Re: [PATCH 2/2] KVM: VMX: fix memory order between loading vmcs andclearing vmcs

From: Marcelo Tosatti
Date: Fri Nov 30 2012 - 15:31:22 EST


On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 08:54:14PM +0800, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
> vmcs->cpu indicates whether it exists on the target cpu, -1 means the vmcs
> does not exist on any vcpu
>
> If vcpu load vmcs with vmcs.cpu = -1, it can be directly added to cpu's percpu
> list. The list can be corrupted if the cpu prefetch the vmcs's list before
> reading vmcs->cpu. Meanwhile, we should remove vmcs from the list before
> making vmcs->vcpu == -1 be visible
>
> Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++
> 1 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

Applied, thanks.

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