From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marc Zyngier Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] arm/arm64: KVM: Don't allow creating VCPUs after vgic_initialized Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 18:30:23 +0000 Message-ID: <5489E2BF.4030205@arm.com> References: <1418139844-27892-1-git-send-email-christoffer.dall@linaro.org> <1418139844-27892-5-git-send-email-christoffer.dall@linaro.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "kvm@vger.kernel.org" To: Christoffer Dall , "kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu" , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" Return-path: Received: from foss-mx-na.foss.arm.com ([217.140.108.86]:48451 "EHLO foss-mx-na.foss.arm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756673AbaLKSab (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Dec 2014 13:30:31 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1418139844-27892-5-git-send-email-christoffer.dall@linaro.org> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 09/12/14 15:44, Christoffer Dall wrote: > When the vgic initializes its internal state it does so based on the > number of VCPUs available at the time. If we allow KVM to create more > VCPUs after the VGIC has been initialized, we are likely to error out in > unfortunate ways later, perform buffer overflows etc. > > Cc: Eric Auger > Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall > --- > This replaces Eric Auger's previous patch > (https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/pipermail/kvmarm/2014-December/012646.html), > because it fits better with testing to include it in this series and I > realized that we need to add a check against irqchip_in_kernel() as > well. > > arch/arm/kvm/arm.c | 5 +++++ > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/arch/arm/kvm/arm.c b/arch/arm/kvm/arm.c > index a9d005f..d4da244 100644 > --- a/arch/arm/kvm/arm.c > +++ b/arch/arm/kvm/arm.c > @@ -213,6 +213,11 @@ struct kvm_vcpu *kvm_arch_vcpu_create(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned int id) > int err; > struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu; > > + if (irqchip_in_kernel(kvm) && vgic_initialized(kvm)) { > + err = -EBUSY; > + goto out; > + } > + > vcpu = kmem_cache_zalloc(kvm_vcpu_cache, GFP_KERNEL); > if (!vcpu) { > err = -ENOMEM; > Acked-by: Marc Zyngier M. -- Jazz is not dead. It just smells funny...