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Commit b9c663dc authored by Thomas Gleixner's avatar Thomas Gleixner Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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KVM: x86: Prevent deadlock against tk_core.seq


[ Upstream commit 3f804f6d ]

syzbot reported a possible deadlock in pvclock_gtod_notify():

CPU 0  		  	   	    	    CPU 1
write_seqcount_begin(&tk_core.seq);
  pvclock_gtod_notify()			    spin_lock(&pool->lock);
    queue_work(..., &pvclock_gtod_work)	    ktime_get()
     spin_lock(&pool->lock);		      do {
     						seq = read_seqcount_begin(tk_core.seq)
						...
				              } while (read_seqcount_retry(&tk_core.seq, seq);

While this is unlikely to happen, it's possible.

Delegate queue_work() to irq_work() which postpones it until the
tk_core.seq write held region is left and interrupts are reenabled.

Fixes: 16e8d74d ("KVM: x86: notifier for clocksource changes")
Reported-by: default avatar <syzbot+6beae4000559d41d80f8@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Message-Id: <87h7jgm1zy.ffs@nanos.tec.linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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