Re: [PATCH v10 01/41] KVM: guest_memfd: Use kvm_mem_is_private() when populating guest_memfd memory

Fuad Tabba <[email protected]>
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On Fri, 7 Aug 2026 at 23:52, Ackerley Tng via B4 Relay
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> From: Sean Christopherson <[email protected]>
>
> Using kvm_mem_is_private() when populating guest_memfd instead of using an
> open coded equivalent.  In addition to simplifying the populate code *now*,
> this avoids the need to provide a range-based gmem lookup API in the future
> as well.
>
> No functional change intended.
>
> Suggested-by: Xiaoyao Li <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Ackerley Tng <[email protected]>

Reviewed-by: Fuad Tabba <[email protected]>

Cheers,
/fuad
> ---
>  virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c | 4 +---
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c b/virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c
> index b596486d184ca..a11cf6dc785da 100644
> --- a/virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c
> +++ b/virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c
> @@ -811,9 +811,7 @@ static long __kvm_gmem_populate(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_memory_slot *slot,
>
>         folio_unlock(folio);
>
> -       if (!kvm_range_has_memory_attributes(kvm, gfn, gfn + 1,
> -                                            KVM_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTE_PRIVATE,
> -                                            KVM_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTE_PRIVATE)) {
> +       if (!kvm_mem_is_private(kvm, gfn)) {
>                 ret = -EINVAL;
>                 goto out_put_folio;
>         }
>
> --
> 2.55.0.654.g21b8a5bc05-goog
>
>
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