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<title>KVM: Always flush async #PF workqueue when vCPU is being destroyed</title>
<updated>2024-04-03T13:32:03+00:00</updated>
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<name>Sean Christopherson</name>
<email>seanjc@google.com</email>
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<published>2024-01-10T01:15:30+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 3d75b8aa5c29058a512db29da7cbee8052724157 ]

Always flush the per-vCPU async #PF workqueue when a vCPU is clearing its
completion queue, e.g. when a VM and all its vCPUs is being destroyed.
KVM must ensure that none of its workqueue callbacks is running when the
last reference to the KVM _module_ is put.  Gifting a reference to the
associated VM prevents the workqueue callback from dereferencing freed
vCPU/VM memory, but does not prevent the KVM module from being unloaded
before the callback completes.

Drop the misguided VM refcount gifting, as calling kvm_put_kvm() from
async_pf_execute() if kvm_put_kvm() flushes the async #PF workqueue will
result in deadlock.  async_pf_execute() can't return until kvm_put_kvm()
finishes, and kvm_put_kvm() can't return until async_pf_execute() finishes:

 WARNING: CPU: 8 PID: 251 at virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:1435 kvm_put_kvm+0x2d/0x320 [kvm]
 Modules linked in: vhost_net vhost vhost_iotlb tap kvm_intel kvm irqbypass
 CPU: 8 PID: 251 Comm: kworker/8:1 Tainted: G        W          6.6.0-rc1-e7af8d17224a-x86/gmem-vm #119
 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015
 Workqueue: events async_pf_execute [kvm]
 RIP: 0010:kvm_put_kvm+0x2d/0x320 [kvm]
 Call Trace:
  &lt;TASK&gt;
  async_pf_execute+0x198/0x260 [kvm]
  process_one_work+0x145/0x2d0
  worker_thread+0x27e/0x3a0
  kthread+0xba/0xe0
  ret_from_fork+0x2d/0x50
  ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20
  &lt;/TASK&gt;
 ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
 INFO: task kworker/8:1:251 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
       Tainted: G        W          6.6.0-rc1-e7af8d17224a-x86/gmem-vm #119
 "echo 0 &gt; /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
 task:kworker/8:1     state:D stack:0     pid:251   ppid:2      flags:0x00004000
 Workqueue: events async_pf_execute [kvm]
 Call Trace:
  &lt;TASK&gt;
  __schedule+0x33f/0xa40
  schedule+0x53/0xc0
  schedule_timeout+0x12a/0x140
  __wait_for_common+0x8d/0x1d0
  __flush_work.isra.0+0x19f/0x2c0
  kvm_clear_async_pf_completion_queue+0x129/0x190 [kvm]
  kvm_arch_destroy_vm+0x78/0x1b0 [kvm]
  kvm_put_kvm+0x1c1/0x320 [kvm]
  async_pf_execute+0x198/0x260 [kvm]
  process_one_work+0x145/0x2d0
  worker_thread+0x27e/0x3a0
  kthread+0xba/0xe0
  ret_from_fork+0x2d/0x50
  ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20
  &lt;/TASK&gt;

If kvm_clear_async_pf_completion_queue() actually flushes the workqueue,
then there's no need to gift async_pf_execute() a reference because all
invocations of async_pf_execute() will be forced to complete before the
vCPU and its VM are destroyed/freed.  And that in turn fixes the module
unloading bug as __fput() won't do module_put() on the last vCPU reference
until the vCPU has been freed, e.g. if closing the vCPU file also puts the
last reference to the KVM module.

Note that kvm_check_async_pf_completion() may also take the work item off
the completion queue and so also needs to flush the work queue, as the
work will not be seen by kvm_clear_async_pf_completion_queue().  Waiting
on the workqueue could theoretically delay a vCPU due to waiting for the
work to complete, but that's a very, very small chance, and likely a very
small delay.  kvm_arch_async_page_present_queued() unconditionally makes a
new request, i.e. will effectively delay entering the guest, so the
remaining work is really just:

        trace_kvm_async_pf_completed(addr, cr2_or_gpa);

        __kvm_vcpu_wake_up(vcpu);

        mmput(mm);

and mmput() can't drop the last reference to the page tables if the vCPU is
still alive, i.e. the vCPU won't get stuck tearing down page tables.

Add a helper to do the flushing, specifically to deal with "wakeup all"
work items, as they aren't actually work items, i.e. are never placed in a
workqueue.  Trying to flush a bogus workqueue entry rightly makes
__flush_work() complain (kudos to whoever added that sanity check).

Note, commit 5f6de5cbebee ("KVM: Prevent module exit until all VMs are
freed") *tried* to fix the module refcounting issue by having VMs grab a
reference to the module, but that only made the bug slightly harder to hit
as it gave async_pf_execute() a bit more time to complete before the KVM
module could be unloaded.

Fixes: af585b921e5d ("KVM: Halt vcpu if page it tries to access is swapped out")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: David Matlack &lt;dmatlack@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Xu Yilun &lt;yilun.xu@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov &lt;vkuznets@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240110011533.503302-2-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 3d75b8aa5c29058a512db29da7cbee8052724157 ]

Always flush the per-vCPU async #PF workqueue when a vCPU is clearing its
completion queue, e.g. when a VM and all its vCPUs is being destroyed.
KVM must ensure that none of its workqueue callbacks is running when the
last reference to the KVM _module_ is put.  Gifting a reference to the
associated VM prevents the workqueue callback from dereferencing freed
vCPU/VM memory, but does not prevent the KVM module from being unloaded
before the callback completes.

Drop the misguided VM refcount gifting, as calling kvm_put_kvm() from
async_pf_execute() if kvm_put_kvm() flushes the async #PF workqueue will
result in deadlock.  async_pf_execute() can't return until kvm_put_kvm()
finishes, and kvm_put_kvm() can't return until async_pf_execute() finishes:

 WARNING: CPU: 8 PID: 251 at virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:1435 kvm_put_kvm+0x2d/0x320 [kvm]
 Modules linked in: vhost_net vhost vhost_iotlb tap kvm_intel kvm irqbypass
 CPU: 8 PID: 251 Comm: kworker/8:1 Tainted: G        W          6.6.0-rc1-e7af8d17224a-x86/gmem-vm #119
 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015
 Workqueue: events async_pf_execute [kvm]
 RIP: 0010:kvm_put_kvm+0x2d/0x320 [kvm]
 Call Trace:
  &lt;TASK&gt;
  async_pf_execute+0x198/0x260 [kvm]
  process_one_work+0x145/0x2d0
  worker_thread+0x27e/0x3a0
  kthread+0xba/0xe0
  ret_from_fork+0x2d/0x50
  ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20
  &lt;/TASK&gt;
 ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
 INFO: task kworker/8:1:251 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
       Tainted: G        W          6.6.0-rc1-e7af8d17224a-x86/gmem-vm #119
 "echo 0 &gt; /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
 task:kworker/8:1     state:D stack:0     pid:251   ppid:2      flags:0x00004000
 Workqueue: events async_pf_execute [kvm]
 Call Trace:
  &lt;TASK&gt;
  __schedule+0x33f/0xa40
  schedule+0x53/0xc0
  schedule_timeout+0x12a/0x140
  __wait_for_common+0x8d/0x1d0
  __flush_work.isra.0+0x19f/0x2c0
  kvm_clear_async_pf_completion_queue+0x129/0x190 [kvm]
  kvm_arch_destroy_vm+0x78/0x1b0 [kvm]
  kvm_put_kvm+0x1c1/0x320 [kvm]
  async_pf_execute+0x198/0x260 [kvm]
  process_one_work+0x145/0x2d0
  worker_thread+0x27e/0x3a0
  kthread+0xba/0xe0
  ret_from_fork+0x2d/0x50
  ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20
  &lt;/TASK&gt;

If kvm_clear_async_pf_completion_queue() actually flushes the workqueue,
then there's no need to gift async_pf_execute() a reference because all
invocations of async_pf_execute() will be forced to complete before the
vCPU and its VM are destroyed/freed.  And that in turn fixes the module
unloading bug as __fput() won't do module_put() on the last vCPU reference
until the vCPU has been freed, e.g. if closing the vCPU file also puts the
last reference to the KVM module.

Note that kvm_check_async_pf_completion() may also take the work item off
the completion queue and so also needs to flush the work queue, as the
work will not be seen by kvm_clear_async_pf_completion_queue().  Waiting
on the workqueue could theoretically delay a vCPU due to waiting for the
work to complete, but that's a very, very small chance, and likely a very
small delay.  kvm_arch_async_page_present_queued() unconditionally makes a
new request, i.e. will effectively delay entering the guest, so the
remaining work is really just:

        trace_kvm_async_pf_completed(addr, cr2_or_gpa);

        __kvm_vcpu_wake_up(vcpu);

        mmput(mm);

and mmput() can't drop the last reference to the page tables if the vCPU is
still alive, i.e. the vCPU won't get stuck tearing down page tables.

Add a helper to do the flushing, specifically to deal with "wakeup all"
work items, as they aren't actually work items, i.e. are never placed in a
workqueue.  Trying to flush a bogus workqueue entry rightly makes
__flush_work() complain (kudos to whoever added that sanity check).

Note, commit 5f6de5cbebee ("KVM: Prevent module exit until all VMs are
freed") *tried* to fix the module refcounting issue by having VMs grab a
reference to the module, but that only made the bug slightly harder to hit
as it gave async_pf_execute() a bit more time to complete before the KVM
module could be unloaded.

Fixes: af585b921e5d ("KVM: Halt vcpu if page it tries to access is swapped out")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: David Matlack &lt;dmatlack@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Xu Yilun &lt;yilun.xu@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov &lt;vkuznets@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240110011533.503302-2-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>KVM: Make KVM_MEM_GUEST_MEMFD mutually exclusive with KVM_MEM_READONLY</title>
<updated>2024-02-23T01:07:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sean Christopherson</name>
<email>seanjc@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-02-22T19:06:08+00:00</published>
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Disallow creating read-only memslots that support GUEST_MEMFD, as
GUEST_MEMFD is fundamentally incompatible with KVM's semantics for
read-only memslots.  Read-only memslots allow the userspace VMM to emulate
option ROMs by filling the backing memory with readable, executable code
and data, while triggering emulated MMIO on writes.  GUEST_MEMFD doesn't
currently support writes from userspace and KVM doesn't support emulated
MMIO on private accesses, i.e. the guest can only ever read zeros, and
writes will always be treated as errors.

Cc: Fuad Tabba &lt;tabba@google.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Roth &lt;michael.roth@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Isaku Yamahata &lt;isaku.yamahata@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Yu Zhang &lt;yu.c.zhang@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Chao Peng &lt;chao.p.peng@linux.intel.com&gt;
Fixes: a7800aa80ea4 ("KVM: Add KVM_CREATE_GUEST_MEMFD ioctl() for guest-specific backing memory")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240222190612.2942589-2-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
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Disallow creating read-only memslots that support GUEST_MEMFD, as
GUEST_MEMFD is fundamentally incompatible with KVM's semantics for
read-only memslots.  Read-only memslots allow the userspace VMM to emulate
option ROMs by filling the backing memory with readable, executable code
and data, while triggering emulated MMIO on writes.  GUEST_MEMFD doesn't
currently support writes from userspace and KVM doesn't support emulated
MMIO on private accesses, i.e. the guest can only ever read zeros, and
writes will always be treated as errors.

Cc: Fuad Tabba &lt;tabba@google.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Roth &lt;michael.roth@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Isaku Yamahata &lt;isaku.yamahata@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Yu Zhang &lt;yu.c.zhang@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Chao Peng &lt;chao.p.peng@linux.intel.com&gt;
Fixes: a7800aa80ea4 ("KVM: Add KVM_CREATE_GUEST_MEMFD ioctl() for guest-specific backing memory")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240222190612.2942589-2-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm</title>
<updated>2024-01-17T21:03:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-01-17T21:03:37+00:00</published>
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Pull kvm updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "Generic:

   - Use memdup_array_user() to harden against overflow.

   - Unconditionally advertise KVM_CAP_DEVICE_CTRL for all
     architectures.

   - Clean up Kconfigs that all KVM architectures were selecting

   - New functionality around "guest_memfd", a new userspace API that
     creates an anonymous file and returns a file descriptor that refers
     to it. guest_memfd files are bound to their owning virtual machine,
     cannot be mapped, read, or written by userspace, and cannot be
     resized. guest_memfd files do however support PUNCH_HOLE, which can
     be used to switch a memory area between guest_memfd and regular
     anonymous memory.

   - New ioctl KVM_SET_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES allowing userspace to specify
     per-page attributes for a given page of guest memory; right now the
     only attribute is whether the guest expects to access memory via
     guest_memfd or not, which in Confidential SVMs backed by SEV-SNP,
     TDX or ARM64 pKVM is checked by firmware or hypervisor that
     guarantees confidentiality (AMD PSP, Intel TDX module, or EL2 in
     the case of pKVM).

  x86:

   - Support for "software-protected VMs" that can use the new
     guest_memfd and page attributes infrastructure. This is mostly
     useful for testing, since there is no pKVM-like infrastructure to
     provide a meaningfully reduced TCB.

   - Fix a relatively benign off-by-one error when splitting huge pages
     during CLEAR_DIRTY_LOG.

   - Fix a bug where KVM could incorrectly test-and-clear dirty bits in
     non-leaf TDP MMU SPTEs if a racing thread replaces a huge SPTE with
     a non-huge SPTE.

   - Use more generic lockdep assertions in paths that don't actually
     care about whether the caller is a reader or a writer.

   - let Xen guests opt out of having PV clock reported as "based on a
     stable TSC", because some of them don't expect the "TSC stable" bit
     (added to the pvclock ABI by KVM, but never set by Xen) to be set.

   - Revert a bogus, made-up nested SVM consistency check for
     TLB_CONTROL.

   - Advertise flush-by-ASID support for nSVM unconditionally, as KVM
     always flushes on nested transitions, i.e. always satisfies flush
     requests. This allows running bleeding edge versions of VMware
     Workstation on top of KVM.

   - Sanity check that the CPU supports flush-by-ASID when enabling SEV
     support.

   - On AMD machines with vNMI, always rely on hardware instead of
     intercepting IRET in some cases to detect unmasking of NMIs

   - Support for virtualizing Linear Address Masking (LAM)

   - Fix a variety of vPMU bugs where KVM fail to stop/reset counters
     and other state prior to refreshing the vPMU model.

   - Fix a double-overflow PMU bug by tracking emulated counter events
     using a dedicated field instead of snapshotting the "previous"
     counter. If the hardware PMC count triggers overflow that is
     recognized in the same VM-Exit that KVM manually bumps an event
     count, KVM would pend PMIs for both the hardware-triggered overflow
     and for KVM-triggered overflow.

   - Turn off KVM_WERROR by default for all configs so that it's not
     inadvertantly enabled by non-KVM developers, which can be
     problematic for subsystems that require no regressions for W=1
     builds.

   - Advertise all of the host-supported CPUID bits that enumerate
     IA32_SPEC_CTRL "features".

   - Don't force a masterclock update when a vCPU synchronizes to the
     current TSC generation, as updating the masterclock can cause
     kvmclock's time to "jump" unexpectedly, e.g. when userspace
     hotplugs a pre-created vCPU.

   - Use RIP-relative address to read kvm_rebooting in the VM-Enter
     fault paths, partly as a super minor optimization, but mostly to
     make KVM play nice with position independent executable builds.

   - Guard KVM-on-HyperV's range-based TLB flush hooks with an #ifdef on
     CONFIG_HYPERV as a minor optimization, and to self-document the
     code.

   - Add CONFIG_KVM_HYPERV to allow disabling KVM support for HyperV
     "emulation" at build time.

  ARM64:

   - LPA2 support, adding 52bit IPA/PA capability for 4kB and 16kB base
     granule sizes. Branch shared with the arm64 tree.

   - Large Fine-Grained Trap rework, bringing some sanity to the
     feature, although there is more to come. This comes with a prefix
     branch shared with the arm64 tree.

   - Some additional Nested Virtualization groundwork, mostly
     introducing the NV2 VNCR support and retargetting the NV support to
     that version of the architecture.

   - A small set of vgic fixes and associated cleanups.

  Loongarch:

   - Optimization for memslot hugepage checking

   - Cleanup and fix some HW/SW timer issues

   - Add LSX/LASX (128bit/256bit SIMD) support

  RISC-V:

   - KVM_GET_REG_LIST improvement for vector registers

   - Generate ISA extension reg_list using macros in get-reg-list
     selftest

   - Support for reporting steal time along with selftest

  s390:

   - Bugfixes

  Selftests:

   - Fix an annoying goof where the NX hugepage test prints out garbage
     instead of the magic token needed to run the test.

   - Fix build errors when a header is delete/moved due to a missing
     flag in the Makefile.

   - Detect if KVM bugged/killed a selftest's VM and print out a helpful
     message instead of complaining that a random ioctl() failed.

   - Annotate the guest printf/assert helpers with __printf(), and fix
     the various bugs that were lurking due to lack of said annotation"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (185 commits)
  x86/kvm: Do not try to disable kvmclock if it was not enabled
  KVM: x86: add missing "depends on KVM"
  KVM: fix direction of dependency on MMU notifiers
  KVM: introduce CONFIG_KVM_COMMON
  KVM: arm64: Add missing memory barriers when switching to pKVM's hyp pgd
  KVM: arm64: vgic-its: Avoid potential UAF in LPI translation cache
  RISC-V: KVM: selftests: Add get-reg-list test for STA registers
  RISC-V: KVM: selftests: Add steal_time test support
  RISC-V: KVM: selftests: Add guest_sbi_probe_extension
  RISC-V: KVM: selftests: Move sbi_ecall to processor.c
  RISC-V: KVM: Implement SBI STA extension
  RISC-V: KVM: Add support for SBI STA registers
  RISC-V: KVM: Add support for SBI extension registers
  RISC-V: KVM: Add SBI STA info to vcpu_arch
  RISC-V: KVM: Add steal-update vcpu request
  RISC-V: KVM: Add SBI STA extension skeleton
  RISC-V: paravirt: Implement steal-time support
  RISC-V: Add SBI STA extension definitions
  RISC-V: paravirt: Add skeleton for pv-time support
  RISC-V: KVM: Fix indentation in kvm_riscv_vcpu_set_reg_csr()
  ...
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Pull kvm updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "Generic:

   - Use memdup_array_user() to harden against overflow.

   - Unconditionally advertise KVM_CAP_DEVICE_CTRL for all
     architectures.

   - Clean up Kconfigs that all KVM architectures were selecting

   - New functionality around "guest_memfd", a new userspace API that
     creates an anonymous file and returns a file descriptor that refers
     to it. guest_memfd files are bound to their owning virtual machine,
     cannot be mapped, read, or written by userspace, and cannot be
     resized. guest_memfd files do however support PUNCH_HOLE, which can
     be used to switch a memory area between guest_memfd and regular
     anonymous memory.

   - New ioctl KVM_SET_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES allowing userspace to specify
     per-page attributes for a given page of guest memory; right now the
     only attribute is whether the guest expects to access memory via
     guest_memfd or not, which in Confidential SVMs backed by SEV-SNP,
     TDX or ARM64 pKVM is checked by firmware or hypervisor that
     guarantees confidentiality (AMD PSP, Intel TDX module, or EL2 in
     the case of pKVM).

  x86:

   - Support for "software-protected VMs" that can use the new
     guest_memfd and page attributes infrastructure. This is mostly
     useful for testing, since there is no pKVM-like infrastructure to
     provide a meaningfully reduced TCB.

   - Fix a relatively benign off-by-one error when splitting huge pages
     during CLEAR_DIRTY_LOG.

   - Fix a bug where KVM could incorrectly test-and-clear dirty bits in
     non-leaf TDP MMU SPTEs if a racing thread replaces a huge SPTE with
     a non-huge SPTE.

   - Use more generic lockdep assertions in paths that don't actually
     care about whether the caller is a reader or a writer.

   - let Xen guests opt out of having PV clock reported as "based on a
     stable TSC", because some of them don't expect the "TSC stable" bit
     (added to the pvclock ABI by KVM, but never set by Xen) to be set.

   - Revert a bogus, made-up nested SVM consistency check for
     TLB_CONTROL.

   - Advertise flush-by-ASID support for nSVM unconditionally, as KVM
     always flushes on nested transitions, i.e. always satisfies flush
     requests. This allows running bleeding edge versions of VMware
     Workstation on top of KVM.

   - Sanity check that the CPU supports flush-by-ASID when enabling SEV
     support.

   - On AMD machines with vNMI, always rely on hardware instead of
     intercepting IRET in some cases to detect unmasking of NMIs

   - Support for virtualizing Linear Address Masking (LAM)

   - Fix a variety of vPMU bugs where KVM fail to stop/reset counters
     and other state prior to refreshing the vPMU model.

   - Fix a double-overflow PMU bug by tracking emulated counter events
     using a dedicated field instead of snapshotting the "previous"
     counter. If the hardware PMC count triggers overflow that is
     recognized in the same VM-Exit that KVM manually bumps an event
     count, KVM would pend PMIs for both the hardware-triggered overflow
     and for KVM-triggered overflow.

   - Turn off KVM_WERROR by default for all configs so that it's not
     inadvertantly enabled by non-KVM developers, which can be
     problematic for subsystems that require no regressions for W=1
     builds.

   - Advertise all of the host-supported CPUID bits that enumerate
     IA32_SPEC_CTRL "features".

   - Don't force a masterclock update when a vCPU synchronizes to the
     current TSC generation, as updating the masterclock can cause
     kvmclock's time to "jump" unexpectedly, e.g. when userspace
     hotplugs a pre-created vCPU.

   - Use RIP-relative address to read kvm_rebooting in the VM-Enter
     fault paths, partly as a super minor optimization, but mostly to
     make KVM play nice with position independent executable builds.

   - Guard KVM-on-HyperV's range-based TLB flush hooks with an #ifdef on
     CONFIG_HYPERV as a minor optimization, and to self-document the
     code.

   - Add CONFIG_KVM_HYPERV to allow disabling KVM support for HyperV
     "emulation" at build time.

  ARM64:

   - LPA2 support, adding 52bit IPA/PA capability for 4kB and 16kB base
     granule sizes. Branch shared with the arm64 tree.

   - Large Fine-Grained Trap rework, bringing some sanity to the
     feature, although there is more to come. This comes with a prefix
     branch shared with the arm64 tree.

   - Some additional Nested Virtualization groundwork, mostly
     introducing the NV2 VNCR support and retargetting the NV support to
     that version of the architecture.

   - A small set of vgic fixes and associated cleanups.

  Loongarch:

   - Optimization for memslot hugepage checking

   - Cleanup and fix some HW/SW timer issues

   - Add LSX/LASX (128bit/256bit SIMD) support

  RISC-V:

   - KVM_GET_REG_LIST improvement for vector registers

   - Generate ISA extension reg_list using macros in get-reg-list
     selftest

   - Support for reporting steal time along with selftest

  s390:

   - Bugfixes

  Selftests:

   - Fix an annoying goof where the NX hugepage test prints out garbage
     instead of the magic token needed to run the test.

   - Fix build errors when a header is delete/moved due to a missing
     flag in the Makefile.

   - Detect if KVM bugged/killed a selftest's VM and print out a helpful
     message instead of complaining that a random ioctl() failed.

   - Annotate the guest printf/assert helpers with __printf(), and fix
     the various bugs that were lurking due to lack of said annotation"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (185 commits)
  x86/kvm: Do not try to disable kvmclock if it was not enabled
  KVM: x86: add missing "depends on KVM"
  KVM: fix direction of dependency on MMU notifiers
  KVM: introduce CONFIG_KVM_COMMON
  KVM: arm64: Add missing memory barriers when switching to pKVM's hyp pgd
  KVM: arm64: vgic-its: Avoid potential UAF in LPI translation cache
  RISC-V: KVM: selftests: Add get-reg-list test for STA registers
  RISC-V: KVM: selftests: Add steal_time test support
  RISC-V: KVM: selftests: Add guest_sbi_probe_extension
  RISC-V: KVM: selftests: Move sbi_ecall to processor.c
  RISC-V: KVM: Implement SBI STA extension
  RISC-V: KVM: Add support for SBI STA registers
  RISC-V: KVM: Add support for SBI extension registers
  RISC-V: KVM: Add SBI STA info to vcpu_arch
  RISC-V: KVM: Add steal-update vcpu request
  RISC-V: KVM: Add SBI STA extension skeleton
  RISC-V: paravirt: Implement steal-time support
  RISC-V: Add SBI STA extension definitions
  RISC-V: paravirt: Add skeleton for pv-time support
  RISC-V: KVM: Fix indentation in kvm_riscv_vcpu_set_reg_csr()
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'vfs-6.8.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs</title>
<updated>2024-01-08T18:26:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-01-08T18:26:08+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=c604110e662a54568073a03176402b624e740310'/>
<id>c604110e662a54568073a03176402b624e740310</id>
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Pull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains the usual miscellaneous features, cleanups, and fixes
  for vfs and individual fses.

  Features:

   - Add Jan Kara as VFS reviewer

   - Show correct device and inode numbers in proc/&lt;pid&gt;/maps for vma
     files on stacked filesystems. This is now easily doable thanks to
     the backing file work from the last cycles. This comes with
     selftests

  Cleanups:

   - Remove a redundant might_sleep() from wait_on_inode()

   - Initialize pointer with NULL, not 0

   - Clarify comment on access_override_creds()

   - Rework and simplify eventfd_signal() and eventfd_signal_mask()
     helpers

   - Process aio completions in batches to avoid needless wakeups

   - Completely decouple struct mnt_idmap from namespaces. We now only
     keep the actual idmapping around and don't stash references to
     namespaces

   - Reformat maintainer entries to indicate that a given subsystem
     belongs to fs/

   - Simplify fput() for files that were never opened

   - Get rid of various pointless file helpers

   - Rename various file helpers

   - Rename struct file members after SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU switch from
     last cycle

   - Make relatime_need_update() return bool

   - Use GFP_KERNEL instead of GFP_USER when allocating superblocks

   - Replace deprecated ida_simple_*() calls with their current ida_*()
     counterparts

  Fixes:

   - Fix comments on user namespace id mapping helpers. They aren't
     kernel doc comments so they shouldn't be using /**

   - s/Retuns/Returns/g in various places

   - Add missing parameter documentation on can_move_mount_beneath()

   - Rename i_mapping-&gt;private_data to i_mapping-&gt;i_private_data

   - Fix a false-positive lockdep warning in pipe_write() for watch
     queues

   - Improve __fget_files_rcu() code generation to improve performance

   - Only notify writer that pipe resizing has finished after setting
     pipe-&gt;max_usage otherwise writers are never notified that the pipe
     has been resized and hang

   - Fix some kernel docs in hfsplus

   - s/passs/pass/g in various places

   - Fix kernel docs in ntfs

   - Fix kcalloc() arguments order reported by gcc 14

   - Fix uninitialized value in reiserfs"

* tag 'vfs-6.8.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (36 commits)
  reiserfs: fix uninit-value in comp_keys
  watch_queue: fix kcalloc() arguments order
  ntfs: dir.c: fix kernel-doc function parameter warnings
  fs: fix doc comment typo fs tree wide
  selftests/overlayfs: verify device and inode numbers in /proc/pid/maps
  fs/proc: show correct device and inode numbers in /proc/pid/maps
  eventfd: Remove usage of the deprecated ida_simple_xx() API
  fs: super: use GFP_KERNEL instead of GFP_USER for super block allocation
  fs/hfsplus: wrapper.c: fix kernel-doc warnings
  fs: add Jan Kara as reviewer
  fs/inode: Make relatime_need_update return bool
  pipe: wakeup wr_wait after setting max_usage
  file: remove __receive_fd()
  file: stop exposing receive_fd_user()
  fs: replace f_rcuhead with f_task_work
  file: remove pointless wrapper
  file: s/close_fd_get_file()/file_close_fd()/g
  Improve __fget_files_rcu() code generation (and thus __fget_light())
  file: massage cleanup of files that failed to open
  fs/pipe: Fix lockdep false-positive in watchqueue pipe_write()
  ...
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<pre>
Pull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains the usual miscellaneous features, cleanups, and fixes
  for vfs and individual fses.

  Features:

   - Add Jan Kara as VFS reviewer

   - Show correct device and inode numbers in proc/&lt;pid&gt;/maps for vma
     files on stacked filesystems. This is now easily doable thanks to
     the backing file work from the last cycles. This comes with
     selftests

  Cleanups:

   - Remove a redundant might_sleep() from wait_on_inode()

   - Initialize pointer with NULL, not 0

   - Clarify comment on access_override_creds()

   - Rework and simplify eventfd_signal() and eventfd_signal_mask()
     helpers

   - Process aio completions in batches to avoid needless wakeups

   - Completely decouple struct mnt_idmap from namespaces. We now only
     keep the actual idmapping around and don't stash references to
     namespaces

   - Reformat maintainer entries to indicate that a given subsystem
     belongs to fs/

   - Simplify fput() for files that were never opened

   - Get rid of various pointless file helpers

   - Rename various file helpers

   - Rename struct file members after SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU switch from
     last cycle

   - Make relatime_need_update() return bool

   - Use GFP_KERNEL instead of GFP_USER when allocating superblocks

   - Replace deprecated ida_simple_*() calls with their current ida_*()
     counterparts

  Fixes:

   - Fix comments on user namespace id mapping helpers. They aren't
     kernel doc comments so they shouldn't be using /**

   - s/Retuns/Returns/g in various places

   - Add missing parameter documentation on can_move_mount_beneath()

   - Rename i_mapping-&gt;private_data to i_mapping-&gt;i_private_data

   - Fix a false-positive lockdep warning in pipe_write() for watch
     queues

   - Improve __fget_files_rcu() code generation to improve performance

   - Only notify writer that pipe resizing has finished after setting
     pipe-&gt;max_usage otherwise writers are never notified that the pipe
     has been resized and hang

   - Fix some kernel docs in hfsplus

   - s/passs/pass/g in various places

   - Fix kernel docs in ntfs

   - Fix kcalloc() arguments order reported by gcc 14

   - Fix uninitialized value in reiserfs"

* tag 'vfs-6.8.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (36 commits)
  reiserfs: fix uninit-value in comp_keys
  watch_queue: fix kcalloc() arguments order
  ntfs: dir.c: fix kernel-doc function parameter warnings
  fs: fix doc comment typo fs tree wide
  selftests/overlayfs: verify device and inode numbers in /proc/pid/maps
  fs/proc: show correct device and inode numbers in /proc/pid/maps
  eventfd: Remove usage of the deprecated ida_simple_xx() API
  fs: super: use GFP_KERNEL instead of GFP_USER for super block allocation
  fs/hfsplus: wrapper.c: fix kernel-doc warnings
  fs: add Jan Kara as reviewer
  fs/inode: Make relatime_need_update return bool
  pipe: wakeup wr_wait after setting max_usage
  file: remove __receive_fd()
  file: stop exposing receive_fd_user()
  fs: replace f_rcuhead with f_task_work
  file: remove pointless wrapper
  file: s/close_fd_get_file()/file_close_fd()/g
  Improve __fget_files_rcu() code generation (and thus __fget_light())
  file: massage cleanup of files that failed to open
  fs/pipe: Fix lockdep false-positive in watchqueue pipe_write()
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'kvm-x86-generic-6.8' of https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux into HEAD</title>
<updated>2024-01-08T13:09:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Bonzini</name>
<email>pbonzini@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-01-08T13:09:57+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=fb872da8e720f8281dde01b8929419eb5ae6b033'/>
<id>fb872da8e720f8281dde01b8929419eb5ae6b033</id>
<content type='text'>
Common KVM changes for 6.8:

 - Use memdup_array_user() to harden against overflow.

 - Unconditionally advertise KVM_CAP_DEVICE_CTRL for all architectures.
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Common KVM changes for 6.8:

 - Use memdup_array_user() to harden against overflow.

 - Unconditionally advertise KVM_CAP_DEVICE_CTRL for all architectures.
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: fix direction of dependency on MMU notifiers</title>
<updated>2024-01-08T13:09:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Bonzini</name>
<email>pbonzini@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-01-06T07:24:00+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=3a373e027d8b0ed14963cc84b48a11e69e4506b6'/>
<id>3a373e027d8b0ed14963cc84b48a11e69e4506b6</id>
<content type='text'>
KVM_GENERIC_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES requires the generic MMU notifier code, because
it uses kvm_mmu_invalidate_begin/end.  However, it would not work with a bespoke
implementation of MMU notifiers that does not use KVM_GENERIC_MMU_NOTIFIER,
because most likely it would not synchronize correctly on invalidation.  So
the right thing to do is to note the problematic configuration if the
architecture does not select itself KVM_GENERIC_MMU_NOTIFIER; not to
enable it blindly.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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<pre>
KVM_GENERIC_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES requires the generic MMU notifier code, because
it uses kvm_mmu_invalidate_begin/end.  However, it would not work with a bespoke
implementation of MMU notifiers that does not use KVM_GENERIC_MMU_NOTIFIER,
because most likely it would not synchronize correctly on invalidation.  So
the right thing to do is to note the problematic configuration if the
architecture does not select itself KVM_GENERIC_MMU_NOTIFIER; not to
enable it blindly.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: introduce CONFIG_KVM_COMMON</title>
<updated>2024-01-08T13:09:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Bonzini</name>
<email>pbonzini@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-01-04T16:15:07+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=caadf876bb7449bf25ef817afe7fb881df8198a2'/>
<id>caadf876bb7449bf25ef817afe7fb881df8198a2</id>
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CONFIG_HAVE_KVM is currently used by some architectures to either
enabled the KVM config proper, or to enable host-side code that is
not part of the KVM module.  However, CONFIG_KVM's "select" statement
in virt/kvm/Kconfig corresponds to a third meaning, namely to
enable common Kconfigs required by all architectures that support
KVM.

These three meanings can be replaced respectively by an
architecture-specific Kconfig, by IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KVM), or by
a new Kconfig symbol that is in turn selected by the
architecture-specific "config KVM".

Start by introducing such a new Kconfig symbol, CONFIG_KVM_COMMON.
Unlike CONFIG_HAVE_KVM, it is selected by CONFIG_KVM, not by
architecture code, and it brings in all dependencies of common
KVM code.  In particular, INTERVAL_TREE was missing in loongarch
and riscv, so that is another thing that is fixed.

Fixes: 8132d887a702 ("KVM: remove CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_EVENTFD", 2023-12-08)
Reported-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/44907c6b-c5bd-4e4a-a921-e4d3825539d8@infradead.org/
Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones &lt;ajones@ventanamicro.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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<pre>
CONFIG_HAVE_KVM is currently used by some architectures to either
enabled the KVM config proper, or to enable host-side code that is
not part of the KVM module.  However, CONFIG_KVM's "select" statement
in virt/kvm/Kconfig corresponds to a third meaning, namely to
enable common Kconfigs required by all architectures that support
KVM.

These three meanings can be replaced respectively by an
architecture-specific Kconfig, by IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KVM), or by
a new Kconfig symbol that is in turn selected by the
architecture-specific "config KVM".

Start by introducing such a new Kconfig symbol, CONFIG_KVM_COMMON.
Unlike CONFIG_HAVE_KVM, it is selected by CONFIG_KVM, not by
architecture code, and it brings in all dependencies of common
KVM code.  In particular, INTERVAL_TREE was missing in loongarch
and riscv, so that is another thing that is fixed.

Fixes: 8132d887a702 ("KVM: remove CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_EVENTFD", 2023-12-08)
Reported-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/44907c6b-c5bd-4e4a-a921-e4d3825539d8@infradead.org/
Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones &lt;ajones@ventanamicro.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'kvm-riscv-6.8-1' of https://github.com/kvm-riscv/linux into HEAD</title>
<updated>2024-01-02T18:19:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Bonzini</name>
<email>pbonzini@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-01-02T18:19:40+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=9cc52627c702b73c633737db40914ab8fc467de8'/>
<id>9cc52627c702b73c633737db40914ab8fc467de8</id>
<content type='text'>
KVM/riscv changes for 6.8 part #1

- KVM_GET_REG_LIST improvement for vector registers
- Generate ISA extension reg_list using macros in get-reg-list selftest
- Steal time account support along with selftest
</content>
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<pre>
KVM/riscv changes for 6.8 part #1

- KVM_GET_REG_LIST improvement for vector registers
- Generate ISA extension reg_list using macros in get-reg-list selftest
- Steal time account support along with selftest
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'loongarch-kvm-6.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/chenhuacai/linux-loongson into HEAD</title>
<updated>2024-01-02T18:16:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Bonzini</name>
<email>pbonzini@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-01-02T18:16:29+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=136292522e43da46bee4c0fef80b2602f79525a2'/>
<id>136292522e43da46bee4c0fef80b2602f79525a2</id>
<content type='text'>
LoongArch KVM changes for v6.8

1. Optimization for memslot hugepage checking.
2. Cleanup and fix some HW/SW timer issues.
3. Add LSX/LASX (128bit/256bit SIMD) support.
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<pre>
LoongArch KVM changes for v6.8

1. Optimization for memslot hugepage checking.
2. Cleanup and fix some HW/SW timer issues.
3. Add LSX/LASX (128bit/256bit SIMD) support.
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'kvmarm-fixes-6.7-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvmarm/kvmarm into kvm-master</title>
<updated>2023-12-22T23:03:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Bonzini</name>
<email>pbonzini@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-12-22T23:03:54+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=5c2b2176ead1911d652b8848169bb44bdde75ca8'/>
<id>5c2b2176ead1911d652b8848169bb44bdde75ca8</id>
<content type='text'>
KVM/arm64 fixes for 6.7, part #2

 - Ensure a vCPU's redistributor is unregistered from the MMIO bus
   if vCPU creation fails

 - Fix building KVM selftests for arm64 from the top-level Makefile
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KVM/arm64 fixes for 6.7, part #2

 - Ensure a vCPU's redistributor is unregistered from the MMIO bus
   if vCPU creation fails

 - Fix building KVM selftests for arm64 from the top-level Makefile
</pre>
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</content>
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