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As there is very little ordering in the KVM API, userspace can instanciate a half-baked GIC (missing its memory map, for example) at almost any time. This means that, with the right timing, a thread running vcpu-0 can enter the kernel without a GIC configured and get a GIC created behind its back by another thread. Amusingly, it will pick up that GIC and start messing with the data structures without the GIC having been fully initialised. Similarly, a thread running vcpu-1 can enter the kernel, and try to init the GIC that was previously created. Since this GIC isn't properly configured (no memory map), it fails to correctly initialise. And that's the point where we decide to teardown the GIC, freeing all its resources. Behind vcpu-0's back. Things stop pretty abruptly, with a variety of symptoms. Clearly, this isn't good, we should be a bit more careful about this. It is obvious that this guest is not viable, as it is missing some important part of its configuration. So instead of trying to tear bits of it down, let's just mark it as *dead*. It means that any further interaction from userspace will result in -EIO. The memory will be released on the "normal" path, when userspace gives up. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Reviewed-by: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241009183603.3221824-1-maz@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.