From: Fuad Tabba <fuad.tabba@linux.dev>
To: maz@kernel.org, oupton@kernel.org
Cc: joey.gouly@arm.com, suzuki.poulose@arm.com, yuzenghui@huawei.com,
catalin.marinas@arm.com, will@kernel.org, mark.rutland@arm.com,
qperret@google.com, vdonnefort@google.com,
martijnbogaard@google.com, seiden@linux.ibm.com,
tabba@google.com, kvmarm@lists.linux.dev,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v1 2/4] KVM: arm64: Check PGD alignment when creating a pVM
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2026 10:18:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260917091826.2639205-3-fuad.tabba@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260917091826.2639205-1-fuad.tabba@linux.dev>
From: Quentin Perret <qperret@google.com>
Martijn reported a hypervisor crash when providing pKVM with an
undersized PGD allocation. Indeed, although the size of the PGD
allocation at EL2 is not under host control, a smaller host-side
allocation can lead to providing pKVM with a misaligned PGD, which will
cause the guest stage-2 init to fail in a bad way. Specifically,
guest_s2_zalloc_pages_exact() expects a successful allocation from
hyp_alloc_pages(), which can only happen if the pool has been pre-filled
with a physically aligned high-order page.
In order to guarantee allocation success in this path, check the
host-provided PGD alignment early on.
Fixes: a1ec5c70d3f6 ("KVM: arm64: Add infrastructure to create and track pKVM instances at EL2")
Reported-by: Martijn Bogaard <martijnbogaard@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Quentin Perret <qperret@google.com>
[Fuad: rejected with -EINVAL before any donation is mapped, as the
other input checks in __pkvm_init_vm() do]
Signed-off-by: Fuad Tabba <fuad.tabba@linux.dev>
---
arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/mem_protect.c | 2 +-
arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/pkvm.c | 4 ++++
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/mem_protect.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/mem_protect.c
index 39aa8911f62c1..805dade1d4510 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/mem_protect.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/mem_protect.c
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ static void *guest_s2_zalloc_pages_exact(size_t size)
{
void *addr = hyp_alloc_pages(¤t_vm->pool, get_order(size));
- WARN_ON(size != (PAGE_SIZE << get_order(size)));
+ WARN_ON(!addr || size != (PAGE_SIZE << get_order(size)));
hyp_split_page(hyp_virt_to_page(addr));
return addr;
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/pkvm.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/pkvm.c
index 459bd9eb7e4bc..3770315b50361 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/pkvm.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/pkvm.c
@@ -846,6 +846,10 @@ int __pkvm_init_vm(struct kvm *host_kvm, unsigned long vm_hva,
vm_size = pkvm_get_hyp_vm_size(nr_vcpus);
pgd_size = kvm_pgtable_stage2_pgd_size(host_mmu.arch.mmu.vtcr);
+ if (!IS_ALIGNED(pgd_hva, pgd_size)) {
+ ret = -EINVAL;
+ goto err_unpin_kvm;
+ }
ret = -ENOMEM;
--
2.39.5
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-17 9:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-17 9:18 [PATCH v1 0/4] KVM: arm64: Honour KVM_VM_TYPE_ARM_IPA_SIZE under pKVM Fuad Tabba
2026-09-17 9:18 ` [PATCH v1 1/4] KVM: arm64: Move the IPA limit rule into kvm_get_ipa_max() Fuad Tabba
2026-09-17 9:18 ` Fuad Tabba [this message]
2026-09-17 9:18 ` [PATCH v1 3/4] KVM: arm64: Honour the requested IPA size under pKVM Fuad Tabba
2026-09-17 9:18 ` [PATCH v1 4/4] KVM: arm64: selftests: Free the VM when the GIC device probe fails Fuad Tabba
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