linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] vhost_task: Fix a bug where KVM wakes an exited task

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Message-ID: <aMh_BCLJqVKe-w7-@google.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2025 14:03:00 -0700
From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>, 
	Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org, virtualization@...ts.linux.dev, 
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] vhost_task: Fix a bug where KVM wakes an exited task

On Wed, Aug 27, 2025, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> Michael,
> 
> Do you want to take this through the vhost tree?  It technically fixes a KVM
> bug, but this obviously touches far more vhost code than KVM code, and the
> patch that needs to go into 6.17 doesn't touch KVM at all.

Can this be squeezed into 6.17?  I know it's very late in the cycle, and that the
KVM bug is pre-existing, but the increased impact of the bug is new in 6.17 and I
don't want 6.17 to release without a fix.