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| author | Parav Pandit <parav@nvidia.com> | 2021-07-21 17:26:45 +0300 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2021-09-03 09:43:07 +0200 |
| commit | 1e0ce9825278c07739e1f2d3c5934be9bd172121 (patch) | |
| tree | 2c48f56737b178223af3a08cdaee3e716eea84cf /drivers/vhost | |
| parent | 17855944ede25564a7b650615ced2e317a5181a0 (diff) | |
virtio: Improve vq->broken access to avoid any compiler optimization
[ Upstream commit 60f0779862e4ab943810187752c462e85f5fa371 ]
Currently vq->broken field is read by virtqueue_is_broken() in busy
loop in one context by virtnet_send_command().
vq->broken is set to true in other process context by
virtio_break_device(). Reader and writer are accessing it without any
synchronization. This may lead to a compiler optimization which may
result to optimize reading vq->broken only once.
Hence, force reading vq->broken on each invocation of
virtqueue_is_broken() and also force writing it so that such
update is visible to the readers.
It is a theoretical fix that isn't yet encountered in the field.
Signed-off-by: Parav Pandit <parav@nvidia.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210721142648.1525924-2-parav@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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