kernel/linux
0
Fork 0
mirror of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ synced 2026-11-08 18:57:22 +00:00
Code Issues Releases Packages Activity
No description
1,324,403 commits 117 branches 5,824 tags 6.2 GiB
  • C 96.8%
  • Assembly 0.9%
  • Rust 0.7%
  • Shell 0.6%
  • Python 0.5%
  • Other 0.3%
Find a file
fuqiang wang e746e51947 KVM: x86: Fix VM hard lockup after prolonged inactivity with periodic HV timer 
commit 18ab3fc8e8 upstream.

When advancing the target expiration for the guest's APIC timer in periodic
mode, set the expiration to "now" if the target expiration is in the past
(similar to what is done in update_target_expiration()).  Blindly adding
the period to the previous target expiration can result in KVM generating
a practically unbounded number of hrtimer IRQs due to programming an
expired timer over and over.  In extreme scenarios, e.g. if userspace
pauses/suspends a VM for an extended duration, this can even cause hard
lockups in the host.

Currently, the bug only affects Intel CPUs when using the hypervisor timer
(HV timer), a.k.a. the VMX preemption timer.  Unlike the software timer,
a.k.a. hrtimer, which KVM keeps running even on exits to userspace, the
HV timer only runs while the guest is active.  As a result, if the vCPU
does not run for an extended duration, there will be a huge gap between
the target expiration and the current time the vCPU resumes running.
Because the target expiration is incremented by only one period on each
timer expiration, this leads to a series of timer expirations occurring
rapidly after the vCPU/VM resumes.

More critically, when the vCPU first triggers a periodic HV timer
expiration after resuming, advancing the expiration by only one period
will result in a target expiration in the past.  As a result, the delta
may be calculated as a negative value.  When the delta is converted into
an absolute value (tscdeadline is an unsigned u64), the resulting value
can overflow what the HV timer is capable of programming.  I.e. the large
value will exceed the VMX Preemption Timer's maximum bit width of
cpu_preemption_timer_multi + 32, and thus cause KVM to switch from the
HV timer to the software timer (hrtimers).

After switching to the software timer, periodic timer expiration callbacks
may be executed consecutively within a single clock interrupt handler,
because hrtimers honors KVM's request for an expiration in the past and
immediately re-invokes KVM's callback after reprogramming.  And because
the interrupt handler runs with IRQs disabled, restarting KVM's hrtimer
over and over until the target expiration is advanced to "now" can result
in a hard lockup.

E.g. the following hard lockup was triggered in the host when running a
Windows VM (only relevant because it used the APIC timer in periodic mode)
after resuming the VM from a long suspend (in the host).

  NMI watchdog: Watchdog detected hard LOCKUP on cpu 45
  ...
  RIP: 0010:advance_periodic_target_expiration+0x4d/0x80 [kvm]
  ...
  RSP: 0018:ff4f88f5d98d8ef0 EFLAGS: 00000046
  RAX: fff0103f91be678e RBX: fff0103f91be678e RCX: 00843a7d9e127bcc
  RDX: 0000000000000002 RSI: 0052ca4003697505 RDI: ff440d5bfbdbd500
  RBP: ff440d5956f99200 R08: ff2ff2a42deb6a84 R09: 000000000002a6c0
  R10: 0122d794016332b3 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ff440db1af39cfc0
  R13: ff440db1af39cfc0 R14: ffffffffc0d4a560 R15: ff440db1af39d0f8
  FS:  00007f04a6ffd700(0000) GS:ff440db1af380000(0000) knlGS:000000e38a3b8000
  CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
  CR2: 000000d5651feff8 CR3: 000000684e038002 CR4: 0000000000773ee0
  PKRU: 55555554
  Call Trace:
   <IRQ>
   apic_timer_fn+0x31/0x50 [kvm]
   __hrtimer_run_queues+0x100/0x280
   hrtimer_interrupt+0x100/0x210
   ? ttwu_do_wakeup+0x19/0x160
   smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x6a/0x130
   apic_timer_interrupt+0xf/0x20
   </IRQ>

Moreover, if the suspend duration of the virtual machine is not long enough
to trigger a hard lockup in this scenario, since commit 98c25ead5e
("KVM: VMX: Move preemption timer <=> hrtimer dance to common x86"), KVM
will continue using the software timer until the guest reprograms the APIC
timer in some way.  Since the periodic timer does not require frequent APIC
timer register programming, the guest may continue to use the software
timer in perpetuity.

Fixes: d8f2f498d9 ("x86/kvm: fix LAPIC timer drift when guest uses periodic mode")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: fuqiang wang <fuqiang.wng@gmail.com>
[sean: massage comments and changelog]
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251113205114.1647493-4-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
History 2026-01-08 10:14:22 +01:00
arch KVM: x86: Fix VM hard lockup after prolonged inactivity with periodic HV timer 2026-01-08 10:14:22 +01:00
block block: rate-limit capacity change info log 2026-01-08 10:14:14 +01:00
certs sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2024-09-20 19:52:48 +03:00
crypto crypto: asymmetric_keys - prevent overflow in asymmetric_key_generate_id 2025-12-18 13:54:47 +01:00
Documentation nfsd: rename nfsd_serv_ prefixed methods and variables with nfsd_net_ 2026-01-08 10:14:09 +01:00
drivers parisc: Do not reprogram affinitiy on ASP chip 2026-01-08 10:14:21 +01:00
fs ocfs2: fix kernel BUG in ocfs2_find_victim_chain 2026-01-08 10:14:21 +01:00
include media: v4l2-mem2mem: Fix outdated documentation 2026-01-08 10:14:16 +01:00
init init: handle bootloader identifier in kernel parameters 2025-10-19 16:33:50 +02:00
io_uring io_uring: fix filename leak in __io_openat_prep() 2026-01-08 10:14:13 +01:00
ipc ipc: fix to protect IPCS lookups using RCU 2025-06-27 11:11:22 +01:00
kernel scs: fix a wrong parameter in __scs_magic 2026-01-08 10:14:21 +01:00
lib lib/vsprintf: Check pointer before dereferencing in time_and_date() 2025-12-18 13:54:57 +01:00
LICENSES LICENSES: add 0BSD license text 2024-09-01 20:43:24 -07:00
mm shmem: fix recovery on rename failures 2026-01-08 10:13:54 +01:00
net libceph: make decode_pool() more resilient against corrupted osdmaps 2026-01-08 10:14:21 +01:00
rust rust: kbuild: workaround rustdoc doctests modifier bug 2025-11-24 10:36:07 +01:00
samples samples: work around glibc redefining some of our defines wrong 2025-12-12 18:37:21 +01:00
scripts kbuild: Use objtree for module signing key path 2026-01-08 10:13:56 +01:00
security KEYS: trusted: Fix a memory leak in tpm2_load_cmd 2026-01-08 10:14:13 +01:00
sound ASoC: ak4458: remove the reset operation in probe and remove 2026-01-08 10:14:08 +01:00
tools tools/testing/nvdimm: Use per-DIMM device handle 2026-01-08 10:14:20 +01:00
usr kbuild: uapi: Strip comments before size type check 2025-11-13 15:34:35 -05:00
virt KVM: Disallow toggling KVM_MEM_GUEST_MEMFD on an existing memslot 2026-01-08 10:14:21 +01:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with v6.11-rc1's for_each macro list 2024-08-02 13:20:31 +02:00
.clippy.toml rust: give Clippy the minimum supported Rust version 2025-08-01 09:48:44 +01:00
.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 Add Jeff Kirsher to .get_maintainer.ignore 2024-03-08 11:36:54 +00:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore rust: introduce .clippy.toml 2025-03-13 13:01:42 +01:00
.mailmap mailmap: add entry for Thorsten Blum 2024-11-07 14:14:59 -08:00
.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 MAINTAINERS: Remove self from DSA entry 2024-11-03 12:52:38 -08:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS staging: rtl8712: Remove driver using deprecated API wext 2025-12-07 06:25:02 +09:00
Makefile Linux 6.12.63 2025-12-18 13:55:23 +01:00
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.