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Diffstat (limited to 'virt')
| -rw-r--r-- | virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 13 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c index fcceb8443aa9..6cad7dea5d0b 100644 --- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c +++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c @@ -117,6 +117,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kvm_debugfs_dir); static const struct file_operations stat_fops_per_vm; +static struct file_operations kvm_chardev_ops; + static long kvm_vcpu_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int ioctl, unsigned long arg); #ifdef CONFIG_KVM_COMPAT @@ -1099,6 +1101,16 @@ static struct kvm *kvm_create_vm(unsigned long type) preempt_notifier_inc(); kvm_init_pm_notifier(kvm); + /* + * When the fd passed to this ioctl() is opened it pins the module, + * but try_module_get() also prevents getting a reference if the module + * is in MODULE_STATE_GOING (e.g. if someone ran "rmmod --wait"). + */ + if (!try_module_get(kvm_chardev_ops.owner)) { + r = -ENODEV; + goto out_err; + } + return kvm; out_err: @@ -1188,6 +1200,7 @@ static void kvm_destroy_vm(struct kvm *kvm) preempt_notifier_dec(); hardware_disable_all(); mmdrop(mm); + module_put(kvm_chardev_ops.owner); } void kvm_get_kvm(struct kvm *kvm) |