Currently, under certain circumstances vhost_init_is_le does just a part
of the initialization job, and depends on vhost_reset_is_le being called
too. For this reason vhost_vq_init_access used to call vhost_reset_is_le
when vq->private_data is NULL. This is not only counter intuitive, but
also real a problem because it breaks vhost_net. The bug was introduced to
vhost_net with commit 2751c9882b94 ("vhost: cross-endian support for
legacy devices"). The symptom is corruption of the vq's used.idx field
(virtio) after VHOST_NET_SET_BACKEND was issued as a part of the vhost
shutdown on a vq with pending descriptors.Let us make sure the outcome of vhost_init_is_le never depend on the state it is actually supposed to initialize, and fix virtio_net by removing the reset from vhost_vq_init_access. With the above, there is no reason for vhost_reset_is_le to do just half of the job. Let us make vhost_reset_is_le reinitialize is_le. Signed-off-by: Halil Pasic <[email protected]> Reported-by: Michael A. Tebolt <[email protected]> Reported-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <[email protected]> Fixes: commit 2751c9882b94 ("vhost: cross-endian support for legacy devices") --- The bug was already discussed here: http://www.spinics.net/lists/kvm/msg144365.html This is a follow up patch. --- drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 10 ++++------ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c index d643260..8f99fe0 100644 --- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c +++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c @@ -130,14 +130,14 @@ static long vhost_get_vring_endian(struct vhost_virtqueue *vq, u32 idx, static void vhost_init_is_le(struct vhost_virtqueue *vq) { - if (vhost_has_feature(vq, VIRTIO_F_VERSION_1)) - vq->is_le = true; + vq->is_le = vhost_has_feature(vq, VIRTIO_F_VERSION_1) + || virtio_legacy_is_little_endian(); } #endif /* CONFIG_VHOST_CROSS_ENDIAN_LEGACY */ static void vhost_reset_is_le(struct vhost_virtqueue *vq) { - vq->is_le = virtio_legacy_is_little_endian(); + vhost_init_is_le(vq); } struct vhost_flush_struct { @@ -1714,10 +1714,8 @@ int vhost_vq_init_access(struct vhost_virtqueue *vq) int r; bool is_le = vq->is_le; - if (!vq->private_data) { - vhost_reset_is_le(vq); + if (!vq->private_data) return 0; - } vhost_init_is_le(vq); -- 2.8.4 _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
