[PATCH 0/7] KVM: SEV: Fix RMP #PF due freeing in-use VMSA
From: Sean Christopherson
Date: Thu Jun 25 2026 - 18:22:40 EST
Rework KVM's handling of guest-provided (and always guest_memfd-backed) VMSAs
to forcefully reclaim VMSA pages when the pages are being freed from their
backing gmem instance, e.g. in response to PUNCH_HOLE. In the worst case
scenario, marking the page SHARED in the RMP will fail due to the page being
IN_USE, ultimately leading to RMP #PF violations due to guest_memfd freeing
the memory back to the kernel while it's still assigned to a VM.
Note, the implementation nearly identical to that used by KVM for VMX's APIC
access page (which isn't guest controlled, but is migratable and whose PA is
shoved directly into a vCPU control structure).
Sean Christopherson (7):
KVM: SEV: Track the GPA of the guest-controlled VMSA used for SNP
guests
KVM: SEV: Extract loading of guest-provided VMSA to a separate helper
KVM: SEV: Mark vCPU RUNNABLE after AP_CREATE, even if VMSA is unusable
KVM: Rework .gmem_invalidate() into .gmem_free_folio()
KVM: SEV: Forcefully invalidate SNP VMSA if its backing gmem page is
zapped
KVM: x86: Guard .gmem_prepare() declarations with
HAVE_KVM_GMEM_PREPARE=y
KVM: SEV: Mark vCPU has having guest-provided VMSA even if its invalid
arch/x86/include/asm/kvm-x86-ops.h | 8 +-
arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 10 +-
arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c | 152 +++++++++++++++++++++--------
arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c | 6 +-
arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.h | 8 +-
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 10 +-
include/linux/kvm_host.h | 3 +-
virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c | 17 +---
8 files changed, 150 insertions(+), 64 deletions(-)
base-commit: a204badd8432f93b7e862e7dac6db0fe3d65f370
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