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KVM: arm64: Avoid lock inversion when setting the VM register width
commit c43120a upstream.
kvm->lock must be taken outside of the vcpu->mutex. Of course, the
locking documentation for KVM makes this abundantly clear. Nonetheless,
the locking order in KVM/arm64 has been wrong for quite a while; we
acquire the kvm->lock while holding the vcpu->mutex all over the shop.
All was seemingly fine until commit 42a9000 ("KVM: Ensure lockdep
knows about kvm->lock vs. vcpu->mutex ordering rule") caught us with our
pants down, leading to lockdep barfing:
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WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected
6.2.0-rc7+ #19 Not tainted
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qemu-system-aar/859 is trying to acquire lock:
ffff5aa69269eba0 (&host_kvm->lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: kvm_reset_vcpu+0x34/0x274
but task is already holding lock:
ffff5aa68768c0b8 (&vcpu->mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x8c/0xba0
which lock already depends on the new lock.
Add a dedicated lock to serialize writes to VM-scoped configuration from
the context of a vCPU. Protect the register width flags with the new
lock, thus avoiding the need to grab the kvm->lock while holding
vcpu->mutex in kvm_reset_vcpu().
Cc: [email protected]
Reported-by: Jeremy Linton <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/kvmarm/[email protected]/
Tested-by: Jeremy Linton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
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