From 6b49809c597331803ea941eadda813e5bb4e8fe2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paolo Bonzini Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 19:58:23 +0100 Subject: cpus: fix deadlock and segfault in qemu_mutex_lock_iothread When two threads (other than the low-priority TCG VCPU thread) are competing for the iothread lock, a deadlock can happen. This is because iothread_requesting_mutex is set to false by the first thread that gets the mutex, and then the VCPU thread might never yield from the execution loop. If iothread_requesting_mutex is changed from a bool to a counter, the deadlock is fixed. However, there is another bug in qemu_mutex_lock_iothread that can be triggered by the new call_rcu thread. The bug happens if qemu_mutex_lock_iothread is called before the CPUs are created. In that case, first_cpu is NULL and the caller segfaults in qemu_mutex_lock_iothread. To fix this, just do not do the kick if first_cpu is NULL. Reported-by: Leon Alrae Reported-by: Andreas Gustafsson Tested-by: Leon Alrae Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini --- cpus.c | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'cpus.c') diff --git a/cpus.c b/cpus.c index 1cd9867893..83c078e286 100644 --- a/cpus.c +++ b/cpus.c @@ -778,7 +778,7 @@ static void qemu_tcg_init_cpu_signals(void) static QemuMutex qemu_global_mutex; static QemuCond qemu_io_proceeded_cond; -static bool iothread_requesting_mutex; +static unsigned iothread_requesting_mutex; static QemuThread io_thread; @@ -1115,15 +1115,15 @@ bool qemu_in_vcpu_thread(void) void qemu_mutex_lock_iothread(void) { - if (!tcg_enabled()) { + if (!tcg_enabled() || !first_cpu) { qemu_mutex_lock(&qemu_global_mutex); } else { - iothread_requesting_mutex = true; + atomic_inc(&iothread_requesting_mutex); if (qemu_mutex_trylock(&qemu_global_mutex)) { qemu_cpu_kick_thread(first_cpu); qemu_mutex_lock(&qemu_global_mutex); } - iothread_requesting_mutex = false; + atomic_dec(&iothread_requesting_mutex); qemu_cond_broadcast(&qemu_io_proceeded_cond); } } -- cgit v1.2.1