[PATCH] KVM: x86: Protect virtualization-enable VM walks with RCU
Qi Zhang <[email protected]> Tue, 4 Aug 2026 20:32:42 +0800
| Newsgroups | org.kernel.vger.kvm,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kernel.vger.stable |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
From: Chengfeng Ye <[email protected]> Protect the vm_list walks in kvm_arch_enable_virtualization_cpu() with RCU, publish and remove VMs with RCU list operations, and wait for pre-existing readers before tearing down a VM. The change that introduced kvm_usage_lock replaced kvm_lock with a dedicated usage-count mutex when enabling virtualization. Because vm_list mutators do not take the usage-count mutex, this left the x86 walks without lifetime protection. During CPU online, the hotplug thread can load a VM from vm_list. A concurrent close of the last VM file can then remove that VM and destroy its vCPUs before the hotplug thread dereferences the stale VM or vCPU. Reacquiring kvm_lock from the CPU-hotplug path would restore the lock cycle that the same change fixed. KASAN reported: BUG: KASAN: wild-memory-access in kvm_arch_enable_virtualization_cpu+0x25f/0x870 Read of size 4 at addr dead0000000000f0 by task cpuhp/3/31 Call Trace: kvm_arch_enable_virtualization_cpu+0x25f/0x870 kvm_online_cpu+0x1a/0x50 cpuhp_invoke_callback+0x291/0xfd0 cpuhp_thread_fun+0x256/0x4a0 smpboot_thread_fn+0x287/0x6c0 Fixes: 44d174596260 ("KVM: Use dedicated mutex to protect kvm_usage_count to avoid deadlock") Cc: [email protected] Signed-off-by: Chengfeng Ye <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Qi Zhang <[email protected]> --- arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 6 ++++-- virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 5 +++-- 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c index 47cb9eba113b..811014d04d40 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c @@ -13140,7 +13140,8 @@ int kvm_arch_enable_virtualization_cpu(void) local_tsc = rdtsc(); stable = !kvm_check_tsc_unstable(); - list_for_each_entry(kvm, &vm_list, vm_list) { + rcu_read_lock(); + list_for_each_entry_rcu(kvm, &vm_list, vm_list) { kvm_for_each_vcpu(i, vcpu, kvm) { if (!stable && vcpu->cpu == smp_processor_id()) kvm_make_request(KVM_REQ_CLOCK_UPDATE, vcpu); @@ -13192,7 +13193,7 @@ int kvm_arch_enable_virtualization_cpu(void) */ if (backwards_tsc) { u64 delta_cyc = max_tsc - local_tsc; - list_for_each_entry(kvm, &vm_list, vm_list) { + list_for_each_entry_rcu(kvm, &vm_list, vm_list) { kvm->arch.backwards_tsc_observed = true; kvm_for_each_vcpu(i, vcpu, kvm) { vcpu->arch.tsc_offset_adjustment += delta_cyc; @@ -13211,6 +13212,7 @@ int kvm_arch_enable_virtualization_cpu(void) } } + rcu_read_unlock(); return 0; } diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c index 45e784462ec6..92df17710881 100644 --- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c +++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c @@ -1198,7 +1198,7 @@ static struct kvm *kvm_create_vm(unsigned long type, const char *fdname) goto out_err_no_debugfs; mutex_lock(&kvm_lock); - list_add(&kvm->vm_list, &vm_list); + list_add_rcu(&kvm->vm_list, &vm_list); mutex_unlock(&kvm_lock); preempt_notifier_inc(); @@ -1260,8 +1260,9 @@ static void kvm_destroy_vm(struct kvm *kvm) kvm_uevent_notify_change(KVM_EVENT_DESTROY_VM, kvm); kvm_destroy_vm_debugfs(kvm); mutex_lock(&kvm_lock); - list_del(&kvm->vm_list); + list_del_rcu(&kvm->vm_list); mutex_unlock(&kvm_lock); + synchronize_rcu(); kvm_arch_pre_destroy_vm(kvm); kvm_free_irq_routing(kvm); -- 2.43.0