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From: Pierre Morel <pmorel@linux.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 3/7] s390: ap: associate a ap_vfio_queue and a matrix
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Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2019 11:19:52 +0100
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To: Tony Krowiak <akrowiak@linux.ibm.com>, Halil Pasic <pasic@linux.ibm.com>
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On 12/03/2019 22:39, Tony Krowiak wrote:
> On 3/3/19 9:09 PM, Halil Pasic wrote:
>> On Fri, 22 Feb 2019 16:29:56 +0100
>> Pierre Morel <pmorel@linux.ibm.com> wrote:
>>
>>> We need to associate the ap_vfio_queue, which will hold the
>>> per queue information for interrupt with a matrix mediated device
>>> which hold the configuration and the way to the CRYCB.
>> [..]
>>> +static int vfio_ap_get_all_domains(struct ap_matrix_mdev 
>>> *matrix_mdev, int apid)
>>> +{
>>> +    int apqi, apqn;
>>> +    int ret = 0;
>>> +    struct vfio_ap_queue *q;
>>> +    struct list_head q_list;
>>> +
>>> +    INIT_LIST_HEAD(&q_list);
>>> +
>>> +    for_each_set_bit_inv(apqi, matrix_mdev->matrix.aqm, AP_DOMAINS) {
>>> +        apqn = AP_MKQID(apid, apqi);
>>> +        q = vfio_ap_get_queue(apqn, &matrix_dev->free_list);
>>> +        if (!q) {
>>> +            ret = -EADDRNOTAVAIL;
>>> +            goto rewind;
>>> +        }
>>> +        if (q->matrix_mdev) {
>>> +            ret = -EADDRINUSE;
>>
>> You tried to get the q from matrix_dev->free_list thus modulo races
>> q->matrix_mdev should be 0. This change breaks the error codes in a
>> sense that it becomes impossible to provoke EADDRINUSE (the proper
>> error code for taken by another matrix_mdev).
> 
> It is necessary to determine if the queue is in use by another mdev, so
> it will still be necessary to traverse all of the matrix_mdev structs to
> see if q is in matrix_mdev->qlist. It seems that maintaining the qlist
> does not buy us much.
> 

Tony, Halil already pointed out this issue and I already answered.
Please, no need to duplicate the remarks.

Pierre

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Pierre Morel
Linux/KVM/QEMU in Böblingen - Germany