[PATCH v8 12/46] KVM: guest_memfd: Only prepare folios for private pages

From: Ackerley Tng via B4 Relay

Date: Thu Jun 18 2026 - 20:43:04 EST


From: Ackerley Tng <ackerleytng@xxxxxxxxxx>

All-shared guest_memfd used to be only supported for non-CoCo VMs where
preparation doesn't apply. INIT_SHARED is about to be supported for CoCo
VMs in a later patch in this series.

In addition, KVM_SET_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES2 is about to be supported in
guest_memfd in a later patch in this series.

This means that the kvm fault handler may now call kvm_gmem_get_pfn() on a
shared folio for a CoCo VM where preparation applies.

Add a check to make sure that preparation is only performed for private
folios.

Preparation will be undone on freeing (see kvm_gmem_free_folio()) and on
conversion to shared.

Suggested-by: Michael Roth <michael.roth@xxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Fuad Tabba <tabba@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ackerley Tng <ackerleytng@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c | 9 ++++++---
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c b/virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c
index e0e544ef47d69..65ce795c090d9 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c
@@ -890,6 +890,7 @@ int kvm_gmem_get_pfn(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_memory_slot *slot,
int *max_order)
{
pgoff_t index = kvm_gmem_get_index(slot, gfn);
+ struct inode *inode;
struct folio *folio;
int r = 0;

@@ -897,7 +898,8 @@ int kvm_gmem_get_pfn(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_memory_slot *slot,
if (!file)
return -EFAULT;

- filemap_invalidate_lock_shared(file_inode(file)->i_mapping);
+ inode = file_inode(file);
+ filemap_invalidate_lock_shared(inode->i_mapping);

folio = __kvm_gmem_get_pfn(file, slot, index, pfn, max_order);
if (IS_ERR(folio)) {
@@ -910,7 +912,8 @@ int kvm_gmem_get_pfn(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_memory_slot *slot,
folio_mark_uptodate(folio);
}

- r = kvm_gmem_prepare_folio(kvm, slot, gfn, folio);
+ if (kvm_gmem_is_private_mem(inode, index))
+ r = kvm_gmem_prepare_folio(kvm, slot, gfn, folio);

folio_unlock(folio);

@@ -920,7 +923,7 @@ int kvm_gmem_get_pfn(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_memory_slot *slot,
folio_put(folio);

out:
- filemap_invalidate_unlock_shared(file_inode(file)->i_mapping);
+ filemap_invalidate_unlock_shared(inode->i_mapping);
return r;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_FOR_KVM_INTERNAL(kvm_gmem_get_pfn);

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