Re: [PATCH] KVM: s390: vsie: fix race during shadow creation

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On 12/20/23 08:34, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
Right now it is possible to see gmap->private being zero in
kvm_s390_vsie_gmap_notifier resulting in a crash.  This is due to the
fact that we add gmap->private == kvm after creation:

static int acquire_gmap_shadow(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
                                struct vsie_page *vsie_page)
{
[...]
         gmap = gmap_shadow(vcpu->arch.gmap, asce, edat);
         if (IS_ERR(gmap))
                 return PTR_ERR(gmap);
         gmap->private = vcpu->kvm;

Instead of tracking kvm in the shadow gmap, simply use the parent one.

Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

I'm not completely happy with fixing this in the notifier by accessing the parent although I do understand, that we want to have a fix that's easily backportable.

From what I see "private" is currently not guarded by gmap->initialized but maybe we should do that. This of course might bring a bit more pain when backporting.

The other option is to retry which might burn a few cycles.





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