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KVM: x86/mmu: Ensure NX huge page recovery thread is alive before waking
When waking a VM's NX huge page recovery thread, ensure the thread is actually alive before trying to wake it. Now that the thread is spawned on-demand during KVM_RUN, a VM without a recovery thread is reachable via the related module params. BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000040 #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015 RIP: 0010:vhost_task_wake+0x5/0x10 Call Trace: <TASK> set_nx_huge_pages+0xcc/0x1e0 [kvm] param_attr_store+0x8a/0xd0 module_attr_store+0x1a/0x30 kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x12f/0x1e0 vfs_write+0x233/0x3e0 ksys_write+0x60/0xd0 do_syscall_64+0x5b/0x160 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53 RIP: 0033:0x7f3b52710104 </TASK> Modules linked in: kvm_intel kvm CR2: 0000000000000040 Fixes: 931656b9 ("kvm: defer huge page recovery vhost task to later") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org> Signed-off-by:Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Message-ID: <20250124234623.3609069-1-seanjc@google.com> Signed-off-by:
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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