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From: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
To: Yao HongBo <yaohongbo@huawei.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	"wangxiongfeng2@huawei.com" <wangxiongfeng2@huawei.com>,
	"guohanjun@huawei.com" <guohanjun@huawei.com>,
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	"tanxiaojun@huawei.com" <tanxiaojun@huawei.com>,
	"xiexiuqi@huawei.com" <xiexiuqi@huawei.com>,
	"yangyingliang@huawei.com" <yangyingliang@huawei.com>,
	"cj.chengjian@huawei.com" <cj.chengjian@huawei.com>,
	"wxf.wang@hisilicon.com" <wxf.wang@hisilicon.com>,
	"axboe@fb.com" <axboe@fb.com>,
	"sagi@grimberg.me" <sagi@grimberg.me>,
	"linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org" <linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] nvme: fix out of bounds access in nvme_cqe_pending
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2019 07:50:08 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190110145008.GA21095@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <991b5090-adf7-78e1-ae19-0df94566c212@huawei.com>

On Wed, Jan 09, 2019 at 05:54:59PM -0800, Yao HongBo wrote:
> On 1/10/2019 2:39 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 10:22:07AM +0800, Hongbo Yao wrote:
> >> There is an out of bounds array access in nvme_cqe_peding().
> >>
> >> When enable irq_thread for nvme interrupt, there is racing between the
> >> nvmeq->cq_head updating and reading.
> > 
> > Just curious: why did you enable this option?  Do you have a workload
> > where it matters?
> 
> Yes, there were a lot of hard interrupts reported when reading the nvme disk,
> the OS can not schedule and result in the soft lockup.so i enabled the irq_thread.

That seems a little unusual. We should be able to handle as many
interrupts as an nvme drive can send.

      reply	other threads:[~2019-01-10 14:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-07  2:22 [PATCH] nvme: fix out of bounds access in nvme_cqe_pending Hongbo Yao
2019-01-09 18:39 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-01-10  1:54   ` Yao HongBo
2019-01-10 14:50     ` Keith Busch [this message]

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