On 7/30/24 17:56, Will Deacon wrote: > If the xa_store() fails in kvm_vm_ioctl_create_vcpu() then we shouldn't > drop the reference to the 'struct kvm' because the vCPU fd has been > installed and will take care of the refcounting. > > This was found by inspection, but forcing the xa_store() to fail > confirms the problem: > > | Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ffff800080ecd960 > | Call trace: > | _raw_spin_lock_irq+0x2c/0x70 > | kvm_irqfd_release+0x24/0xa0 > | kvm_vm_release+0x1c/0x38 > | __fput+0x88/0x2ec > | ____fput+0x10/0x1c > | task_work_run+0xb0/0xd4 > | do_exit+0x210/0x854 > | do_group_exit+0x70/0x98 > | get_signal+0x6b0/0x73c > | do_signal+0xa4/0x11e8 > | do_notify_resume+0x60/0x12c > | el0_svc+0x64/0x68 > | el0t_64_sync_handler+0x84/0xfc > | el0t_64_sync+0x190/0x194 > | Code: b9000909 d503201f 2a1f03e1 52800028 (88e17c08) > > Add a new label to the error path so that we can branch directly to the > xa_release() if the xa_store() fails. > > Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Michal Luczaj <mhal@xxxxxxx> > Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@xxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 3 ++- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c > index d0788d0a72cc..b80dd8cead8c 100644 > --- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c > +++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c > @@ -4293,7 +4293,7 @@ static int kvm_vm_ioctl_create_vcpu(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned long id) > > if (KVM_BUG_ON(xa_store(&kvm->vcpu_array, vcpu->vcpu_idx, vcpu, 0), kvm)) { > r = -EINVAL; > - goto kvm_put_xa_release; > + goto err_xa_release; > } > > /* > @@ -4310,6 +4310,7 @@ static int kvm_vm_ioctl_create_vcpu(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned long id) > > kvm_put_xa_release: > kvm_put_kvm_no_destroy(kvm); > +err_xa_release: > xa_release(&kvm->vcpu_array, vcpu->vcpu_idx); > unlock_vcpu_destroy: > mutex_unlock(&kvm->lock); My bad for neglecting the "impossible" path. Thanks for the fix. I wonder if it's complete. If we really want to consider the possibility of this xa_store() failing, then keeping vCPU fd installed and calling kmem_cache_free(kvm_vcpu_cache, vcpu) on the error path looks wrong.