Re: [PATCH v2] vhost-user: send SET_STATUS 0 after GET_VRING_BASE

[Eugenio Perez Martin <eperezma@redhat.com>]

On Tue, May 2, 2023 at 1:42 PM Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Setting the VIRTIO Device Status Field to 0 resets the device. The
> device's state is lost, including the vring configuration.
>
> vhost-user.c currently sends SET_STATUS 0 before GET_VRING_BASE. This
> risks confusion about the lifetime of the vhost-user state (e.g. vring
> last_avail_idx) across VIRTIO device reset.
>
> Eugenio Pérez <eperezma@redhat.com> adjusted the order for vhost-vdpa.c
> in commit c3716f260bff ("vdpa: move vhost reset after get vring base")
> and in that commit description suggested doing the same for vhost-user
> in the future.
>
> Go ahead and adjust vhost-user.c now. I ran various online code searches
> to identify vhost-user backends implementing SET_STATUS. It seems only
> DPDK implements SET_STATUS and Yajun Wu <yajunw@nvidia.com> has
> confirmed that it is safe to make this change.
>
> Fixes: commit 923b8921d210763359e96246a58658ac0db6c645 ("vhost-user: Support vhost_dev_start")
> Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
> Cc: Cindy Lu <lulu@redhat.com>
> Cc: Yajun Wu <yajunw@nvidia.com>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>

Acked-by: Eugenio Pérez <eperezma@redhat.com>

> ---
> v2:
> - Added VHOST_USER_PROTOCOL_F_STATUS check [Yajun Wu]
> - Added "Fixes:" tag [Michael]
> ---
>  hw/virtio/vhost-user.c | 16 +++++++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/hw/virtio/vhost-user.c b/hw/virtio/vhost-user.c
> index e5285df4ba..40974afd06 100644
> --- a/hw/virtio/vhost-user.c
> +++ b/hw/virtio/vhost-user.c
> @@ -2677,7 +2677,20 @@ static int vhost_user_dev_start(struct vhost_dev *dev, bool started)
>                                            VIRTIO_CONFIG_S_DRIVER |
>                                            VIRTIO_CONFIG_S_DRIVER_OK);
>      } else {
> -        return vhost_user_set_status(dev, 0);
> +        return 0;
> +    }
> +}
> +
> +static void vhost_user_reset_status(struct vhost_dev *dev)
> +{
> +    /* Set device status only for last queue pair */
> +    if (dev->vq_index + dev->nvqs != dev->vq_index_end) {
> +        return;
> +    }
> +
> +    if (virtio_has_feature(dev->protocol_features,
> +                           VHOST_USER_PROTOCOL_F_STATUS)) {
> +        vhost_user_set_status(dev, 0);
>      }
>  }
>
> @@ -2716,4 +2729,5 @@ const VhostOps user_ops = {
>          .vhost_get_inflight_fd = vhost_user_get_inflight_fd,
>          .vhost_set_inflight_fd = vhost_user_set_inflight_fd,
>          .vhost_dev_start = vhost_user_dev_start,
> +        .vhost_reset_status = vhost_user_reset_status,
>  };
> --
> 2.40.1
>
>