All of lore.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
* [PATCH] 9p/trans_virtio: fix hot-unplug
@ 2015-03-09 14:48 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 8+ messages in thread
From: Michael S. Tsirkin @ 2015-03-09 14:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel
  Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen, netdev, virtualization, v9fs-developer,
	Ron Minnich, David S. Miller

On device hot-unplug, 9p/virtio currently will kfree channel while
it might still be in use.

Of course, it might stay used forever, so it's an extremely ugly hack,
but it seems better than use-after-free that we have now.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
---
 net/9p/trans_virtio.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/9p/trans_virtio.c b/net/9p/trans_virtio.c
index d8e376a..d1b2f306 100644
--- a/net/9p/trans_virtio.c
+++ b/net/9p/trans_virtio.c
@@ -658,14 +658,31 @@ p9_virtio_create(struct p9_client *client, const char *devname, char *args)
 static void p9_virtio_remove(struct virtio_device *vdev)
 {
 	struct virtio_chan *chan = vdev->priv;
-
-	if (chan->inuse)
-		p9_virtio_close(chan->client);
-	vdev->config->del_vqs(vdev);
+	unsigned long warning_time;
+	bool inuse;
 
 	mutex_lock(&virtio_9p_lock);
+
+	/* Remove self from list so we don't get new users. */
 	list_del(&chan->chan_list);
+	warning_time = jiffies;
+
+	/* Wait for existing users to close. */
+	while (chan->inuse) {
+		mutex_unlock(&virtio_9p_lock);
+		msleep(250);
+               if (time_after(jiffies, warning_time + 10 * HZ)) {
+			dev_emerg(&vdev->dev, "p9_virtio_remove: "
+				  "waiting for device in use.\n");
+			warning_time = jiffies;
+               }
+		mutex_lock(&virtio_9p_lock);
+	}
+
 	mutex_unlock(&virtio_9p_lock);
+
+	vdev->config->del_vqs(vdev);
+
 	sysfs_remove_file(&(vdev->dev.kobj), &dev_attr_mount_tag.attr);
 	kobject_uevent(&(vdev->dev.kobj), KOBJ_CHANGE);
 	kfree(chan->tag);
-- 
MST

^ permalink raw reply related	[flat|nested] 8+ messages in thread

end of thread, other threads:[~2015-03-13  1:27 UTC | newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages (download: mbox.gz follow: Atom feed
-- links below jump to the message on this page --
2015-03-09 14:48 [PATCH] 9p/trans_virtio: fix hot-unplug Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-03-09 14:48 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-03-12  1:24 ` Rusty Russell
2015-03-12  6:36   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-03-12  6:36     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-03-13  1:24     ` Rusty Russell
2015-03-13  1:24       ` Rusty Russell
2015-03-12  1:24 ` Rusty Russell

This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.