Re: [Qemu-ppc] [FIX PATCH] spapr: prevent QEMU crash when CPU realization fails

[David Gibson]

On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 07:07:53AM +0530, Bharata B Rao wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 09:32:38AM +0200, Greg Kurz wrote:
> > On Thu, 15 Jun 2017 08:22:44 +0530
> > Bharata B Rao <address@hidden> wrote:
> > 
> > > ICPState objects were being allocated before CPU thread realization.
> > > However commit 9ed656631d73 (xics: setup cpu at realize time) reversed it
> > > by allocating ICPState objects after CPU thread is realized. But it
> > > didn't take care to fix the error path because of which we observe
> > > a SIGSEGV when CPU thread realization fails during cold/hotplug.
> > > 
> > > Fix this by ensuring that we do object_unparent() of ICPState object
> > > only in case when is was created earlier.
> > > 
> > 
> > Oops, my bad... my initial intent was to conditionally call 
> > object_unparent()
> > and I simply forgot to put the "if (obj) { }". But your patch is valid as 
> > well
> > of course. Maybe you can drop the initialization of obj to NULL on the way,
> > since it really doesn't make sense anymore.
> 
> Here is the version w/o initializing obj to NULL.
> 
> >From cb9cc946df0d1c430cccb1463d78fa4b41e9f0ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Bharata B Rao <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2017 19:24:43 +0530
> Subject: [FIX PATCH v1] spapr: prevent QEMU crash when CPU realization
>  fails
> 
> ICPState objects were being allocated before CPU thread realization.
> However commit 9ed656631d73 (xics: setup cpu at realize time) reversed it
> by allocating ICPState objects after CPU thread is realized. But it
> didn't take care to fix the error path because of which we observe
> a SIGSEGV when CPU thread realization fails during cold/hotplug.
> 
> Fix this by ensuring that we do object_unparent() of ICPState object
> only in case when is was created earlier.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bharata B Rao <address@hidden>
> Reviewed-by: Greg Kurz <address@hidden>

I've replaced the version in my tree with this newer one.

> ---
>  hw/ppc/spapr_cpu_core.c | 7 ++++---
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/hw/ppc/spapr_cpu_core.c b/hw/ppc/spapr_cpu_core.c
> index d6719d5..ea278ce 100644
> --- a/hw/ppc/spapr_cpu_core.c
> +++ b/hw/ppc/spapr_cpu_core.c
> @@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ static void spapr_cpu_core_realize_child(Object *child, 
> Error **errp)
>      sPAPRMachineState *spapr = SPAPR_MACHINE(qdev_get_machine());
>      CPUState *cs = CPU(child);
>      PowerPCCPU *cpu = POWERPC_CPU(cs);
> -    Object *obj = NULL;
> +    Object *obj;
>  
>      object_property_set_bool(child, true, "realized", &local_err);
>      if (local_err) {
> @@ -198,13 +198,14 @@ static void spapr_cpu_core_realize_child(Object *child, 
> Error **errp)
>      object_property_add_const_link(obj, ICP_PROP_CPU, child, &error_abort);
>      object_property_set_bool(obj, true, "realized", &local_err);
>      if (local_err) {
> -        goto error;
> +        goto free_icp;
>      }
>  
>      return;
>  
> -error:
> +free_icp:
>      object_unparent(obj);
> +error:
>      error_propagate(errp, local_err);
>  }
>  

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