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From: Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe.brucker@arm.com>
To: mst@redhat.com, jasowang@redhat.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: [PATCH] vhost: fix IOTLB locking
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2018 11:37:02 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181130113702.1565-1-jean-philippe.brucker@arm.com> (raw)

Commit 78139c94dc8c ("net: vhost: lock the vqs one by one") moved the vq
lock to improve scalability, but introduced a possible deadlock in
vhost-iotlb. vhost_iotlb_notify_vq() now takes vq->mutex while holding
the device's IOTLB spinlock. And on the vhost_iotlb_miss() path, the
spinlock is taken while holding vq->mutex.

As long as we hold dev->mutex to prevent an ioctl from modifying
vq->poll concurrently, we can safely call vhost_poll_queue() without
holding vq->mutex. Since vhost_process_iotlb_msg() holds dev->mutex when
calling vhost_iotlb_notify_vq(), avoid the deadlock by not taking
vq->mutex.

Fixes: 78139c94dc8c ("net: vhost: lock the vqs one by one")
Signed-off-by: Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe.brucker@arm.com>
---
 drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
index 3a5f81a66d34..1cbb17f898f7 100644
--- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
+++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
@@ -944,10 +944,10 @@ static void vhost_iotlb_notify_vq(struct vhost_dev *d,
 		if (msg->iova <= vq_msg->iova &&
 		    msg->iova + msg->size - 1 >= vq_msg->iova &&
 		    vq_msg->type == VHOST_IOTLB_MISS) {
-			mutex_lock(&node->vq->mutex);
+			/* Safe to call outside vq->mutex as long as dev->mutex
+			 * is held.
+			 */
 			vhost_poll_queue(&node->vq->poll);
-			mutex_unlock(&node->vq->mutex);
-
 			list_del(&node->node);
 			kfree(node);
 		}
-- 
2.19.1

             reply	other threads:[~2018-11-30 11:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-30 11:37 Jean-Philippe Brucker [this message]
2018-11-30 12:56 ` [PATCH] vhost: fix IOTLB locking Jason Wang
2018-11-30 13:32 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-11-30 15:33   ` Jean-Philippe Brucker

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