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Message-ID: <Y0lts0nU6fO7rrSK@x1n>
Date:   Fri, 14 Oct 2022 10:09:55 -0400
From:   Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>
To:     Hou Wenlong <houwenlong.hwl@...group.com>
Cc:     kvm@...r.kernel.org, Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>, x86@...nel.org,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: x86: Reduce refcount if single_open() fails in
 kvm_mmu_rmaps_stat_open()

On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 03:55:11PM +0800, Hou Wenlong wrote:
> Refcount is increased before calling single_open() in
> kvm_mmu_rmaps_stat_open(), If single_open() fails, refcount should be
> restored, otherwise the vm couldn't be destroyed.
> 
> Fixes: 3bcd0662d66fd ("KVM: X86: Introduce mmu_rmaps_stat per-vm debugfs file")
> Signed-off-by: Hou Wenlong <houwenlong.hwl@...group.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kvm/debugfs.c | 7 ++++++-
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/debugfs.c b/arch/x86/kvm/debugfs.c
> index cfed36aba2f7..412ed1b341fa 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/debugfs.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/debugfs.c
> @@ -162,7 +162,12 @@ static int kvm_mmu_rmaps_stat_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
>  	if (!kvm_get_kvm_safe(kvm))
>  		return -ENOENT;
>  
> -	return single_open(file, kvm_mmu_rmaps_stat_show, kvm);
> +	if (single_open(file, kvm_mmu_rmaps_stat_show, kvm)) {
> +		kvm_put_kvm(kvm);
> +		return -ENOMEM;
> +	}

Thanks for fixing this.  Would it be nicer to wire the single_open retval
(even though it'll only fail with -ENOMEM with current code base)?

-- 
Peter Xu