When the vgic initializes its internal state it does so based on the number of VCPUs available at the time. If we allow KVM to create more VCPUs after the VGIC has been initialized, we are likely to error out in unfortunate ways later, perform buffer overflows etc. Cc: Eric Auger <eric.auger@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@xxxxxxxxxx> --- This replaces Eric Auger's previous patch (https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/pipermail/kvmarm/2014-December/012646.html), because it fits better with testing to include it in this series and I realized that we need to add a check against irqchip_in_kernel() as well. arch/arm/kvm/arm.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/arm/kvm/arm.c b/arch/arm/kvm/arm.c index a9d005f..d4da244 100644 --- a/arch/arm/kvm/arm.c +++ b/arch/arm/kvm/arm.c @@ -213,6 +213,11 @@ struct kvm_vcpu *kvm_arch_vcpu_create(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned int id) int err; struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu; + if (irqchip_in_kernel(kvm) && vgic_initialized(kvm)) { + err = -EBUSY; + goto out; + } + vcpu = kmem_cache_zalloc(kvm_vcpu_cache, GFP_KERNEL); if (!vcpu) { err = -ENOMEM; -- 2.1.2.330.g565301e.dirty -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html