[PATCH v1] KVM: arm64: Revert accidental drop of kvm_uninit_stage2_mmu() for non-NV VMs

Fuad Tabba tabba at google.com
Sun Feb 22 00:33:52 PST 2026


Commit 0c4762e26879 ("KVM: arm64: nv: Avoid NV stage-2 code when NV is
not supported") added an early return to several functions in
arch/arm64/kvm/nested.c to prevent a UBSAN shift-out-of-bounds error
when accessing the pgt union for non-nested VMs.

However, this early return was inadvertently applied to
kvm_arch_flush_shadow_all() as well, causing it to skip the call to
kvm_uninit_stage2_mmu(kvm) for all non-nested VMs.

For pKVM, skipping this teardown means the host never unshares the
guest's memory with the EL2 hypervisor. When the host kernel later
recycles these leaked pages for a new VM, it attempts to re-share them.
The hypervisor correctly rejects this with -EPERM, triggering a host
WARN_ON and hanging the guest.

Fix this by dropping the early return from kvm_arch_flush_shadow_all().
The for-loop guarding the nested MMU cleanup already bounds itself when
nested_mmus_size == 0, allowing execution to proceed to
kvm_uninit_stage2_mmu() as intended.

Reported-by: Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/60916cb6-f460-4751-b910-f63c58700ad0@sirena.org.uk/
Fixes: 0c4762e26879 ("KVM: arm64: nv: Avoid NV stage-2 code when NV is not supported")
Signed-off-by: Fuad Tabba <tabba at google.com>
---
 arch/arm64/kvm/nested.c | 3 ---
 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/nested.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/nested.c
index eeea5e692370..7f1ea85dc67a 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/nested.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/nested.c
@@ -1154,9 +1154,6 @@ void kvm_arch_flush_shadow_all(struct kvm *kvm)
 {
 	int i;
 
-	if (!kvm->arch.nested_mmus_size)
-		return;
-
 	for (i = 0; i < kvm->arch.nested_mmus_size; i++) {
 		struct kvm_s2_mmu *mmu = &kvm->arch.nested_mmus[i];
 

base-commit: 8bf22c33e7a172fbc72464f4cc484d23a6b412ba
-- 
2.53.0.414.gf7e9f6c205-goog




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