Re: [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH 3/5] spapr_cpu_core: add missing rollback on realization path

[David Gibson]

On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 07:53:37AM +0200, Greg Kurz wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Jun 2018 10:02:25 +1000
> David Gibson <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 11:50:42PM +0200, Greg Kurz wrote:
> > > The spapr_realize_vcpu() function doesn't rollback in case of error.
> > > This isn't a problem with coldplugged CPUs because the machine won't
> > > start and QEMU will exit. Hotplug is a different story though: the
> > > CPU thread is started under object_property_set_bool() and it assumes
> > > it can access the CPU object.
> > > 
> > > If icp_create() fails, we return an error without unregistering the
> > > reset handler for this CPU, and we let the underlying QEMU thread for
> > > this CPU alive. Since spapr_cpu_core_realize() doesn't care to unrealize
> > > already realized CPUs either, but happily frees all of them anyway, the
> > > CPU thread crashes instantly:
> > > 
> > > (qemu) device_add host-spapr-cpu-core,core-id=1,id=gku
> > > GKU: failing icp_create (cpu 0x11497fd0)
> > >                              ^^^^^^^^^^
> > > Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> > > [Switching to Thread 0x7fffee3feaa0 (LWP 24725)]
> > > 0x00000000104c8374 in object_dynamic_cast_assert (obj=0x11497fd0,
> > >                                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > >                                              pointer to the CPU object
> > > 623         trace_object_dynamic_cast_assert(obj ? obj->class->type->name
> > > (gdb) p obj->class->type
> > > $1 = (Type) 0x0
> > > (gdb) p * obj
> > > $2 = {class = 0x10ea9c10, free = 0x11244620,
> > >                                  ^^^^^^^^^^
> > >                               should be g_free
> > > (gdb) p g_free
> > > $3 = {<text variable, no debug info>} 0x7ffff282bef0 <g_free>
> > > 
> > > obj is a dangling pointer to the CPU that was just destroyed in
> > > spapr_cpu_core_realize().
> > > 
> > > This patch adds proper rollback to both spapr_realize_vcpu() and
> > > spapr_cpu_core_realize().
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <address@hidden>  
> > 
> > Applied to ppc-for-3.0, since it definitely looks to fix some
> > problems.
> > 
> > > ---
> > >  hw/ppc/spapr_cpu_core.c |   12 ++++++++++--
> > >  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/hw/ppc/spapr_cpu_core.c b/hw/ppc/spapr_cpu_core.c
> > > index 003c4c5a79d2..04c818a6ecac 100644
> > > --- a/hw/ppc/spapr_cpu_core.c
> > > +++ b/hw/ppc/spapr_cpu_core.c
> > > @@ -159,12 +159,16 @@ static void spapr_realize_vcpu(PowerPCCPU *cpu, 
> > > sPAPRMachineState *spapr,
> > >      spapr_cpu->icp = icp_create(OBJECT(cpu), spapr->icp_type,
> > >                                  XICS_FABRIC(spapr), &local_err);
> > >      if (local_err) {
> > > -        goto error;
> > > +        goto error_unregister;
> > >      }
> > >  
> > >      return;
> > >  
> > > +error_unregister:
> > > +    qemu_unregister_reset(spapr_cpu_reset, cpu);
> > > +    cpu_remove_sync(CPU(cpu));  
> > 
> > I'm a little unclear on exactly what init the cpu_remove_sync() is
> > mirroring, though.
> > 
> 
> We have the same call in spapr_unrealize_vcpu(). IIUC it is mirroring
> object_property_set_bool(OBJECT(cpu), true, "realized", &local_err).

Ok.

> 
> > >  error:
> > > +    g_free(spapr_cpu);
> > >      error_propagate(errp, local_err);
> > >  }
> > >  
> > > @@ -222,11 +226,15 @@ static void spapr_cpu_core_realize(DeviceState 
> > > *dev, Error **errp)
> > >      for (j = 0; j < cc->nr_threads; j++) {
> > >          spapr_realize_vcpu(sc->threads[j], spapr, &local_err);
> > >          if (local_err) {
> > > -            goto err;
> > > +            goto err_unrealize;
> > >          }
> > >      }
> > >      return;
> > >  
> > > +err_unrealize:
> > > +    while (--j >= 0) {
> > > +        spapr_unrealize_vcpu(sc->threads[i]);
> > > +    }
> > >  err:
> > >      while (--i >= 0) {
> > >          obj = OBJECT(sc->threads[i]);
> > >   
> > 
> 



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