From: David Woodhouse The Xen interrupt injection for event channels relies on accessing the guest's vcpu_info structure in __kvm_xen_has_interrupt(), through a gfn_to_hva_cache. This requires the srcu lock to be held, which is mostly the case except for this code path: [ 11.822877] WARNING: suspicious RCU usage [ 11.822965] ----------------------------- [ 11.823013] include/linux/kvm_host.h:664 suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage! [ 11.823131] [ 11.823131] other info that might help us debug this: [ 11.823131] [ 11.823196] [ 11.823196] rcu_scheduler_active = 2, debug_locks = 1 [ 11.823253] 1 lock held by dom:0/90: [ 11.823292] #0: ffff998956ec8118 (&vcpu->mutex){+.+.}, at: kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x85/0x680 [ 11.823379] [ 11.823379] stack backtrace: [ 11.823428] CPU: 2 PID: 90 Comm: dom:0 Kdump: loaded Not tainted 5.4.34+ #5 [ 11.823496] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.12.1-0-ga5cab58e9a3f-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014 [ 11.823612] Call Trace: [ 11.823645] dump_stack+0x7a/0xa5 [ 11.823681] lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0xc5/0x100 [ 11.823726] __kvm_xen_has_interrupt+0x179/0x190 [ 11.823773] kvm_cpu_has_extint+0x6d/0x90 [ 11.823813] kvm_cpu_accept_dm_intr+0xd/0x40 [ 11.823853] kvm_vcpu_ready_for_interrupt_injection+0x20/0x30 < post_kvm_run_save() inlined here > [ 11.823906] kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x135/0x6a0 [ 11.823947] kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x263/0x680 Fixes: 40da8ccd724f ("KVM: x86/xen: Add event channel interrupt vector upcall") Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse --- There are potentially other ways of doing this, by shuffling the tail of kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run() around a little and holding the lock once there instead of taking it within vcpu_run(). But the call to post_kvm_run_save() occurs even on the error paths, and it gets complex to untangle. This is the simple approach. This doesn't show up when I enable event channel delivery in xen_shinfo_test because we have pic_in_kernel() there. I'll fix the tests not to hardcode that, as I expand the event channel support and add more testing of it. arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c index f0874c3d12ce..cd42d58008f7 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c @@ -8783,9 +8783,17 @@ static void post_kvm_run_save(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu) kvm_run->cr8 = kvm_get_cr8(vcpu); kvm_run->apic_base = kvm_get_apic_base(vcpu); + + /* + * The call to kvm_ready_for_interrupt_injection() may end up in + * kvm_xen_has_interrupt() which may require the srcu lock to be + * held to protect against changes in the vcpu_info address. + */ + vcpu->srcu_idx = srcu_read_lock(&vcpu->kvm->srcu); kvm_run->ready_for_interrupt_injection = pic_in_kernel(vcpu->kvm) || kvm_vcpu_ready_for_interrupt_injection(vcpu); + srcu_read_unlock(&vcpu->kvm->srcu, vcpu->srcu_idx); if (is_smm(vcpu)) kvm_run->flags |= KVM_RUN_X86_SMM; -- 2.25.1