On Wed, 24 Jan 2018 14:08:23 +0100
Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 01/24/2018 02:05 PM, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> > On 24.01.2018 14:02, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On 01/24/2018 01:54 PM, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> >>> On 24.01.2018 13:51, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On 01/24/2018 01:51 PM, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> >>>>> On 24.01.2018 13:41, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> >>>>>> Some parts of the cmma migration bitmap is already protected
> >>>>>> with the kvm->lock (e.g. the migration start). On the other
> >>>>>> hand the read of the cmma bits is not protected against a
> >>>>>> concurrent free, neither is the emulation of the ESSA instruction.
> >>>>>> Let's extend the locking to all related ioctls by using
> >>>>>> the slots lock and wait for the freeing until all unlocked
> >>>>>> users have finished (those hold kvm->srcu for read).
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Reported-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>>>> Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>>>> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 4.13+
> >>>>>> Fixes: 190df4a212a7 (KVM: s390: CMMA tracking, ESSA emulation, migration mode)
> >>>>>> Reviewed-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>>>> ---
> >>>>>> v1->v2: fix comments in kvm_s390_vm_[start|stop]_migration
> >>>>>> arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c | 18 +++++++++++-------
> >>>>>> 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> diff --git a/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c b/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c
> >>>>>> index 2a5a9f0617f88..e81b748af4553 100644
> >>>>>> --- a/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c
> >>>>>> +++ b/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c
> >>>>>> @@ -769,7 +769,7 @@ static void kvm_s390_sync_request_broadcast(struct kvm *kvm, int req)
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> /*
> >>>>>> * Must be called with kvm->srcu held to avoid races on memslots, and with
> >>>>>> - * kvm->lock to avoid races with ourselves and kvm_s390_vm_stop_migration.
> >>>>>> + * kvm->slots_lock to avoid races with ourselves and kvm_s390_vm_stop_migration.
> >>>>>> */
> >>>>>> static int kvm_s390_vm_start_migration(struct kvm *kvm)
> >>>>>> {
> >>>>>> @@ -824,7 +824,7 @@ static int kvm_s390_vm_start_migration(struct kvm *kvm)
> >>>>>> }
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> /*
> >>>>>> - * Must be called with kvm->lock to avoid races with ourselves and
> >>>>>> + * Must be called with kvm->slots_lock to avoid races with ourselves and
> >>>>>> * kvm_s390_vm_start_migration.
> >>>>>> */
> >>>>>> static int kvm_s390_vm_stop_migration(struct kvm *kvm)
> >>>>>> @@ -839,6 +839,8 @@ static int kvm_s390_vm_stop_migration(struct kvm *kvm)
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> if (kvm->arch.use_cmma) {
> >>>>>> kvm_s390_sync_request_broadcast(kvm, KVM_REQ_STOP_MIGRATION);
> >>>>>> + /* We have to wait for the essa emulation to finish */
> >>>>>> + synchronize_srcu(&kvm->srcu);
> >>>>>> vfree(mgs->pgste_bitmap);
> >>>>>> }
> >>>>>> kfree(mgs);
> >>>>>> @@ -848,14 +850,12 @@ static int kvm_s390_vm_stop_migration(struct kvm *kvm)
> >>>>>> static int kvm_s390_vm_set_migration(struct kvm *kvm,
> >>>>>> struct kvm_device_attr *attr)
> >>>>>> {
> >>>>>> - int idx, res = -ENXIO;
> >>>>>> + int res = -ENXIO;
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> - mutex_lock(&kvm->lock);
> >>>>>> + mutex_lock(&kvm->slots_lock);
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Why were we holding the kvm lock here? Is it okay to drop this lock now?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> (I assume it only existed to avoid having multiple concurrent users
> >>>>> trying to set the migration state - in that case this is fine)
> >>>>
> >>>> Yes, it was used to prevent multiple users.
> >>>
> >>> So we are using srcu to protect a pointer not managed via rcu. Looks
> >>> strange, but guess this works because of the request bit handling.
> >>
> >> No we are using kvm_slots_locks for all migration related functions:
> >> -kvm_s390_vm_start_migration
> >> -kvm_s390_vm_stop_migration
> >> -kvm_s390_set_cmma_bits
> >> -kvm_s390_get_cmma_bits
> >>
> >>
> >> In addition to that we use synchronize_srcu to ensure that the essa handler
> >> has finished.
>
> I think I will add that to the patch description.
Good idea, so that people won't be confused if they read the code in a
few months.
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
>
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