On Wed, Mar 02, 2022 at 10:34:46AM +0100, Stefano Garzarella wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 02, 2022 at 07:54:21AM +0000, Lee Jones wrote:
> > vhost_vsock_handle_tx_kick() already holds the mutex during its call
> > to vhost_get_vq_desc().  All we have to do is take the same lock
> > during virtqueue clean-up and we mitigate the reported issues.
> > 
> > Link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=279432d30d825e63ba00
> 
> This issue is similar to [1] that should be already fixed upstream by [2].
> 
> However I think this patch would have prevented some issues, because
> vhost_vq_reset() sets vq->private to NULL, preventing the worker from
> running.
> 
> Anyway I think that when we enter in vhost_dev_cleanup() the worker should
> be already stopped, so it shouldn't be necessary to take the mutex. But in
> order to prevent future issues maybe it's better to take them, so:
> 
> Reviewed-by: Stefano Garzarella <[email protected]>
> 
> [1]
> https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=993d8b5e64393ed9e6a70f9ae4de0119c605a822
> [2] 
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=a58da53ffd70294ebea8ecd0eb45fd0d74add9f9


Right. I want to queue this but I would like to get a warning
so we can detect issues like [2] before they cause more issues.


> > 
> > Cc: <[email protected]>
> > Reported-by: [email protected]
> > Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <[email protected]>
> > ---
> > drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 2 ++
> > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
> > index 59edb5a1ffe28..bbaff6a5e21b8 100644
> > --- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
> > +++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
> > @@ -693,6 +693,7 @@ void vhost_dev_cleanup(struct vhost_dev *dev)
> >     int i;
> > 
> >     for (i = 0; i < dev->nvqs; ++i) {
> > +           mutex_lock(&dev->vqs[i]->mutex);
> >             if (dev->vqs[i]->error_ctx)
> >                     eventfd_ctx_put(dev->vqs[i]->error_ctx);
> >             if (dev->vqs[i]->kick)
> > @@ -700,6 +701,7 @@ void vhost_dev_cleanup(struct vhost_dev *dev)
> >             if (dev->vqs[i]->call_ctx.ctx)
> >                     eventfd_ctx_put(dev->vqs[i]->call_ctx.ctx);
> >             vhost_vq_reset(dev, dev->vqs[i]);
> > +           mutex_unlock(&dev->vqs[i]->mutex);
> >     }
> >     vhost_dev_free_iovecs(dev);
> >     if (dev->log_ctx)
> > -- 
> > 2.35.1.574.g5d30c73bfb-goog
> > 

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