[patch] kvm: fix GFP_KERNEL allocation in atomic section in kvm_dev_ioctl_create_vcpu()

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu Dec 28 2006 - 07:45:45 EST


Subject: [patch] kvm: fix GFP_KERNEL allocation in atomic section in kvm_dev_ioctl_create_vcpu()
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>

fix a GFP_KERNEL allocation in atomic section bug:
kvm_dev_ioctl_create_vcpu() called kvm_mmu_init(), which calls
alloc_pages(), while holding the vcpu. The fix is to set up the MMU
state earlier, it does not require a loaded CPU state.

(NOTE: free_vcpus does an kvm_mmu_destroy() call so there's no need
for any extra teardown branch on allocation failure here.)

found in 2.6.20-rc2-rt1.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
---
drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Index: linux/drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ linux/drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -522,12 +522,12 @@ static int kvm_dev_ioctl_create_vcpu(str
if (r < 0)
goto out_free_vcpus;

- kvm_arch_ops->vcpu_load(vcpu);
+ r = kvm_mmu_init(vcpu);
+ if (r < 0)
+ goto out_free_vcpus;

+ kvm_arch_ops->vcpu_load(vcpu);
r = kvm_arch_ops->vcpu_setup(vcpu);
- if (r >= 0)
- r = kvm_mmu_init(vcpu);
-
vcpu_put(vcpu);

if (r < 0)
-
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