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Reject hardware enabling, i.e. VM creation, if a restart/shutdown has
been initiated to avoid re-enabling hardware between kvm_reboot() and
machine_{halt,power_off,restart}(). The restart case is especially
problematic (for x86) as enabling VMX (or clearing GIF in KVM_RUN on
SVM) blocks INIT, which results in the restart/reboot hanging as BIOS
is unable to wake and rendezvous with APs.
Note, this bug, and the original issue that motivated the addition of
kvm_reboot(), is effectively limited to a forced reboot, e.g. `reboot -f`.
In a "normal" reboot, userspace will gracefully teardown userspace before
triggering the kernel reboot (modulo bugs, errors, etc), i.e. any process
that might do ioctl(KVM_CREATE_VM) is long gone.
Fixes: 8e1c18157d87 ("KVM: VMX: Disable VMX when system shutdown")
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Message-Id: <20230512233127.804012-3-seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Linux kernel
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several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.