From 684a0b719ddbbafe1c7e6646b9bc239453a1773d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Cornelia Huck Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 19:11:35 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] KVM: eventfd: Fix lock order inversion. When registering a new irqfd, we call its ->poll method to collect any event that might have previously been pending so that we can trigger it. This is done under the kvm->irqfds.lock, which means the eventfd's ctx lock is taken under it. However, if we get a POLLHUP in irqfd_wakeup, we will be called with the ctx lock held before getting the irqfds.lock to deactivate the irqfd, causing lockdep to complain. Calling the ->poll method does not really need the irqfds.lock, so let's just move it after we've given up the irqfds.lock in kvm_irqfd_assign(). Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini --- virt/kvm/eventfd.c | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/virt/kvm/eventfd.c b/virt/kvm/eventfd.c index abe4d6043b36..29c2a04e036e 100644 --- a/virt/kvm/eventfd.c +++ b/virt/kvm/eventfd.c @@ -391,19 +391,19 @@ kvm_irqfd_assign(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_irqfd *args) lockdep_is_held(&kvm->irqfds.lock)); irqfd_update(kvm, irqfd, irq_rt); - events = f.file->f_op->poll(f.file, &irqfd->pt); - list_add_tail(&irqfd->list, &kvm->irqfds.items); + spin_unlock_irq(&kvm->irqfds.lock); + /* * Check if there was an event already pending on the eventfd * before we registered, and trigger it as if we didn't miss it. */ + events = f.file->f_op->poll(f.file, &irqfd->pt); + if (events & POLLIN) schedule_work(&irqfd->inject); - spin_unlock_irq(&kvm->irqfds.lock); - /* * do not drop the file until the irqfd is fully initialized, otherwise * we might race against the POLLHUP -- 2.20.1