David Matlack 40d790e0e7 KVM: Introduce vcpu->wants_to_run ...

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Introduce vcpu->wants_to_run to indicate when a vCPU is in its core run
loop, i.e. when the vCPU is running the KVM_RUN ioctl and immediate_exit
was not set.

Replace all references to vcpu->run->immediate_exit with
!vcpu->wants_to_run to avoid TOCTOU races with userspace. For example, a
malicious userspace could invoked KVM_RUN with immediate_exit=true and
then after KVM reads it to set wants_to_run=false, flip it to false.
This would result in the vCPU running in KVM_RUN with
wants_to_run=false. This wouldn't cause any real bugs today but is a
dangerous landmine.

Signed-off-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240503181734.1467938-2-dmatlack@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Stable-dep-of: e800decd9c ("KVM: x86: Only reset TSC Deadline Timer in apic_timer_expired on KVM_RUN")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

2026-08-03 11:15:40 +02:00

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