On Wed, Mar 18, 2026 at 04:20:03PM +0000, Wei Liu wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2026 at 02:38:49PM +0000, Michael Kelley wrote:
> > From: Wei Liu <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2026 11:20 PM
> > > 
> > > On Tue, Mar 17, 2026 at 09:56:07PM +0000, Michael Kelley wrote:
> > > > From: Stanislav Kinsburskii <[email protected]> Sent: 
> > > > Tuesday, March 17, 2026 8:05 AM
> > > > >
> > > > > The current error handling has two issues:
> > > > >
> > > > > First, pin_user_pages_fast() can return a short pin count (less than
> > > > > requested but greater than zero) when it cannot pin all requested 
> > > > > pages.
> > > > > This is treated as success, leading to partially pinned regions being
> > > > > used, which causes memory corruption.
> > > > >
> > > > > Second, when an error occurs mid-loop, already pinned pages from the
> > > > > current batch are not released before calling 
> > > > > mshv_region_evict_pages(),
> > > > > causing a page reference leak.
> > > >
> > > > There's now an online LLM-based tool that is automatically reviewing
> > > > kernel patches.  For this patch, the results are here:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/177375989324.25621.6532741522672582851.stgit
> > > %40skinsburskii-cloud-desktop.internal.cloudapp.net
> > > >
> > > > It has flagged the commit message as incorrectly referencing the
> > > > function mshv_region_evict_pages(), which doesn't exist.
> > > >
> > > > FWIW, the announcement about sashiko.dev is here:
> > > >
> > > > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/
> > > >
> > > > Other than the commit message reference, this looks good to me.
> > > >
> > > > Reviewed-by: Michael Kelley <[email protected]>
> > > 
> > > The second point is written as if the code here should release the
> > > already pinned pages before calling mshv_region_invalidate_pages(), but
> > > the code actually relies on mshv_mem_region_invalidate_pages() to
> > > release the pages. The change here fixes the accounting.
> > > 
> > >  Second, when an error occurs mid-loop, already pinned pages from the
> > >  current batch are not accounted for before calling
> > >  mshv_region_invalidate_pages(), causing a page reference leak.
> > > 
> > > And queued up the patch to hyperv-fixes.
> > 
> > One other thing I noticed:  The "Subject" of the patch is wrong. It
> > mentions mshv_region_populate_pages(), but the function being
> > modified is actually mshv_region_pin().
> 
> Good catch. I have updated the subject line and pushed to hyperv-fixes.
> 

Thank you Michael and Wei.

Thanks,
Stanislav

> Wei
> 
> > 
> > Michael
> > 
> > > 
> > > Wei
> > > 
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Fix by treating short pins as errors and explicitly unpinning the
> > > > > partial batch before cleanup.
> > > > >
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Stanislav Kinsburskii 
> > > > > <[email protected]>
> > > > > ---
> > > > >  drivers/hv/mshv_regions.c |    6 ++++--
> > > > >  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > > > >
> > > > > diff --git a/drivers/hv/mshv_regions.c b/drivers/hv/mshv_regions.c
> > > > > index c28aac0726de..fdffd4f002f6 100644
> > > > > --- a/drivers/hv/mshv_regions.c
> > > > > +++ b/drivers/hv/mshv_regions.c
> > > > > @@ -314,15 +314,17 @@ int mshv_region_pin(struct mshv_mem_region 
> > > > > *region)
> > > > >               ret = pin_user_pages_fast(userspace_addr, nr_pages,
> > > > >                                         FOLL_WRITE | FOLL_LONGTERM,
> > > > >                                         pages);
> > > > > -             if (ret < 0)
> > > > > +             if (ret != nr_pages)
> > > > >                       goto release_pages;
> > > > >       }
> > > > >
> > > > >       return 0;
> > > > >
> > > > >  release_pages:
> > > > > +     if (ret > 0)
> > > > > +             done_count += ret;
> > > > >       mshv_region_invalidate_pages(region, 0, done_count);
> > > > > -     return ret;
> > > > > +     return ret < 0 ? ret : -ENOMEM;
> > > > >  }
> > > > >
> > > > >  static int mshv_region_chunk_unmap(struct mshv_mem_region *region,
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > 

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