[PATCH 15/36] KVM: make kvm_unregister_irq_ack_notifier() safe

From: Avi Kivity
Date: Sun Dec 14 2008 - 03:12:58 EST


From: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@xxxxxxxxxx>

We never pass a NULL notifier pointer here, but we may well
pass a notifier struct which hasn't previously been
registered.

Guard against this by using hlist_del_init() which will
not do anything if the node hasn't been added to the list
and, when removing the node, will ensure that a subsequent
call to hlist_del_init() will be fine too.

Fixes an oops seen when an assigned device is freed before
and IRQ is assigned to it.

Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
virt/kvm/irq_comm.c | 4 +---
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/virt/kvm/irq_comm.c b/virt/kvm/irq_comm.c
index 973df99..db75045 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/irq_comm.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/irq_comm.c
@@ -63,9 +63,7 @@ void kvm_register_irq_ack_notifier(struct kvm *kvm,

void kvm_unregister_irq_ack_notifier(struct kvm_irq_ack_notifier *kian)
{
- if (!kian)
- return;
- hlist_del(&kian->link);
+ hlist_del_init(&kian->link);
}

/* The caller must hold kvm->lock mutex */
--
1.6.0.3

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