[PATCH 4/4] KVM: x86: clean/fix memory barriers in irqchip_in_kernel

From: Paolo Bonzini
Date: Wed Jul 29 2015 - 09:29:17 EST


The memory barriers are trying to protect against concurrent RCU-based
interrupt injection, but the IRQ routing table is not valid at the time
kvm->arch.vpic is written. Fix this by writing kvm->arch.vpic last.
kvm_destroy_pic then need not set kvm->arch.vpic to NULL; modify it
to take a struct kvm_pic* and reuse it if the IOAPIC creation fails.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kvm/i8259.c | 15 +++++----------
arch/x86/kvm/irq.h | 8 ++++----
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 17 ++++++-----------
3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/i8259.c b/arch/x86/kvm/i8259.c
index fef922ff2635..7cc2360f1848 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/i8259.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/i8259.c
@@ -651,15 +651,10 @@ fail_unlock:
return NULL;
}

-void kvm_destroy_pic(struct kvm *kvm)
+void kvm_destroy_pic(struct kvm_pic *vpic)
{
- struct kvm_pic *vpic = kvm->arch.vpic;
-
- if (vpic) {
- kvm_io_bus_unregister_dev(kvm, KVM_PIO_BUS, &vpic->dev_master);
- kvm_io_bus_unregister_dev(kvm, KVM_PIO_BUS, &vpic->dev_slave);
- kvm_io_bus_unregister_dev(kvm, KVM_PIO_BUS, &vpic->dev_eclr);
- kvm->arch.vpic = NULL;
- kfree(vpic);
- }
+ kvm_io_bus_unregister_dev(vpic->kvm, KVM_PIO_BUS, &vpic->dev_master);
+ kvm_io_bus_unregister_dev(vpic->kvm, KVM_PIO_BUS, &vpic->dev_slave);
+ kvm_io_bus_unregister_dev(vpic->kvm, KVM_PIO_BUS, &vpic->dev_eclr);
+ kfree(vpic);
}
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/irq.h b/arch/x86/kvm/irq.h
index ad68c73008c5..3d782a2c336a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/irq.h
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/irq.h
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ struct kvm_pic {
};

struct kvm_pic *kvm_create_pic(struct kvm *kvm);
-void kvm_destroy_pic(struct kvm *kvm);
+void kvm_destroy_pic(struct kvm_pic *vpic);
int kvm_pic_read_irq(struct kvm *kvm);
void kvm_pic_update_irq(struct kvm_pic *s);

@@ -85,11 +85,11 @@ static inline struct kvm_pic *pic_irqchip(struct kvm *kvm)

static inline int irqchip_in_kernel(struct kvm *kvm)
{
- int ret;
+ struct kvm_pic *vpic = pic_irqchip(kvm);

- ret = (pic_irqchip(kvm) != NULL);
+ /* Read vpic before kvm->irq_routing. */
smp_rmb();
- return ret;
+ return vpic != NULL;
}

void kvm_pic_reset(struct kvm_kpic_state *s);
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index 2d62229aac26..23e47a0b054b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -3626,30 +3626,25 @@ long kvm_arch_vm_ioctl(struct file *filp,
r = kvm_ioapic_init(kvm);
if (r) {
mutex_lock(&kvm->slots_lock);
- kvm_io_bus_unregister_dev(kvm, KVM_PIO_BUS,
- &vpic->dev_master);
- kvm_io_bus_unregister_dev(kvm, KVM_PIO_BUS,
- &vpic->dev_slave);
- kvm_io_bus_unregister_dev(kvm, KVM_PIO_BUS,
- &vpic->dev_eclr);
+ kvm_destroy_pic(vpic);
mutex_unlock(&kvm->slots_lock);
- kfree(vpic);
goto create_irqchip_unlock;
}
} else
goto create_irqchip_unlock;
- smp_wmb();
- kvm->arch.vpic = vpic;
- smp_wmb();
r = kvm_setup_default_irq_routing(kvm);
if (r) {
mutex_lock(&kvm->slots_lock);
mutex_lock(&kvm->irq_lock);
kvm_ioapic_destroy(kvm);
- kvm_destroy_pic(kvm);
+ kvm_destroy_pic(vpic);
mutex_unlock(&kvm->irq_lock);
mutex_unlock(&kvm->slots_lock);
+ goto create_irqchip_unlock;
}
+ /* Write kvm->irq_routing before kvm->arch.vpic. */
+ smp_wmb();
+ kvm->arch.vpic = vpic;
create_irqchip_unlock:
mutex_unlock(&kvm->lock);
break;
--
1.8.3.1

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