From: "Radim Krčmář" <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
To: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: pbonzini@redhat.com, Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>,
David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, syzkaller@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kvm: fix usage of uninit spinlock in avic_vm_destroy()
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2017 21:38:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170314203800.GB14790@potion> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170124130648.75935-1-dvyukov@google.com>
2017-01-24 14:06+0100, Dmitry Vyukov:
> If avic is not enabled, avic_vm_init() does nothing and returns early.
> However, avic_vm_destroy() still tries to destroy what hasn't been created.
> The only bad consequence of this now is that avic_vm_destroy() uses
> svm_vm_data_hash_lock that hasn't been initialized (and is not meant
> to be used at all if avic is not enabled).
>
> Return early from avic_vm_destroy() if avic is not enabled.
> It has nothing to destroy.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
> Cc: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> Cc: "Radim Krčmář" <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
> Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: syzkaller@googlegroups.com
> ---
svm_vm_data_hash_lock is initialized unconditionally now, so I've queued
it for 4.12,
Thanks.
> arch/x86/kvm/svm.c | 3 +++
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
> index 08a4d3ab3455..3aecaa13fd22 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
> @@ -1382,6 +1382,9 @@ static void avic_vm_destroy(struct kvm *kvm)
> unsigned long flags;
> struct kvm_arch *vm_data = &kvm->arch;
>
> + if (!avic)
> + return;
> +
> avic_free_vm_id(vm_data->avic_vm_id);
>
> if (vm_data->avic_logical_id_table_page)
> --
> 2.11.0.483.g087da7b7c-goog
>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-14 20:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-24 13:06 [PATCH] kvm: fix usage of uninit spinlock in avic_vm_destroy() Dmitry Vyukov
2017-01-24 21:23 ` David Hildenbrand
2017-03-14 20:38 ` Radim Krčmář [this message]
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