From: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com>
To: Proxmox VE development discussion <pve-devel@lists.proxmox.com>,
Stoiko Ivanov <s.ivanov@proxmox.com>
Subject: Re: [pve-devel] [PATCH pve-kernel 2/2] cherry-pick fix for uefi guests hanging upon guest-initialized reboot
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2023 09:35:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2c536056-ee40-59b2-5197-d5dcb6730f4f@proxmox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230824143021.2440581-3-s.ivanov@proxmox.com>
Am 24.08.23 um 16:30 schrieb Stoiko Ivanov:
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230608090348.414990-1-gshan@redhat.com/
>
Note that this is actually about an older version of the patch.
> +
> +We tried a git-bisect and the first problematic commit is cd4c71835228 ("
> +KVM: arm64: Convert to the gfn-based MMU notifier callbacks"). With this,
> +clean_dcache_guest_page() is called after the memory slots are iterated
> +in kvm_mmu_notifier_change_pte(). clean_dcache_guest_page() is called
> +before the iteration on the memory slots before this commit. This change
> +literally enlarges the racy window between kvm_mmu_notifier_change_pte()
> +and memory slot removal so that we're able to reproduce the issue in a
> +practical test case. However, the issue exists since commit d5d8184d35c9
> +("KVM: ARM: Memory virtualization setup").
> +
> +Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.9+
> +Fixes: d5d8184d35c9 ("KVM: ARM: Memory virtualization setup")
The mentioned commits and reading in the mail thread
>> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.13+
>> Fixes: 3039bcc74498 ("KVM: Move x86's MMU notifier memslot walkers to generic code")
>
> This Fixes isn't correct. That change only affected x86, which doesn't have this
> bug. And looking at commit cd4c71835228 ("KVM: arm64: Convert to the gfn-based MMU
> notifier callbacks"), arm64 did NOT skip invalid slots
unfortunately make it sound like it's not an x86 issue. But who knows? I
guess it won't hurt in either case, as it's already in upstream stable.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-08-25 7:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-08-24 14:30 [pve-devel] [PATCH pve-kernel 0/2] cherry-pick a patch from kernel.org stable 5.15 for guests hanging during reboot Stoiko Ivanov
2023-08-24 14:30 ` [pve-devel] [PATCH pve-kernel 1/2] refresh patches after ./debian/scripts/export-patchqueue Stoiko Ivanov
2023-08-24 14:30 ` [pve-devel] [PATCH pve-kernel 2/2] cherry-pick fix for uefi guests hanging upon guest-initialized reboot Stoiko Ivanov
2023-08-25 7:35 ` Fiona Ebner [this message]
2023-08-25 7:40 ` Stefan Hanreich
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