KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: fix use-after-free in kvmhv_emulate_tlbie_all_lpid()

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kvmhv_emulate_tlbie_all_lpid() iterates the nested-guest IDR and drops
mmu_lock before calling kvmhv_emulate_tlbie_lpid(), but does not hold a
reference on the kvm_nested_guest pointer obtained from the IDR.  A
concurrent vCPU issuing a single-LPID tlbie (is=2, ric=2) can race
through kvmhv_flush_nested() -> kvmhv_remove_nested() -> idr_remove /
--refcnt -> kvmhv_release_nested() -> kfree(gp) in that window, leaving
the iterating vCPU with a dangling pointer.  The subsequent
mutex_lock(&gp->tlb_lock) and accesses to gp->shadow_pgtable,
gp->shadow_lpid and gp->l1_host all touch freed memory.  The free path
is fully L1-controlled.

Fix this by incrementing gp->refcnt inside the loop before dropping
mmu_lock, mirroring what kvmhv_get_nested() does, and releasing the
reference with kvmhv_put_nested() after the per-guest work completes.
This is the same get/put discipline already used at every other
call site that drops mmu_lock while holding a nested-guest pointer.

Fixes: e3b6b46615 ("KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Implement H_TLB_INVALIDATE hcall")
Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
Tested-by: R Nageswara Sastry <rnsastry@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Amit Machhiwal <amachhiw@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Gautam Menghani <gautam@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>

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Amit Machhiwal 2026-09-15 22:04:15 +05:30 • committed by Madhavan Srinivasan

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arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_nested.c

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