[PATCH v2 3/8] KVM: SVM: Hold SRCU while reloading guest-owned VMSAs
From: Jörg Rödel
Date: Tue Sep 08 2026 - 06:59:44 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.
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@xxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c | 12 ++++++++----
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c
index c16eca9983f3..ee1bf9b4cc53 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c
@@ -4037,6 +4037,7 @@ static void __sev_snp_reload_vmsa(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gpa_t gpa)
unsigned long mmu_seq;
struct page *page;
kvm_pfn_t pfn;
+ int idx;
lockdep_assert_held(&svm->sev_es.snp_vmsa_mutex);
@@ -4068,9 +4069,10 @@ 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();
@@ -4079,8 +4081,8 @@ 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, &page, NULL))
- return;
+ if (kvm_gmem_get_pfn(kvm, slot, gfn, &pfn, &page, NULL))
+ goto out_unlock;
read_lock(&kvm->mmu_lock);
/*
@@ -4097,6 +4099,8 @@ static void __sev_snp_reload_vmsa(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gpa_t gpa)
read_unlock(&kvm->mmu_lock);
kvm_release_page_clean(page);
+out_unlock:
+ srcu_read_unlock(&kvm->srcu, idx);
}
/*
--
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