From: Madhuparna Bhowmik <madhuparnabhowmik10@xxxxxxxxx> This patch fixes the following warning and other usage of RCU list in eventfd.c [29179.937976][T75781] WARNING: suspicious RCU usage [29179.942789][T75781] 5.7.0-rc3-next-20200429 #1 Tainted: G O L [29179.949752][T75781] ----------------------------- [29179.954498][T75781] arch/x86/kvm/../../../virt/kvm/eventfd.c:472 RCU-list traversed in non-reader section!! Pass srcu_read_lock_held() as cond to list_for_each_entry_rcu(). Reported-by: Qian Cai <cai@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Madhuparna Bhowmik <madhuparnabhowmik10@xxxxxxxxx> --- virt/kvm/eventfd.c | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/virt/kvm/eventfd.c b/virt/kvm/eventfd.c index 67b6fc153e9c..a23787693127 100644 --- a/virt/kvm/eventfd.c +++ b/virt/kvm/eventfd.c @@ -77,7 +77,8 @@ irqfd_resampler_ack(struct kvm_irq_ack_notifier *kian) idx = srcu_read_lock(&kvm->irq_srcu); - list_for_each_entry_rcu(irqfd, &resampler->list, resampler_link) + list_for_each_entry_rcu(irqfd, &resampler->list, resampler_link, + srcu_read_lock_held(&kvm->irq_srcu)) eventfd_signal(irqfd->resamplefd, 1); srcu_read_unlock(&kvm->irq_srcu, idx); @@ -452,7 +453,7 @@ bool kvm_irq_has_notifier(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned irqchip, unsigned pin) gsi = kvm_irq_map_chip_pin(kvm, irqchip, pin); if (gsi != -1) hlist_for_each_entry_rcu(kian, &kvm->irq_ack_notifier_list, - link) + link, srcu_read_lock_held(&kvm->irq_srcu)) if (kian->gsi == gsi) { srcu_read_unlock(&kvm->irq_srcu, idx); return true; @@ -469,7 +470,7 @@ void kvm_notify_acked_gsi(struct kvm *kvm, int gsi) struct kvm_irq_ack_notifier *kian; hlist_for_each_entry_rcu(kian, &kvm->irq_ack_notifier_list, - link) + link, srcu_read_lock_held(&kvm->irq_srcu)) if (kian->gsi == gsi) kian->irq_acked(kian); } @@ -960,3 +961,4 @@ kvm_ioeventfd(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_ioeventfd *args) return kvm_assign_ioeventfd(kvm, args); } + -- 2.17.1