATTR_HI_SW)