From: Rusty Russell Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 07:08:21 +0000 (+1000) Subject: KVM: Fix unlikely kvm_create vs decache_vcpus_on_cpu race X-Git-Tag: kvm-32~2 X-Git-Url: https://www.infradead.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e8c2eb98b58dd135b14d87e6dd1d621bc630d919;p=users%2Fdwmw2%2Flinux.git KVM: Fix unlikely kvm_create vs decache_vcpus_on_cpu race We add the kvm to the vm_list before initializing the vcpu mutexes, which can be mutex_trylock()'ed by decache_vcpus_on_cpu(). Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity --- diff --git a/drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c b/drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c index e7c9ca75eb0a2..84037d62c2b96 100644 --- a/drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c +++ b/drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c @@ -302,9 +302,6 @@ static struct kvm *kvm_create_vm(void) kvm_io_bus_init(&kvm->pio_bus); spin_lock_init(&kvm->lock); INIT_LIST_HEAD(&kvm->active_mmu_pages); - spin_lock(&kvm_lock); - list_add(&kvm->vm_list, &vm_list); - spin_unlock(&kvm_lock); kvm_io_bus_init(&kvm->mmio_bus); for (i = 0; i < KVM_MAX_VCPUS; ++i) { struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu = &kvm->vcpus[i]; @@ -314,6 +311,9 @@ static struct kvm *kvm_create_vm(void) vcpu->kvm = kvm; vcpu->mmu.root_hpa = INVALID_PAGE; } + spin_lock(&kvm_lock); + list_add(&kvm->vm_list, &vm_list); + spin_unlock(&kvm_lock); return kvm; }