Tested this series of patches with vhost-net regression tests,
everything works fine.

Tested-by: Lei Yang <redacted>

On Tue, Aug 26, 2025 at 8:40 AM Sean Christopherson [off-list ref] wrote:

Fix a bug where KVM attempts to wake a vhost task that has already exited in
response to a fatal signal, and tack on a few cleanups to harden against
introducing similar bugs in the future.

Somehow, this only started causing problems when commit 56180dd20c19 ("futex:
Use RCU-based per-CPU reference counting instead of rcuref_t") landed.  I have
no idea why the futex changes exposed the bug, and I don't care all that much,
as this is firmly a KVM bug.

Sean Christopherson (3):
  vhost_task: KVM: Don't wake KVM x86's recovery thread if vhost task
    was killed
  vhost_task: Allow caller to omit handle_sigkill() callback
  KVM: x86/mmu: Don't register a sigkill callback for NX hugepage
    recovery tasks

 arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c           |  9 ++----
 include/linux/sched/vhost_task.h |  1 +
 kernel/vhost_task.c              | 52 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 3 files changed, 51 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)


base-commit: 1b237f190eb3d36f52dffe07a40b5eb210280e00
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2.51.0.261.g7ce5a0a67e-goog