[PATCH v1 1/1] KVM: s390: Fix a deadlock

From: Claudio Imbrenda

Date: Tue Mar 03 2026 - 12:52:50 EST


In some scenarios, a deadlock can happen, involving _do_shadow_pte().

Convert all usages of pgste_get_lock() to pgste_get_trylock() in
_do_shadow_pte() and return -EAGAIN. All callers can already deal with
-EAGAIN being returned.

Signed-off-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: e38c884df921 ("KVM: s390: Switch to new gmap")
---
arch/s390/kvm/gaccess.c | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/s390/kvm/gaccess.c b/arch/s390/kvm/gaccess.c
index 4630b2a067ea..a9da9390867d 100644
--- a/arch/s390/kvm/gaccess.c
+++ b/arch/s390/kvm/gaccess.c
@@ -1434,7 +1434,8 @@ static int _do_shadow_pte(struct gmap *sg, gpa_t raddr, union pte *ptep_h, union
if (rc)
return rc;

- pgste = pgste_get_lock(ptep_h);
+ if (!pgste_get_trylock(ptep_h, &pgste))
+ return -EAGAIN;
newpte = _pte(f->pfn, f->writable, !p, 0);
newpte.s.d |= ptep->s.d;
newpte.s.sd |= ptep->s.sd;
@@ -1444,7 +1445,8 @@ static int _do_shadow_pte(struct gmap *sg, gpa_t raddr, union pte *ptep_h, union
pgste_set_unlock(ptep_h, pgste);

newpte = _pte(f->pfn, 0, !p, 0);
- pgste = pgste_get_lock(ptep);
+ if (!pgste_get_trylock(ptep, &pgste))
+ return -EAGAIN;
pgste = __dat_ptep_xchg(ptep, pgste, newpte, gpa_to_gfn(raddr), sg->asce, uses_skeys(sg));
pgste_set_unlock(ptep, pgste);

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2.53.0