On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 05:09:13PM +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> On 23/03/15 15:58, Andre Przywara wrote:
> > In kvm_destroy_vm() we call kvm_io_bus_destroy() pretty early,
> > especially before calling kvm_arch_destroy_vm(). To avoid
> > unregistering devices from the already destroyed bus, let's mark
> > the bus with NULL to let other users know it has been destroyed
> > already.
> > This avoids a crash on a VM shutdown with the VGIC using the
> > kvm_io_bus later (the unregistering is in there to be able to roll
> > back a faulting init).
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@xxxxxxx>
>
> That seems sensible, but I don't see why nobody else hits that. What are
> we doing differently?
>
> Otherwise,
>
> Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx>
>
> Paolo, Marcelo, can we have your Ack on this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> M.
>
> > ---
> > virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 4 +++-
> > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> > index 8c7ab0b..6f164eb 100644
> > --- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> > +++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> > @@ -604,8 +604,10 @@ static void kvm_destroy_vm(struct kvm *kvm)
> > list_del(&kvm->vm_list);
> > spin_unlock(&kvm_lock);
> > kvm_free_irq_routing(kvm);
> > - for (i = 0; i < KVM_NR_BUSES; i++)
> > + for (i = 0; i < KVM_NR_BUSES; i++) {
> > kvm_io_bus_destroy(kvm->buses[i]);
> > + kvm->buses[i] = NULL;
> > + }
> > kvm_coalesced_mmio_free(kvm);
> > #if defined(CONFIG_MMU_NOTIFIER) && defined(KVM_ARCH_WANT_MMU_NOTIFIER)
> > mmu_notifier_unregister(&kvm->mmu_notifier, kvm->mm);
> >
>
>
> --
> Jazz is not dead. It just smells funny...
Reviewed-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@xxxxxxxxxx>
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