kvm: don't take vcpu mutex for obviously invalid vcpu ioctls
authorDavid Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
Fri, 19 Sep 2014 23:03:25 +0000 (16:03 -0700)
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Wed, 24 Sep 2014 12:07:55 +0000 (14:07 +0200)
commit2ea75be3219571d0ec009ce20d9971e54af96e09
tree04ba1405061760759ee9e911ff660b03be0cf1b5
parent234b239bea395316d7f78018c672f4a88b3cdf0d
kvm: don't take vcpu mutex for obviously invalid vcpu ioctls

vcpu ioctls can hang the calling thread if issued while a vcpu is running.
However, invalid ioctls can happen when userspace tries to probe the kind
of file descriptors (e.g. isatty() calls ioctl(TCGETS)); in that case,
we know the ioctl is going to be rejected as invalid anyway and we can
fail before trying to take the vcpu mutex.

This patch does not change functionality, it just makes invalid ioctls
fail faster.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
virt/kvm/kvm_main.c