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* FAILED: patch "[PATCH] KVM: arm64: Remove VM-wide VNCR mapping counter" failed to apply to 6.18-stable tree
@ 2026-09-09 10:36 gregkh
  2026-09-11 10:57 ` [PATCH 6.18.y 1/2] KVM: arm64: nv: Fully update VNCR fixmap state in kvm_translate_vncr() Sasha Levin
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: gregkh @ 2026-09-09 10:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: maz, ljs, oupton, yaoyuan; +Cc: stable


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 c55bc773b6e814406658fae7dc5c15f639ed816e
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<stable@vger.kernel.org>' --in-reply-to '2026090950-contact-impatient-f4fb@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 6.18.y' 'HEAD^..'

Possible dependencies:



thanks,

greg k-h

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

From c55bc773b6e814406658fae7dc5c15f639ed816e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2026 10:10:19 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] KVM: arm64: Remove VM-wide VNCR mapping counter

The global VNCR mapping counter is used to decide whether an L1
provided VNCR page is mapped in L0 on any CPU at the point of
dealing with a TLB invalidation. It is incremented when a mapping
is made in the fixmap, and decremented when unmapped.

As it turns out, this tracking has several flaws:

- we are trying to invalidate TLBs, and the mapping is only an
  opportunistic consequence of the TLB. Checking this counter to
  decide whether a TLB needs to be invalidated may result in missed
  invalidations.

- an L1 vcpu invalidating its own TLB (a very likely case) will not
  succeed in invalidating the VNCR pseudo TLB because that page is
  not mapped in L0 at this stage.

Given that this tracking fails at delivering the minimum guarantees
that are required and is only a performance optimisation, remove it
completely.

Fixes: 4ffa72ad8f37e ("KVM: arm64: nv: Add S1 TLB invalidation primitive for VNCR_EL2")
Reviewed-by: Yuan Yao <yaoyuan@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260806091026.620700-2-maz@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton <oupton@kernel.org>

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
index bae2c4f92ef5..ac16f96c878d 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
@@ -411,9 +411,6 @@ struct kvm_arch {
 	/* Masks for VNCR-backed and general EL2 sysregs */
 	struct kvm_sysreg_masks	*sysreg_masks;
 
-	/* Count the number of VNCR_EL2 currently mapped */
-	atomic_t vncr_map_count;
-
 	/*
 	 * For an untrusted host VM, 'pkvm.handle' is used to lookup
 	 * the associated pKVM instance in the hypervisor.
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/vhe/switch.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/vhe/switch.c
index bbe9cebd3d9d..c09b1d411c58 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/vhe/switch.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/vhe/switch.c
@@ -427,8 +427,7 @@ static bool kvm_hyp_handle_tlbi_el2(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 *exit_code)
 	 * If we have to check for any VNCR mapping being invalidated,
 	 * go back to the slow path for further processing.
 	 */
-	if (vcpu_el2_e2h_is_set(vcpu) && vcpu_el2_tge_is_set(vcpu) &&
-	    atomic_read(&vcpu->kvm->arch.vncr_map_count))
+	if (vcpu_el2_e2h_is_set(vcpu) && vcpu_el2_tge_is_set(vcpu))
 		return false;
 
 	__kvm_skip_instr(vcpu);
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/nested.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/nested.c
index dfb96edbdc43..f3c75954cf36 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/nested.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/nested.c
@@ -48,7 +48,6 @@ void kvm_init_nested(struct kvm *kvm)
 {
 	kvm->arch.nested_mmus = NULL;
 	kvm->arch.nested_mmus_size = 0;
-	atomic_set(&kvm->arch.vncr_map_count, 0);
 }
 
 static int init_nested_s2_mmu(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_s2_mmu *mmu)
@@ -890,7 +889,6 @@ static void this_cpu_reset_vncr_fixmap(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 	clear_fixmap(vncr_fixmap(vcpu->arch.vncr_tlb->cpu));
 	vcpu->arch.vncr_tlb->cpu = -1;
 	host_data_clear_flag(L1_VNCR_MAPPED);
-	atomic_dec(&vcpu->kvm->arch.vncr_map_count);
 }
 
 void kvm_vcpu_put_hw_mmu(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
@@ -1592,7 +1590,6 @@ static void kvm_map_l1_vncr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 	if (pgprot_val(prot) != pgprot_val(PAGE_NONE)) {
 		__set_fixmap(vncr_fixmap(vt->cpu), vt->hpa, prot);
 		host_data_set_flag(L1_VNCR_MAPPED);
-		atomic_inc(&vcpu->kvm->arch.vncr_map_count);
 	}
 }
 


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* FAILED: patch "[PATCH] KVM: arm64: Handle VNCR TLB invalidation race with vcpu_put()" failed to apply to 6.18-stable tree
@ 2026-09-09 10:37 gregkh
  2026-09-11 10:59 ` [PATCH 6.18.y 1/2] KVM: arm64: nv: Fully update VNCR fixmap state in kvm_translate_vncr() Sasha Levin
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: gregkh @ 2026-09-09 10:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: maz, oupton, yaoyuan; +Cc: stable


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 38640bc32be3fcf9526d477155bc19d3f146231f
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<stable@vger.kernel.org>' --in-reply-to '2026090924-dweeb-huskiness-bd94@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 6.18.y' 'HEAD^..'

Possible dependencies:



thanks,

greg k-h

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

From 38640bc32be3fcf9526d477155bc19d3f146231f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2026 10:10:23 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] KVM: arm64: Handle VNCR TLB invalidation race with vcpu_put()
 VNCR unmapping

While VNCR TLB invalidation always occurs under the MMU lock,
vcpu_put() doesn't, while it unmaps the VNCR page.

The problem is that the invalidation evaluates vncr_tlb::cpu to
decide whether an unmapping needs to take place (cpu != -1) before
performing it. On the other hand, this_cpu_reset_vncr_fixmap()
unconditionally unmaps if L1_VNCR_MAPPED is set.

These two obviously can race, with a TOCTOU pattern on the TLBI
path, and a BUG_ON() on the vcpu_put() path. And the two can end-up
calling vncr_fixmap(-1), with extra lethal effects.

Move the reset of vncr_tlb::cpu to -1 to a common function, and make
this update atomic so that only a single thread can reset the field
and perform the corresponding unmap. The vcpu_put() still need to
unconditionally unmap the current VNCR to close another ugly race.

Finally, the assignment of vncr_tlb::cpu is moved to be kept in sync
with the actual mapping, similar to L1_VNCR_MAPPED being set.

Fixes: 7270cc9157f47 ("KVM: arm64: nv: Handle VNCR_EL2 invalidation from MMU notifiers")
Reported-by: sashiko-bot@kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260801130237.0FD8F1F00ACA@smtp.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Yuan Yao <yaoyuan@linux.alibaba.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260806091026.620700-6-maz@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton <oupton@kernel.org>

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/nested.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/nested.c
index 8a602d074dbb..cf0d45059edb 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/nested.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/nested.c
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ struct vncr_tlb {
 	bool			hpa_writable;
 
 	/* -1 when not mapped on a CPU */
-	int			cpu;
+	atomic_t		cpu;
 
 	/*
 	 * true if the TLB is valid. Can only be changed with the
@@ -894,16 +894,40 @@ void kvm_vcpu_load_hw_mmu(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 	}
 }
 
+/*
+ * Unmapping an L1 VNCR can happen concurrently without the mmu lock being
+ * effective (vcpu_put() vs TLBI handling). The atomic_xchg below ensures
+ * that only one CPU sets it to -1 while getting a valid CPU number back.
+ */
+static int unmap_l1_vncr(struct vncr_tlb *vt)
+{
+	int cpu = atomic_xchg_relaxed(&vt->cpu, -1);
+
+	if (cpu != -1)
+		clear_fixmap(vncr_fixmap(cpu));
+
+	return cpu;
+}
+
 static void this_cpu_reset_vncr_fixmap(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 {
 	if (!host_data_test_flag(L1_VNCR_MAPPED))
 		return;
 
-	BUG_ON(vcpu->arch.vncr_tlb->cpu != smp_processor_id());
 	BUG_ON(is_hyp_ctxt(vcpu));
 
-	clear_fixmap(vncr_fixmap(vcpu->arch.vncr_tlb->cpu));
-	vcpu->arch.vncr_tlb->cpu = -1;
+	/*
+	 * Unconditionally unmap the local VNCR if we have lost the race
+	 * against a concurrent TLBI. Otherwise we could end-up running
+	 * another vcpu with VNCR still mapped if the TLBI thread is
+	 * preempted between the exchange and the clear_fixmap().
+	 *
+	 * Note that we do not care about the TLBI nuking the fixmap behind
+	 * the back of an running vcpu. This will only generate a fault and
+	 * possibly a retranslation.
+	 */
+	if (unmap_l1_vncr(vcpu->arch.vncr_tlb) == -1)
+		clear_fixmap(vncr_fixmap(smp_processor_id()));
 	host_data_clear_flag(L1_VNCR_MAPPED);
 }
 
@@ -995,8 +1019,7 @@ u16 get_asid_by_regime(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, enum trans_regime regime)
 static void invalidate_vncr(struct vncr_tlb *vt)
 {
 	vt->valid = false;
-	if (vt->cpu != -1)
-		clear_fixmap(vncr_fixmap(vt->cpu));
+	unmap_l1_vncr(vt);
 }
 
 static bool vncr_tlb_intersects(struct vncr_tlb *vt, u64 addr,
@@ -1452,7 +1475,7 @@ static int kvm_translate_vncr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, bool *is_gmem)
 		vt->hpa = pfn << PAGE_SHIFT;
 		vt->hpa_writable = writable;
 		vt->valid = true;
-		vt->cpu = -1;
+		atomic_set(&vt->cpu, -1);
 
 		kvm_make_request(KVM_REQ_MAP_L1_VNCR_EL2, vcpu);
 		kvm_release_faultin_page(vcpu->kvm, page, false, vt->wr.pw && vt->hpa_writable);
@@ -1583,8 +1606,6 @@ static void kvm_map_l1_vncr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 	if (vt->wr.nG && get_asid_by_regime(vcpu, TR_EL20) != vt->wr.asid)
 		return;
 
-	vt->cpu = smp_processor_id();
-
 	if (vt->hpa_writable && vt->wr.pw && vt->wr.pr)
 		prot = PAGE_KERNEL;
 	else if (vt->wr.pr)
@@ -1599,7 +1620,8 @@ static void kvm_map_l1_vncr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 	 * FIXME: WO doesn't work at all, need POE support in the kernel.
 	 */
 	if (pgprot_val(prot) != pgprot_val(PAGE_NONE)) {
-		__set_fixmap(vncr_fixmap(vt->cpu), vt->hpa, prot);
+		atomic_set(&vt->cpu, smp_processor_id());
+		__set_fixmap(vncr_fixmap(atomic_read(&vt->cpu)), vt->hpa, prot);
 		host_data_set_flag(L1_VNCR_MAPPED);
 	}
 }


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