Re: [PATCH 1/1] s390/vfio-ap: fix circular lockdep when setting/clearing crypto masks

[Halil Pasic]

On Wed, 10 Feb 2021 16:24:29 +0100
Halil Pasic <pasic@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Maybe you could
> > - grab a reference to kvm while holding the lock
> > - call the mask handling functions with that kvm reference
> > - lock again, drop the reference, and do the rest of the processing?  
> 
> I agree, matrix_mdev->kvm can go NULL any time and we are risking
> a null pointer dereference here.
> 
> Another idea would be to do
> 
> 
> static void vfio_ap_mdev_unset_kvm(struct ap_matrix_mdev *matrix_mdev)           
> {                                                                               
>         struct kvm *kvm;
>                                                         
>         mutex_lock(&matrix_dev->lock);                                          
>         if (matrix_mdev->kvm) {                                                 
>                 kvm = matrix_mdev->kvm;                                         
>                 matrix_mdev->kvm = NULL;                                        
>                 mutex_unlock(&matrix_dev->lock);                                
>                 kvm_arch_crypto_clear_masks(kvm);                               
>                 mutex_lock(&matrix_dev->lock);                                  
>                 matrix_mdev->kvm->arch.crypto.pqap_hook = NULL;
s/matrix_mdev->kvm/kvm
>                 vfio_ap_mdev_reset_queues(matrix_mdev->mdev);                   
>                 kvm_put_kvm(kvm);                                               
>         }                                                                       
>         mutex_unlock(&matrix_dev->lock);                                         
> }
> 
> That way only one unset would actually do the unset and cleanup
> and every other invocation would bail out with only checking
> matrix_mdev->kvm.

But the problem with that is that we enable the the assign/unassign
prematurely, which could interfere wit reset_queues(). Forget about
it.