Anatol Belski 2d2931a76e virtio-devices: vmm: Signal NEEDS_RESET on activation failure ...

When the guest writes DRIVER_OK and the device fails to activate, the
VMM previously bubbled the error up via VirtioActivate and never
released the activation barrier, leaving the vCPU that wrote DRIVER_OK
blocked on the barrier and effectively deadlocking the guest.

Per virtio 1.3 section 2.1.2, a device that has experienced an error
it cannot recover from should set DEVICE_NEEDS_RESET in its status and
notify the driver via a configuration change interrupt. Do that on
activation failure through the existing mark_device_needs_reset
helper, then release the activation barrier so the vCPU can resume.

DeviceManager::activate_virtio_devices now logs and continues instead
of aborting the whole pending list, so one failing device does not
take down the VMM or block pause and migration. The activator has
already reported the failure with the device id.

Signed-off-by: Anatol Belski <anbelski@linux.microsoft.com>

2026-06-02 14:49:32 +01:00

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src

virtio-devices: vmm: Signal NEEDS_RESET on activation failure

2026-06-02 14:49:32 +01:00

build.rs

build: Add "fuzzing" as a valid cfg(..) attribute

2024-05-08 08:10:28 +00:00

Cargo.toml

virtio-devices: Add set_notifier() method to VirtioInterrupt

2026-03-18 09:25:27 +00:00