On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 10:29:17AM +0800, Yongji Xie wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 4:49 AM Michael S. Tsirkin <m...@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, Apr 11, 2021 at 01:36:18PM +0800, Yongji Xie wrote:
> > > On Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 12:16 AM Michael S. Tsirkin <m...@redhat.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 04:05:12PM +0800, Xie Yongji wrote:
> > > > > Use vhost_dev->mutex to protect vhost device iotlb from
> > > > > concurrent access.
> > > > >
> > > > > Fixes: 4c8cf318("vhost: introduce vDPA-based backend")
> > > > > Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Xie Yongji <xieyon...@bytedance.com>
> > > > > Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasow...@redhat.com>
> > > > > Reviewed-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarz...@redhat.com>
> > > >
> > > > I could not figure out whether there's a bug there now.
> > > > If yes when is the concurrent access triggered?
> > > >
> > >
> > > When userspace sends the VHOST_IOTLB_MSG_V2 message concurrently?
> > >
> > > vhost_vdpa_chr_write_iter -> vhost_chr_write_iter ->
> > > vhost_vdpa_process_iotlb_msg()
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Yongji
> >
> > And then what happens currently?
> >
>
> Then we might access vhost_vdpa_map() concurrently and cause
> corruption of the list and interval tree in struct vhost_iotlb.
>
> Thanks,
> Yongji
OK. Sounds like it's actually needed in this release if possible. Pls
add this info in the commit log and post it as a separate patch.
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