Re: [RFC 01/12] KVM: arm/arm64: Avoid multiple dist->spis kfree

[Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>]

On 19/03/18 09:20, Eric Auger wrote:
> in case kvm_vgic_map_resources() fails, typically if the vgic
> distributor is not defined, __kvm_vgic_destroy will be called
> several times. Indeed kvm_vgic_map_resources() is called on
> first vcpu run. As a result dist->spis is freeed twice and on
> the second time it causes a "kernel BUG at mm/slub.c:3912!"
> 
> This patch avoids freeing dist->spis twice.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@redhat.com>
> ---
>  virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-init.c | 5 ++++-
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-init.c b/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-init.c
> index 743ca5c..38fd5f1 100644
> --- a/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-init.c
> +++ b/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-init.c
> @@ -324,7 +324,10 @@ static void kvm_vgic_dist_destroy(struct kvm *kvm)
>  	dist->ready = false;
>  	dist->initialized = false;
>  
> -	kfree(dist->spis);
> +	if (dist->spis) {
> +		kfree(dist->spis);
> +		dist->spis = NULL;
> +	}

Given that kfree(NULL) is always a valid thing to do, you could write
the same thing just as

	dist-> spis = NULL;

without any test.

>  	dist->nr_spis = 0;
>  
>  	if (vgic_supports_direct_msis(kvm))
> 

You also may want to add a Fixes tag to it.

Thanks,

	M.
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