Re: [PATCH] KVM/Eventfd: Avoid crash when assign and deassign same eventfd in parallel.

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 18/12/2017 10:08, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> On 18.12.2017 09:50, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> On 18/12/2017 09:30, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>>> The ugly thing in kvm_irqfd_assign() is that we access irqfd without
>>> holding a lock. I think that should rather be fixed than working around
>>> that issue. (e.g. lock() -> lookup again -> verify still in list ->
>>> unlock())
>>
>> I wonder if it's even simpler:
>>
>> diff --git a/virt/kvm/eventfd.c b/virt/kvm/eventfd.c
>> index f2ac53ab8243..17ed298bd66f 100644
>> --- a/virt/kvm/eventfd.c
>> +++ b/virt/kvm/eventfd.c
>> @@ -387,7 +387,6 @@ kvm_irqfd_assign(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_irqfd *args)
>>  
>>  	idx = srcu_read_lock(&kvm->irq_srcu);
>>  	irqfd_update(kvm, irqfd);
>> -	srcu_read_unlock(&kvm->irq_srcu, idx);
>>  
>>  	list_add_tail(&irqfd->list, &kvm->irqfds.items);
>>  
>> @@ -420,10 +419,12 @@ kvm_irqfd_assign(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_irqfd *args)
>>  				irqfd->consumer.token, ret);
>>  	}
>>  #endif
>> +	srcu_read_unlock(&kvm->irq_srcu, idx);
>>  
> 
> Was worried about the poll() call. But if that works, it would be very nice.

Good point.

The poll() call is effectively a callback to irqfd_ptable_queue_proc.
So, after the above change,  rqfd_wakeup takes irq_srcu inside
wqh->lock, while kvm_irqfd_assign would take them in the opposite order.

However, this is a read-side critical section so this doesn't cause a
deadlock directly.  The effect is only that synchronize_srcu would now
wait for wqh->lock to be released.  The opposite, which *would* cause a
deadlock, would be a call to synchronize_srcu while wqh->lock is held.

However, this cannot happen because wqh->lock is a spinlock and
synchronize_srcu, which sleeps, cannot be called at all while wqh->lock
is held.  So I think it's okay.

Thanks,

Paolo

> 
>>  	return 0;
>>  
>>  fail:
>> +	/* irq_srcu is *not* held here.  */
>>  	if (irqfd->resampler)
>>  		irqfd_resampler_shutdown(irqfd);
>>  
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Paolo
>>
> 
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