KVM: protect concurrent make_all_cpus_request
authorMarcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:53:47 +0000 (10:53 -0300)
committerAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Sun, 28 Jun 2009 11:10:29 +0000 (14:10 +0300)
make_all_cpus_request contains a race condition which can
trigger false request completed status, as follows:

CPU0                                              CPU1

if (test_and_set_bit(req,&vcpu->requests))
   ....                                            if (test_and_set_bit(req,&vcpu->requests))
   ..                                                  return
proceed to smp_call_function_many(wait=1)

Use a spinlock to serialize concurrent CPUs.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
include/linux/kvm_host.h
virt/kvm/kvm_main.c

index aacc544..16713dc 100644 (file)
@@ -125,6 +125,7 @@ struct kvm_kernel_irq_routing_entry {
 struct kvm {
        struct mutex lock; /* protects the vcpus array and APIC accesses */
        spinlock_t mmu_lock;
+       spinlock_t requests_lock;
        struct rw_semaphore slots_lock;
        struct mm_struct *mm; /* userspace tied to this vm */
        int nmemslots;
index 013a5b3..2884baf 100644 (file)
@@ -746,6 +746,7 @@ static bool make_all_cpus_request(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned int req)
                cpumask_clear(cpus);
 
        me = get_cpu();
+       spin_lock(&kvm->requests_lock);
        for (i = 0; i < KVM_MAX_VCPUS; ++i) {
                vcpu = kvm->vcpus[i];
                if (!vcpu)
@@ -762,6 +763,7 @@ static bool make_all_cpus_request(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned int req)
                smp_call_function_many(cpus, ack_flush, NULL, 1);
        else
                called = false;
+       spin_unlock(&kvm->requests_lock);
        put_cpu();
        free_cpumask_var(cpus);
        return called;
@@ -982,6 +984,7 @@ static struct kvm *kvm_create_vm(void)
        kvm->mm = current->mm;
        atomic_inc(&kvm->mm->mm_count);
        spin_lock_init(&kvm->mmu_lock);
+       spin_lock_init(&kvm->requests_lock);
        kvm_io_bus_init(&kvm->pio_bus);
        mutex_init(&kvm->lock);
        kvm_io_bus_init(&kvm->mmio_bus);