* FAILED: patch "[PATCH] KVM: arm64: Use kvm_s2_fault_vma_info in gmem_abort()" failed to apply to 6.18-stable tree
@ 2026-11-07 10:07 Sasha Levin
2026-11-10 11:55 ` [PATCH 6.18.y] KVM: arm64: Use kvm_s2_fault_vma_info in gmem_abort() Sasha Levin
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From: Sasha Levin @ 2026-11-07 10:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: fuad.tabba, sashiko-bot, vdonnefort, maz; +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 80b0b86dc5e4344e62a2fd3ee43d0ef816fe9122
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<stable@vger.kernel.org>' --in-reply-to '20261107050759-failed-6.18-80b0b86dc5e4@kernel.org' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 6.18.y' 'HEAD^..'
Thanks,
Sasha
------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
From 80b0b86dc5e4344e62a2fd3ee43d0ef816fe9122 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Fuad Tabba <fuad.tabba@linux.dev>
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2026 10:54:52 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] KVM: arm64: Use kvm_s2_fault_vma_info in gmem_abort()
gmem_abort() maps at s2fd->fault_ipa, which HPFAR_EL2 holds at 4K
granularity whatever the page size. The generic page-table code aligns
it, but pkvm_pgtable_stage2_map() looks up existing mappings over
[addr, addr + size), so on a pKVM host with pages larger than 4K a
guest_memfd-backed guest that faults past the first 4K of a page can
find its neighbour's mapping, get -EAGAIN and take the same fault
forever.
The memory fault exit reports s2fd->fault_ipa too, which for a nested
guest's fault is the nested IPA rather than the canonical one
kvm_gmem_get_pfn() failed on.
Take the addresses from kvm_s2_fault_vma_info instead, as
user_mem_abort() does, and report the canonical gfn in the memory fault
exit. kvm_s2_fault_get_vma_info() itself isn't called: a guest_memfd
memslot's userspace_addr doesn't need to be backed by a VMA.
Fixes: a7b57e0995927 ("KVM: arm64: Handle guest_memfd-backed guest page faults")
Reported-by: Sashiko <sashiko-bot@kernel.org>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260913175105.A57AC1F000FF@smtp.kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Fuad Tabba <fuad.tabba@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260928095454.3255918-4-vdonnefort@google.com
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
---
arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c | 67 ++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
1 file changed, 34 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
index 9dfaf4f277b57..658ac6a09e7ba 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -1606,6 +1606,24 @@ static enum kvm_pgtable_prot adjust_nested_exec_perms(struct kvm *kvm,
return prot;
}
+struct kvm_s2_fault_vma_info {
+ unsigned long mmu_seq;
+ long vma_pagesize;
+ vm_flags_t vm_flags;
+ unsigned long max_map_size;
+ struct page *page;
+ kvm_pfn_t pfn;
+ gfn_t gfn;
+ bool device;
+ bool mte_allowed;
+ bool is_vma_cacheable;
+ bool map_writable;
+ bool map_non_cacheable;
+};
+
+static gfn_t get_canonical_gfn(const struct kvm_s2_fault_desc *s2fd,
+ const struct kvm_s2_fault_vma_info *s2vi);
+
static int gmem_abort(const struct kvm_s2_fault_desc *s2fd)
{
bool write_fault, exec_fault;
@@ -1613,12 +1631,10 @@ static int gmem_abort(const struct kvm_s2_fault_desc *s2fd)
enum kvm_pgtable_walk_flags flags = KVM_PGTABLE_WALK_SHARED;
enum kvm_pgtable_prot prot = KVM_PGTABLE_PROT_R;
struct kvm_pgtable *pgt = s2fd->vcpu->arch.hw_mmu->pgt;
- unsigned long mmu_seq;
- struct page *page;
+ struct kvm_s2_fault_vma_info s2vi = {};
struct kvm *kvm = s2fd->vcpu->kvm;
void *memcache = NULL;
- kvm_pfn_t pfn;
- gfn_t gfn;
+ gfn_t canonical_gfn;
int ret;
if (!perm_fault) {
@@ -1628,24 +1644,23 @@ static int gmem_abort(const struct kvm_s2_fault_desc *s2fd)
return ret;
}
- if (s2fd->nested)
- gfn = kvm_s2_trans_output(s2fd->nested) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
- else
- gfn = s2fd->fault_ipa >> PAGE_SHIFT;
+ s2vi.vma_pagesize = PAGE_SIZE;
+ s2vi.gfn = ALIGN_DOWN(s2fd->fault_ipa, s2vi.vma_pagesize) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
+ canonical_gfn = get_canonical_gfn(s2fd, &s2vi);
write_fault = kvm_is_write_fault(s2fd->vcpu);
exec_fault = kvm_vcpu_trap_is_exec_fault(s2fd->vcpu);
VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(write_fault && exec_fault);
- mmu_seq = kvm->mmu_invalidate_seq;
+ s2vi.mmu_seq = kvm->mmu_invalidate_seq;
/* Pairs with the smp_wmb() in kvm_mmu_invalidate_end(). */
smp_rmb();
- ret = kvm_gmem_get_pfn(kvm, s2fd->memslot, gfn, &pfn, &page, NULL);
+ ret = kvm_gmem_get_pfn(kvm, s2fd->memslot, canonical_gfn, &s2vi.pfn, &s2vi.page, NULL);
if (ret) {
- kvm_prepare_memory_fault_exit(s2fd->vcpu, s2fd->fault_ipa, PAGE_SIZE,
- write_fault, exec_fault, false);
+ kvm_prepare_memory_fault_exit(s2fd->vcpu, gfn_to_gpa(canonical_gfn),
+ s2vi.vma_pagesize, write_fault, exec_fault, false);
return ret;
}
@@ -1662,7 +1677,7 @@ static int gmem_abort(const struct kvm_s2_fault_desc *s2fd)
prot = adjust_nested_exec_perms(kvm, s2fd->nested, prot);
kvm_fault_lock(kvm);
- if (mmu_invalidate_retry(kvm, mmu_seq)) {
+ if (mmu_invalidate_retry(kvm, s2vi.mmu_seq)) {
ret = -EAGAIN;
goto out_unlock;
}
@@ -1673,39 +1688,25 @@ static int gmem_abort(const struct kvm_s2_fault_desc *s2fd)
* PTE, which will be preserved.
*/
prot &= ~KVM_NV_GUEST_MAP_SZ;
- ret = KVM_PGT_FN(kvm_pgtable_stage2_relax_perms)(pgt, s2fd->fault_ipa,
+ ret = KVM_PGT_FN(kvm_pgtable_stage2_relax_perms)(pgt, gfn_to_gpa(s2vi.gfn),
prot, flags);
} else {
- ret = KVM_PGT_FN(kvm_pgtable_stage2_map)(pgt, s2fd->fault_ipa, PAGE_SIZE,
- __pfn_to_phys(pfn), prot,
+ ret = KVM_PGT_FN(kvm_pgtable_stage2_map)(pgt, gfn_to_gpa(s2vi.gfn),
+ s2vi.vma_pagesize,
+ __pfn_to_phys(s2vi.pfn), prot,
memcache, flags);
}
out_unlock:
- kvm_release_faultin_page(kvm, page, !!ret, prot & KVM_PGTABLE_PROT_W);
+ kvm_release_faultin_page(kvm, s2vi.page, !!ret, prot & KVM_PGTABLE_PROT_W);
kvm_fault_unlock(kvm);
if ((prot & KVM_PGTABLE_PROT_W) && !ret)
- mark_page_dirty_in_slot(kvm, s2fd->memslot, gfn);
+ mark_page_dirty_in_slot(kvm, s2fd->memslot, canonical_gfn);
return ret != -EAGAIN ? ret : 0;
}
-struct kvm_s2_fault_vma_info {
- unsigned long mmu_seq;
- long vma_pagesize;
- vm_flags_t vm_flags;
- unsigned long max_map_size;
- struct page *page;
- kvm_pfn_t pfn;
- gfn_t gfn;
- bool device;
- bool mte_allowed;
- bool is_vma_cacheable;
- bool map_writable;
- bool map_non_cacheable;
-};
-
static int pkvm_mem_abort(const struct kvm_s2_fault_desc *s2fd)
{
unsigned int flags = FOLL_HWPOISON | FOLL_LONGTERM | FOLL_WRITE;
--
2.53.0
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2026-11-07 10:07 FAILED: patch "[PATCH] KVM: arm64: Use kvm_s2_fault_vma_info in gmem_abort()" failed to apply to 6.18-stable tree Sasha Levin
@ 2026-11-10 11:55 ` Sasha Levin
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Sasha Levin @ 2026-11-10 11:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: stable; +Cc: Fuad Tabba, Sashiko, Vincent Donnefort, Marc Zyngier, Sasha Levin
From: Fuad Tabba <fuad.tabba@linux.dev>
[ Upstream commit 80b0b86dc5e4344e62a2fd3ee43d0ef816fe9122 ]
gmem_abort() maps at s2fd->fault_ipa, which HPFAR_EL2 holds at 4K
granularity whatever the page size. The generic page-table code aligns
it, but pkvm_pgtable_stage2_map() looks up existing mappings over
[addr, addr + size), so on a pKVM host with pages larger than 4K a
guest_memfd-backed guest that faults past the first 4K of a page can
find its neighbour's mapping, get -EAGAIN and take the same fault
forever.
The memory fault exit reports s2fd->fault_ipa too, which for a nested
guest's fault is the nested IPA rather than the canonical one
kvm_gmem_get_pfn() failed on.
Take the addresses from kvm_s2_fault_vma_info instead, as
user_mem_abort() does, and report the canonical gfn in the memory fault
exit. kvm_s2_fault_get_vma_info() itself isn't called: a guest_memfd
memslot's userspace_addr doesn't need to be backed by a VMA.
Fixes: a7b57e0995927 ("KVM: arm64: Handle guest_memfd-backed guest page faults")
Reported-by: Sashiko <sashiko-bot@kernel.org>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260913175105.A57AC1F000FF@smtp.kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Fuad Tabba <fuad.tabba@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260928095454.3255918-4-vdonnefort@google.com
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
[ sashal: Adapted upstream kvm_s2_fault_desc and kvm_s2_fault_vma_info usage to existing gmem_abort() arguments and local variables. ]
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
index af50fed5b5975..e8029ac82da74 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -1536,6 +1536,8 @@ static int gmem_abort(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, phys_addr_t fault_ipa,
if (ret)
return ret;
+ fault_ipa = ALIGN_DOWN(fault_ipa, PAGE_SIZE);
+
if (nested)
gfn = kvm_s2_trans_output(nested) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
else
@@ -1552,7 +1554,7 @@ static int gmem_abort(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, phys_addr_t fault_ipa,
ret = kvm_gmem_get_pfn(kvm, memslot, gfn, &pfn, &page, NULL);
if (ret) {
- kvm_prepare_memory_fault_exit(vcpu, fault_ipa, PAGE_SIZE,
+ kvm_prepare_memory_fault_exit(vcpu, gfn_to_gpa(gfn), PAGE_SIZE,
write_fault, exec_fault, false);
return ret;
}
--
2.53.0
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