This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled entry/kvm: Exit to user mode when TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL is set to the 5.18-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: entry-kvm-exit-to-user-mode-when-tif_notify_signal-i.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.18 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 2464e2253fce3d174d78d95e6266a72659ab8476 Author: Seth Forshee <sforshee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed May 4 13:08:40 2022 -0500 entry/kvm: Exit to user mode when TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL is set [ Upstream commit 3e684903a8574ffc9475fdf13c4780a7adb506ad ] A livepatch transition may stall indefinitely when a kvm vCPU is heavily loaded. To the host, the vCPU task is a user thread which is spending a very long time in the ioctl(KVM_RUN) syscall. During livepatch transition, set_notify_signal() will be called on such tasks to interrupt the syscall so that the task can be transitioned. This interrupts guest execution, but when xfer_to_guest_mode_work() sees that TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL is set but not TIF_SIGPENDING it concludes that an exit to user mode is unnecessary, and guest execution is resumed without transitioning the task for the livepatch. This handling of TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL is incorrect, as set_notify_signal() is expected to break tasks out of interruptible kernel loops and cause them to return to userspace. Change xfer_to_guest_mode_work() to handle TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL the same as TIF_SIGPENDING, signaling to the vCPU run loop that an exit to userpsace is needed. Any pending task_work will be run when get_signal() is called from exit_to_user_mode_loop(), so there is no longer any need to run task work from xfer_to_guest_mode_work(). Suggested-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee <sforshee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Message-Id: <20220504180840.2907296-1-sforshee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/kernel/entry/kvm.c b/kernel/entry/kvm.c index 9d09f489b60e..2e0f75bcb7fd 100644 --- a/kernel/entry/kvm.c +++ b/kernel/entry/kvm.c @@ -9,12 +9,6 @@ static int xfer_to_guest_mode_work(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, unsigned long ti_work) int ret; if (ti_work & (_TIF_SIGPENDING | _TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL)) { - clear_notify_signal(); - if (task_work_pending(current)) - task_work_run(); - } - - if (ti_work & _TIF_SIGPENDING) { kvm_handle_signal_exit(vcpu); return -EINTR; }