we access the memslots array via srcu. Mark it as such and use the right access functions also for the freeing of memory slots. Found by sparse: ./include/linux/kvm_host.h:565:16: error: incompatible types in comparison expression (different address spaces) Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx> --- v1->v2: use rcu_dereference_protected instead of rcu_access_pointer include/linux/kvm_host.h | 2 +- virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 6 ++++-- 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/kvm_host.h b/include/linux/kvm_host.h index bcd37b8..7c32905 100644 --- a/include/linux/kvm_host.h +++ b/include/linux/kvm_host.h @@ -390,7 +390,7 @@ struct kvm { spinlock_t mmu_lock; struct mutex slots_lock; struct mm_struct *mm; /* userspace tied to this vm */ - struct kvm_memslots *memslots[KVM_ADDRESS_SPACE_NUM]; + struct kvm_memslots __rcu *memslots[KVM_ADDRESS_SPACE_NUM]; struct kvm_vcpu *vcpus[KVM_MAX_VCPUS]; /* diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c index fc2d583..e3e6fec 100644 --- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c +++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c @@ -707,7 +707,8 @@ static struct kvm *kvm_create_vm(unsigned long type) for (i = 0; i < KVM_NR_BUSES; i++) kfree(kvm->buses[i]); for (i = 0; i < KVM_ADDRESS_SPACE_NUM; i++) - kvm_free_memslots(kvm, kvm->memslots[i]); + kvm_free_memslots(kvm, + rcu_dereference_protected(kvm->memslots[i], 1)); kvm_arch_free_vm(kvm); mmdrop(current->mm); return ERR_PTR(r); @@ -753,7 +754,8 @@ static void kvm_destroy_vm(struct kvm *kvm) kvm_arch_destroy_vm(kvm); kvm_destroy_devices(kvm); for (i = 0; i < KVM_ADDRESS_SPACE_NUM; i++) - kvm_free_memslots(kvm, kvm->memslots[i]); + kvm_free_memslots(kvm, + rcu_dereference_protected(kvm->memslots[i], 1)); cleanup_srcu_struct(&kvm->irq_srcu); cleanup_srcu_struct(&kvm->srcu); kvm_arch_free_vm(kvm); -- 2.7.4