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| author | Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> | 2025-01-24 15:46:23 -0800 | 
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| committer | Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> | 2025-02-04 11:28:21 -0500 | 
| commit | 43fb96ae78551d7bfa4ecca956b258f085d67c40 (patch) | |
| tree | dd25e2b2f3680be3e7743479b3f5caa748b10ec5 /scripts/lib/kdoc/kdoc_files.py | |
| parent | 6f61269495260531e15d84d090ee63618110c470 (diff) | |
KVM: x86/mmu: Ensure NX huge page recovery thread is alive before waking
When waking a VM's NX huge page recovery thread, ensure the thread is
actually alive before trying to wake it.  Now that the thread is spawned
on-demand during KVM_RUN, a VM without a recovery thread is reachable via
the related module params.
  BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000040
  #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
  #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015
  RIP: 0010:vhost_task_wake+0x5/0x10
  Call Trace:
   <TASK>
   set_nx_huge_pages+0xcc/0x1e0 [kvm]
   param_attr_store+0x8a/0xd0
   module_attr_store+0x1a/0x30
   kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x12f/0x1e0
   vfs_write+0x233/0x3e0
   ksys_write+0x60/0xd0
   do_syscall_64+0x5b/0x160
   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53
  RIP: 0033:0x7f3b52710104
   </TASK>
  Modules linked in: kvm_intel kvm
  CR2: 0000000000000040
Fixes: 931656b9e2ff ("kvm: defer huge page recovery vhost task to later")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Message-ID: <20250124234623.3609069-1-seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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