Re: [KVM PATCH v9 0/5] irqfd fixes and enhancements

[Avi Kivity]

On 07/02/2009 06:50 PM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 07/02/2009 06:37 PM, Gregory Haskins wrote:
> > (Applies to kvm.git/master:1f9050fd)
> >
> > The following is the latest attempt to fix the races in 
> > irqfd/eventfd, as
> > well as restore DEASSIGN support.  For more details, please read the 
> > patch
> > headers.
> >
> > As always, this series has been tested against the kvm-eventfd unit test
> > and everything appears to be functioning properly. You can download this
> > test here:
>
> Applied, thanks.

... and unapplied.  There's a refcounting mismatch in irqfd_cleanup: a 
reference is taken for each irqfd, but dropped for each guest.  This 
causes an oops if a guest with no irqfds is created and destroyed:

IP: [<ffffffff8105254a>] flush_workqueue+0x23/0x6e
PGD 0
Oops: 0000 [4] SMP
CPU 1
Modules linked in: kvm_intel kvm nfs lockd nfs_acl sco bridge stp bnep 
l2cap bluetooth autofs4 sunrpc ipv6 dm_multipath uinput i5000_edac 
e1000e edac_core iTCO_wdt
 iTCO_vendor_support i2c_i801 i2c_core e100 mii floppy pcspkr shpchp 
serio_raw ata_generic pata_acpi [last unloaded: kvm]
Pid: 2088, comm: qemu Tainted: G      D   2.6.27.19-170.2.35.fc10.x86_64 
#1 TYAN Transport GT20-B5372
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8105254a>]  [<ffffffff8105254a>] 
flush_workqueue+0x23/0x6e
RSP: 0018:ffff8801077d1b08  EFLAGS: 00010292
RAX: ffffffff8156de08 RBX: ffff8801097e8a50 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 000000000000019f RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffff8801077d1b28 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffffffff81140027
R10: ffff88012f402340 R11: ffff880125daf820 R12: ffffffff8156de10
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff88012f449cd8 R15: ffff88012f002900
FS:  00007f9b67295950(0000) GS:ffff88012fc04980(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 002b ES: 002b CR0: 000000008005003b
CR2: 0000000000000020 CR3: 0000000000201000 CR4: 00000000000026e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Process qemu (pid: 2088, threadinfo ffff8801077d0000, task ffff88012984c530)
Stack:  ffff8801077d1b28 ffff8801097e8a50 ffff8801097e8000 ffff8801097e8a68
 ffff8801077d1b58 ffffffffa01c4eec 0000000800000000 ffff8801097e8000
 ffff88012f449cd8 ffff88012c80c600 ffff8801077d1b78 ffffffffa01af34b
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffffa01c4eec>] kvm_irqfd_release+0x7a/0xcc [kvm]
 [<ffffffffa01af34b>] kvm_vm_release+0x18/0x27 [kvm]
 [<ffffffff810c14c7>] __fput+0xca/0x16d
 [<ffffffff810c157f>] fput+0x15/0x17
 [<ffffffff810bea29>] filp_close+0x67/0x72
 [<ffffffff810433ec>] put_files_struct+0x74/0xc8
 [<ffffffff81043488>] exit_files+0x48/0x51
 [<ffffffff81044de9>] do_exit+0x26a/0x8a0
 [<ffffffffa01da330>] ? vmx_vcpu_put+0x9/0xb [kvm_intel]
 [<ffffffff810454a1>] do_group_exit+0x82/0xaf
 [<ffffffff8104eabb>] get_signal_to_deliver+0x2b0/0x2dc
 [<ffffffff81010379>] ? sysret_signal+0x42/0x71
 [<ffffffff8100f45f>] do_notify_resume+0x90/0x93f
 [<ffffffff81060cca>] ? do_futex+0x90/0x973
 [<ffffffffa01ad956>] ? kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x470/0x485 [kvm]
 [<ffffffff81333801>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0x3a/0x3c
 [<ffffffff810616a2>] ? sys_futex+0xf5/0x113
 [<ffffffff81010379>] ? sysret_signal+0x42/0x71
 [<ffffffff81010737>] ptregscall_common+0x67/0xb0

irqfd_cleanup.wq has never been initialized, but is destroyed.

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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