[PATCH v1 1/2] KVM: arm64: Fix page leak in user_mem_abort() on atomic fault
Fuad Tabba
tabba at google.com
Wed Mar 4 08:22:21 PST 2026
When a guest performs an atomic/exclusive operation on memory lacking
the required attributes, user_mem_abort() injects a data abort and
returns early. However, it fails to release the reference to the
host page acquired via __kvm_faultin_pfn().
A malicious guest could repeatedly trigger this fault, leaking host
page references and eventually causing host memory exhaustion (OOM).
Fix this by consolidating the early error returns to a new out_put_page
label that correctly calls kvm_release_page_unused().
Fixes: 2937aeec9dc5 ("KVM: arm64: Handle DABT caused by LS64* instructions on unsupported memory")
Signed-off-by: Fuad Tabba <tabba at google.com>
---
arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c | 13 ++++++++-----
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
index ec2eee857208..e1d6a4f591a9 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -1837,10 +1837,8 @@ static int user_mem_abort(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, phys_addr_t fault_ipa,
if (exec_fault && s2_force_noncacheable)
ret = -ENOEXEC;
- if (ret) {
- kvm_release_page_unused(page);
- return ret;
- }
+ if (ret)
+ goto out_put_page;
/*
* Guest performs atomic/exclusive operations on memory with unsupported
@@ -1850,7 +1848,8 @@ static int user_mem_abort(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, phys_addr_t fault_ipa,
*/
if (esr_fsc_is_excl_atomic_fault(kvm_vcpu_get_esr(vcpu))) {
kvm_inject_dabt_excl_atomic(vcpu, kvm_vcpu_get_hfar(vcpu));
- return 1;
+ ret = 1;
+ goto out_put_page;
}
if (nested)
@@ -1936,6 +1935,10 @@ static int user_mem_abort(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, phys_addr_t fault_ipa,
mark_page_dirty_in_slot(kvm, memslot, gfn);
return ret != -EAGAIN ? ret : 0;
+
+out_put_page:
+ kvm_release_page_unused(page);
+ return ret;
}
/* Resolve the access fault by making the page young again. */
--
2.53.0.473.g4a7958ca14-goog
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