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

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Message-ID: <aMiRtGJbx9ZHWDbW@google.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2025 22:22:44 +0000
From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...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 Mon, Sep 15, 2025, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 02:03:00PM -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> To clarify you just mean 1/3, yes?

Correct, 2 and 3 aren't urgent.