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SubjectRE: [PATCH] Drivers: hv: vmbus: fix the race when querying & updating the percpu list
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> From: Vitaly Kuznetsov [mailto:vkuznets@redhat.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2016 16:15
> To: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>
> Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; driverdev-
> devel@linuxdriverproject.org; olaf@aepfle.de; apw@canonical.com;
> jasowang@redhat.com; KY Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>; Haiyang Zhang
> <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Drivers: hv: vmbus: fix the race when querying & updating
> the percpu list
>
> Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com> writes:
>
> > There is a rare race when we remove an entry from the global list
> > hv_context.percpu_list[cpu] in hv_process_channel_removal() ->
> > percpu_channel_deq() -> list_del(): at this time, if vmbus_on_event() ->
> > process_chn_event() -> pcpu_relid2channel() is trying to query the list,
> > we can get the general protection fault:
> >...
> >
> > We can resolve the issue by disabling the tasklet when updating the list.
> >
> > @@ -418,6 +413,7 @@ static void vmbus_process_offer(struct
> vmbus_channel *newchannel)
> > percpu_channel_enq(newchannel);
> > put_cpu();
> > }
> > + tasklet_enable(tasklet);
>
> Do we need to do tasklet_schedule() to make sure there are no events
> pending? This is probably not a big issue as some other event will
> trigger scheduling but in some corner cases it may bite. Same question
> applies to the code below and to vmbus_close_internal().

Hi Vitaly,
Thanks for spotting this!
I think you're correct.
I'll add tasklet_schedul() before the tasklet_enable() in the 2 places.

Thanks,
-- Dexuan

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