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Maxim Levitsky ab4e41eb9f KVM: x86: Don't clear async #PF queue when CR0.PG is disabled (e.g. on #SMI) 
Fix an interaction between SMM and PV asynchronous #PFs where an #SMI can
cause KVM to drop an async #PF ready event, and thus result in guest tasks
becoming permanently stuck due to the task that encountered the #PF never
being resumed.  Specifically, don't clear the completion queue when paging
is disabled, and re-check for completed async #PFs if/when paging is
enabled.

Prior to commit 2635b5c4a0 ("KVM: x86: interrupt based APF 'page ready'
event delivery"), flushing the APF queue without notifying the guest of
completed APF requests when paging is disabled was "necessary", in that
delivering a #PF to the guest when paging is disabled would likely confuse
and/or crash the guest.  And presumably the original async #PF development
assumed that a guest would only disable paging when there was no intent to
ever re-enable paging.

That assumption fails in several scenarios, most visibly on an emulated
SMI, as entering SMM always disables CR0.PG (i.e. initially runs with
paging disabled).  When the SMM handler eventually executes RSM, the
interrupted paging-enabled is restored, and the async #PF event is lost.

Similarly, invoking firmware, e.g. via EFI runtime calls, might require a
transition through paging modes and thus also disable paging with valid
entries in the competion queue.

To avoid dropping completion events, drop the "clear" entirely, and handle
paging-enable transitions in the same way KVM already handles APIC
enable/disable events: if a vCPU's APIC is disabled, APF completion events
are not kept pending and not injected while APIC is disabled.  Once a
vCPU's APIC is re-enabled, KVM raises KVM_REQ_APF_READY so that the vCPU
recognizes any pending pending #APF ready events.

Signed-off-by: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251015033258.50974-4-mlevitsk@redhat.com
[sean: rework changelog to call out #PF injection, drop "real mode"
       references, expand the code comment]
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
History 2025-11-07 10:59:44 -08:00
arch KVM: x86: Don't clear async #PF queue when CR0.PG is disabled (e.g. on #SMI) 2025-11-07 10:59:44 -08:00
block block-6.18-20251016 2025-10-17 08:31:26 -07:00
certs sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2024-09-20 19:52:48 +03:00
crypto This push contains the following changes: 2025-10-10 08:56:16 -07:00
Documentation Rust 'rustfmt' cleanup 2025-10-18 10:05:13 -10:00
drivers Hi, 2025-10-18 08:38:28 -10:00
fs Description for this pull request: 2025-10-18 07:23:59 -10:00
include hid-for-linus-2025101701 2025-10-18 08:18:18 -10:00
init printk changes for 6.18 2025-10-04 11:13:11 -07:00
io_uring io_uring/rw: check for NULL io_br_sel when putting a buffer 2025-10-15 13:38:53 -06:00
ipc namespace-6.18-rc1 2025-09-29 11:20:29 -07:00
kernel - Make sure the check for lost pelt idle time is done unconditionally to 2025-10-19 04:59:43 -10:00
lib lib/test_kho: use kho_preserve_vmalloc instead of storing addresses in fdt 2025-10-07 13:48:56 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Replace the obsolete address of the FSF in the GFDL-1.2 2025-07-24 11:15:39 +02:00
mm slab: reset slab->obj_ext when freeing and it is OBJEXTS_ALLOC_FAIL 2025-10-16 15:16:45 +02:00
net bpf-fixes 2025-10-18 08:00:43 -10:00
rust rust: bitmap: fix formatting 2025-10-17 13:02:22 +02:00
samples Char/Misc/IIO/Binder changes for 6.18-rc1 2025-10-04 16:26:32 -07:00
scripts Kbuild fixes for 6.18 #1 2025-10-11 15:47:12 -07:00
security integrity-v6.18 2025-10-05 10:48:33 -07:00
sound ALSA: hda/realtek: Fix mute led for HP Omen 17-cb0xxx 2025-10-17 16:37:21 +02:00
tools hid-for-linus-2025101701 2025-10-18 08:18:18 -10:00
usr gen_init_cpio: Ignore fsync() returning EINVAL on pipes 2025-10-07 09:53:05 -07:00
virt KVM x86 fixes for 6.18: 2025-10-18 10:25:43 +02:00
.clang-format memblock: drop for_each_free_mem_pfn_range_in_zone_from() 2025-09-14 08:49:03 +03:00
.clippy.toml rust: clean Rust 1.88.0's warning about clippy::disallowed_macros configuration 2025-05-07 00:11:47 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.editorconfig .editorconfig: remove trim_trailing_whitespace option 2024-06-13 16:47:52 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore MAINTAINERS: remove Alyssa Rosenzweig 2025-09-18 21:17:31 +02:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore .gitignore: ignore compile_commands.json globally 2025-08-12 15:53:55 -07:00
.mailmap Including fixes from CAN 2025-10-16 09:41:21 -07:00
.pylintrc tools: docs: parse-headers.py: move it from sphinx dir 2025-08-29 15:54:42 -06:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS USB/Thunderbolt changes for 6.18-rc1 2025-10-04 16:07:08 -07:00
Kbuild sched: Make migrate_{en,dis}able() inline 2025-09-25 09:57:16 +02:00
Kconfig io_uring: Rename KConfig to Kconfig 2025-02-19 14:53:27 -07:00
MAINTAINERS Including fixes from CAN 2025-10-16 09:41:21 -07:00
Makefile Linux 6.18-rc2 2025-10-19 15:19:16 -10:00
README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.