[PATCH 12/58] KVM: arm/arm64: use vcpu requests for power_off

Marc Zyngier marc.zyngier at arm.com
Fri Jun 30 01:44:28 PDT 2017


From: Andrew Jones <drjones at redhat.com>

System shutdown is currently using request-less VCPU kicks. This
leaves open a tiny race window, as it doesn't ensure the state
change to power_off is seen by a VCPU just about to enter guest
mode. VCPU requests, OTOH, are guaranteed to be seen (see "Ensuring
Requests Are Seen" of Documentation/virtual/kvm/vcpu-requests.rst)
This patch applies the EXIT request used by pause to power_off,
fixing the race.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Jones <drjones at redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall <cdall at linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <cdall at linaro.org>
---
 virt/kvm/arm/psci.c | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/virt/kvm/arm/psci.c b/virt/kvm/arm/psci.c
index f68be2cc6256..f189d0ad30d5 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/arm/psci.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/arm/psci.c
@@ -179,10 +179,9 @@ static void kvm_prepare_system_event(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u32 type)
 	 * after this call is handled and before the VCPUs have been
 	 * re-initialized.
 	 */
-	kvm_for_each_vcpu(i, tmp, vcpu->kvm) {
+	kvm_for_each_vcpu(i, tmp, vcpu->kvm)
 		tmp->arch.power_off = true;
-		kvm_vcpu_kick(tmp);
-	}
+	kvm_make_all_cpus_request(vcpu->kvm, KVM_REQ_VCPU_EXIT);
 
 	memset(&vcpu->run->system_event, 0, sizeof(vcpu->run->system_event));
 	vcpu->run->system_event.type = type;
-- 
2.11.0




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