Re: [PATCH] KVM: SEV: Fix page dirtying in sev_gmem_post_populate()

[Sean Christopherson]

On Mon, Aug 10, 2026, Jann Horn wrote:
> set_page_dirty() requires that the caller holds some kind of lock to
> ensure that the page's mapping does not concurrently go away.
> That is not the case for a random page we got from get_user_pages_fast(),
> so use set_page_dirty_lock().

FWIW, I verified that __kvm_gmem_populate() unlocks the destination folio before
post_populate(), so we shouldn't run into deadlock when in-place conversion comes
along and userspace does something odd.

> Fixes: 97cd21d57e9b ("KVM: SEV: Mark source page dirty when writing back CPUID data on failure")
> Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Note that I have only convinced myself that this is a UAF bug by reading
> the source code, and I have only compile-tested this patch; I do not
> have SEV-SNP hardware to actually test this.
> 
> This bug was introduced in v7.2-rc1, so if we can get the fix in before
> the 7.2 release, this won't require a stable backport.

Ya, that would be lovely.  Paolo?

> For context, I have seen similar bugs (set_page_dirty() on a page from
> GUP) in two out-of-tree drivers in the past, where this led to UAF.
> Evidently set_page_dirty() is a bit of a footgun for GUP users...

Heh, and that's a bit of an understatement :-D

Reviewed-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>