From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Srivatsa S. Bhat" Subject: [RFC PATCH 08/10] KVM: VMX: fix memory order between loading vmcs and clearing vmcs Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2012 14:25:51 +0530 Message-ID: <20121204085547.25919.79009.stgit@srivatsabhat.in.ibm.com> References: <20121204085149.25919.29920.stgit@srivatsabhat.in.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20121204085149.25919.29920.stgit@srivatsabhat.in.ibm.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: tglx@linutronix.de, peterz@infradead.org, paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, rusty@rustcorp.com.au, mingo@kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, namhyung@kernel.org, vincent.guittot@linaro.org Cc: sbw@mit.edu, tj@kernel.org, amit.kucheria@linaro.org, rostedt@goodmis.org, rjw@sisk.pl, srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com, wangyun@linux.vnet.ibm.com, xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com, nikunj@linux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org From: Xiao Guangrong vmcs->cpu indicates whether it exists on the target cpu, -1 means the vmcs does not exist on any vcpu If vcpu load vmcs with vmcs.cpu = -1, it can be directly added to cpu's percpu list. The list can be corrupted if the cpu prefetch the vmcs's list before reading vmcs->cpu. Meanwhile, we should remove vmcs from the list before making vmcs->vcpu == -1 be visible Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat --- arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c index 9dc562a..95e502b 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c @@ -1002,6 +1002,15 @@ static void __loaded_vmcs_clear(void *arg) if (per_cpu(current_vmcs, cpu) == loaded_vmcs->vmcs) per_cpu(current_vmcs, cpu) = NULL; list_del(&loaded_vmcs->loaded_vmcss_on_cpu_link); + + /* + * we should ensure updating loaded_vmcs->loaded_vmcss_on_cpu_link + * is before setting loaded_vmcs->vcpu to -1 which is done in + * loaded_vmcs_init. Otherwise, other cpu can see vcpu = -1 fist + * then adds the vmcs into percpu list before it is deleted. + */ + smp_wmb(); + loaded_vmcs_init(loaded_vmcs); } @@ -1537,6 +1546,14 @@ static void vmx_vcpu_load(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int cpu) kvm_make_request(KVM_REQ_TLB_FLUSH, vcpu); local_irq_disable(); + + /* + * Read loaded_vmcs->cpu should be before fetching + * loaded_vmcs->loaded_vmcss_on_cpu_link. + * See the comments in __loaded_vmcs_clear(). + */ + smp_rmb(); + list_add(&vmx->loaded_vmcs->loaded_vmcss_on_cpu_link, &per_cpu(loaded_vmcss_on_cpu, cpu)); local_irq_enable();