KVM: add explicit barrier to kvm_vcpu_kick

kvm_vcpu_kick() must issue a general memory barrier prior to reading
vcpu->mode in order to ensure correctness of the mutual-exclusion
memory barrier pattern used with vcpu->requests.  While the cmpxchg
called from kvm_vcpu_kick():

 kvm_vcpu_kick
   kvm_arch_vcpu_should_kick
     kvm_vcpu_exiting_guest_mode
       cmpxchg

implies general memory barriers before and after the operation, that
implication is only valid when cmpxchg succeeds.  We need an explicit
barrier for when it fails, otherwise a VCPU thread on its entry path
that reads zero for vcpu->requests does not exclude the possibility
the requesting thread sees !IN_GUEST_MODE when it reads vcpu->mode.

kvm_make_all_cpus_request already had a barrier, so we remove it, as
now it would be redundant.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
This commit is contained in:
Andrew Jones
2017-04-26 22:32:24 +02:00
committed by Paolo Bonzini
parent 6c6e8360b3
commit cde9af6e79
3 changed files with 7 additions and 4 deletions

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@@ -183,9 +183,6 @@ bool kvm_make_all_cpus_request(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned int req)
kvm_make_request(req, vcpu);
cpu = vcpu->cpu;
/* Set ->requests bit before we read ->mode. */
smp_mb__after_atomic();
if (!(req & KVM_REQUEST_NO_WAKEUP))
kvm_vcpu_wake_up(vcpu);