Re: [PATCH 2/2] virtio: console: add locking around c_ovq operations

[Asias He <asias@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 04:58:33PM +0530, Amit Shah wrote:
> When multiple ovq operations are being performed (lots of open/close
> operations on virtio_console fds), the __send_control_msg() function can
> get confused without locking.
> 
> A simple recipe to cause badness is:
> * create a QEMU VM with two virtio-serial ports
> * in the guest, do
>   while true;do echo abc >/dev/vport0p1;done
>   while true;do echo edf >/dev/vport0p2;done
> 
> In one run, this caused a panic in __send_control_msg().  In another, I
> got
> 
>    virtio_console virtio0: control-o:id 0 is not a head!
> 
> This also results repeated messages similar to these on the host:
> 
>   qemu-kvm: virtio-serial-bus: Unexpected port id 478762112 for device virtio-serial-bus.0
>   qemu-kvm: virtio-serial-bus: Unexpected port id 478762368 for device virtio-serial-bus.0
> 
> Reported-by: FuXiangChun <xfu@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>

So, probably this will not apply on virtio-next because of the
virtqueue_add_outbuf change.

Anyway,  Reviewed-by: Asias He <asias@redhat.com>

> ---
>  drivers/char/virtio_console.c | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/char/virtio_console.c b/drivers/char/virtio_console.c
> index 7e9bc1d..410866c 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/virtio_console.c
> +++ b/drivers/char/virtio_console.c
> @@ -150,6 +150,7 @@ struct ports_device {
>  
>  	/* To protect the vq operations for the control channel */
>  	spinlock_t c_ivq_lock;
> +	spinlock_t c_ovq_lock;
>  
>  	/* The current config space is stored here */
>  	struct virtio_console_config config;
> @@ -569,11 +570,14 @@ static ssize_t __send_control_msg(struct ports_device *portdev, u32 port_id,
>  	vq = portdev->c_ovq;
>  
>  	sg_init_one(sg, &cpkt, sizeof(cpkt));
> +
> +	spin_lock_irq(&portdev->c_ovq_lock);
>  	if (virtqueue_add_buf(vq, sg, 1, 0, &cpkt, GFP_ATOMIC) == 0) {
>  		virtqueue_kick(vq);
>  		while (!virtqueue_get_buf(vq, &len))
>  			cpu_relax();
>  	}
> +	spin_unlock_irq(&portdev->c_ovq_lock);
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> @@ -1987,6 +1991,7 @@ static int virtcons_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev)
>  		unsigned int nr_added_bufs;
>  
>  		spin_lock_init(&portdev->c_ivq_lock);
> +		spin_lock_init(&portdev->c_ovq_lock);
>  		INIT_WORK(&portdev->control_work, &control_work_handler);
>  
>  		nr_added_bufs = fill_queue(portdev->c_ivq,
> -- 
> 1.8.1.4
> 
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Asias