[PATCH] KVM: arm/arm64: vgic: Fix deadlock on error handling

From: Marc Zyngier
Date: Thu Jan 12 2017 - 04:21:56 EST


Dmitry Vyukov reported that the syzkaller fuzzer triggered a
deadlock in the vgic setup code when an error was detected, as
the cleanup code tries to take a lock that is already held by
the setup code.

The fix is pretty obvious: move the cleaup call after having
dropped the lock, since not much can happen at that point.

Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx>
---
virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-init.c | 4 ++++
virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-v2.c | 2 --
virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-v3.c | 2 --
3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-init.c b/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-init.c
index 5114391..0e0c295 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-init.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-init.c
@@ -350,6 +350,10 @@ int kvm_vgic_map_resources(struct kvm *kvm)
ret = vgic_v3_map_resources(kvm);
out:
mutex_unlock(&kvm->lock);
+
+ if (ret)
+ kvm_vgic_destroy(kvm);
+
return ret;
}

diff --git a/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-v2.c b/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-v2.c
index 9bab867..834137e 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-v2.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-v2.c
@@ -293,8 +293,6 @@ int vgic_v2_map_resources(struct kvm *kvm)
dist->ready = true;

out:
- if (ret)
- kvm_vgic_destroy(kvm);
return ret;
}

diff --git a/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-v3.c b/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-v3.c
index 7df1b90..a4c7fff 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-v3.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-v3.c
@@ -308,8 +308,6 @@ int vgic_v3_map_resources(struct kvm *kvm)
dist->ready = true;

out:
- if (ret)
- kvm_vgic_destroy(kvm);
return ret;
}

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2.1.4


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