KVM: arm/arm64: fix races in kvm_psci_vcpu_on

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Fix potential races in kvm_psci_vcpu_on() by taking the kvm->lock
mutex.  In general, it's a bad idea to allow more than one PSCI_CPU_ON
to process the same target VCPU at the same time.  One such problem
that may arise is that one PSCI_CPU_ON could be resetting the target
vcpu, which fills the entire sys_regs array with a temporary value
including the MPIDR register, while another looks up the VCPU based
on the MPIDR value, resulting in no target VCPU found.  Resolves both
races found with the kvm-unit-tests/arm/psci unit test.

Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall <cdall@linaro.org>
Reported-by: Levente Kurusa <lkurusa@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Christoffer Dall <cdall@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <cdall@linaro.org>

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Andrew Jones 2017-04-18 17:59:58 +02:00 • committed by Christoffer Dall

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