KVM: PPC: Book3S: Improve KVM reference counting

The anon fd's ops releases the KVM reference in the release hook.
However we reference the KVM object after we create the fd so there is
small window when the release function can be called and
dereferenced the KVM object which potentially may free it.

It is not a problem at the moment as the file is created and KVM is
referenced under the KVM lock and the release function obtains the same
lock before dereferencing the KVM (although the lock is not held when
calling kvm_put_kvm()) but it is potentially fragile against future changes.

This references the KVM object before creating a file.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_vio.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_vio.c
index 6630dde56668..f02b04973710 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_vio.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_vio.c
@@ -337,14 +337,15 @@ long kvm_vm_ioctl_create_spapr_tce(struct kvm *kvm,
 		}
 	}
 
+	kvm_get_kvm(kvm);
 	if (!ret)
 		ret = anon_inode_getfd("kvm-spapr-tce", &kvm_spapr_tce_fops,
 				       stt, O_RDWR | O_CLOEXEC);
 
-	if (ret >= 0) {
+	if (ret >= 0)
 		list_add_rcu(&stt->list, &kvm->arch.spapr_tce_tables);
-		kvm_get_kvm(kvm);
-	}
+	else
+		kvm_put_kvm(kvm);
 
 	mutex_unlock(&kvm->lock);