[PATCH 1/3] KVM: arm64: Only drop references on empty tables in stage2_free_walker
Raghavendra Rao Ananta
rananta at google.com
Wed Nov 12 21:24:50 PST 2025
From: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton at linux.dev>
A subsequent change to the way KVM frees stage-2s will invoke the free
walker on sub-ranges of the VM's IPA space, meaning there's potential
for only partially visiting a table's PTEs.
Split the leaf and table visitors and only drop references on a table
when the page count reaches 1, implying there are no valid PTEs that
need to be visited. Invalidate the table PTE to avoid traversing the
stale reference.
Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton at linux.dev>
---
arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c
index c351b4abd5dbf..6d6a23f7dedb6 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c
@@ -1535,20 +1535,46 @@ size_t kvm_pgtable_stage2_pgd_size(u64 vtcr)
return kvm_pgd_pages(ia_bits, start_level) * PAGE_SIZE;
}
-static int stage2_free_walker(const struct kvm_pgtable_visit_ctx *ctx,
- enum kvm_pgtable_walk_flags visit)
+static int stage2_free_leaf(const struct kvm_pgtable_visit_ctx *ctx)
{
struct kvm_pgtable_mm_ops *mm_ops = ctx->mm_ops;
- if (!stage2_pte_is_counted(ctx->old))
+ mm_ops->put_page(ctx->ptep);
+ return 0;
+}
+
+static int stage2_free_table_post(const struct kvm_pgtable_visit_ctx *ctx)
+{
+ struct kvm_pgtable_mm_ops *mm_ops = ctx->mm_ops;
+ kvm_pte_t *childp = kvm_pte_follow(ctx->old, mm_ops);
+
+ if (mm_ops->page_count(childp) != 1)
return 0;
+ /*
+ * Drop references and clear the now stale PTE to avoid rewalking the
+ * freed page table.
+ */
mm_ops->put_page(ctx->ptep);
+ mm_ops->put_page(childp);
+ kvm_clear_pte(ctx->ptep);
+ return 0;
+}
- if (kvm_pte_table(ctx->old, ctx->level))
- mm_ops->put_page(kvm_pte_follow(ctx->old, mm_ops));
+static int stage2_free_walker(const struct kvm_pgtable_visit_ctx *ctx,
+ enum kvm_pgtable_walk_flags visit)
+{
+ if (!stage2_pte_is_counted(ctx->old))
+ return 0;
- return 0;
+ switch (visit) {
+ case KVM_PGTABLE_WALK_LEAF:
+ return stage2_free_leaf(ctx);
+ case KVM_PGTABLE_WALK_TABLE_POST:
+ return stage2_free_table_post(ctx);
+ default:
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
}
void kvm_pgtable_stage2_destroy(struct kvm_pgtable *pgt)
--
2.51.2.1041.gc1ab5b90ca-goog
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