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Pekka Paalanen authored
There was a theoretical possibility to a race between arming a page in
post_kmmio_handler() and disarming the page in
release_kmmio_fault_page():

cpu0                             cpu1
------------------------------------------------------------------
mmiotrace shutdown
enter release_kmmio_fault_page
                                 fault on the page
                                 disarm the page
disarm the page
                                 handle the MMIO access
                                 re-arm the page
put the page on release list
remove_kmmio_fault_pages()
                                 fault on the page
                                 page not known to mmiotrace
                                 fall back to do_page_fault()
                                 *KABOOM*

(This scenario also shows the double disarm case which is allowed.)

Fixed by acquiring kmmio_lock in post_kmmio_handler() and checking
if the page is being released from mmiotrace.

Signed-off-by: default avatarPekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
Cc: Stuart Bennett <stuart@freedesktop.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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