[PATCH v5 04/20] KVM: arm/arm64: Guard kvm_vgic_map_is_active against !vgic_initialized
Andre Przywara
andre.przywara at arm.com
Thu Nov 16 04:29:48 PST 2017
Hi,
On 27/10/17 09:34, Christoffer Dall wrote:
> If the vgic is not initialized, don't try to grab its spinlocks or
> traverse its data structures.
>
> This is important because we soon have to start considering the active
> state of a virtual interrupts when doing vcpu_load, which may happen
> early on before the vgic is initialized.
I understand this patch is on its way to Linus already, but I just found
this by browsing for VGIC changes...
> Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <cdall at linaro.org>
> Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>
> ---
> virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic.c | 3 +++
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic.c b/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic.c
> index fed717e..e1f7dbc 100644
> --- a/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic.c
> +++ b/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic.c
> @@ -777,6 +777,9 @@ bool kvm_vgic_map_is_active(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, unsigned int virt_irq)
> struct vgic_irq *irq = vgic_get_irq(vcpu->kvm, vcpu, virt_irq);
Isn't vgic_get_irq() already accessing VGIC data structures? In which
case this assignment should be moved after the vgic_initialized() check
below?
Cheers,
Andre.
> bool map_is_active;
>
> + if (!vgic_initialized(vcpu->kvm))
> + return false;
> +
> spin_lock(&irq->irq_lock);
> map_is_active = irq->hw && irq->active;
> spin_unlock(&irq->irq_lock);
>
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