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Commit bbe17c62 authored by David Woodhouse's avatar David Woodhouse Committed by Paolo Bonzini
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KVM: x86/xen: Fix potential deadlock in kvm_xen_update_runstate_guest()



The kvm_xen_update_runstate_guest() function can be called when the vCPU
is being scheduled out, from a preempt notifier. It *opportunistically*
updates the runstate area in the guest memory, if the gfn_to_pfn_cache
which caches the appropriate address is still valid.

If there is *contention* when it attempts to obtain gpc->lock, then
locking inside the priority inheritance checks may cause a deadlock.
Lockdep reports:

[13890.148997] Chain exists of:
                 &gpc->lock --> &p->pi_lock --> &rq->__lock

[13890.149002]  Possible unsafe locking scenario:

[13890.149003]        CPU0                    CPU1
[13890.149004]        ----                    ----
[13890.149005]   lock(&rq->__lock);
[13890.149007]                                lock(&p->pi_lock);
[13890.149009]                                lock(&rq->__lock);
[13890.149011]   lock(&gpc->lock);
[13890.149013]
                *** DEADLOCK ***

In the general case, if there's contention for a read lock on gpc->lock,
that's going to be because something else is either invalidating or
revalidating the cache. Either way, we've raced with seeing it in an
invalid state, in which case we would have aborted the opportunistic
update anyway.

So in the 'atomic' case when called from the preempt notifier, just
switch to using read_trylock() and avoid the PI handling altogether.

Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Message-Id: <20230111180651.14394-2-dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
parent 23e60258
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