Hi Christoffer,

On 07/03/2018 11:26 PM, Christoffer Dall wrote:
> The vgic_init function can race with kvm_arch_vcpu_create() which does
> not hold kvm_lock() and we therefore have no synchronization primitives
> to ensure we're doing the right thing.
> 
> As the user is trying to initialize or run the VM while at the same time
> creating more VCPUs, we just have to refuse to initialize the VGIC in
> this case rather than silently failing with a broken VCPU.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Eric Auger <[email protected]>

Thanks

Eric
> ---
>  virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-init.c | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-init.c b/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-init.c
> index 9406eaf..c0c0b88 100644
> --- a/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-init.c
> +++ b/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-init.c
> @@ -286,6 +286,10 @@ int vgic_init(struct kvm *kvm)
>         if (vgic_initialized(kvm))
>                 return 0;
> 
> +       /* Are we also in the middle of creating a VCPU? */
> +       if (kvm->created_vcpus != atomic_read(&kvm->online_vcpus))
> +               return -EBUSY;
> +
>         /* freeze the number of spis */
>         if (!dist->nr_spis)
>                 dist->nr_spis = VGIC_NR_IRQS_LEGACY - VGIC_NR_PRIVATE_IRQS;
> --
> 2.7.4
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