[PATCH v5 4/5] KVM: irqfd: use kvm_arch_is_virtual_intc_initialized

Christoffer Dall christoffer.dall at linaro.org
Sun Jan 11 13:17:13 PST 2015


On Wed, Dec 03, 2014 at 05:07:11PM +0100, Eric Auger wrote:
> On arm/arm64, the interrupt controller is dynamically instantiated.
> There is a risk the user-space assigns an irqfd before this latter
> is initialized and ready to accept virtual irq injection. On such
> attempt, the IRQFD setup is rejected and -EAGAIN is returned.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger at linaro.org>
> ---
>  virt/kvm/eventfd.c | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/virt/kvm/eventfd.c b/virt/kvm/eventfd.c
> index b0fb390..f837c83 100644
> --- a/virt/kvm/eventfd.c
> +++ b/virt/kvm/eventfd.c
> @@ -314,6 +314,9 @@ kvm_irqfd_assign(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_irqfd *args)
>  	unsigned int events;
>  	int idx;
>  
> +	if (!kvm_arch_is_virtual_intc_initialized(kvm))
> +		return -EAGAIN;
> +

You can fold this into the patch that defines the static inline since
nothing defines the KVM_HAVE_ARCH_... yet.

>  	irqfd = kzalloc(sizeof(*irqfd), GFP_KERNEL);
>  	if (!irqfd)
>  		return -ENOMEM;
> -- 
> 1.9.1
> 



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