FAILED: patch "[PATCH] KVM: arm64: Omit tag sync on stage-2 mappings of the zero" failed to apply to 6.1-stable tree
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maintainerThe patch below does not apply to the 6.1-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 <[email protected]>.
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-6.1.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x 2986a625740599fe6e7635b0586fed2a95bcd1f7
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<[email protected]>' --in-reply-to '2026070243-portable-tissue-14ab@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 6.1.y' 'HEAD^..'
Possible dependencies:
thanks,
greg k-h
------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
From 2986a625740599fe6e7635b0586fed2a95bcd1f7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2026 17:11:56 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] KVM: arm64: Omit tag sync on stage-2 mappings of the zero
page
Commit
f620d66af316 ("arm64: mte: Do not flag the zero page as PG_mte_tagged")
removed the PG_mte_tagged flag from the zero page, but missed a KVM code path that may set this flag on the zero page when it is used in a stage-2 CoW mapping of anonymous memory.
So disregard the zero page explicitly in sanitise_mte_tags().
arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c +5 -0
@@ -1479,6 +1479,11 @@ static void sanitise_mte_tags(struct kvm *kvm, kvm_pfn_t pfn,if (!kvm_has_mte (kvm))return ; +if (is_zero_pfn (pfn)) { +WARN_ON_ONCE (nr_pages !=1 ); +return ; + } +if (folio_test_hugetlb (folio)) {/* Hugetlb has MTE flags set on head page only */ if (folio_try_hugetlb_mte_tagging (folio)) {