[PATCH 4/4] KVM: arm/arm64: vgic: Use READ_ONCE fo cmpxchg

Marc Zyngier marc.zyngier at arm.com
Thu Aug 3 08:28:57 PDT 2017


From: Christoffer Dall <cdall at linaro.org>

There is a small chance that the compiler could generate separate loads
for the dist->propbaser which could be modified from another CPU.  As we
want to make sure we atomically update the entire value, and don't race
with other updates, guarantee that the cmpxchg operation compares
against the original value.

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <cdall at linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>
---
 virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-mmio-v3.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-mmio-v3.c b/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-mmio-v3.c
index 714fa3933546..408ef06638fc 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-mmio-v3.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-mmio-v3.c
@@ -369,7 +369,7 @@ static void vgic_mmio_write_propbase(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
 		return;
 
 	do {
-		old_propbaser = dist->propbaser;
+		old_propbaser = READ_ONCE(dist->propbaser);
 		propbaser = old_propbaser;
 		propbaser = update_64bit_reg(propbaser, addr & 4, len, val);
 		propbaser = vgic_sanitise_propbaser(propbaser);
@@ -397,7 +397,7 @@ static void vgic_mmio_write_pendbase(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
 		return;
 
 	do {
-		old_pendbaser = vgic_cpu->pendbaser;
+		old_pendbaser = READ_ONCE(vgic_cpu->pendbaser);
 		pendbaser = old_pendbaser;
 		pendbaser = update_64bit_reg(pendbaser, addr & 4, len, val);
 		pendbaser = vgic_sanitise_pendbaser(pendbaser);
-- 
2.11.0




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