[PATCH v3 3/8] KVM: SVM: Hold SRCU while reloading guest-owned VMSAs

From: Jörg Rödel

Date: Mon Nov 02 2026 - 07:18:53 EST


From: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@xxxxxxx>

Take a dedicated KVM SRCU read lock around the guest-owned VMSA memslot
and guest_memfd lookup. This makes the reload path self-contained and
prevents it from racing a userspace memslot replacement.

Keep the lock through VMCB installation, and release it on all lookup
failure paths.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@xxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c | 13 +++++++++----
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c
index f690edaf8b69..9681ff0aa5d3 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c
@@ -4059,6 +4059,7 @@ static void __sev_snp_reload_vmsa(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gpa_t gpa)
gfn_t gfn = gpa_to_gfn(gpa);
unsigned long mmu_seq;
kvm_pfn_t pfn;
+ int idx;

lockdep_assert_held(&svm->sev_es.snp_vmsa_mutex);

@@ -4090,9 +4091,10 @@ static void __sev_snp_reload_vmsa(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gpa_t gpa)
if (!VALID_PAGE(gpa))
return;

- slot = gfn_to_memslot(vcpu->kvm, gfn);
+ idx = srcu_read_lock(&kvm->srcu);
+ slot = gfn_to_memslot(kvm, gfn);
if (!slot)
- return;
+ goto out_unlock;

mmu_seq = kvm->mmu_invalidate_seq;
smp_rmb();
@@ -4101,8 +4103,8 @@ static void __sev_snp_reload_vmsa(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gpa_t gpa)
* The new VMSA will be private memory guest memory, so retrieve the
* PFN from the gmem backend.
*/
- if (kvm_gmem_get_pfn(vcpu->kvm, slot, gfn, &pfn, NULL))
- return;
+ if (kvm_gmem_get_pfn(kvm, slot, gfn, &pfn, NULL))
+ goto out_unlock;

read_lock(&kvm->mmu_lock);
/*
@@ -4117,6 +4119,9 @@ static void __sev_snp_reload_vmsa(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gpa_t gpa)
else
svm->vmcb->control.vmsa_pa = pfn_to_hpa(pfn);
read_unlock(&kvm->mmu_lock);
+
+out_unlock:
+ srcu_read_unlock(&kvm->srcu, idx);
}

/*
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