Unfortunately, there is no guarantee that KVM was able to instantiate a debugfs directory for a particular VM. To that end, KVM shouldn't even attempt to create new debugfs files in this case. If the specified parent dentry is NULL, debugfs_create_file() will instantiate files at the root of debugfs. For arm64, it is possible to create the vgic-state file outside of a VM directory, the file is not cleaned up when a VM is destroyed. Nonetheless, the corresponding struct kvm is freed when the VM is destroyed. Nip the problem in the bud for all possible errant debugfs file creations by initializing kvm->debugfs_dentry to -ENOENT. In so doing, debugfs_create_file() will fail instead of creating the file in the root directory. Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx Fixes: 929f45e32499 ("kvm: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions") Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton <oupton@xxxxxxxxxx> --- virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 10 ++++++++-- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c index 70e05af5ebea..04a426e65cb8 100644 --- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c +++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c @@ -932,7 +932,7 @@ static void kvm_destroy_vm_debugfs(struct kvm *kvm) int kvm_debugfs_num_entries = kvm_vm_stats_header.num_desc + kvm_vcpu_stats_header.num_desc; - if (!kvm->debugfs_dentry) + if (!IS_ERR(kvm->debugfs_dentry)) return; debugfs_remove_recursive(kvm->debugfs_dentry); @@ -955,6 +955,12 @@ static int kvm_create_vm_debugfs(struct kvm *kvm, int fd) int kvm_debugfs_num_entries = kvm_vm_stats_header.num_desc + kvm_vcpu_stats_header.num_desc; + /* + * Force subsequent debugfs file creations to fail if the VM directory + * is not created. + */ + kvm->debugfs_dentry = ERR_PTR(-ENOENT); + if (!debugfs_initialized()) return 0; @@ -5479,7 +5485,7 @@ static void kvm_uevent_notify_change(unsigned int type, struct kvm *kvm) } add_uevent_var(env, "PID=%d", kvm->userspace_pid); - if (kvm->debugfs_dentry) { + if (!IS_ERR(kvm->debugfs_dentry)) { char *tmp, *p = kmalloc(PATH_MAX, GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT); if (p) { -- 2.35.1.1094.g7c7d902a7c-goog