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A caller that fetched the worker right before the pointer was cleared can therefore still be queueing work on it while it is freed. And even when the queueing itself wins the race, the work is never run, so its VHOST_WORK_QUEUED bit stays set and all future attempts to queue it are silently skipped. None of the current callers can actually hit this: net and scsi stop their virtqueues before the workers are freed, and vsock unhashes the device and does synchronize_rcu() of its own in vhost_vsock_dev_release() before the workers go away. But the upcoming VHOST_RESET_OWNER support in vhost-vsock keeps the device hashed while its workers are freed, so the lockless send/cancel paths become able to race with the teardown. Fix this by clearing the vq->worker pointers, waiting for a grace period, and then flushing the workers so any work the last readers queued runs before the workers are freed. Fixes: 228a27cf78af ("vhost: Allow worker switching while work is queueing") Suggested-by: Stefano Garzarella Signed-off-by: Andrey Drobyshev --- drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c index 4c525b3e16ea..d6e235c25254 100644 --- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c +++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c @@ -729,6 +729,17 @@ static void vhost_workers_free(struct vhost_dev *dev) for (i = 0; i < dev->nvqs; i++) rcu_assign_pointer(dev->vqs[i]->worker, NULL); + + /* + * vhost_vq_work_queue() reads vq->worker under rcu_read_lock(), so a + * reader that fetched a worker before we cleared the pointers above + * may still be queueing work on it. Wait for those readers to + * finish, then flush so any work they queued runs (clearing + * VHOST_WORK_QUEUED) before the workers are freed. + */ + synchronize_rcu(); + vhost_dev_flush(dev); + /* * Free the default worker we created and cleanup workers userspace * created but couldn't clean up (it forgot or crashed). -- 2.47.1