On Wed, 26 Oct 2016 13:44:50 +0200
Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]> wrote:
> The conversion done by commit 3706feacd007 ("KVM: Remove deprecated
> create_singlethread_workqueue") is broken. It flushes a single work
> item &irqfd->shutdown instead of all of them, and even worse if there
> is no irqfd on the list then you get a NULL pointer dereference.
> Revert the virt/kvm/eventfd.c part of that patch; to avoid the
> deprecated function, just allocate our own workqueue---it does
> not even have to be unbound---with alloc_workqueue.
>
> Fixes: 3706feacd007
> Cc: [email protected]
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]>
> ---
> virt/kvm/eventfd.c | 22 +++++++++++++++++++---
> virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 6 ++++++
> 2 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <[email protected]>
