[PATCH 6.1.y 2/2] KVM: x86/mmu: Check write tracking in all address spaces
From: Artem Dinaburg
Date: Wed Aug 26 2026 - 16:17:46 EST
From: Jinu Kim <kimjw04271234@xxxxxxxxx>
commit 0f38453cdb2e17566ccb7c0f3dabd5bd21caca26 upstream.
kvm_gfn_is_write_tracked() checks only the supplied memslot, but page
tracking is per-address-space and shadow pages are shared across all
address spaces. With SMM, a GFN can therefore be write-tracked in one
address space and appear untracked through the other.
Check the supplied slot first, then the slot for the other address space.
This ensures all callers honor write tracking regardless of the active
address space. In particular, it prevents mmu_try_to_unsync_pages() from
marking an upper-level shadow page unsync and eventually triggering the
BUG in pte_list_remove().
Fixes: 699023e23965 ("KVM: x86: add SMM to the MMU role, support SMRAM address space")
Assisted-by: Codex:GPT-5
Signed-off-by: Jinu Kim <kimjw04271234@xxxxxxxxx>
Message-ID: <20260721103512.2136240-2-kimjw04271234@xxxxxxxxx>
[invert direction of the conditional. - Paolo]
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
[ artem: adapt to 6.1's kvm_slot_page_track_is_active() and mode-indexed
gfn_track[]; KVM_ADDRESS_SPACE_NUM is unconditionally 2 on x86 in 6.1,
so the peer-slot lookup needs no guard ]
Signed-off-by: Artem Dinaburg <artem@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Target tree: linux-6.1.y (stable).
Verified: applies to v6.1.184; arch/x86/kvm/ builds clean with x86_64
defconfig plus CONFIG_KVM=m, CONFIG_KVM_INTEL=m and CONFIG_KVM_AMD=m,
gcc 13.3.0.
arch/x86/kvm/mmu/page_track.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/page_track.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/page_track.c
index 2e09d1b6249f..51d5a912c553 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/page_track.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/page_track.c
@@ -171,14 +171,25 @@ void kvm_slot_page_track_remove_page(struct kvm *kvm,
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kvm_slot_page_track_remove_page);
-/*
- * check if the corresponding access on the specified guest page is tracked.
- */
+static bool __kvm_slot_page_track_is_active(const struct kvm_memory_slot *slot,
+ gfn_t gfn,
+ enum kvm_page_track_mode mode)
+{
+ int index;
+
+ if (!slot)
+ return false;
+
+ index = gfn_to_index(gfn, slot->base_gfn, PG_LEVEL_4K);
+ return !!READ_ONCE(slot->arch.gfn_track[mode][index]);
+}
+
+/* check if write access is tracked on the specified guest page. */
bool kvm_slot_page_track_is_active(struct kvm *kvm,
const struct kvm_memory_slot *slot,
gfn_t gfn, enum kvm_page_track_mode mode)
{
- int index;
+ const struct kvm_memory_slot *other_slot;
if (WARN_ON(!page_track_mode_is_valid(mode)))
return false;
@@ -190,8 +201,13 @@ bool kvm_slot_page_track_is_active(struct kvm *kvm,
!kvm_page_track_write_tracking_enabled(kvm))
return false;
- index = gfn_to_index(gfn, slot->base_gfn, PG_LEVEL_4K);
- return !!READ_ONCE(slot->arch.gfn_track[mode][index]);
+ BUILD_BUG_ON(KVM_ADDRESS_SPACE_NUM > 2);
+
+ if (__kvm_slot_page_track_is_active(slot, gfn, mode))
+ return true;
+
+ other_slot = __gfn_to_memslot(__kvm_memslots(kvm, slot->as_id ^ 1), gfn);
+ return __kvm_slot_page_track_is_active(other_slot, gfn, mode);
}
void kvm_page_track_cleanup(struct kvm *kvm)
--
2.43.0