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From: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
To: "Eugenio Pérez" <eperezma@redhat.com>,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
	kvm list <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Next Mailing List <linux-next@vger.kernel.org>,
	"virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org" 
	<virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
	Halil Pasic <pasic@linux.ibm.com>,
	Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/8] vhost: Reset batched descriptors on SET_VRING_BASE call
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2020 09:19:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c4d2b0b4-0b6d-cd74-0eb5-e7fdfe063d42@de.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200331192804.6019-1-eperezma@redhat.com>

On 31.03.20 21:27, Eugenio Pérez wrote:
> Vhost did not reset properly the batched descriptors on SET_VRING_BASE
> event. Because of that, is possible to return an invalid descriptor to
> the guest.
> 
> This series ammend this, resetting them every time backend changes, and
> creates a test to assert correct behavior. To do that, they need to
> expose a new function in virtio_ring, virtqueue_reset_free_head, only
> on test code.
> 
> Another useful thing would be to check if mutex is properly get in
> vq private_data accessors. Not sure if mutex debug code allow that,
> similar to C++ unique lock::owns_lock. Not acquiring in the function
> because caller code holds the mutex in order to perform more actions.



> 
> v3:
> * Rename accesors functions.
> * Make scsi and test use the accesors too.
> 
> v2:
> * Squashed commits.
> * Create vq private_data accesors (mst).
> 
> This is meant to be applied on top of
> c4f1c41a6094582903c75c0dcfacb453c959d457 in
> git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost.git.


A quick test on s390 looks good.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-04-01  7:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-31 19:27 [PATCH v3 0/8] vhost: Reset batched descriptors on SET_VRING_BASE call Eugenio Pérez
2020-03-31 19:27 ` [PATCH v3 1/8] vhost: Create accessors for virtqueues private_data Eugenio Pérez
2020-03-31 19:27 ` [PATCH v3 2/8] vhost: option to fetch descriptors through an independent struct Eugenio Pérez
2020-03-31 19:27 ` [PATCH v3 3/8] vhost: use batched version by default Eugenio Pérez
2020-03-31 19:28 ` [PATCH v3 4/8] vhost: batching fetches Eugenio Pérez
2020-03-31 19:28 ` [PATCH v3 5/8] tools/virtio: Add --batch option Eugenio Pérez
2020-03-31 19:28 ` [PATCH v3 6/8] tools/virtio: Add --batch=random option Eugenio Pérez
2020-03-31 19:28 ` [PATCH v3 7/8] tools/virtio: Add --reset=random Eugenio Pérez
2020-03-31 19:28 ` [PATCH v3 8/8] tools/virtio: Make --reset reset ring idx Eugenio Pérez
2020-03-31 19:51 ` [PATCH v3 0/8] vhost: Reset batched descriptors on SET_VRING_BASE call Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-04-01  7:19 ` Christian Borntraeger [this message]
2020-04-01 18:40   ` Eugenio Perez Martin
2020-04-01 18:44     ` Christian Borntraeger
2020-04-01 19:13       ` Christian Borntraeger
2020-04-02  8:17         ` Eugenio Perez Martin

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