[PATCH v2 6/6] KVM: arm64: Pre-check vcpu memcache for host->guest donate
Fuad Tabba
tabba at google.com
Fri May 1 04:21:49 PDT 2026
__pkvm_host_donate_guest() flips the host stage-2 PTE for the
donated page to a non-valid annotation via
host_stage2_set_owner_metadata_locked() and then calls
kvm_pgtable_stage2_map() to install the matching guest stage-2
mapping. The map's return value is wrapped in WARN_ON() and
otherwise discarded, asserting that the call cannot fail.
WARN_ON() at nVHE EL2 panics, so this assertion is only correct
if the call genuinely cannot fail. kvm_pgtable_stage2_map() can
fail with -ENOMEM even at PAGE_SIZE granularity: the donate path
verifies PKVM_NOPAGE for the guest IPA before the map, so the
walker must allocate fresh page-table pages from the vcpu
memcache, and the host controls the vcpu memcache via the topup
interface. An under-provisioned donation request would otherwise
turn a recoverable -ENOMEM into a fatal hyp panic.
Bound the worst-case walker allocation alongside the existing
__host_check_page_state_range() / __guest_check_page_state_range()
pre-checks, using the helper introduced for host->guest share. If
the vcpu memcache holds fewer pages than kvm_mmu_cache_min_pages(),
return -ENOMEM before any state mutation.
Fixes: 1e579adca177 ("KVM: arm64: Introduce __pkvm_host_donate_guest()")
Assisted-by: Gemini:gemini-3.1-pro review-prompts
Signed-off-by: Fuad Tabba <tabba at google.com>
---
arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/mem_protect.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/mem_protect.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/mem_protect.c
index e428304f94f2..c7f7149c4796 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/mem_protect.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/mem_protect.c
@@ -1404,6 +1404,10 @@ int __pkvm_host_donate_guest(u64 pfn, u64 gfn, struct pkvm_hyp_vcpu *vcpu)
if (ret)
goto unlock;
+ ret = __guest_check_pgtable_memcache(vcpu);
+ if (ret)
+ goto unlock;
+
meta = host_stage2_encode_gfn_meta(vm, gfn);
WARN_ON(host_stage2_set_owner_metadata_locked(phys, PAGE_SIZE,
PKVM_ID_GUEST, meta));
--
2.54.0.545.g6539524ca2-goog
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