Re: [PATCH 2/4] KVM: x86/mmu: Harden "map private PFN" against unexpected root invalidation

"Edgecombe, Rick P" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.kvm,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, 2026-08-07 at 15:18 -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> Yeah, I don't love the comment either.  The subtlety that it doesn't capture is
> that KVM_REQ_MMU_FREE_OBSOLETE_ROOTS doesn't actually mean the current root is
> invalid, just that it might be invalid and the vCPU needs to check.
> 
> How about this?  
> 
> 		/*
> 		 * Because slots_lock is held, it should be impossible for *any*
> 		 * roots to be invalidated after the initial MMU reload.  WARN,
> 		 * but continue on; the above MMU reload will do the right thing
> 		 * if the current root is actually invalid.
> 		 */

Looks good! thanks
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