From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rusty Russell Subject: [PATCH] Fix unlikely kvm_create vs decache_vcpus_on_cpu race Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:08:21 +1000 Message-ID: <1185174501.6344.138.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: kvm-devel Return-path: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Errors-To: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org We add the kvm to the vm_list before initializing the vcpu mutexes, which can be mutex_trylock()'ed by decache_vcpus_on_cpu(). Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell diff -r b0134ad0aebe drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c --- a/drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c Thu Jul 19 16:37:12 2007 +1000 +++ b/drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c Thu Jul 19 16:42:26 2007 +1000 @@ -310,9 +310,6 @@ static struct kvm *kvm_create_vm(void) kvm_io_bus_init(&kvm->pio_bus); spin_lock_init(&kvm->lock); INIT_LIST_HEAD(&kvm->active_mmu_pages); - spin_lock(&kvm_lock); - list_add(&kvm->vm_list, &vm_list); - spin_unlock(&kvm_lock); kvm_io_bus_init(&kvm->mmio_bus); for (i = 0; i < KVM_MAX_VCPUS; ++i) { struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu = &kvm->vcpus[i]; @@ -322,6 +319,9 @@ static struct kvm *kvm_create_vm(void) vcpu->kvm = kvm; vcpu->mmu.root_hpa = INVALID_PAGE; } + spin_lock(&kvm_lock); + list_add(&kvm->vm_list, &vm_list); + spin_unlock(&kvm_lock); return kvm; } ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/