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authorSean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>2019-10-21 15:58:42 -0700
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2019-10-22 15:48:30 +0200
commit149487bdacde32f5a9a344a49533ae0772fb9db7 (patch)
tree949c708fd963e3edb6191a6a5b6aa275392c3b0f /virt
parentc90992bfb0804907402ab175b25b8a37cc3c31f2 (diff)
KVM: Add separate helper for putting borrowed reference to kvm
Add a new helper, kvm_put_kvm_no_destroy(), to handle putting a borrowed reference[*] to the VM when installing a new file descriptor fails. KVM expects the refcount to remain valid in this case, as the in-progress ioctl() has an explicit reference to the VM. The primary motiviation for the helper is to document that the 'kvm' pointer is still valid after putting the borrowed reference, e.g. to document that doing mutex(&kvm->lock) immediately after putting a ref to kvm isn't broken. [*] When exposing a new object to userspace via a file descriptor, e.g. a new vcpu, KVM grabs a reference to itself (the VM) prior to making the object visible to userspace to avoid prematurely freeing the VM in the scenario where userspace immediately closes file descriptor. Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'virt')
-rw-r--r--virt/kvm/kvm_main.c16
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
index 67ef3f2e19e8..b8534c6b8cf6 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -772,6 +772,18 @@ void kvm_put_kvm(struct kvm *kvm)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kvm_put_kvm);
+/*
+ * Used to put a reference that was taken on behalf of an object associated
+ * with a user-visible file descriptor, e.g. a vcpu or device, if installation
+ * of the new file descriptor fails and the reference cannot be transferred to
+ * its final owner. In such cases, the caller is still actively using @kvm and
+ * will fail miserably if the refcount unexpectedly hits zero.
+ */
+void kvm_put_kvm_no_destroy(struct kvm *kvm)
+{
+ WARN_ON(refcount_dec_and_test(&kvm->users_count));
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kvm_put_kvm_no_destroy);
static int kvm_vm_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
{
@@ -2679,7 +2691,7 @@ static int kvm_vm_ioctl_create_vcpu(struct kvm *kvm, u32 id)
kvm_get_kvm(kvm);
r = create_vcpu_fd(vcpu);
if (r < 0) {
- kvm_put_kvm(kvm);
+ kvm_put_kvm_no_destroy(kvm);
goto unlock_vcpu_destroy;
}
@@ -3117,7 +3129,7 @@ static int kvm_ioctl_create_device(struct kvm *kvm,
kvm_get_kvm(kvm);
ret = anon_inode_getfd(ops->name, &kvm_device_fops, dev, O_RDWR | O_CLOEXEC);
if (ret < 0) {
- kvm_put_kvm(kvm);
+ kvm_put_kvm_no_destroy(kvm);
mutex_lock(&kvm->lock);
list_del(&dev->vm_node);
mutex_unlock(&kvm->lock);