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When halting a guest, QEMU flushes the virtual ITS caches, which amounts to writing to the various tables that the guest has allocated. When doing this, we fail to take the srcu lock, and the kernel shouts loudly if running a lockdep kernel: [ 69.680416] ============================= [ 69.680819] WARNING: suspicious RCU usage [ 69.681526] 5.1.0-rc1-00008-g600025238f51-dirty #18 Not tainted [ 69.682096] ----------------------------- [ 69.682501] ./include/linux/kvm_host.h:605 suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage! [ 69.683225] [ 69.683225] other info that might help us debug this: [ 69.683225] [ 69.683975] [ 69.683975] rcu_scheduler_active = 2, debug_locks = 1 [ 69.684598] 6 locks held by qemu-system-aar/4097: [ 69.685059] #0: 0000000034196013 (&kvm->lock){+.+.}, at: vgic_its_set_attr+0x244/0x3a0 [ 69.686087] #1: 00000000f2ed935e (&its->its_lock){+.+.}, at: vgic_its_set_attr+0x250/0x3a0 [ 69.686919] #2: 000000005e71ea54 (&vcpu->mutex){+.+.}, at: lock_all_vcpus+0x64/0xd0 [ 69.687698] #3: 00000000c17e548d (&vcpu->mutex){+.+.}, at: lock_all_vcpus+0x64/0xd0 [ 69.688475] #4: 00000000ba386017 (&vcpu->mutex){+.+.}, at: lock_all_vcpus+0x64/0xd0 [ 69.689978] #5: 00000000c2c3c335 (&vcpu->mutex){+.+.}, at: lock_all_vcpus+0x64/0xd0 [ 69.690729] [ 69.690729] stack backtrace: [ 69.691151] CPU: 2 PID: 4097 Comm: qemu-system-aar Not tainted 5.1.0-rc1-00008-g600025238f51-dirty #18 [ 69.691984] Hardware name: rockchip evb_rk3399/evb_rk3399, BIOS 2019.04-rc3-00124-g2feec69fb1 03/15/2019 [ 69.692831] Call trace: [ 69.694072] lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0xcc/0x110 [ 69.694490] gfn_to_memslot+0x174/0x190 [ 69.694853] kvm_write_guest+0x50/0xb0 [ 69.695209] vgic_its_save_tables_v0+0x248/0x330 [ 69.695639] vgic_its_set_attr+0x298/0x3a0 [ 69.696024] kvm_device_ioctl_attr+0x9c/0xd8 [ 69.696424] kvm_device_ioctl+0x8c/0xf8 [ 69.696788] do_vfs_ioctl+0xc8/0x960 [ 69.697128] ksys_ioctl+0x8c/0xa0 [ 69.697445] __arm64_sys_ioctl+0x28/0x38 [ 69.697817] el0_svc_common+0xd8/0x138 [ 69.698173] el0_svc_handler+0x38/0x78 [ 69.698528] el0_svc+0x8/0xc The fix is to obviously take the srcu lock, just like we do on the read side of things since bf308242ab98. One wonders why this wasn't fixed at the same time, but hey... Fixes: bf308242ab98 ("KVM: arm/arm64: VGIC/ITS: protect kvm_read_guest() calls with SRCU lock") Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.