KVM: mark vcpu->pid pointer as rcu protected

We do use rcu to protect the pid pointer. Mark it as such and
adopt all code to use the proper access methods.

This was detected by sparse.
"virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:2248:15: error: incompatible types in comparison
expression (different address spaces)"

Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

diff --git a/include/linux/kvm_host.h b/include/linux/kvm_host.h
index 0b50e7b..bcd37b8 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/kvm_host.h
+++ b/include/linux/kvm_host.h
@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ struct kvm_vcpu {
 
        int guest_fpu_loaded, guest_xcr0_loaded;
        struct swait_queue_head wq;
-       struct pid *pid;
+       struct pid __rcu *pid;
        int sigset_active;
        sigset_t sigset;
        struct kvm_vcpu_stat stat;

diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
index 19f0ecb..fc2d583 100644 (file)
--- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -293,7 +293,12 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kvm_vcpu_init);
 
 void kvm_vcpu_uninit(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 {
-       put_pid(vcpu->pid);
+       /*
+        * no need for rcu_read_lock as VCPU_RUN is the only place that
+        * will change the vcpu->pid pointer and on uninit all file
+        * descriptors are already gone.
+        */
+       put_pid(rcu_dereference_protected(vcpu->pid, 1));
        kvm_arch_vcpu_uninit(vcpu);
        free_page((unsigned long)vcpu->run);
 }
@@ -2551,13 +2556,14 @@ static long kvm_vcpu_ioctl(struct file *filp,
        if (r)
                return r;
        switch (ioctl) {
-       case KVM_RUN:
+       case KVM_RUN: {
+               struct pid *oldpid;
                r = -EINVAL;
                if (arg)
                        goto out;
-               if (unlikely(vcpu->pid != current->pids[PIDTYPE_PID].pid)) {
+               oldpid = rcu_access_pointer(vcpu->pid);
+               if (unlikely(oldpid != current->pids[PIDTYPE_PID].pid)) {
                        /* The thread running this VCPU changed. */
-                       struct pid *oldpid = vcpu->pid;
                        struct pid *newpid = get_task_pid(current, PIDTYPE_PID);
 
                        rcu_assign_pointer(vcpu->pid, newpid);
@@ -2568,6 +2574,7 @@ static long kvm_vcpu_ioctl(struct file *filp,
                r = kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run(vcpu, vcpu->run);
                trace_kvm_userspace_exit(vcpu->run->exit_reason, r);
                break;
+       }
        case KVM_GET_REGS: {
                struct kvm_regs *kvm_regs;