On 07/08/2013 05:05 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> Jason Wang reported a race in RX VQ processing:
> virtqueue_enable_cb is called outside napi lock,
> violating virtio serialization rules.
> The race has been there from day 1, but it got especially nasty in 3.0
> when commit a5c262c5fd83ece01bd649fb08416c501d4c59d7
> "virtio_ring: support event idx feature"
> added more dependency on vq state.
>
> Please review, and consider for 3.11 and for stable.
>
> Jason, could you please report whether this fixes the issues for you?

Yes, I confirm this fixes the issue.

Since I can only reproduce it by adding udelay in virtqueue_enable_cb()
after virtio_mb(). I validate this also with this.

Thanks
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