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Commit 6826c684 authored by Oliver Upton's avatar Oliver Upton Committed by Marc Zyngier
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KVM: arm64: Handle PSCI resets before userspace touches vCPU state

The CPU_ON PSCI call takes a payload that KVM uses to configure a
destination vCPU to run. This payload is non-architectural state and not
exposed through any existing UAPI. Effectively, we have a race between
CPU_ON and userspace saving/restoring a guest: if the target vCPU isn't
ran again before the VMM saves its state, the requested PC and context
ID are lost. When restored, the target vCPU will be runnable and start
executing at its old PC.

We can avoid this race by making sure the reset payload is serviced
before userspace can access a vCPU's state.

Fixes: 358b28f0

 ("arm/arm64: KVM: Allow a VCPU to fully reset itself")
Signed-off-by: default avatarOliver Upton <oupton@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMarc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210818202133.1106786-3-oupton@google.com
parent 6654f9df
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