[PATCH 0/2] KVM: arm64: Tentative fixes for page-table lifetime issues

Marc Zyngier maz at kernel.org
Thu Apr 2 06:36:59 PDT 2026


On Fri, 27 Mar 2026 19:27:55 +0000, Will Deacon wrote:
> Sashiko highlighted a couple of potential page-table lifetime issues
> in the upstream code while it was reviewing the pKVM protected memory
> series. They make sense to me so I've had a crack at fixing them and
> writing a better description of the problem in the commit message.
> 
> For the second issue, I've tested it by forcing the notifier
> registration to fail and then watching the SecPageTables line in
> /proc/meminfo after attempting to create VMs.
> 
> [...]

Applied to next, thanks!

[1/2] KVM: arm64: Don't leave mmu->pgt dangling on kvm_init_stage2_mmu() error
      commit: 2fc0f3e2b9a9f397554ffe86e8f6eb0e2507ec6e
[2/2] KVM: arm64: Destroy stage-2 page-table in kvm_arch_destroy_vm()
      commit: a3ca3bfd01b7ee9f54ed85718a6d553cdd87050e

Cheers,

	M.
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