Re: [PATCH v2] kvm: Fix crash due to access uninitialized kvm_state

[Peter Maydell]

On Mon, 31 Jul 2023 at 14:00, David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On 31.07.23 14:59, Gavin Shan wrote:
> > Runs into core dump on arm64 and the backtrace extracted from the
> > core dump is shown as below. It's caused by accessing uninitialized
> > @kvm_state in kvm_flush_coalesced_mmio_buffer() due to commit 176d073029
> > ("hw/arm/virt: Use machine_memory_devices_init()"), where the machine's
> > memory region is added earlier than before.
> >
> >      main
> >      qemu_init
> >      configure_accelerators
> >      qemu_opts_foreach
> >      do_configure_accelerator
> >      accel_init_machine
> >      kvm_init
> >      virt_kvm_type
> >      virt_set_memmap
> >      machine_memory_devices_init
> >      memory_region_add_subregion
> >      memory_region_add_subregion_common
> >      memory_region_update_container_subregions
> >      memory_region_transaction_begin
> >      qemu_flush_coalesced_mmio_buffer
> >      kvm_flush_coalesced_mmio_buffer
> >
> > Fix it by bailing early in kvm_flush_coalesced_mmio_buffer() on the
> > uninitialized @kvm_state. With this applied, no crash is observed on
> > arm64.
> >
> > Fixes: 176d073029 ("hw/arm/virt: Use machine_memory_devices_init()")
> > Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com>
> > ---
> > v2: Bail early in kvm_flush_coalesced_mmio_buffer() on the uninitialized
> >      @kvm_state and improved changelog        (David/Peter)
> > ---
> >   accel/kvm/kvm-all.c | 2 +-
> >   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/accel/kvm/kvm-all.c b/accel/kvm/kvm-all.c
> > index 373d876c05..7b3da8dc3a 100644
> > --- a/accel/kvm/kvm-all.c
> > +++ b/accel/kvm/kvm-all.c
> > @@ -2812,7 +2812,7 @@ void kvm_flush_coalesced_mmio_buffer(void)
> >   {
> >       KVMState *s = kvm_state;
> >
> > -    if (s->coalesced_flush_in_progress) {
> > +    if (!s || s->coalesced_flush_in_progress) {
> >           return;
> >       }
> >
>
> Thanks Gavin!
>
> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>



Applied to target-arm.next, thanks.

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