Re: [PATCH] KVM: x86/mmu: Protect noncoherent DMA zaps with SRCU

"Huang, Kai" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.kvm,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kernel.vger.stable
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 2026-08-24 at 10:49 -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> Alternatively, what if we have kvm_zap_gfn_range() acquire SRCU?  Nesting "locks"
> is a-ok, and two of the three users of kvm_zap_gfn_range() have had this bug (see
> commit 074c00800719 ("KVM: x86: Use SRCU to protect zap in
> __kvm_set_or_clear_apicv_inhibit()").

kvm_vcpu_srcu_read_lock() doesn't allow nesting lock of KVM's SRCU.  Doesn't
seem to be a problem for this particular case, though, because
sev_handle_rmp_fault() calls kvm_zap_gfn_range() after kvm_vcpu_srcu_read_lock()
is called.
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