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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] KVM: Fix race between reboot and hardware enabling
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To:     Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Cc:     kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>,
        Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev>,
        James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>,
        Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>,
        Zenghui Yu <yuzenghui@huawei.com>, kvmarm@lists.linux.dev,
        Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org>,
        Aleksandar Markovic <aleksandar.qemu.devel@gmail.com>,
        Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org>,
        Atish Patra <atishp@atishpatra.org>,
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From:   Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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On 5/13/23 01:31, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> Fix a bug where enabling hardware virtualization can race with a forced
> reboot, e.g. `reboot -f`, and result in virt hardware being enabled when
> the reboot is attempted, and thus hanging the reboot.
> 
> Found by inspection, confirmed by hacking the reboot flow to wait until
> KVM loads (the problematic window is ridiculously small).
> 
> Fully tested only on x86, compile tested on other architectures.
> 
> v2:
>   - Rename KVM's callback to kvm_shutdown() to match the hook. [Marc]
>   - Don't add a spurious newline. [Marc]
> 
> v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230310221414.811690-1-seanjc@google.com
> 
> Sean Christopherson (2):
>    KVM: Use syscore_ops instead of reboot_notifier to hook
>      restart/shutdown
>    KVM: Don't enable hardware after a restart/shutdown is initiated
> 
>   virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
>   1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
> 
> 
> base-commit: b3c98052d46948a8d65d2778c7f306ff38366aac

Queued, thanks.

Paolo