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<title>KVM: Check validity of resolved slot when searching memslots</title>
<updated>2020-05-02T15:23:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sean Christopherson</name>
<email>sean.j.christopherson@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-04-08T06:40:58+00:00</published>
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commit b6467ab142b708dd076f6186ca274f14af379c72 upstream.

Check that the resolved slot (somewhat confusingly named 'start') is a
valid/allocated slot before doing the final comparison to see if the
specified gfn resides in the associated slot.  The resolved slot can be
invalid if the binary search loop terminated because the search index
was incremented beyond the number of used slots.

This bug has existed since the binary search algorithm was introduced,
but went unnoticed because KVM statically allocated memory for the max
number of slots, i.e. the access would only be truly out-of-bounds if
all possible slots were allocated and the specified gfn was less than
the base of the lowest memslot.  Commit 36947254e5f98 ("KVM: Dynamically
size memslot array based on number of used slots") eliminated the "all
possible slots allocated" condition and made the bug embarrasingly easy
to hit.

Fixes: 9c1a5d38780e6 ("kvm: optimize GFN to memslot lookup with large slots amount")
Reported-by: syzbot+d889b59b2bb87d4047a2@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;sean.j.christopherson@intel.com&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;20200408064059.8957-2-sean.j.christopherson@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck &lt;cohuck@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit b6467ab142b708dd076f6186ca274f14af379c72 upstream.

Check that the resolved slot (somewhat confusingly named 'start') is a
valid/allocated slot before doing the final comparison to see if the
specified gfn resides in the associated slot.  The resolved slot can be
invalid if the binary search loop terminated because the search index
was incremented beyond the number of used slots.

This bug has existed since the binary search algorithm was introduced,
but went unnoticed because KVM statically allocated memory for the max
number of slots, i.e. the access would only be truly out-of-bounds if
all possible slots were allocated and the specified gfn was less than
the base of the lowest memslot.  Commit 36947254e5f98 ("KVM: Dynamically
size memslot array based on number of used slots") eliminated the "all
possible slots allocated" condition and made the bug embarrasingly easy
to hit.

Fixes: 9c1a5d38780e6 ("kvm: optimize GFN to memslot lookup with large slots amount")
Reported-by: syzbot+d889b59b2bb87d4047a2@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;sean.j.christopherson@intel.com&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;20200408064059.8957-2-sean.j.christopherson@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck &lt;cohuck@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>KVM: MMU: Do not treat ZONE_DEVICE pages as being reserved</title>
<updated>2019-11-28T17:29:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sean Christopherson</name>
<email>sean.j.christopherson@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-11T22:12:27+00:00</published>
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commit a78986aae9b2988f8493f9f65a587ee433e83bc3 upstream.

Explicitly exempt ZONE_DEVICE pages from kvm_is_reserved_pfn() and
instead manually handle ZONE_DEVICE on a case-by-case basis.  For things
like page refcounts, KVM needs to treat ZONE_DEVICE pages like normal
pages, e.g. put pages grabbed via gup().  But for flows such as setting
A/D bits or shifting refcounts for transparent huge pages, KVM needs to
to avoid processing ZONE_DEVICE pages as the flows in question lack the
underlying machinery for proper handling of ZONE_DEVICE pages.

This fixes a hang reported by Adam Borowski[*] in dev_pagemap_cleanup()
when running a KVM guest backed with /dev/dax memory, as KVM straight up
doesn't put any references to ZONE_DEVICE pages acquired by gup().

Note, Dan Williams proposed an alternative solution of doing put_page()
on ZONE_DEVICE pages immediately after gup() in order to simplify the
auditing needed to ensure is_zone_device_page() is called if and only if
the backing device is pinned (via gup()).  But that approach would break
kvm_vcpu_{un}map() as KVM requires the page to be pinned from map() 'til
unmap() when accessing guest memory, unlike KVM's secondary MMU, which
coordinates with mmu_notifier invalidations to avoid creating stale
page references, i.e. doesn't rely on pages being pinned.

[*] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190919115547.GA17963@angband.pl

Reported-by: Adam Borowski &lt;kilobyte@angband.pl&gt;
Analyzed-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 3565fce3a659 ("mm, x86: get_user_pages() for dax mappings")
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;sean.j.christopherson@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
[sean: backport to 4.x; resolve conflict in mmu.c]
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;sean.j.christopherson@intel.com&gt;
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commit a78986aae9b2988f8493f9f65a587ee433e83bc3 upstream.

Explicitly exempt ZONE_DEVICE pages from kvm_is_reserved_pfn() and
instead manually handle ZONE_DEVICE on a case-by-case basis.  For things
like page refcounts, KVM needs to treat ZONE_DEVICE pages like normal
pages, e.g. put pages grabbed via gup().  But for flows such as setting
A/D bits or shifting refcounts for transparent huge pages, KVM needs to
to avoid processing ZONE_DEVICE pages as the flows in question lack the
underlying machinery for proper handling of ZONE_DEVICE pages.

This fixes a hang reported by Adam Borowski[*] in dev_pagemap_cleanup()
when running a KVM guest backed with /dev/dax memory, as KVM straight up
doesn't put any references to ZONE_DEVICE pages acquired by gup().

Note, Dan Williams proposed an alternative solution of doing put_page()
on ZONE_DEVICE pages immediately after gup() in order to simplify the
auditing needed to ensure is_zone_device_page() is called if and only if
the backing device is pinned (via gup()).  But that approach would break
kvm_vcpu_{un}map() as KVM requires the page to be pinned from map() 'til
unmap() when accessing guest memory, unlike KVM's secondary MMU, which
coordinates with mmu_notifier invalidations to avoid creating stale
page references, i.e. doesn't rely on pages being pinned.

[*] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190919115547.GA17963@angband.pl

Reported-by: Adam Borowski &lt;kilobyte@angband.pl&gt;
Analyzed-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 3565fce3a659 ("mm, x86: get_user_pages() for dax mappings")
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;sean.j.christopherson@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
[sean: backport to 4.x; resolve conflict in mmu.c]
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;sean.j.christopherson@intel.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>kvm: Add helper function for creating VM worker threads</title>
<updated>2019-11-16T09:29:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Junaid Shahid</name>
<email>junaids@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-04T11:22:02+00:00</published>
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commit c57c80467f90e5504c8df9ad3555d2c78800bf94 upstream.

Add a function to create a kernel thread associated with a given VM. In
particular, it ensures that the worker thread inherits the priority and
cgroups of the calling thread.

Signed-off-by: Junaid Shahid &lt;junaids@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 4.9: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit c57c80467f90e5504c8df9ad3555d2c78800bf94 upstream.

Add a function to create a kernel thread associated with a given VM. In
particular, it ensures that the worker thread inherits the priority and
cgroups of the calling thread.

Signed-off-by: Junaid Shahid &lt;junaids@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 4.9: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>kvm: Convert kvm_lock to a mutex</title>
<updated>2019-11-16T09:29:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Junaid Shahid</name>
<email>junaids@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-01-04T01:14:28+00:00</published>
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commit 0d9ce162cf46c99628cc5da9510b959c7976735b upstream.

It doesn't seem as if there is any particular need for kvm_lock to be a
spinlock, so convert the lock to a mutex so that sleepable functions (in
particular cond_resched()) can be called while holding it.

Signed-off-by: Junaid Shahid &lt;junaids@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 4.9:
 - Drop changes in kvm_hyperv_tsc_notifier(), vm_stat_clear(),
   vcpu_stat_clear(), kvm_uevent_notify_change()
 - Adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 0d9ce162cf46c99628cc5da9510b959c7976735b upstream.

It doesn't seem as if there is any particular need for kvm_lock to be a
spinlock, so convert the lock to a mutex so that sleepable functions (in
particular cond_resched()) can be called while holding it.

Signed-off-by: Junaid Shahid &lt;junaids@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 4.9:
 - Drop changes in kvm_hyperv_tsc_notifier(), vm_stat_clear(),
   vcpu_stat_clear(), kvm_uevent_notify_change()
 - Adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>kvm: fix warning for CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_EVENTFD builds</title>
<updated>2018-05-30T05:50:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sebastian Ott</name>
<email>sebott@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-22T12:05:41+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 076467490b8176eb96eddc548a14d4135c7b5852 ]

Move the kvm_arch_irq_routing_update() prototype outside of
ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_EVENTFD guards to fix the following sparse warning:

arch/s390/kvm/../../../virt/kvm/irqchip.c:171:28: warning: symbol 'kvm_arch_irq_routing_update' was not declared. Should it be static?

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Ott &lt;sebott@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 076467490b8176eb96eddc548a14d4135c7b5852 ]

Move the kvm_arch_irq_routing_update() prototype outside of
ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_EVENTFD guards to fix the following sparse warning:

arch/s390/kvm/../../../virt/kvm/irqchip.c:171:28: warning: symbol 'kvm_arch_irq_routing_update' was not declared. Should it be static?

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Ott &lt;sebott@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: kvm_io_bus_unregister_dev() should never fail</title>
<updated>2017-04-08T07:30:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Hildenbrand</name>
<email>david@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-03-23T17:24:19+00:00</published>
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commit 90db10434b163e46da413d34db8d0e77404cc645 upstream.

No caller currently checks the return value of
kvm_io_bus_unregister_dev(). This is evil, as all callers silently go on
freeing their device. A stale reference will remain in the io_bus,
getting at least used again, when the iobus gets teared down on
kvm_destroy_vm() - leading to use after free errors.

There is nothing the callers could do, except retrying over and over
again.

So let's simply remove the bus altogether, print an error and make
sure no one can access this broken bus again (returning -ENOMEM on any
attempt to access it).

Fixes: e93f8a0f821e ("KVM: convert io_bus to SRCU")
Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck &lt;cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 90db10434b163e46da413d34db8d0e77404cc645 upstream.

No caller currently checks the return value of
kvm_io_bus_unregister_dev(). This is evil, as all callers silently go on
freeing their device. A stale reference will remain in the io_bus,
getting at least used again, when the iobus gets teared down on
kvm_destroy_vm() - leading to use after free errors.

There is nothing the callers could do, except retrying over and over
again.

So let's simply remove the bus altogether, print an error and make
sure no one can access this broken bus again (returning -ENOMEM on any
attempt to access it).

Fixes: e93f8a0f821e ("KVM: convert io_bus to SRCU")
Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck &lt;cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>kvm: create per-vcpu dirs in debugfs</title>
<updated>2016-09-16T14:57:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Luiz Capitulino</name>
<email>lcapitulino@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-09-16T14:27:35+00:00</published>
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This commit adds the ability for archs to export
per-vcpu information via a new per-vcpu dir in
the VM's debugfs directory.

If kvm_arch_has_vcpu_debugfs() returns true, then KVM
will create a vcpu dir for each vCPU in the VM's
debugfs directory. Then kvm_arch_create_vcpu_debugfs()
is responsible for populating each vcpu directory
with arch specific entries.

The per-vcpu path in debugfs will look like:

/sys/kernel/debug/kvm/29162-10/vcpu0
/sys/kernel/debug/kvm/29162-10/vcpu1

This is all arch specific for now because the only
user of this interface (x86) wants to export x86-specific
per-vcpu information to user-space.

Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino &lt;lcapitulino@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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This commit adds the ability for archs to export
per-vcpu information via a new per-vcpu dir in
the VM's debugfs directory.

If kvm_arch_has_vcpu_debugfs() returns true, then KVM
will create a vcpu dir for each vCPU in the VM's
debugfs directory. Then kvm_arch_create_vcpu_debugfs()
is responsible for populating each vcpu directory
with arch specific entries.

The per-vcpu path in debugfs will look like:

/sys/kernel/debug/kvm/29162-10/vcpu0
/sys/kernel/debug/kvm/29162-10/vcpu1

This is all arch specific for now because the only
user of this interface (x86) wants to export x86-specific
per-vcpu information to user-space.

Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino &lt;lcapitulino@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>kvm: add stubs for arch specific debugfs support</title>
<updated>2016-09-16T14:57:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Luiz Capitulino</name>
<email>lcapitulino@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-09-07T18:47:23+00:00</published>
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Two stubs are added:

 o kvm_arch_has_vcpu_debugfs(): must return true if the arch
   supports creating debugfs entries in the vcpu debugfs dir
   (which will be implemented by the next commit)

 o kvm_arch_create_vcpu_debugfs(): code that creates debugfs
   entries in the vcpu debugfs dir

For x86, this commit introduces a new file to avoid growing
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c even more.

Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino &lt;lcapitulino@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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Two stubs are added:

 o kvm_arch_has_vcpu_debugfs(): must return true if the arch
   supports creating debugfs entries in the vcpu debugfs dir
   (which will be implemented by the next commit)

 o kvm_arch_create_vcpu_debugfs(): code that creates debugfs
   entries in the vcpu debugfs dir

For x86, this commit introduces a new file to avoid growing
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c even more.

Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino &lt;lcapitulino@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: Protect device ops-&gt;create and list_add with kvm-&gt;lock</title>
<updated>2016-08-12T10:01:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoffer Dall</name>
<email>christoffer.dall@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-08-09T17:13:01+00:00</published>
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KVM devices were manipulating list data structures without any form of
synchronization, and some implementations of the create operations also
suffered from a lack of synchronization.

Now when we've split the xics create operation into create and init, we
can hold the kvm-&gt;lock mutex while calling the create operation and when
manipulating the devices list.

The error path in the generic code gets slightly ugly because we have to
take the mutex again and delete the device from the list, but holding
the mutex during anon_inode_getfd or releasing/locking the mutex in the
common non-error path seemed wrong.

Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář &lt;rkrcmar@redhat.com&gt;
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KVM devices were manipulating list data structures without any form of
synchronization, and some implementations of the create operations also
suffered from a lack of synchronization.

Now when we've split the xics create operation into create and init, we
can hold the kvm-&gt;lock mutex while calling the create operation and when
manipulating the devices list.

The error path in the generic code gets slightly ugly because we have to
take the mutex again and delete the device from the list, but holding
the mutex during anon_inode_getfd or releasing/locking the mutex in the
common non-error path seemed wrong.

Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář &lt;rkrcmar@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>KVM: PPC: Move xics_debugfs_init out of create</title>
<updated>2016-08-12T10:01:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoffer Dall</name>
<email>christoffer.dall@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-08-09T17:13:00+00:00</published>
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As we are about to hold the kvm-&gt;lock during the create operation on KVM
devices, we should move the call to xics_debugfs_init into its own
function, since holding a mutex over extended amounts of time might not
be a good idea.

Introduce an init operation on the kvm_device_ops struct which cannot
fail and call this, if configured, after the device has been created.

Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář &lt;rkrcmar@redhat.com&gt;
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As we are about to hold the kvm-&gt;lock during the create operation on KVM
devices, we should move the call to xics_debugfs_init into its own
function, since holding a mutex over extended amounts of time might not
be a good idea.

Introduce an init operation on the kvm_device_ops struct which cannot
fail and call this, if configured, after the device has been created.

Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář &lt;rkrcmar@redhat.com&gt;
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