On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 09:47:39PM +0800, Chao Peng wrote: > Since the memory backing store does not get notified when VM is > destroyed so need check if VM is still live in these callbacks. > > Signed-off-by: Yu Zhang <yu.c.zhang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Chao Peng <chao.p.peng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > virt/kvm/memfd.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/virt/kvm/memfd.c b/virt/kvm/memfd.c > index bd930dcb455f..bcfdc685ce22 100644 > --- a/virt/kvm/memfd.c > +++ b/virt/kvm/memfd.c > @@ -12,16 +12,38 @@ > #include <linux/memfd.h> > const static struct guest_mem_ops *memfd_ops; > > +static bool vm_is_dead(struct kvm *vm) > +{ > + struct kvm *kvm; > + > + list_for_each_entry(kvm, &vm_list, vm_list) { > + if (kvm == vm) > + return false; > + } I don't think this is enough. The struct kvm can be freed and re-allocated from the slab and this function will give false-negetive. Maybe the kvm has to be tagged with a sequential id that incremented every allocation. This id can be checked here. > + > + return true; > +} -- Kirill A. Shutemov