I agree with you. But I don’t have a good idea how to fix it Regards, butt3rflyh4ck. On Fri, Oct 22, 2021 at 4:08 AM Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 18/10/21 19:14, butt3rflyh4ck wrote: > > { > > struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu = kvm_get_running_vcpu(); //-------> invoke > > kvm_get_running_vcpu() to get a vcpu. > > > > WARN_ON_ONCE(vcpu->kvm != kvm); [1] > > > > return &vcpu->dirty_ring; > > } > > ``` > > but we had not called KVM_CREATE_VCPU ioctl to create a kvm_vcpu so > > vcpu is NULL. > > It's not just because there was no call to KVM_CREATE_VCPU; in general > kvm->dirty_ring_size only works if all writes are associated to a > specific vCPU, which is not the case for the one of > kvm_xen_shared_info_init. > > David, what do you think? Making dirty-page ring buffer incompatible > with Xen is ugly and I'd rather avoid it; taking the mutex for vcpu 0 is > not an option because, as the reporter said, you might not have even > created a vCPU yet when you call KVM_XEN_HVM_SET_ATTR. The remaining > option would be just "do not mark the page as dirty if the ring buffer > is active". This is feasible because userspace itself has passed the > shared info gfn; but again, it's ugly... > > Paolo > -- Active Defense Lab of Venustech