Re: [PATCH 2/2] KVM: fix placement of refcount initialization

From: Jim Mattson
Date: Tue Nov 12 2019 - 13:50:41 EST


On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 5:25 AM Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Reported by syzkaller:
>
> =============================
> WARNING: suspicious RCU usage
> -----------------------------
> ./include/linux/kvm_host.h:536 suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage!
>
> other info that might help us debug this:
>
> rcu_scheduler_active = 2, debug_locks = 1
> no locks held by repro_11/12688.
>
> stack backtrace:
> Call Trace:
> dump_stack+0x7d/0xc5
> lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0x123/0x170
> kvm_dev_ioctl+0x9a9/0x1260 [kvm]
> do_vfs_ioctl+0x1a1/0xfb0
> ksys_ioctl+0x6d/0x80
> __x64_sys_ioctl+0x73/0xb0
> do_syscall_64+0x108/0xaa0
> entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe
>
> Commit a97b0e773e4 (kvm: call kvm_arch_destroy_vm if vm creation fails)
> sets users_count to 1 before kvm_arch_init_vm(), however, if kvm_arch_init_vm()
> fails, we need to decrease this count. By moving it earlier, we can push
> the decrease to out_err_no_arch_destroy_vm without introducing yet another
> error label.
>
> syzkaller source: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/repro.c?x=15209b84e00000
>
> Reported-by: syzbot+75475908cd0910f141ee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Fixes: a97b0e773e49 ("kvm: call kvm_arch_destroy_vm if vm creation fails")
> Cc: Jim Mattson <jmattson@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Analyzed-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@xxxxxxxxxx>