Skip to content
Commit 149487bd authored by Sean Christopherson's avatar Sean Christopherson Committed by Paolo Bonzini
Browse files

KVM: Add separate helper for putting borrowed reference to kvm



Add a new helper, kvm_put_kvm_no_destroy(), to handle putting a borrowed
reference[*] to the VM when installing a new file descriptor fails.  KVM
expects the refcount to remain valid in this case, as the in-progress
ioctl() has an explicit reference to the VM.  The primary motiviation
for the helper is to document that the 'kvm' pointer is still valid
after putting the borrowed reference, e.g. to document that doing
mutex(&kvm->lock) immediately after putting a ref to kvm isn't broken.

[*] When exposing a new object to userspace via a file descriptor, e.g.
    a new vcpu, KVM grabs a reference to itself (the VM) prior to making
    the object visible to userspace to avoid prematurely freeing the VM
    in the scenario where userspace immediately closes file descriptor.

Signed-off-by: default avatarSean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
parent c90992bf
0% or .
You are about to add 0 people to the discussion. Proceed with caution.
Finish editing this message first!
Please register or to comment