[PATCH v2] KVM: arm64: Handle permission faults with guest_memfd

Marc Zyngier maz at kernel.org
Wed May 6 09:14:30 PDT 2026


On Tue, 05 May 2026 10:49:13 +0100, Alexandru Elisei wrote:
> gmem_abort() calls kvm_pgtable_stage2_map() to make changes to stage 2. It
> does this for both relaxing permissions on an existing mapping and to
> install a missing mapping.
> 
> kvm_pgtable_stage2_map() doesn't make changes to stage 2 if there is an
> existing, valid entry and the new entry modifies only the permissions.
> This is checked in:
> 
> [...]

Applied to fixes, thanks!

[1/1] KVM: arm64: Handle permission faults with guest_memfd
      commit: 9be19df816dea9eb7dfe1661b3690bed6a2cb146

Cheers,

	M.
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