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From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>,
	"David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>,
	Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 6.18.y 2/2] KVM: Only bind memslot to guest_memfd instance for CREATE operations
Date: Fri,  6 Nov 2026 08:24:52 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261106132304.64937-2-sashal@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261106132304.64937-1-sashal@kernel.org>

From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>

[ Upstream commit 513333a5546017da2a4a6173bfb70372f83733b3 ]

For additional defense-in-depth, and to avoid having to handle impossible
unwind scenarios when binding to a memslot fails, bind a memslot to a gmem
instance only for CREATE operations, i.e. don't attempt to establish a
binding for MOVE and FLAGS_ONLY operations.  And when FLAGS_ONLY operations
are eventually supported (this is currently all dead code), creating a new
binding would be incorrect; KVM instead needs to do a 1:1 replacement of
the existing binding, i.e. FLAGS_ONLY will need its own dedicated handling.

Update the relevant TODO to make a better guess as to what needs to be done
to support toggling dirty logging for guest_memfd memslots.

Because it's dead code, no functional change intended.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260922001332.1121266-4-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 12 ++++++------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
index 297fd43b1da6c..5521743d6e8cb 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -1763,10 +1763,10 @@ static void kvm_commit_memory_region(struct kvm *kvm,
 			kvm_destroy_dirty_bitmap(old);
 
 		/*
-		 * Unbind the guest_memfd instance as needed; the @new slot has
-		 * already created its own binding.  TODO: Drop the WARN when
-		 * dirty logging guest_memfd memslots is supported.  Until then,
-		 * flags-only changes on guest_memfd slots should be impossible.
+		 * TODO: Drop the WARN and do the unbind() call only for MOVE
+		 * when dirty logging guest_memfd memslots is supported.  Until
+		 * then, flags-only changes on guest_memfd slots should also be
+		 * impossible; unbind the old memslot for defense-in-depth.
 		 */
 		if (WARN_ON_ONCE(old->flags & KVM_MEM_GUEST_MEMFD))
 			kvm_gmem_unbind(old);
@@ -2127,7 +2127,7 @@ static int kvm_set_memory_region(struct kvm *kvm,
 	new->npages = npages;
 	new->flags = mem->flags;
 	new->userspace_addr = mem->userspace_addr;
-	if (mem->flags & KVM_MEM_GUEST_MEMFD) {
+	if (change == KVM_MR_CREATE && (mem->flags & KVM_MEM_GUEST_MEMFD)) {
 		r = kvm_gmem_bind(kvm, new, mem->guest_memfd, mem->guest_memfd_offset);
 		if (r)
 			goto out;
@@ -2140,7 +2140,7 @@ static int kvm_set_memory_region(struct kvm *kvm,
 	return 0;
 
 out_unbind:
-	if (mem->flags & KVM_MEM_GUEST_MEMFD)
+	if (change == KVM_MR_CREATE && (mem->flags & KVM_MEM_GUEST_MEMFD))
 		kvm_gmem_unbind(new);
 out:
 	kfree(new);
-- 
2.53.0


      reply	other threads:[~2026-11-06 13:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-11-04 19:16 FAILED: patch "[PATCH] KVM: Only bind memslot to guest_memfd instance for CREATE" failed to apply to 6.18-stable tree gregkh
2026-11-06 13:24 ` [PATCH 6.18.y 1/2] KVM: Harden and prepare for modifying existing guest_memfd memslots Sasha Levin
2026-11-06 13:24   ` Sasha Levin [this message]

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