[PATCH v2 7/7] KVM: s390: Free guest debug data on vcpu destroy

Christian Borntraeger <[email protected]> Tue, 4 Aug 2026 18:24:35 +0200
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.kvm,org.kernel.vger.linux-s390
Message-ID <[email protected]>
kvm_s390_clear_bp_data() is only called from
kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_set_guest_debug(), i.e. when user space changes or
disables debugging. A vCPU that is destroyed while hardware breakpoints
are still armed - the normal case when the VMM just exits or crashes -
leaks hw_bp_info, hw_wp_info and all old_data buffers, since generic KVM
frees the vCPU right after kvm_arch_vcpu_destroy().

That is bounded by MAX_BP_COUNT entries, so roughly 8 KiB per vCPU, but
it is unbounded over VM lifetimes. The allocations are
GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT, so the charge also outlives the exiting process and
pins dying memcgs.

Fix by clearing the debug data on vCPU destruction. Calling it
unconditionally is fine: struct kvm_vcpu is zero allocated, so for a vCPU
that never enabled debugging the counters are 0 and the pointers NULL.

Fixes: 27291e2165b6 ("KVM: s390: hardware support for guest debugging")
Cc: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <[email protected]>
---
 arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c b/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c
index e0548926dc49..ccbdb109e22c 100644
--- a/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c
+++ b/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c
@@ -3409,6 +3409,7 @@ void kvm_arch_vcpu_destroy(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 	trace_kvm_s390_destroy_vcpu(vcpu->vcpu_id);
 	kvm_s390_clear_local_irqs(vcpu);
 	kvm_clear_async_pf_completion_queue(vcpu);
+	kvm_s390_clear_bp_data(vcpu);
 	if (!kvm_is_ucontrol(vcpu->kvm))
 		sca_del_vcpu(vcpu);
 	kvm_s390_update_topology_change_report(vcpu->kvm, 1);
-- 
2.53.0