[PATCH v2 7/7] KVM: selftests: Avoid infinite loop if ucall_alloc() fails

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Guest assertions depend on successfully allocating a ucall structure. As
such, the use of guest assertions when ucall_alloc() fails simply leads
to an infinite loop in guest code.

Use GUEST_UCALL_NONE() to indicate failure instead. Though not
technically necessary, use a goto to have a single callsite and an
associated comment about why assertions don't work here. It isn't
perfect, at least the poor developer gets some signal out of the
guest...

Fixes: 426729b2cf2e ("KVM: selftests: Add ucall pool based implementation")
Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@xxxxxxxxx>
---
 tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/ucall_common.c | 12 ++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/ucall_common.c b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/ucall_common.c
index 0cc0971ce60e..e8370da3de24 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/ucall_common.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/ucall_common.c
@@ -41,7 +41,8 @@ static struct ucall *ucall_alloc(void)
 	struct ucall *uc;
 	int i;
 
-	GUEST_ASSERT(ucall_pool);
+	if (!ucall_pool)
+		goto out;
 
 	for (i = 0; i < KVM_MAX_VCPUS; ++i) {
 		if (!test_and_set_bit(i, ucall_pool->in_use)) {
@@ -51,7 +52,14 @@ static struct ucall *ucall_alloc(void)
 		}
 	}
 
-	GUEST_ASSERT(0);
+out:
+	/*
+	 * If the guest cannot grab a ucall structure from the pool then the
+	 * only option to get out to userspace is a bare ucall. This is probably
+	 * a good time to mention that guest assertions depend on ucalls with
+	 * arguments too.
+	 */
+	GUEST_UCALL_NONE();
 	return NULL;
 }
 
-- 
2.39.0.rc1.256.g54fd8350bd-goog




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