Subject: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] KVM: x86: Re-pend GET_NESTED_STATE_PAGES if getting said" failed to apply to 6.12-stable tree
To: seanjc@google.com,fane@google.com,rkskek9254@gmail.com
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
From: <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2026 13:38:46 +0200
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The patch below does not apply to the 6.12-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-6.12.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x 10180a277549339020b08000206092c07e0bff5a
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<stable@vger.kernel.org>' --in-reply-to '2026092946-ahoy-spring-2e69@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 6.12.y' 'HEAD^..'

Possible dependencies:


thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 10180a277549339020b08000206092c07e0bff5a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2026 14:16:07 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] KVM: x86: Re-pend GET_NESTED_STATE_PAGES if getting said
 pages fails

Re-pend GET_NESTED_STATE_PAGES before exiting to userspace if getting the
nested pages fails in the KVM_RUN path.  If userspace re-runs the vCPU, and
vmcs02 holds valid PFNs from the *previous* run of L2, then KVM could
re-enter L2 with stale, unpinned PFNs mapped into e.g. the vAPIC page.

Note, both SVM and VMX (as of commit 11722439fb20 ("KVM: nVMX: Ensure
KVM_REQ_GET_NESTED_STATE_PAGES is cleared on VM-Exit") ensure the request
is cleared on VM-Exit (including the "forced" case), i.e. there is no risk
of double-mapping due to emulated VMLAUNCH/VMRESUME/VMRUN *and* the request
trying to map the nested pages.

Fixes: 671ddc700fd0 ("KVM: nVMX: Don't leak L1 MMIO regions to L2")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Jinwoo Lee <rkskek9254@gmail.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260813043932.3214460-1-rkskek9254@gmail.com
Reported-by: Stefan Teodorescu <fane@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260921211608.1030158-2-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index a137dc6dd8c6..4ec17aaff413 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -8072,6 +8072,7 @@ static int vcpu_enter_guest(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 
 		if (kvm_check_request(KVM_REQ_GET_NESTED_STATE_PAGES, vcpu)) {
 			if (unlikely(!kvm_nested_call(get_nested_state_pages)(vcpu))) {
+				kvm_make_request(KVM_REQ_GET_NESTED_STATE_PAGES, vcpu);
 				r = 0;
 				goto out;
 			}