Re: [PATCH v5 12/19] KVM: Move memslot deletion to helper function

[Sean Christopherson]

On Fri, Feb 07, 2020 at 09:59:12AM -0800, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 06, 2020 at 11:51:16AM -0500, Peter Xu wrote:
> > /*
> >  * Make a full copy of the old memslot, the pointer will become stale
> >  * when the memslots are re-sorted by update_memslots() in
> >  * kvm_delete_memslot(), while to make the kvm_free_memslot() work as
> >  * expected later on, we still need the cached memory slot.
> >  */
> 
> As above, it's more subtle than just the kvm_delete_memslot() case.
> 
> 	/*
> 	 * Make a full copy of the old memslot, the pointer will become stale
> 	 * when the memslots are re-sorted by update_memslots() when deleting
> 	 * or moving a memslot, and additional modifications to the old memslot
> 	 * need to be made after calling update_memslots().
> 	 */

Actually, that's not quite correct, as the same is true for all memslot
updates, and we still query @old after update_memslots() for CREATE and
FLAGS.  This is better.

        /*
         * Make a full copy of the old memslot, the pointer will become stale
         * when the memslots are re-sorted by update_memslots(), and the old
	 * memslot needs to be referenced after calling update_memslots(), e.g.
	 * to free its resources and for arch specific behavior.
         */