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Commit 42dcbe7d authored by Vitaly Kuznetsov's avatar Vitaly Kuznetsov Committed by Paolo Bonzini
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KVM: x86: hyper-v: Avoid writing to TSC page without an active vCPU

The following WARN is triggered from kvm_vm_ioctl_set_clock():
 WARNING: CPU: 10 PID: 579353 at arch/x86/kvm/../../../virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:3161 mark_page_dirty_in_slot+0x6c/0x80 [kvm]
 ...
 CPU: 10 PID: 579353 Comm: qemu-system-x86 Tainted: G        W  O      5.16.0.stable #20
 Hardware name: LENOVO 20UF001CUS/20UF001CUS, BIOS R1CET65W(1.34 ) 06/17/2021
 RIP: 0010:mark_page_dirty_in_slot+0x6c/0x80 [kvm]
 ...
 Call Trace:
  <TASK>
  ? kvm_write_guest+0x114/0x120 [kvm]
  kvm_hv_invalidate_tsc_page+0x9e/0xf0 [kvm]
  kvm_arch_vm_ioctl+0xa26/0xc50 [kvm]
  ? schedule+0x4e/0xc0
  ? __cond_resched+0x1a/0x50
  ? futex_wait+0x166/0x250
  ? __send_signal+0x1f1/0x3d0
  kvm_vm_ioctl+0x747/0xda0 [kvm]
  ...

The WARN was introduced by commit 03c0304a86bc ("KVM: Warn if
mark_page_dirty() is called without an active vCPU") but the change seems
to be correct (unlike Hyper-V TSC page update mechanism). In fact, there's
no real need to actually write to gues...
parent c538dc79
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