[PATCH v4 08/10] KVM: s390: vsie: Fix unshadowing while shadowing

From: Claudio Imbrenda

Date: Wed Mar 25 2026 - 13:32:28 EST


If shadowing causes the shadow gmap to get unshadowed, exit early to
prevent an attempt to dereference the parent pointer, which at this
point is NULL.

Opportunistically add some more checks to prevent NULL parents.

Signed-off-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: a2c17f9270cc ("KVM: s390: New gmap code")
Fixes: e5f98a6899bd ("KVM: s390: Add some helper functions needed for vSIE")
Fixes: e38c884df921 ("KVM: s390: Switch to new gmap")
---
arch/s390/kvm/gaccess.c | 5 +++++
arch/s390/kvm/gmap.c | 11 ++++++++++-
2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/s390/kvm/gaccess.c b/arch/s390/kvm/gaccess.c
index 6655c214f2d7..d14c2b40a5f6 100644
--- a/arch/s390/kvm/gaccess.c
+++ b/arch/s390/kvm/gaccess.c
@@ -1472,6 +1472,9 @@ static int _do_shadow_crste(struct gmap *sg, gpa_t raddr, union crste *host, uni
return rc;

do {
+ /* _gmap_crstep_xchg_atomic() could have unshadowed this shadow gmap */
+ if (!sg->parent)
+ return -EAGAIN;
oldcrste = READ_ONCE(*host);
newcrste = _crste_fc1(f->pfn, oldcrste.h.tt, f->writable, !p);
newcrste.s.fc1.d |= oldcrste.s.fc1.d;
@@ -1527,6 +1530,8 @@ static int _gaccess_do_shadow(struct kvm_s390_mmu_cache *mc, struct gmap *sg,
entries[i - 1].pfn, i, entries[i - 1].writable);
if (rc)
return rc;
+ if (!sg->parent)
+ return -EAGAIN;
}

rc = dat_entry_walk(NULL, entries[LEVEL_MEM].gfn, sg->parent->asce, DAT_WALK_LEAF,
diff --git a/arch/s390/kvm/gmap.c b/arch/s390/kvm/gmap.c
index e9fc471a5141..b19020470b13 100644
--- a/arch/s390/kvm/gmap.c
+++ b/arch/s390/kvm/gmap.c
@@ -1160,6 +1160,7 @@ struct gmap_protect_asce_top_level {
static inline int __gmap_protect_asce_top_level(struct kvm_s390_mmu_cache *mc, struct gmap *sg,
struct gmap_protect_asce_top_level *context)
{
+ struct gmap *parent;
int rc, i;

guard(write_lock)(&sg->kvm->mmu_lock);
@@ -1167,7 +1168,12 @@ static inline int __gmap_protect_asce_top_level(struct kvm_s390_mmu_cache *mc, s
if (kvm_s390_array_needs_retry_safe(sg->kvm, context->seq, context->f))
return -EAGAIN;

- scoped_guard(spinlock, &sg->parent->children_lock) {
+ parent = READ_ONCE(sg->parent);
+ if (!parent)
+ return -EAGAIN;
+ scoped_guard(spinlock, &parent->children_lock) {
+ if (READ_ONCE(sg->parent) != parent)
+ return -EAGAIN;
for (i = 0; i < CRST_TABLE_PAGES; i++) {
if (!context->f[i].valid)
continue;
@@ -1250,6 +1256,9 @@ struct gmap *gmap_create_shadow(struct kvm_s390_mmu_cache *mc, struct gmap *pare
struct gmap *sg, *new;
int rc;

+ if (WARN_ON(!parent))
+ return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
+
scoped_guard(spinlock, &parent->children_lock) {
sg = gmap_find_shadow(parent, asce, edat_level);
if (sg) {
--
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