linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] virt: acrn: Do hcall_destroy

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Date:   Tue, 27 Jul 2021 16:47:58 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Fei Li <fei1.li@...el.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Shuo Liu <shuo.a.liu@...el.com>,
        Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@...el.com>,
        Zhi Wang <zhi.a.wang@...el.com>, yu1.wang@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] virt: acrn: Do hcall_destroy_vm() before resource release

On Thu, Jul 22, 2021 at 02:27:36PM +0800, Fei Li wrote:
> From: Shuo Liu <shuo.a.liu@...el.com>
> 
> The ACRN hypervisor has scenarios which could run a real-time guest VM.
> The real-time guest VM occupies dedicated CPU cores, be assigned with
> dedicated PCI devices. It can run without the Service VM after boot up.
> hcall_destroy_vm() returns failure when a real-time guest VM refuses.
> The clearing of flag ACRN_VM_FLAG_DESTROYED causes some kernel resource
> double-freed in a later acrn_vm_destroy().
> 
> Do hcall_destroy_vm() before resource release to drop this chance to
> destroy the VM if hypercall fails.
> 
> Fixes: 9c5137aedd11 ("virt: acrn: Introduce VM management interfaces")
> Signed-off-by: Shuo Liu <shuo.a.liu@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Fei Li <fei1.li@...el.com>
> ---

Do you also want this backported to older kernels?  If so, you need to
put a cc: stable in here, right?  I'll go add it myself, but be more
careful next time please.

greg k-h