From: Chaohai Chen <wdhh6@aliyun.com>
To: mst@redhat.com, jasowang@redhat.com, xuanzhuo@linux.alibaba.com,
eperezma@redhat.com
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux.dev, Chaohai Chen <wdhh6@aliyun.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2] virtio_ring: Fix data races in virtqueue_enable_cb_delayed_split()
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2026 10:24:48 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260306022448.216131-1-wdhh6@aliyun.com> (raw)
Add READ_ONCE when fetching vq->split.vring.used->idx
without synchronization.
KCSAN detected data races when accessing the split virtqueue's
used ring, which is shared memory concurrently accessed by both the CPU
and the virtio device (hypervisor).
Example KCSAN report:
[ 109.277250] ==================================================================
[ 109.283600] BUG: KCSAN: data-race in virtqueue_enable_cb_delayed_split+0x10f/0x170
[ 109.295263] race at unknown origin, with read to 0xffff8b2a92ef2042 of 2 bytes by interrupt on cpu 1:
[ 109.306934] virtqueue_enable_cb_delayed_split+0x10f/0x170
[ 109.312880] virtqueue_enable_cb_delayed+0x3b/0x70
[ 109.318852] start_xmit+0x315/0x860 [virtio_net]
[ 109.324532] dev_hard_start_xmit+0x85/0x380
[ 109.329993] sch_direct_xmit+0xd3/0x680
[ 109.335360] __dev_xmit_skb+0x4ee/0xcc0
[ 109.340568] __dev_queue_xmit+0x560/0xe00
[ 109.345701] ip_finish_output2+0x49a/0x9b0
[ 109.350743] __ip_finish_output+0x131/0x250
[ 109.355789] ip_finish_output+0x28/0x180
[ 109.360712] ip_output+0xa0/0x1c0
[ 109.365479] __ip_queue_xmit+0x68d/0x9e0
[ 109.370156] ip_queue_xmit+0x33/0x40
[ 109.374783] __tcp_transmit_skb+0x1703/0x1970
[ 109.379467] __tcp_send_ack.part.0+0x1bb/0x320
...
[ 109.499585] do_idle+0x7a/0xe0
[ 109.502979] cpu_startup_entry+0x25/0x30
[ 109.506481] start_secondary+0x116/0x150
[ 109.509930] common_startup_64+0x13e/0x141
[ 109.516626] value changed: 0x0029 -> 0x002a
================================================================================
Signed-off-by: Chaohai Chen <wdhh6@aliyun.com>
---
drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
index 335692d41617..ceb026161639 100644
--- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
+++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
@@ -1112,8 +1112,9 @@ static bool virtqueue_enable_cb_delayed_split(struct vring_virtqueue *vq)
&vring_used_event(&vq->split.vring),
cpu_to_virtio16(vq->vq.vdev, vq->last_used_idx + bufs));
- if (unlikely((u16)(virtio16_to_cpu(vq->vq.vdev, vq->split.vring.used->idx)
- - vq->last_used_idx) > bufs)) {
+ if (unlikely((u16)(virtio16_to_cpu(vq->vq.vdev,
+ READ_ONCE(vq->split.vring.used->idx))
+ - vq->last_used_idx) > bufs)) {
END_USE(vq);
return false;
}
--
2.43.7
next reply other threads:[~2026-03-06 2:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-06 2:24 Chaohai Chen [this message]
2026-03-06 10:04 ` [PATCH v2] virtio_ring: Fix data races in virtqueue_enable_cb_delayed_split() Michael S. Tsirkin
2026-03-11 3:20 ` Chaohai Chen
[not found] ` <54646.126031023201101239@us-mta-438.us.mimecast.lan>
2026-03-11 8:01 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2026-03-10 8:34 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
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