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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] hvc/xen: prevent concurrent accesses to the shared ring
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On 30.11.22 16:09, Roger Pau Monne wrote:
> The hvc machinery registers both a console and a tty device based on
> the hv ops provided by the specific implementation. Those two
> interfaces however have different locks, and there's no single locks
> that's shared between the tty and the console implementations, hence
> the driver needs to protect itself against concurrent accesses.
> Otherwise concurrent calls using the split interfaces are likely to
> corrupt the ring indexes, leaving the console unusable.
>
> Introduce a lock to xencons_info to serialize accesses to the shared
> ring. This is only required when using the shared memory console,
> concurrent accesses to the hypercall based console implementation are
> not an issue.
>
> Note the conditional logic in domU_read_console() is slightly modified
> so the notify_daemon() call can be done outside of the locked region:
> it's an hypercall and there's no need for it to be done with the lock
> held.
>
> Fixes: b536b4b96230 ('xen: use the hvc console infrastructure for Xen console')
> Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>

Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>


Juergen

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