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From: Michael Kelley <mikelley@microsoft.com>
To: kimbrownkd <kimbrownkd@gmail.com>, Long Li <longli@microsoft.com>,
	Sasha Levin <Alexander.Levin@microsoft.com>,
	Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>,
	Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>
Cc: KY Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>,
	Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>,
	"linux-hyperv@vger.kernel.org" <linux-hyperv@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH v3 3/3] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Fix race condition with new ring_buffer_info mutex
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2019 16:04:22 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <DM5PR2101MB0918E0523763524373A4562AD75A0@DM5PR2101MB0918.namprd21.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <262046fa9e89d5f483ecd5972d86f4f9608dbcc3.1552592620.git.kimbrownkd@gmail.com>

From: Kimberly Brown <kimbrownkd@gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2019 1:05 PM
> 
> Fix a race condition that can result in a ring buffer pointer being set
> to null while a "_show" function is reading the ring buffer's data. This
> problem was discussed here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/10/18/779
> 
> To fix the race condition, add a new mutex lock to the
> "hv_ring_buffer_info" struct. Add a new function,
> "hv_ringbuffer_pre_init()", where a channel's inbound and outbound
> ring_buffer_info mutex locks are initialized.
> 
> Acquire/release the locks in the "hv_ringbuffer_cleanup()" function,
> which is where the ring buffer pointers are set to null.
> 
> Acquire/release the locks in the four channel-level "_show" functions
> that access ring buffer data. Remove the "const" qualifier from the
> "vmbus_channel" parameter and the "rbi" variable of the channel-level
> "_show" functions so that the locks can be acquired/released in these
> functions.
> 
> Acquire/release the locks in hv_ringbuffer_get_debuginfo(). Remove the
> "const" qualifier from the "hv_ring_buffer_info" parameter so that the
> locks can be acquired/released in this function.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kimberly Brown <kimbrownkd@gmail.com>

Reviewed-by: Michael Kelley <mikelley@microsoft.com>

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-03-29 16:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-22  2:07 [PATCH] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Add mutex lock to channel show functions Kimberly Brown
2019-01-22  3:46 ` Dexuan Cui
2019-01-22  6:42   ` Kimberly Brown
2019-01-22 18:40     ` Dexuan Cui
2019-01-28 19:58       ` Kimberly Brown
2019-01-29 19:20         ` Dexuan Cui
2019-01-31 15:19           ` Sasha Levin
2019-01-31 16:45             ` Michael Kelley
2019-01-31 17:47               ` Kimberly Brown
2019-02-01 14:13                 ` Sasha Levin
2019-02-01 18:24                 ` Dexuan Cui
2019-02-02 20:07                   ` Kimberly Brown
2019-02-15  1:54                     ` Sasha Levin
2019-02-15  2:27                       ` Kimberly Brown
2019-02-22  3:46 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] Fix a race condition vulnerability in "_show" functions Kimberly Brown
2019-02-22  3:47   ` [PATCH v2 1/2] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Refactor chan->state if statement Kimberly Brown
2019-02-24 16:54     ` Michael Kelley
2019-02-22  3:47   ` [PATCH v2 2/2] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Add a channel ring buffer mutex lock Kimberly Brown
2019-02-24 16:53     ` Michael Kelley
2019-02-26  6:24       ` Kimberly Brown
2019-03-14 20:04   ` [PATCH v3 0/3] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Fix a race condition in "_show" functions Kimberly Brown
2019-03-14 20:05     ` [PATCH v3 1/3] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Refactor chan->state if statement Kimberly Brown
2019-03-14 20:05     ` [PATCH v3 2/3] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Set ring_info field to 0 and remove memset Kimberly Brown
2019-03-29 16:01       ` Michael Kelley
2019-03-14 20:05     ` [PATCH v3 3/3] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Fix race condition with new ring_buffer_info mutex Kimberly Brown
2019-03-14 22:45       ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-03-17  1:49         ` Kimberly Brown
2019-03-20 20:06           ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-03-21  3:47             ` Kimberly Brown
2019-03-21 16:04               ` Michael Kelley
2019-03-28  4:30                 ` Kimberly Brown
2019-03-28 18:42                   ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-03-29 16:04       ` Michael Kelley [this message]
2019-04-10 22:59     ` [PATCH v3 0/3] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Fix a race condition in "_show" functions Sasha Levin

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