Re: [PATCH/RFC] KVM: mark vcpu->pid pointer as rcu protected

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On 07/06/2017 03:01 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> 
> 
> On 06/07/2017 14:51, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
>> We do use rcu to protect the pid pointer. Mark it as such and
>> adopt all code to use the proper access methods.
>>
>> This was detected by sparse.
>> "virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:2248:15: error: incompatible types in comparison
>> expression (different address spaces)"
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>  include/linux/kvm_host.h |  2 +-
>>  virt/kvm/kvm_main.c      | 15 +++++++++++----
>>  2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/include/linux/kvm_host.h b/include/linux/kvm_host.h
>> index 0b50e7b..bcd37b8 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/kvm_host.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/kvm_host.h
>> @@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ struct kvm_vcpu {
>>  
>>  	int guest_fpu_loaded, guest_xcr0_loaded;
>>  	struct swait_queue_head wq;
>> -	struct pid *pid;
>> +	struct pid __rcu *pid;
>>  	int sigset_active;
>>  	sigset_t sigset;
>>  	struct kvm_vcpu_stat stat;
>> diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
>> index 19f0ecb..7bd5509 100644
>> --- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
>> +++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
>> @@ -293,7 +293,12 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kvm_vcpu_init);
>>  
>>  void kvm_vcpu_uninit(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>>  {
>> -	put_pid(vcpu->pid);
>> +	/*
>> +	 * no need for rcu_read_lock as VCPU_RUN is the only place that
>> +	 * will change the vcpu->pid pointer and on uninit all file
>> +	 * descriptors are already gone.
>> +	 */
>> +	put_pid(rcu_dereference(vcpu->pid));
>>  	kvm_arch_vcpu_uninit(vcpu);
>>  	free_page((unsigned long)vcpu->run);
>>  }
>> @@ -2551,13 +2556,14 @@ static long kvm_vcpu_ioctl(struct file *filp,
>>  	if (r)
>>  		return r;
>>  	switch (ioctl) {
>> -	case KVM_RUN:
>> +	case KVM_RUN: {
>> +		struct pid *oldpid;
>>  		r = -EINVAL;
>>  		if (arg)
>>  			goto out;
>> -		if (unlikely(vcpu->pid != current->pids[PIDTYPE_PID].pid)) {
>> +		oldpid = rcu_dereference(vcpu->pid);
>> +		if (unlikely(oldpid != current->pids[PIDTYPE_PID].pid)) {
> 
> Since we never dereference oldpid, the rcu_dereference should be
> rcu_access_pointer instead.

Right. Will fix and send a v2.
> 
> Otherwise
> 
> Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
>>  			/* The thread running this VCPU changed. */
>> -			struct pid *oldpid = vcpu->pid;
>>  			struct pid *newpid = get_task_pid(current, PIDTYPE_PID);
>>  
>>  			rcu_assign_pointer(vcpu->pid, newpid);
>> @@ -2568,6 +2574,7 @@ static long kvm_vcpu_ioctl(struct file *filp,
>>  		r = kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run(vcpu, vcpu->run);
>>  		trace_kvm_userspace_exit(vcpu->run->exit_reason, r);
>>  		break;
>> +	}
>>  	case KVM_GET_REGS: {
>>  		struct kvm_regs *kvm_regs;
>>  
>>
> 




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