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Commit 3dee8e34 authored by Oliver Upton's avatar Oliver Upton Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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KVM: arm64: Avoid vcpu->mutex v. kvm->lock inversion in CPU_ON


commit 0acc7239 upstream.

KVM/arm64 had the lock ordering backwards on vcpu->mutex and kvm->lock
from the very beginning. One such example is the way vCPU resets are
handled: the kvm->lock is acquired while handling a guest CPU_ON PSCI
call.

Add a dedicated lock to serialize writes to kvm_vcpu_arch::{mp_state,
reset_state}. Promote all accessors of mp_state to {READ,WRITE}_ONCE()
as readers do not acquire the mp_state_lock. While at it, plug yet
another race by taking the mp_state_lock in the KVM_SET_MP_STATE ioctl
handler.

As changes to MP state are now guarded with a dedicated lock, drop the
kvm->lock acquisition from the PSCI CPU_ON path. Similarly, move the
reader of reset_state outside of the kvm->lock and instead protect it
with the mp_state_lock. Note that writes to reset_state::reset have been
demoted to regular stores as both readers and writers acquire the
mp_state_lock.

While the kvm->lock inversion still exists in kvm_reset_vcpu(), at least
now PSCI CPU_ON no longer depends on it for serializing vCPU reset.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Tested-by: default avatarJeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarOliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMarc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230327164747.2466958-2-oliver.upton@linux.dev


Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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