[PATCH v2 1/3] KVM: Don't create VM debugfs files outside of the VM directory
Oliver Upton
oupton at google.com
Wed Apr 6 10:59:02 PDT 2022
On Wed, Apr 06, 2022 at 08:10:00AM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> Hi Oliver,
>
> On Mon, 04 Apr 2022 19:21:17 +0100,
> Oliver Upton <oupton at google.com> wrote:
> >
> > Unfortunately, there is no guarantee that KVM was able to instantiate a
> > debugfs directory for a particular VM. To that end, KVM shouldn't even
> > attempt to create new debugfs files in this case. If the specified
> > parent dentry is NULL, debugfs_create_file() will instantiate files at
> > the root of debugfs.
> >
> > For arm64, it is possible to create the vgic-state file outside of a
> > VM directory, the file is not cleaned up when a VM is destroyed.
> > Nonetheless, the corresponding struct kvm is freed when the VM is
> > destroyed.
> >
> > Nip the problem in the bud for all possible errant debugfs file
> > creations by initializing kvm->debugfs_dentry to -ENOENT. In so doing,
> > debugfs_create_file() will fail instead of creating the file in the root
> > directory.
> >
> > Cc: stable at kernel.org
> > Fixes: 929f45e32499 ("kvm: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions")
> > Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton <oupton at google.com>
> > ---
> > virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 10 ++++++++--
> > 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> > index 70e05af5ebea..04a426e65cb8 100644
> > --- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> > +++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> > @@ -932,7 +932,7 @@ static void kvm_destroy_vm_debugfs(struct kvm *kvm)
> > int kvm_debugfs_num_entries = kvm_vm_stats_header.num_desc +
> > kvm_vcpu_stats_header.num_desc;
> >
> > - if (!kvm->debugfs_dentry)
> > + if (!IS_ERR(kvm->debugfs_dentry))
> > return;
>
> Shouldn't this condition be inverted? It certainly looks odd.
Err... Yep, this is plain wrong. Let me fix this obvious mistake.
--
Thanks,
Oliver
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