linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.9 111/117] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Dont take kvm->lock around kvm_for_each

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Message-Id: <20190620174358.202365176@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Thu, 20 Jun 2019 19:57:25 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Paul Mackerras <paulus@...abs.org>,
        Cédric Le Goater <clg@...d.org>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 4.9 111/117] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Dont take kvm->lock around kvm_for_each_vcpu

[ Upstream commit 5a3f49364c3ffa1107bd88f8292406e98c5d206c ]

Currently the HV KVM code takes the kvm->lock around calls to
kvm_for_each_vcpu() and kvm_get_vcpu_by_id() (which can call
kvm_for_each_vcpu() internally).  However, that leads to a lock
order inversion problem, because these are called in contexts where
the vcpu mutex is held, but the vcpu mutexes nest within kvm->lock
according to Documentation/virtual/kvm/locking.txt.  Hence there
is a possibility of deadlock.

To fix this, we simply don't take the kvm->lock mutex around these
calls.  This is safe because the implementations of kvm_for_each_vcpu()
and kvm_get_vcpu_by_id() have been designed to be able to be called
locklessly.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@...abs.org>
Reviewed-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@...d.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@...abs.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
---
 arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c | 9 +--------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c
index 0a2b247dbc6b..e840f943cd2c 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c
@@ -374,12 +374,7 @@ static void kvmppc_dump_regs(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 
 static struct kvm_vcpu *kvmppc_find_vcpu(struct kvm *kvm, int id)
 {
-	struct kvm_vcpu *ret;
-
-	mutex_lock(&kvm->lock);
-	ret = kvm_get_vcpu_by_id(kvm, id);
-	mutex_unlock(&kvm->lock);
-	return ret;
+	return kvm_get_vcpu_by_id(kvm, id);
 }
 
 static void init_vpa(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct lppaca *vpa)
@@ -1098,7 +1093,6 @@ static void kvmppc_set_lpcr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 new_lpcr,
 	struct kvmppc_vcore *vc = vcpu->arch.vcore;
 	u64 mask;
 
-	mutex_lock(&kvm->lock);
 	spin_lock(&vc->lock);
 	/*
 	 * If ILE (interrupt little-endian) has changed, update the
@@ -1132,7 +1126,6 @@ static void kvmppc_set_lpcr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 new_lpcr,
 		mask &= 0xFFFFFFFF;
 	vc->lpcr = (vc->lpcr & ~mask) | (new_lpcr & mask);
 	spin_unlock(&vc->lock);
-	mutex_unlock(&kvm->lock);
 }
 
 static int kvmppc_get_one_reg_hv(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 id,
-- 
2.20.1