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author | Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> | 2012-09-16 11:50:30 +0300 |
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committer | Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> | 2012-09-17 13:46:32 -0300 |
commit | 9fc77441e5e1bf80b794cc546d2243ee9f4afb75 (patch) | |
tree | 4661976f4fea7606a54b3f5276c0ecb45760979c /MAINTAINERS | |
parent | 7454766f7bead388251aedee35a478356a7f4e72 (diff) |
KVM: make processes waiting on vcpu mutex killable
vcpu mutex can be held for unlimited time so
taking it with mutex_lock on an ioctl is wrong:
one process could be passed a vcpu fd and
call this ioctl on the vcpu used by another process,
it will then be unkillable until the owner exits.
Call mutex_lock_killable instead and return status.
Note: mutex_lock_interruptible would be even nicer,
but I am not sure all users are prepared to handle EINTR
from these ioctls. They might misinterpret it as an error.
Cleanup paths expect a vcpu that can't be used by
any userspace so this will always succeed - catch bugs
by calling BUG_ON.
Catch callers that don't check return state by adding
__must_check.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
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