KVM: introduce kvm->created_vcpus

The race between creating the irqchip and the first VCPU is
currently fixed by checking the presence of an irqchip before
updating kvm->online_vcpus, and undoing the whole VCPU creation
if someone created the irqchip in the meanwhile.

Instead, introduce a new field in struct kvm that will count VCPUs
under a mutex, without the atomic access and memory ordering that we
need elsewhere to protect the vcpus array.  This also plugs the race
and is more easily applicable in all similar circumstances.

Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/kvm_host.h b/include/linux/kvm_host.h
index 1c9c973a7dd9..63c6ab30bc81 100644
--- a/include/linux/kvm_host.h
+++ b/include/linux/kvm_host.h
@@ -371,7 +371,15 @@ struct kvm {
         struct srcu_struct srcu;
         struct srcu_struct irq_srcu;
         struct kvm_vcpu *vcpus[KVM_MAX_VCPUS];
+
+        /*
+         * created_vcpus is protected by kvm->lock, and is incremented
+         * at the beginning of KVM_CREATE_VCPU.  online_vcpus is only
+         * incremented after storing the kvm_vcpu pointer in vcpus,
+         * and is accessed atomically.
+         */
         atomic_t online_vcpus;
+        int created_vcpus;
         int last_boosted_vcpu;
         struct list_head vm_list;
         struct mutex lock;