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KVM: x86: Unload MMUs during vCPU destruction, not before
When destroying a VM, unload a vCPU's MMUs as part of normal vCPU freeing,
instead of as a separate prepratory action. Unloading MMUs ahead of time
is a holdover from commit 7b53aa5 ("KVM: Fix vcpu freeing for guest
smp"), which "fixed" a rather egregious flaw where KVM would attempt to
free *all* MMU pages when destroying a vCPU.
At the time, KVM would spin on all MMU pages in a VM when free a single
vCPU, and so would hang due to the way KVM pins and zaps root pages
(roots are invalidated but not freed if they are pinned by a vCPU).
static void free_mmu_pages(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
{
struct kvm_mmu_page *page;
while (!list_empty(&vcpu->kvm->active_mmu_pages)) {
page = container_of(vcpu->kvm->active_mmu_pages.next,
struct kvm_mmu_page, link);
kvm_mmu_zap_page(vcpu->kvm, page);
}
free_page((unsigned long)vcpu->mmu.pae_root);
}
Now that KVM doesn't try to free all MMU pages when destroying a single
vCPU, there's no need to unpin roots prior to destroying a vCPU.
Note! While KVM mostly destroys all MMUs before calling
kvm_arch_destroy_vm() (see commit f00be0c ("KVM: MMU: do not free
active mmu pages in free_mmu_pages()")), unpinning MMU roots during vCPU
destruction will unfortunately trigger remote TLB flushes, i.e. will try
to send requests to all vCPUs.
Happily, thanks to commit 27592ae ("KVM: Move wiping of the kvm->vcpus
array to common code"), that's a non-issue as freed vCPUs are naturally
skipped by xa_for_each_range(), i.e. by kvm_for_each_vcpu(). Prior to that
commit, KVM x86 rather stupidly freed vCPUs one-by-one, and _then_
nullified them, one-by-one. I.e. triggering a VM-wide request would hit a
use-after-free.
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Message-ID: <20250224235542.2562848-6-seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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