From: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>
To: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
"Michael S . Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] vsock/virtio: several fixes in the .probe() and .remove()
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2019 12:05:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190627100555.pmnecffewzsopxyw@steredhat.homenet.telecomitalia.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190610130945.GL14257@stefanha-x1.localdomain>
On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 02:09:45PM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 12:56:19PM +0200, Stefano Garzarella wrote:
> > During the review of "[PATCH] vsock/virtio: Initialize core virtio vsock
> > before registering the driver", Stefan pointed out some possible issues
> > in the .probe() and .remove() callbacks of the virtio-vsock driver.
> >
> > This series tries to solve these issues:
> > - Patch 1 postpones the 'the_virtio_vsock' assignment at the end of the
> > .probe() to avoid that some sockets queue works when the initialization
> > is not finished.
> > - Patches 2 and 3 stop workers before to call vdev->config->reset(vdev) to
> > be sure that no one is accessing the device, and adds another flush at the
> > end of the .remove() to avoid use after free.
> > - Patch 4 free also used buffers in the virtqueues during the .remove().
> >
> > Stefano Garzarella (4):
> > vsock/virtio: fix locking around 'the_virtio_vsock'
> > vsock/virtio: stop workers during the .remove()
> > vsock/virtio: fix flush of works during the .remove()
> > vsock/virtio: free used buffers during the .remove()
> >
> > net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c | 105 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
> > 1 file changed, 90 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
>
> Looking forward to v2. I took a look at the discussion and I'll review
> v2 from scratch. Just keep in mind that the mutex is used more for
> mutual exclusion of the init/exit code than to protect the_virtio_vsock,
> so we'll still need protection of init/exit code even with RCU.
Thanks for the advice! I'll send the v2 ASAP.
Thanks,
Stefano
prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-06-27 10:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-05-28 10:56 [PATCH 0/4] vsock/virtio: several fixes in the .probe() and .remove() Stefano Garzarella
2019-05-28 10:56 ` [PATCH 1/4] vsock/virtio: fix locking around 'the_virtio_vsock' Stefano Garzarella
2019-05-30 4:28 ` David Miller
2019-05-30 10:27 ` Stefano Garzarella
2019-05-28 10:56 ` [PATCH 2/4] vsock/virtio: stop workers during the .remove() Stefano Garzarella
2019-05-28 10:56 ` [PATCH 3/4] vsock/virtio: fix flush of works " Stefano Garzarella
2019-05-29 3:22 ` Jason Wang
2019-05-29 10:58 ` Stefano Garzarella
2019-05-30 9:46 ` Jason Wang
2019-05-30 10:10 ` Stefano Garzarella
2019-05-30 11:59 ` Jason Wang
2019-05-31 8:18 ` Stefano Garzarella
2019-05-31 9:56 ` Jason Wang
2019-06-06 8:11 ` Stefano Garzarella
2019-06-13 8:57 ` Jason Wang
2019-06-27 10:26 ` Stefano Garzarella
2019-05-28 10:56 ` [PATCH 4/4] vsock/virtio: free used buffers " Stefano Garzarella
2019-06-10 13:09 ` [PATCH 0/4] vsock/virtio: several fixes in the .probe() and .remove() Stefan Hajnoczi
2019-06-27 10:05 ` Stefano Garzarella [this message]
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