This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
KVM: Always flush async #PF workqueue when vCPU is being destroyed
to the 6.6-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:
kvm-always-flush-async-pf-workqueue-when-vcpu-is-bei.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.6 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 081dc95179b16dec6ecd71a09b68f12727cc5f23
Author: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue Jan 9 17:15:30 2024 -0800
KVM: Always flush async #PF workqueue when vCPU is being destroyed
[ Upstream commit 3d75b8aa5c29058a512db29da7cbee8052724157 ]
Always flush the per-vCPU async #PF workqueue when a vCPU is clearing its
completion queue, e.g. when a VM and all its vCPUs is being destroyed.
KVM must ensure that none of its workqueue callbacks is running when the
last reference to the KVM _module_ is put. Gifting a reference to the
associated VM prevents the workqueue callback from dereferencing freed
vCPU/VM memory, but does not prevent the KVM module from being unloaded
before the callback completes.
Drop the misguided VM refcount gifting, as calling kvm_put_kvm() from
async_pf_execute() if kvm_put_kvm() flushes the async #PF workqueue will
result in deadlock. async_pf_execute() can't return until kvm_put_kvm()
finishes, and kvm_put_kvm() can't return until async_pf_execute() finishes:
WARNING: CPU: 8 PID: 251 at virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:1435 kvm_put_kvm+0x2d/0x320 [kvm]
Modules linked in: vhost_net vhost vhost_iotlb tap kvm_intel kvm irqbypass
CPU: 8 PID: 251 Comm: kworker/8:1 Tainted: G W 6.6.0-rc1-e7af8d17224a-x86/gmem-vm #119
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015
Workqueue: events async_pf_execute [kvm]
RIP: 0010:kvm_put_kvm+0x2d/0x320 [kvm]
Call Trace:
<TASK>
async_pf_execute+0x198/0x260 [kvm]
process_one_work+0x145/0x2d0
worker_thread+0x27e/0x3a0
kthread+0xba/0xe0
ret_from_fork+0x2d/0x50
ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20
</TASK>
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
INFO: task kworker/8:1:251 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
Tainted: G W 6.6.0-rc1-e7af8d17224a-x86/gmem-vm #119
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
task:kworker/8:1 state:D stack:0 pid:251 ppid:2 flags:0x00004000
Workqueue: events async_pf_execute [kvm]
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__schedule+0x33f/0xa40
schedule+0x53/0xc0
schedule_timeout+0x12a/0x140
__wait_for_common+0x8d/0x1d0
__flush_work.isra.0+0x19f/0x2c0
kvm_clear_async_pf_completion_queue+0x129/0x190 [kvm]
kvm_arch_destroy_vm+0x78/0x1b0 [kvm]
kvm_put_kvm+0x1c1/0x320 [kvm]
async_pf_execute+0x198/0x260 [kvm]
process_one_work+0x145/0x2d0
worker_thread+0x27e/0x3a0
kthread+0xba/0xe0
ret_from_fork+0x2d/0x50
ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20
</TASK>
If kvm_clear_async_pf_completion_queue() actually flushes the workqueue,
then there's no need to gift async_pf_execute() a reference because all
invocations of async_pf_execute() will be forced to complete before the
vCPU and its VM are destroyed/freed. And that in turn fixes the module
unloading bug as __fput() won't do module_put() on the last vCPU reference
until the vCPU has been freed, e.g. if closing the vCPU file also puts the
last reference to the KVM module.
Note that kvm_check_async_pf_completion() may also take the work item off
the completion queue and so also needs to flush the work queue, as the
work will not be seen by kvm_clear_async_pf_completion_queue(). Waiting
on the workqueue could theoretically delay a vCPU due to waiting for the
work to complete, but that's a very, very small chance, and likely a very
small delay. kvm_arch_async_page_present_queued() unconditionally makes a
new request, i.e. will effectively delay entering the guest, so the
remaining work is really just:
trace_kvm_async_pf_completed(addr, cr2_or_gpa);
__kvm_vcpu_wake_up(vcpu);
mmput(mm);
and mmput() can't drop the last reference to the page tables if the vCPU is
still alive, i.e. the vCPU won't get stuck tearing down page tables.
Add a helper to do the flushing, specifically to deal with "wakeup all"
work items, as they aren't actually work items, i.e. are never placed in a
workqueue. Trying to flush a bogus workqueue entry rightly makes
__flush_work() complain (kudos to whoever added that sanity check).
Note, commit 5f6de5cbebee ("KVM: Prevent module exit until all VMs are
freed") *tried* to fix the module refcounting issue by having VMs grab a
reference to the module, but that only made the bug slightly harder to hit
as it gave async_pf_execute() a bit more time to complete before the KVM
module could be unloaded.
Fixes: af585b921e5d ("KVM: Halt vcpu if page it tries to access is swapped out")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: David Matlack <dmatlack@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Xu Yilun <yilun.xu@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240110011533.503302-2-seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/virt/kvm/async_pf.c b/virt/kvm/async_pf.c
index e033c79d528e0..28658b9e0d968 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/async_pf.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/async_pf.c
@@ -87,7 +87,27 @@ static void async_pf_execute(struct work_struct *work)
__kvm_vcpu_wake_up(vcpu);
mmput(mm);
- kvm_put_kvm(vcpu->kvm);
+}
+
+static void kvm_flush_and_free_async_pf_work(struct kvm_async_pf *work)
+{
+ /*
+ * The async #PF is "done", but KVM must wait for the work item itself,
+ * i.e. async_pf_execute(), to run to completion. If KVM is a module,
+ * KVM must ensure *no* code owned by the KVM (the module) can be run
+ * after the last call to module_put(). Note, flushing the work item
+ * is always required when the item is taken off the completion queue.
+ * E.g. even if the vCPU handles the item in the "normal" path, the VM
+ * could be terminated before async_pf_execute() completes.
+ *
+ * Wake all events skip the queue and go straight done, i.e. don't
+ * need to be flushed (but sanity check that the work wasn't queued).
+ */
+ if (work->wakeup_all)
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(work->work.func);
+ else
+ flush_work(&work->work);
+ kmem_cache_free(async_pf_cache, work);
}
void kvm_clear_async_pf_completion_queue(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
@@ -114,7 +134,6 @@ void kvm_clear_async_pf_completion_queue(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
#else
if (cancel_work_sync(&work->work)) {
mmput(work->mm);
- kvm_put_kvm(vcpu->kvm); /* == work->vcpu->kvm */
kmem_cache_free(async_pf_cache, work);
}
#endif
@@ -126,7 +145,10 @@ void kvm_clear_async_pf_completion_queue(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
list_first_entry(&vcpu->async_pf.done,
typeof(*work), link);
list_del(&work->link);
- kmem_cache_free(async_pf_cache, work);
+
+ spin_unlock(&vcpu->async_pf.lock);
+ kvm_flush_and_free_async_pf_work(work);
+ spin_lock(&vcpu->async_pf.lock);
}
spin_unlock(&vcpu->async_pf.lock);
@@ -151,7 +173,7 @@ void kvm_check_async_pf_completion(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
list_del(&work->queue);
vcpu->async_pf.queued--;
- kmem_cache_free(async_pf_cache, work);
+ kvm_flush_and_free_async_pf_work(work);
}
}
@@ -186,7 +208,6 @@ bool kvm_setup_async_pf(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gpa_t cr2_or_gpa,
work->arch = *arch;
work->mm = current->mm;
mmget(work->mm);
- kvm_get_kvm(work->vcpu->kvm);
INIT_WORK(&work->work, async_pf_execute);
