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From: Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav@linux.ibm.com>
To: leixiang <leixiang@kylinos.cn>
Cc: seanjc@google.com, pbonzini@redhat.com, stable@vger.kernel.org,
	leixiang <leixiang@kylinos.cn>,
	Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>,
	Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>,
	Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
	"Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)" <chleroy@kernel.org>,
	Suresh Warrier <warrier@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Set irqfd->producer only on success
Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2026 13:09:42 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87se5stxvl.fsf@vajain21.in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260709055755.31297-1-leixiang@kylinos.cn>

Hi leixiang,

Thanks for catching and fixing this for kvm-hv:

leixiang <leixiang@kylinos.cn> writes:

> Set irqfd->producer only after kvmppc_set_passthru_irq() succeeds to
> avoid leaving a dangling pointer on failure. The bypass manager does
> not register a failed producer, so the pointer is never cleared.
>
> Fixes: c57875f5f9be ("KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Enable IRQ bypass")
> Suggested-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: leixiang <leixiang@kylinos.cn>
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c
> index 61dbeea317f3..ff7b25629125 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c
> @@ -6111,12 +6111,12 @@ static int kvmppc_irq_bypass_add_producer_hv(struct irq_bypass_consumer *cons,
>  	struct kvm_kernel_irqfd *irqfd =
>  		container_of(cons, struct kvm_kernel_irqfd, consumer);
>  
> -	irqfd->producer = prod;
> -
>  	ret = kvmppc_set_passthru_irq(irqfd->kvm, prod->irq, irqfd->gsi);
>  	if (ret)
>  		pr_info("kvmppc_set_passthru_irq (irq %d, gsi %d) fails: %d\n",
>  			prod->irq, irqfd->gsi, ret);
> +	else
> +		irqfd->producer = prod;
>  
>  	return ret;
>  }
> -- 
> 2.45.0
>

Proposed new error handling path looks better compared to v1 of the
patch. Also agree to the changes made.


Hence,

Reviewed-by: Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav@linux.ibm.com>

-- 
Cheers
~ Vaibhav

  reply	other threads:[~2026-07-09  7:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-06-22  7:51 [PATCH] KVM: Nullify irqfd->producer when add_producer() fails leixiang
2026-07-08 16:40 ` Sean Christopherson
2026-07-09  5:45   ` leixiang
2026-07-09  5:57   ` [PATCH] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Set irqfd->producer only on success leixiang
2026-07-09  7:39     ` Vaibhav Jain [this message]
2026-07-09  9:39     ` Amit Machhiwal

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