From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marc Zyngier Subject: Re: [RFC v2 01/12] KVM: arm/arm64: Set dist->spis to NULL after kfree Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2018 18:10:46 +0100 Message-ID: <26bb42a7-d946-e52c-68e6-eaeaae325983@arm.com> References: <1522159456-10419-1-git-send-email-eric.auger@redhat.com> <1522159456-10419-2-git-send-email-eric.auger@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1522159456-10419-2-git-send-email-eric.auger@redhat.com> Content-Language: en-GB Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Eric Auger , eric.auger.pro@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu, cdall@kernel.org, peter.maydell@linaro.org Cc: andre.przywara@arm.com, drjones@redhat.com, wei@redhat.com List-Id: kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu On 27/03/18 15:04, Eric Auger wrote: > in case kvm_vgic_map_resources() fails, typically if the vgic > distributor is not defined, __kvm_vgic_destroy will be called > several times. Indeed kvm_vgic_map_resources() is called on > first vcpu run. As a result dist->spis is freeed more than once > and on the second time it causes a "kernel BUG at mm/slub.c:3912!" > > Set dist->spis to NULL to avoid the crash. > > Signed-off-by: Eric Auger Fixes: ad275b8bb1e6 ("KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-new: vgic_init: implement vgic_init") Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier M. -- Jazz is not dead. It just smells funny...