This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
virtio_net: fix race in RX VQ processing
to the 3.0-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
virtio-race-2of2.diff
and it can be found in the queue-3.0 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
From: Michael S. Tsirkin <[email protected]>
Subject: virtio_net: fix race in RX VQ processing
From: Michael S. Tsirkin <[email protected]>
commit cbdadbbf0c790f79350a8f36029208944c5487d0 upstream
virtio net called virtqueue_enable_cq on RX path after napi_complete, so
with NAPI_STATE_SCHED clear - outside the implicit napi lock.
This violates the requirement to synchronize virtqueue_enable_cq wrt
virtqueue_add_buf. In particular, used event can move backwards,
causing us to lose interrupts.
In a debug build, this can trigger panic within START_USE.
Jason Wang reports that he can trigger the races artificially,
by adding udelay() in virtqueue_enable_cb() after virtio_mb().
However, we must call napi_complete to clear NAPI_STATE_SCHED before
polling the virtqueue for used buffers, otherwise napi_schedule_prep in
a callback will fail, causing us to lose RX events.
To fix, call virtqueue_enable_cb_prepare with NAPI_STATE_SCHED
set (under napi lock), later call virtqueue_poll with
NAPI_STATE_SCHED clear (outside the lock).
Reported-by: Jason Wang <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Jason Wang <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Jason Wang <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
[wg: Backported to 3.2]
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Gloger <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
---
drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
+++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
@@ -480,7 +480,7 @@ static int virtnet_poll(struct napi_stru
{
struct virtnet_info *vi = container_of(napi, struct virtnet_info, napi);
void *buf;
- unsigned int len, received = 0;
+ unsigned int r, len, received = 0;
again:
while (received < budget &&
@@ -497,8 +497,9 @@ again:
/* Out of packets? */
if (received < budget) {
+ r = virtqueue_enable_cb_prepare(vi->rvq);
napi_complete(napi);
- if (unlikely(!virtqueue_enable_cb(vi->rvq)) &&
+ if (unlikely(virtqueue_poll(vi->rvq, r)) &&
napi_schedule_prep(napi)) {
virtqueue_disable_cb(vi->rvq);
__napi_schedule(napi);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-3.0/virtio-race-1of2.diff
queue-3.0/virtio-race-2of2.diff
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