Changes since v4 (Sean): - Add Reviewed-by: tag to PATCHes 3 and 5. - Drop unneeded 'vcpu' initialization from PATCH4. - Return -ENOMEM from kvm_init() when cpumask allocation fails and drop unnecessary braces (PATCH 7). - Drop cpumask_available() check from kvm_kick_many_cpus() and convert kvm_make_vcpu_request()'s parameter from 'cpumask_var_t' to 'struct cpumask *' (PATCH 8) This series is a continuation to Sean's "[PATCH 0/2] VM: Fix a benign race in kicking vCPUs" work and v2 for my "KVM: Optimize kvm_make_vcpus_request_mask() a bit"/"KVM: x86: Fix stack-out-of-bounds memory access from ioapic_write_indirect()" patchset. >From Sean: "Fix benign races when kicking vCPUs where the task doing the kicking can consume a stale vcpu->cpu. The races are benign because of the impliciations of task migration with respect to interrupts and being in guest mode, but IMO they're worth fixing if only as an excuse to document the flows. Patch 2 is a tangentially related cleanup to prevent future me from trying to get rid of the NULL check on the cpumask parameters, which _looks_ like it can't ever be NULL, but has a subtle edge case due to the way CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK=y handles cpumasks." Patch3 is a preparation to untangling kvm_make_all_cpus_request_except() and kvm_make_vcpus_request_mask(). Patch4 is a minor optimization for kvm_make_vcpus_request_mask() for big guests. Patch5 is a minor cleanup. Patch6 fixes a real problem with ioapic_write_indirect() KVM does out-of-bounds access to stack memory. Patches7 and 8 get rid of dynamic cpumask allocation for kicking vCPUs. Sean Christopherson (2): KVM: Clean up benign vcpu->cpu data races when kicking vCPUs KVM: KVM: Use cpumask_available() to check for NULL cpumask when kicking vCPUs Vitaly Kuznetsov (6): KVM: x86: hyper-v: Avoid calling kvm_make_vcpus_request_mask() with vcpu_mask==NULL KVM: Optimize kvm_make_vcpus_request_mask() a bit KVM: Drop 'except' parameter from kvm_make_vcpus_request_mask() KVM: x86: Fix stack-out-of-bounds memory access from ioapic_write_indirect() KVM: Pre-allocate cpumasks for kvm_make_all_cpus_request_except() KVM: Make kvm_make_vcpus_request_mask() use pre-allocated cpu_kick_mask arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 1 - arch/x86/kvm/hyperv.c | 18 ++--- arch/x86/kvm/ioapic.c | 10 +-- arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 8 +-- include/linux/kvm_host.h | 3 +- virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------- 6 files changed, 101 insertions(+), 54 deletions(-) -- 2.31.1