Wrap the read of iter->sptep in tdp_mmu_map_handle_target_level() with rcu_dereference(). Shadow pages in the TDP MMU, and thus their SPTEs, are protected by rcu. This fixes a Sparse warning at tdp_mmu.c:900:51: warning: incorrect type in argument 1 (different address spaces) expected unsigned long long [usertype] *sptep got unsigned long long [noderef] [usertype] __rcu *[usertype] sptep Fixes: 7158bee4b475 ("KVM: MMU: pass kvm_mmu_page struct to make_spte") Cc: Ben Gardon <bgardon@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c index 7c5dd83e52de..a54c3491af42 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c @@ -897,7 +897,7 @@ static int tdp_mmu_map_handle_target_level(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_page_fault *fault, struct tdp_iter *iter) { - struct kvm_mmu_page *sp = sptep_to_sp(iter->sptep); + struct kvm_mmu_page *sp = sptep_to_sp(rcu_dereference(iter->sptep)); u64 new_spte; int ret = RET_PF_FIXED; bool wrprot = false; -- 2.33.1.1089.g2158813163f-goog