Re: [PATCH] KVM: Initialize kvm before registering the mmu notifier

[Avi Kivity]

On 06/03/2011 11:04 PM, Mike Waychison wrote:
> It doesn't make sense to ever see a half-initialized kvm structure on
> mmu notifier callbacks.  Previously, 85722cda changed the ordering to
> ensure that the mmu_lock was initialized before mmu notifier
> registration, but there is still a race where the mmu notifier could
> come in and try accessing other portions of struct kvm before they are
> intialized.
>
> Solve this by moving the mmu notifier registration to occur after the
> structure is completely initialized.

Thanks, applied, and queued for 3.0.

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