[PATCH v3 2/4] KVM: arm64: Avoid lock inversion when setting the VM register width

Oliver Upton oliver.upton at linux.dev
Mon Mar 27 09:47:45 PDT 2023


kvm->lock must be taken outside of the vcpu->mutex. Of course, the
locking documentation for KVM makes this abundantly clear. Nonetheless,
the locking order in KVM/arm64 has been wrong for quite a while; we
acquire the kvm->lock while holding the vcpu->mutex all over the shop.

All was seemingly fine until commit 42a90008f890 ("KVM: Ensure lockdep
knows about kvm->lock vs. vcpu->mutex ordering rule") caught us with our
pants down, leading to lockdep barfing:

 ======================================================
 WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected
 6.2.0-rc7+ #19 Not tainted
 ------------------------------------------------------
 qemu-system-aar/859 is trying to acquire lock:
 ffff5aa69269eba0 (&host_kvm->lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: kvm_reset_vcpu+0x34/0x274

 but task is already holding lock:
 ffff5aa68768c0b8 (&vcpu->mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x8c/0xba0

 which lock already depends on the new lock.

Add a dedicated lock to serialize writes to VM-scoped configuration from
the context of a vCPU. Protect the register width flags with the new
lock, thus avoiding the need to grab the kvm->lock while holding
vcpu->mutex in kvm_reset_vcpu().

Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton at arm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/kvmarm/f6452cdd-65ff-34b8-bab0-5c06416da5f6@arm.com/
Tested-by: Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton at arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton at linux.dev>
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h |  3 +++
 arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c              | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 arch/arm64/kvm/reset.c            |  6 +++---
 3 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
index 917586237a4d..cd1ef8716719 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
@@ -199,6 +199,9 @@ struct kvm_arch {
 	/* Mandated version of PSCI */
 	u32 psci_version;
 
+	/* Protects VM-scoped configuration data */
+	struct mutex config_lock;
+
 	/*
 	 * If we encounter a data abort without valid instruction syndrome
 	 * information, report this to user space.  User space can (and
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c
index 647798da8c41..1620ec3d95ef 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c
@@ -128,6 +128,16 @@ int kvm_arch_init_vm(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned long type)
 {
 	int ret;
 
+	mutex_init(&kvm->arch.config_lock);
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_LOCKDEP
+	/* Clue in lockdep that the config_lock must be taken inside kvm->lock */
+	mutex_lock(&kvm->lock);
+	mutex_lock(&kvm->arch.config_lock);
+	mutex_unlock(&kvm->arch.config_lock);
+	mutex_unlock(&kvm->lock);
+#endif
+
 	ret = kvm_share_hyp(kvm, kvm + 1);
 	if (ret)
 		return ret;
@@ -328,6 +338,14 @@ int kvm_arch_vcpu_create(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 
 	spin_lock_init(&vcpu->arch.mp_state_lock);
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_LOCKDEP
+	/* Inform lockdep that the config_lock is acquired after vcpu->mutex */
+	mutex_lock(&vcpu->mutex);
+	mutex_lock(&vcpu->kvm->arch.config_lock);
+	mutex_unlock(&vcpu->kvm->arch.config_lock);
+	mutex_unlock(&vcpu->mutex);
+#endif
+
 	/* Force users to call KVM_ARM_VCPU_INIT */
 	vcpu->arch.target = -1;
 	bitmap_zero(vcpu->arch.features, KVM_VCPU_MAX_FEATURES);
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/reset.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/reset.c
index 9e023546bde0..b5dee8e57e77 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/reset.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/reset.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ static int kvm_set_vm_width(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 
 	is32bit = vcpu_has_feature(vcpu, KVM_ARM_VCPU_EL1_32BIT);
 
-	lockdep_assert_held(&kvm->lock);
+	lockdep_assert_held(&kvm->arch.config_lock);
 
 	if (test_bit(KVM_ARCH_FLAG_REG_WIDTH_CONFIGURED, &kvm->arch.flags)) {
 		/*
@@ -262,9 +262,9 @@ int kvm_reset_vcpu(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 	bool loaded;
 	u32 pstate;
 
-	mutex_lock(&vcpu->kvm->lock);
+	mutex_lock(&vcpu->kvm->arch.config_lock);
 	ret = kvm_set_vm_width(vcpu);
-	mutex_unlock(&vcpu->kvm->lock);
+	mutex_unlock(&vcpu->kvm->arch.config_lock);
 
 	if (ret)
 		return ret;
-- 
2.40.0.348.gf938b09366-goog




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