KVM: Protect device ops->create and list_add with kvm->lock

commit a28ebea2adc4a2bef5989a5a181ec238f59fbcad upstream.

KVM devices were manipulating list data structures without any form of
synchronization, and some implementations of the create operations also
suffered from a lack of synchronization.

Now when we've split the xics create operation into create and init, we
can hold the kvm->lock mutex while calling the create operation and when
manipulating the devices list.

The error path in the generic code gets slightly ugly because we have to
take the mutex again and delete the device from the list, but holding
the mutex during anon_inode_getfd or releasing/locking the mutex in the
common non-error path seemed wrong.

Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
[bwh: Backported to 3.16:
 - Drop change to a failure path that doesn't exist in kvm_vgic_create() 
 - Adjust filename, context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/kvm_host.h b/include/linux/kvm_host.h
index 95e87f8ab351..4f10dcf3e76b 100644
--- a/include/linux/kvm_host.h
+++ b/include/linux/kvm_host.h
@@ -1059,6 +1059,12 @@ struct kvm_device {
 /* create, destroy, and name are mandatory */
 struct kvm_device_ops {
 	const char *name;
+
+	/*
+	 * create is called holding kvm->lock and any operations not suitable
+	 * to do while holding the lock should be deferred to init (see
+	 * below).
+	 */
 	int (*create)(struct kvm_device *dev, u32 type);
 
 	/*