* [PATCH 6.1.y] KVM: x86/mmu: Preserve nested TDP shadow page tables if they are used as roots
@ 2026-10-21 2:47 Sean Christopherson
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From: Sean Christopherson @ 2026-10-21 2:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: stable, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Sasha Levin
Cc: kvm, linux-kernel, Hyunwoo Kim, Paolo Bonzini, Sean Christopherson
From: Hyunwoo Kim <imv4bel@gmail.com>
[ Upstream commit 7a2c70e777a00c32ebafd376a6fe31ebb91c5b20 ]
kvm_mmu_zap_oldest_mmu_pages() excludes a shadow page whose root_count
is non-zero from top-level reclaim, because such a page cannot be
freed. The path in mmu_page_zap_pte() that recursively zaps a parentless
nested TDP child has no such check. As a result, a shadow page can
be zapped even if the page itself can't be freed; as the comment in
kvm_mmu_zap_oldest_mmu_pages() notes, zapping it will just force vCPUs
to rebuild the page.
As in top-level reclaim, do not recursively prepare zapping of a
nested TDP child whose root_count is non-zero.
Fixes: 2de4085cccea ("KVM: x86/MMU: Recursively zap nested TDP SPs when zapping last/only parent")
Signed-off-by: Hyunwoo Kim <imv4bel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
[sean: resolve minor conflict due to lack of lockless aging in 6.1]
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
---
arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
index d7f1fbf8a83d..33e89555bb09 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
@@ -2395,7 +2395,9 @@ static int mmu_page_zap_pte(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_mmu_page *sp,
* avoids retaining a large number of stale nested SPs.
*/
if (tdp_enabled && invalid_list &&
- child->role.guest_mode && !child->parent_ptes.val)
+ child->role.guest_mode &&
+ !child->root_count &&
+ !child->parent_ptes.val)
return kvm_mmu_prepare_zap_page(kvm, child,
invalid_list);
}
base-commit: 79807e970724c1f90cee1316361d61b80db4eef6
--
2.56.0.218.g1ec904b173-goog
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