xemu/accel
Alex Bennée 886cc68943 accel/tcg: fix race in cpu_exec_step_atomic (bug 1863025)
The bug describes a race whereby cpu_exec_step_atomic can acquire a TB
which is invalidated by a tb_flush before we execute it. This doesn't
affect the other cpu_exec modes as a tb_flush by it's nature can only
occur on a quiescent system. The race was described as:

  B2. tcg_cpu_exec => cpu_exec => tb_find => tb_gen_code
  B3. tcg_tb_alloc obtains a new TB

      C3. TB obtained with tb_lookup__cpu_state or tb_gen_code
          (same TB as B2)

          A3. start_exclusive critical section entered
          A4. do_tb_flush is called, TB memory freed/re-allocated
          A5. end_exclusive exits critical section

  B2. tcg_cpu_exec => cpu_exec => tb_find => tb_gen_code
  B3. tcg_tb_alloc reallocates TB from B2

      C4. start_exclusive critical section entered
      C5. cpu_tb_exec executes the TB code that was free in A4

The simplest fix is to widen the exclusive period to include the TB
lookup. As a result we can drop the complication of checking we are in
the exclusive region before we end it.

Cc: Yifan <me@yifanlu.com>
Buglink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1863025
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20200214144952.15502-1-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
2020-02-28 10:58:41 -08:00
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kvm Merge branch 'exec_rw_const_v4' of https://github.com/philmd/qemu into HEAD 2020-02-25 13:41:48 +01:00
stubs kvm: Introduce KVM irqchip change notifier 2019-11-26 10:11:30 +11:00
tcg accel/tcg: fix race in cpu_exec_step_atomic (bug 1863025) 2020-02-28 10:58:41 -08:00
accel.c accel: Introduce the current_accel() wrapper 2020-01-24 20:59:11 +01:00
Makefile.objs accel: compile accel/accel.c just once 2019-12-17 19:32:25 +01:00
qtest.c qtest: Don't compile qtest accel on non-POSIX systems 2019-05-02 16:56:33 +02:00