[PATCH 2/8] memory: Don't do topology update in memory finalize()

Peter Xu posted 8 patches 5 years, 9 months ago
Maintainers: Marcel Apfelbaum <marcel.apfelbaum@gmail.com>, Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
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[PATCH 2/8] memory: Don't do topology update in memory finalize()
Posted by Peter Xu 5 years, 9 months ago
Topology update could be wrongly triggered in memory region finalize() if
there's bug somewhere else.  It'll be a very confusing stack when it
happens (e.g., sending KVM ioctl within the RCU thread, and we'll observe it
only until it fails!).

Instead of that, we use the push()/pop() helper to avoid memory transaction
commit, at the same time we use assertions to make sure there's no pending
updates or it's a nested transaction, so it could fail even earlier and in a
more explicit way.

Suggested-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
---
 memory.c | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/memory.c b/memory.c
index e5d634d648..fea427f43f 100644
--- a/memory.c
+++ b/memory.c
@@ -171,6 +171,12 @@ struct MemoryRegionIoeventfd {
     EventNotifier *e;
 };
 
+/* Returns whether there's any pending memory updates */
+static bool memory_region_has_pending_update(void)
+{
+    return memory_region_update_pending || ioeventfd_update_pending;
+}
+
 static bool memory_region_ioeventfd_before(MemoryRegionIoeventfd *a,
                                            MemoryRegionIoeventfd *b)
 {
@@ -1730,12 +1736,25 @@ static void memory_region_finalize(Object *obj)
      * and cause an infinite loop.
      */
     mr->enabled = false;
-    memory_region_transaction_begin();
+
+    /*
+     * Use push()/pop() instead of begin()/commit() to make sure below block
+     * won't trigger any topology update (which should never happen, but it's
+     * still a safety belt).
+     */
+    memory_region_transaction_push();
     while (!QTAILQ_EMPTY(&mr->subregions)) {
         MemoryRegion *subregion = QTAILQ_FIRST(&mr->subregions);
         memory_region_del_subregion(mr, subregion);
     }
-    memory_region_transaction_commit();
+    memory_region_transaction_pop();
+
+    /*
+     * Make sure we're either in a nested transaction or there must have no
+     * pending updates due to memory_region_del_subregion() above.
+     */
+    assert(memory_region_transaction_depth ||
+           !memory_region_has_pending_update());
 
     mr->destructor(mr);
     memory_region_clear_coalescing(mr);
-- 
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