Subject: [PATCH v3 08/36] KVM: arm64: Prevent unsupported memslot operations on protected VMs

From: Will Deacon <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2026 14:43:21 +0000

Protected VMs do not support deleting or moving memslots after first
run nor do they support read-only or dirty logging.

Return -EPERM to userspace if such an operation is attempted.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <[email-masked]>
---
 arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
index 43632c69adaf..9d183df0b0ac 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -2410,6 +2410,19 @@ int kvm_arch_prepare_memory_region(struct kvm *kvm,
 	hva_t hva, reg_end;
 	int ret = 0;
 
+	if (kvm_vm_is_protected(kvm)) {
+		/* Cannot modify memslots once a pVM has run. */
+		if (pkvm_hyp_vm_is_created(kvm) &&
+		    (change == KVM_MR_DELETE || change == KVM_MR_MOVE)) {
+			return -EPERM;
+		}
+
+		if (new &&
+		    new->flags & (KVM_MEM_LOG_DIRTY_PAGES | KVM_MEM_READONLY)) {
+			return -EPERM;
+		}
+	}
+
 	if (change != KVM_MR_CREATE && change != KVM_MR_MOVE &&
 			change != KVM_MR_FLAGS_ONLY)
 		return 0;
-- 
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