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From: Tony Krowiak <akrowiak@linux.ibm.com>
To: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: jjherne@linux.ibm.com, borntraeger@de.ibm.com, cohuck@redhat.com,
	mjrosato@linux.ibm.com, pasic@linux.ibm.com, pbonzini@redhat.com,
	frankja@linux.ibm.com, imbrenda@linux.ibm.com, david@redhat.com
Subject: [RFC] kvm: reverse call order of kvm_arch_destroy_vm() and kvm_destroy_devices()
Date: Tue,  5 Jul 2022 14:54:30 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220705185430.499688-1-akrowiak@linux.ibm.com> (raw)

There is a new requirement for s390 secure execution guests that the
hypervisor ensures all AP queues are reset and disassociated from the
KVM guest before the secure configuration is torn down. It is the
responsibility of the vfio_ap device driver to handle this.

Prior to commit ("vfio: remove VFIO_GROUP_NOTIFY_SET_KVM"),
the driver reset all AP queues passed through to a KVM guest when notified
that the KVM pointer was being set to NULL. Subsequently, the AP queues
are only reset when the fd for the mediated device used to pass the queues
through to the guest is closed (the vfio_ap_mdev_close_device() callback).
This is not a problem when userspace is well-behaved and uses the
KVM_DEV_VFIO_GROUP_DEL attribute to remove the VFIO group; however, if
userspace for some reason does not close the mdev fd, a secure execution
guest will tear down its configuration before the AP queues are
reset because the teardown is done in the kvm_arch_destroy_vm function
which is invoked prior to vm_destroy_devices.

This patch proposes a simple solution; rather than introducing a new
notifier into vfio or callback into KVM, what aoubt reversing the order
in which the kvm_arch_destroy_vm and kvm_destroy_devices are called. In
some very limited testing (i.e., the automated regression tests for
the vfio_ap device driver) this did not seem to cause any problems.

The question remains, is there a good technical reason why the VM
is destroyed before the devices it is using? This is not intuitive, so
this is a request for comments on this proposed patch. The assumption
here is that the medev fd will get closed when the devices are destroyed.

Signed-off-by: Tony Krowiak <akrowiak@linux.ibm.com>
---
 virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
index a49df8988cd6..edaf2918be9b 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -1248,8 +1248,8 @@ static void kvm_destroy_vm(struct kvm *kvm)
 #else
 	kvm_flush_shadow_all(kvm);
 #endif
-	kvm_arch_destroy_vm(kvm);
 	kvm_destroy_devices(kvm);
+	kvm_arch_destroy_vm(kvm);
 	for (i = 0; i < KVM_ADDRESS_SPACE_NUM; i++) {
 		kvm_free_memslots(kvm, &kvm->__memslots[i][0]);
 		kvm_free_memslots(kvm, &kvm->__memslots[i][1]);
-- 
2.31.1


             reply	other threads:[~2022-07-05 18:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-07-05 18:54 Tony Krowiak [this message]
2022-07-05 19:30 ` [RFC] kvm: reverse call order of kvm_arch_destroy_vm() and kvm_destroy_devices() Matthew Rosato
2022-07-18 14:11 ` Anthony Krowiak
2022-07-27 19:00 ` Anthony Krowiak
2022-08-01 11:53   ` Halil Pasic
2022-08-11 14:39     ` Anthony Krowiak

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