Re: [PATCH] KVM/Eventfd: Avoid crash when assign and deassign same eventfd in parallel.

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 18/12/2017 09:30, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> The ugly thing in kvm_irqfd_assign() is that we access irqfd without
> holding a lock. I think that should rather be fixed than working around
> that issue. (e.g. lock() -> lookup again -> verify still in list ->
> unlock())

I wonder if it's even simpler:

diff --git a/virt/kvm/eventfd.c b/virt/kvm/eventfd.c
index f2ac53ab8243..17ed298bd66f 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/eventfd.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/eventfd.c
@@ -387,7 +387,6 @@ kvm_irqfd_assign(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_irqfd *args)
 
        idx = srcu_read_lock(&kvm->irq_srcu);
        irqfd_update(kvm, irqfd);
-       srcu_read_unlock(&kvm->irq_srcu, idx);
 
        list_add_tail(&irqfd->list, &kvm->irqfds.items);
 
@@ -420,10 +419,12 @@ kvm_irqfd_assign(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_irqfd *args)
                                irqfd->consumer.token, ret);
        }
 #endif
+       srcu_read_unlock(&kvm->irq_srcu, idx);
 
        return 0;
 
 fail:
+       /* irq_srcu is *not* held here.  */
        if (irqfd->resampler)
                irqfd_resampler_shutdown(irqfd);
 

Thanks,

Paolo