vhost: fix IOTLB locking
authorJean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe.brucker@arm.com>
Fri, 30 Nov 2018 16:05:53 +0000 (16:05 +0000)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Mon, 3 Dec 2018 23:52:30 +0000 (15:52 -0800)
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.

Since calling vhost_poll_queue() doesn't require any lock, avoid the
deadlock by not taking vq->mutex.

Fixes: 78139c94dc8c ("net: vhost: lock the vqs one by one")
Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe.brucker@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/vhost/vhost.c

index 3a5f81a66d34f0b5d19d09d16f9e07451e7958ff..6b98d8e3a5bf8247784303ce890a990fb8ec1259 100644 (file)
@@ -944,10 +944,7 @@ 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);
                        vhost_poll_queue(&node->vq->poll);
-                       mutex_unlock(&node->vq->mutex);
-
                        list_del(&node->node);
                        kfree(node);
                }