From: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
To: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] vsock/virtio: use RCU to avoid use-after-free on the_virtio_vsock
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2019 11:17:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190704101701.GD1609@stefanha-x1.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190703104135.wg34dobv64k7u4jo@steredhat>
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On Wed, Jul 03, 2019 at 12:41:35PM +0200, Stefano Garzarella wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 03, 2019 at 05:53:58PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> > On 2019/6/28 下午8:36, Stefano Garzarella wrote:
> > Another more interesting question, I believe we will do singleton for
> > virtio_vsock structure. Then what's the point of using vdev->priv to access
> > the_virtio_vsock? It looks to me we can it brings extra troubles for doing
> > synchronization.
>
> I thought about it when I tried to use RCU to stop the worker and I
> think make sense. Maybe can be another series after this will be merged.
>
> @Stefan, what do you think about that?
Yes, let's make it a singleton and keep no other references to it.
Stefan
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-04 10:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-06-28 12:36 [PATCH v2 0/3] vsock/virtio: several fixes in the .probe() and .remove() Stefano Garzarella
2019-06-28 12:36 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] vsock/virtio: use RCU to avoid use-after-free on the_virtio_vsock Stefano Garzarella
2019-07-01 14:54 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2019-07-01 15:10 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2019-07-03 9:53 ` Jason Wang
2019-07-03 10:41 ` Stefano Garzarella
2019-07-04 3:58 ` Jason Wang
2019-07-04 9:20 ` Stefano Garzarella
2019-07-05 0:18 ` Jason Wang
2019-07-04 10:17 ` Stefan Hajnoczi [this message]
2019-06-28 12:36 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] vsock/virtio: stop workers during the .remove() Stefano Garzarella
2019-07-04 4:00 ` Jason Wang
2019-06-28 12:36 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] vsock/virtio: fix flush of works " Stefano Garzarella
2019-07-01 15:08 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2019-07-01 15:09 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2019-07-01 15:11 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] vsock/virtio: several fixes in the .probe() and .remove() Stefan Hajnoczi
2019-07-01 17:03 ` Stefano Garzarella
2019-07-03 9:14 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2019-07-03 10:07 ` Stefano Garzarella
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