Re: [PATCH v4 06/13] KVM: Move WARN on invalid memslot index to update_memslots()

[David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>]

On 13.08.21 21:33, Maciej S. Szmigiero wrote:
> From: "Maciej S. Szmigiero" <maciej.szmigiero@oracle.com>
> 
> Since kvm_memslot_move_forward() can theoretically return a negative
> memslot index even when kvm_memslot_move_backward() returned a positive one
> (and so did not WARN) let's just move the warning to the common code.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Maciej S. Szmigiero <maciej.szmigiero@oracle.com>
> ---
>   virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 6 ++++--
>   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> index 03ef42d2e421..7000efff1425 100644
> --- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> +++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> @@ -1293,8 +1293,7 @@ static inline int kvm_memslot_move_backward(struct kvm_memslots *slots,
>   	struct kvm_memory_slot *mslots = slots->memslots;
>   	int i;
>   
> -	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(slots->id_to_index[memslot->id] == -1) ||
> -	    WARN_ON_ONCE(!slots->used_slots))
> +	if (slots->id_to_index[memslot->id] == -1 || !slots->used_slots)
>   		return -1;
>   
>   	/*
> @@ -1398,6 +1397,9 @@ static void update_memslots(struct kvm_memslots *slots,
>   			i = kvm_memslot_move_backward(slots, memslot);
>   		i = kvm_memslot_move_forward(slots, memslot, i);
>   
> +		if (WARN_ON_ONCE(i < 0))
> +			return;
> +
>   		/*
>   		 * Copy the memslot to its new position in memslots and update
>   		 * its index accordingly.
> 


Note that WARN_ON_* is frowned upon, because it can result in crashes 
with panic_on_warn enabled, which is what some distributions do enable.

We tend to work around that by using pr_warn()/pr_warn_once(), avoiding 
eventually crashing the system when there is a way to continue.

-- 
Thanks,

David / dhildenb