[PATCH v3 00/12] KVM: SEV: Fix RMP #PF due to freeing in-use VMSA
From: Sean Christopherson
Date: Tue Jun 30 2026 - 18:29:46 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).
v3:
- Ensure disabling quirks while the VM is live won't result in KVM skipping
the back-half of "zap all fast". [Sashiko]
- s/gmem_free_folio/gmem_reclaim_memory. [Ackerley]
- Use {READ,WRITE}_ONCE() when accessing the guest's VMSA GPA outside of the
per-vCPU mutex, and comment. [Sashiko]
v2:
- https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260626231416.3943216-1-seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx
- Invalidate VMSAs if the memslot is DELETED or MOVED. [Sashiko]
- Limit stable@ patches without a Fixes to 6.12+.
v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260625222229.3367197-2-seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx
Sean Christopherson (12):
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: Rename .gmem_invalidate() to .gmem_reclaim_memory()
KVM: x86: Serialize writes to disabled_quirks using kvm->lock
KVM: x86: Ensure runtime reads of disabled_quirks are resolved once
KVM: x86/mmu: Fold kvm_mmu_zap_memslot() into
kvm_arch_flush_shadow_memslot()
KVM: x86/mmu: Split kvm_mmu_zap_all_fast() into "front" and "back"
halves
KVM: x86/mmu: Use split "zap all fast" helpers when invalidating
memslot
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/mmu/mmu.c | 74 +++++++------
arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c | 163 +++++++++++++++++++++--------
arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c | 6 +-
arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.h | 8 +-
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 15 ++-
arch/x86/kvm/x86.h | 2 +-
include/linux/kvm_host.h | 3 +-
virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c | 6 +-
10 files changed, 210 insertions(+), 85 deletions(-)
base-commit: a204badd8432f93b7e862e7dac6db0fe3d65f370
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