Re: [PATCH v2] x86/sev: Fix making shared pages private during kdump

[Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>]

On 4/28/25 14:26, Ashish Kalra wrote:
> From: Ashish Kalra <ashish.kalra@amd.com>
> 
> When the shared pages are being made private during kdump preparation
> there are additional checks to handle shared GHCB pages.
> 
> These additional checks include handling the case of GHCB page being
> contained within a huge page.
> 
> There is a bug in this additional check for GHCB page contained
> within a huge page which causes any shared page just below the
> per-cpu GHCB getting skipped from being transitioned back to private
> before kdump preparation which subsequently causes a 0x404 #VC
> exception when this shared page is accessed later while dumping guest
> memory during vmcore generation via kdump.
> 
> Correct the detection and handling of GHCB pages contained within
> a huge page.
> 
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Fixes: 3074152e56c9 ("x86/sev: Convert shared memory back to private on kexec")
> Signed-off-by: Ashish Kalra <ashish.kalra@amd.com>

Reviewed-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>

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>  arch/x86/coco/sev/core.c | 14 ++++++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>