I think I see the following (theoretical) race: During irqfd assign, we drop irqfds lock before we schedule inject work. Therefore, deassign running on another CPU could cause shutdown and flush to run before inject, causing user after free in inject. A simple fix it to schedule inject under the lock. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> --- If the issue is real, this might be a 2.6.36 and -stable candidate. Comments? virt/kvm/eventfd.c | 3 ++- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/virt/kvm/eventfd.c b/virt/kvm/eventfd.c index 66cf65b..c1f1e3c 100644 --- a/virt/kvm/eventfd.c +++ b/virt/kvm/eventfd.c @@ -218,7 +218,6 @@ kvm_irqfd_assign(struct kvm *kvm, int fd, int gsi) events = file->f_op->poll(file, &irqfd->pt); list_add_tail(&irqfd->list, &kvm->irqfds.items); - spin_unlock_irq(&kvm->irqfds.lock); /* * Check if there was an event already pending on the eventfd @@ -227,6 +226,8 @@ kvm_irqfd_assign(struct kvm *kvm, int fd, int gsi) if (events & POLLIN) schedule_work(&irqfd->inject); + spin_unlock_irq(&kvm->irqfds.lock); + /* * do not drop the file until the irqfd is fully initialized, otherwise * we might race against the POLLHUP -- 1.7.2.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html