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

Christoffer Dall christoffer.dall at linaro.org
Mon Jan 12 08:55:31 PST 2015


On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 02:40:03PM +0100, Eric Auger wrote:
> On 01/11/2015 10:17 PM, Christoffer Dall wrote:
> > 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.
> Not sure to understand what you mean:
> __KVM_HAVE_ARCH_VIRTUAL_INTC_INITIALIZED was defined in previous patch
> file (3/5). Nethertheless I can drop that patch file.
> 
I'm just saying that you don't need to split this into multiple patches.

-Christoffer



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