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Commit 42dcbe7d authored by Vitaly Kuznetsov's avatar Vitaly Kuznetsov Committed by Paolo Bonzini
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KVM: x86: hyper-v: Avoid writing to TSC page without an active vCPU



The following WARN is triggered from kvm_vm_ioctl_set_clock():
 WARNING: CPU: 10 PID: 579353 at arch/x86/kvm/../../../virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:3161 mark_page_dirty_in_slot+0x6c/0x80 [kvm]
 ...
 CPU: 10 PID: 579353 Comm: qemu-system-x86 Tainted: G        W  O      5.16.0.stable #20
 Hardware name: LENOVO 20UF001CUS/20UF001CUS, BIOS R1CET65W(1.34 ) 06/17/2021
 RIP: 0010:mark_page_dirty_in_slot+0x6c/0x80 [kvm]
 ...
 Call Trace:
  <TASK>
  ? kvm_write_guest+0x114/0x120 [kvm]
  kvm_hv_invalidate_tsc_page+0x9e/0xf0 [kvm]
  kvm_arch_vm_ioctl+0xa26/0xc50 [kvm]
  ? schedule+0x4e/0xc0
  ? __cond_resched+0x1a/0x50
  ? futex_wait+0x166/0x250
  ? __send_signal+0x1f1/0x3d0
  kvm_vm_ioctl+0x747/0xda0 [kvm]
  ...

The WARN was introduced by commit 03c0304a86bc ("KVM: Warn if
mark_page_dirty() is called without an active vCPU") but the change seems
to be correct (unlike Hyper-V TSC page update mechanism). In fact, there's
no real need to actually write to guest memory to invalidate TSC page, this
can be done by the first vCPU which goes through kvm_guest_time_update().

Reported-by: default avatarMaxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@redhat.com>
Reported-by: default avatarNaresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@linaro.org>
Suggested-by: default avatarSean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarVitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20220407201013.963226-1-vkuznets@redhat.com>
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