Subject: [PATCH 1/2] KVM: arm64: Fix __pkvm_init_vm error path

From: Vincent Donnefort <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 21 May 2026 09:12:49 +0100

In the unlikely case where insert_vm_table_entry fails, __pkvm_init_vm
release the memory donated by the host for the PGD, but as the stage-2
is still set-up the hypervisor keeps a refcount on those pages,
effectively leaking the references.

Fix the rollback with the newly added kvm_guest_destroy_stage2().

Fixes: 256b4668cd89 ("KVM: arm64: Introduce separate hypercalls for pKVM VM reservation and initialization")
Reported-by: Sashiko <[email-masked]>
Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <[email-masked]>

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/nvhe/mem_protect.h b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/nvhe/mem_protect.h
index 3cbfae0e3dda..4f2b871199cb 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/nvhe/mem_protect.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/nvhe/mem_protect.h
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ int host_stage2_idmap_locked(phys_addr_t addr, u64 size, enum kvm_pgtable_prot p
 int host_stage2_set_owner_locked(phys_addr_t addr, u64 size, u8 owner_id);
 int kvm_host_prepare_stage2(void *pgt_pool_base);
 int kvm_guest_prepare_stage2(struct pkvm_hyp_vm *vm, void *pgd);
+void kvm_guest_destroy_stage2(struct pkvm_hyp_vm *vm);
 void handle_host_mem_abort(struct kvm_cpu_context *host_ctxt);
 
 int hyp_pin_shared_mem(void *from, void *to);
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/mem_protect.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/mem_protect.c
index 25f04629014e..1e17973f24bb 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/mem_protect.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/mem_protect.c
@@ -306,16 +306,21 @@ int kvm_guest_prepare_stage2(struct pkvm_hyp_vm *vm, void *pgd)
 	return 0;
 }
 
+void kvm_guest_destroy_stage2(struct pkvm_hyp_vm *vm)
+{
+	guest_lock_component(vm);
+	kvm_pgtable_stage2_destroy(&vm->pgt);
+	vm->kvm.arch.mmu.pgd_phys = 0ULL;
+	guest_unlock_component(vm);
+}
+
 void reclaim_pgtable_pages(struct pkvm_hyp_vm *vm, struct kvm_hyp_memcache *mc)
 {
 	struct hyp_page *page;
 	void *addr;
 
 	/* Dump all pgtable pages in the hyp_pool */
-	guest_lock_component(vm);
-	kvm_pgtable_stage2_destroy(&vm->pgt);
-	vm->kvm.arch.mmu.pgd_phys = 0ULL;
-	guest_unlock_component(vm);
+	kvm_guest_destroy_stage2(vm);
 
 	/* Drain the hyp_pool into the memcache */
 	addr = hyp_alloc_pages(&vm->pool, 0);
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/pkvm.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/pkvm.c
index eb1c10120f9f..3b2c4fbc34d8 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/pkvm.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/pkvm.c
@@ -853,10 +853,12 @@ int __pkvm_init_vm(struct kvm *host_kvm, unsigned long vm_hva,
 	/* Must be called last since this publishes the VM. */
 	ret = insert_vm_table_entry(handle, hyp_vm);
 	if (ret)
-		goto err_remove_mappings;
+		goto err_destroy_stage2;
 
 	return 0;
 
+err_destroy_stage2:
+	kvm_guest_destroy_stage2(hyp_vm);
 err_remove_mappings:
 	unmap_donated_memory(hyp_vm, vm_size);
 	unmap_donated_memory(pgd, pgd_size);
-- 
2.54.0.746.g67dd491aae-goog