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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/1] vhost: Protect the virtqueue from being cleared whilst still in use
On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 08:43:02AM +0000, Lee Jones wrote:
> vhost_vsock_handle_tx_kick() already holds the mutex during its call
> to vhost_get_vq_desc(). All we have to do here is take the same lock
> during virtqueue clean-up and we mitigate the reported issues.
>
> Also WARN() as a precautionary measure. The purpose of this is to
> capture possible future race conditions which may pop up over time.
>
> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>

Pls refer to my previous responses to this patch. I'd like to see an
argument for why this will make future bugs less and not more likely.


> ---
> drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
> index 59edb5a1ffe28..bbaff6a5e21b8 100644
> --- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
> +++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
> @@ -693,6 +693,7 @@ void vhost_dev_cleanup(struct vhost_dev *dev)
> int i;
>
> for (i = 0; i < dev->nvqs; ++i) {
> + mutex_lock(&dev->vqs[i]->mutex);
> if (dev->vqs[i]->error_ctx)
> eventfd_ctx_put(dev->vqs[i]->error_ctx);
> if (dev->vqs[i]->kick)
> @@ -700,6 +701,7 @@ void vhost_dev_cleanup(struct vhost_dev *dev)
> if (dev->vqs[i]->call_ctx.ctx)
> eventfd_ctx_put(dev->vqs[i]->call_ctx.ctx);
> vhost_vq_reset(dev, dev->vqs[i]);
> + mutex_unlock(&dev->vqs[i]->mutex);
> }
> vhost_dev_free_iovecs(dev);
> if (dev->log_ctx)
> --
> 2.35.1.723.g4982287a31-goog

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