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| author | Christian Borntraeger | 2008-03-14 14:17:05 +0100 |
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| committer | Rusty Russell | 2008-03-17 22:58:21 +1100 |
| commit | 4265f161b6bb7b31163671329b1142b9023bf4e3 (patch) | |
| tree | 1494768aaf38407ca8f1336f6ae80301b27135bb /include | |
| parent | da74e89d40995600b3b07ac500084920247687ce (diff) | |
virtio: fix race in enable_cb
There is a race in virtio_net, dealing with disabling/enabling the callback.
I saw the following oops:
kernel BUG at /space/kvm/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c:218!
illegal operation: 0001 [#1] SMP
Modules linked in: sunrpc dm_mod
CPU: 2 Not tainted 2.6.25-rc1zlive-host-10623-gd358142-dirty #99
Process swapper (pid: 0, task: 000000000f85a610, ksp: 000000000f873c60)
Krnl PSW : 0404300180000000 00000000002b81a6 (vring_disable_cb+0x16/0x20)
R:0 T:1 IO:0 EX:0 Key:0 M:1 W:0 P:0 AS:0 CC:3 PM:0 EA:3
Krnl GPRS: 0000000000000001 0000000000000001 0000000010005800 0000000000000001
000000000f3a0900 000000000f85a610 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
0000000000000000 000000000f870000 0000000000000000 0000000000001237
000000000f3a0920 000000000010ff74 00000000002846f6 000000000fa0bcd8
Krnl Code: 00000000002b819a: a7110001 tmll %r1,1
00000000002b819e: a7840004 brc 8,2b81a6
00000000002b81a2: a7f40001 brc 15,2b81a4
>00000000002b81a6: a51b0001 oill %r1,1
00000000002b81aa: 40102000 sth %r1,0(%r2)
00000000002b81ae: 07fe bcr 15,%r14
00000000002b81b0: eb7ff0380024 stmg %r7,%r15,56(%r15)
00000000002b81b6: a7f13e00 tmll %r15,15872
Call Trace:
([<000000000fa0bcd0>] 0xfa0bcd0)
[<00000000002b8350>] vring_interrupt+0x5c/0x6c
[<000000000010ab08>] do_extint+0xb8/0xf0
[<0000000000110716>] ext_no_vtime+0x16/0x1a
[<0000000000107e72>] cpu_idle+0x1c2/0x1e0
The problem can be triggered with a high amount of host->guest traffic.
I think its the following race:
poll says netif_rx_complete
poll calls enable_cb
enable_cb opens the interrupt mask
a new packet comes, an interrupt is triggered----\
enable_cb sees that there is more work |
enable_cb disables the interrupt |
. V
. interrupt is delivered
. skb_recv_done does atomic napi test, ok
some waiting disable_cb is called->check fails->bang!
.
poll would do napi check
poll would do disable_cb
The fix is to let enable_cb not disable the interrupt again, but expect the
caller to do the cleanup if it returns false. In that case, the interrupt is
only disabled, if the napi test_set_bit was successful.
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (cleaned up doco)
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/virtio.h | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/virtio.h b/include/linux/virtio.h index 260d1fcf29a4..12c18ac1b973 100644 --- a/include/linux/virtio.h +++ b/include/linux/virtio.h @@ -43,8 +43,9 @@ struct virtqueue * vq: the struct virtqueue we're talking about. * @enable_cb: restart callbacks after disable_cb. * vq: the struct virtqueue we're talking about. - * This returns "false" (and doesn't re-enable) if there are pending - * buffers in the queue, to avoid a race. + * This re-enables callbacks; it returns "false" if there are pending + * buffers in the queue, to detect a possible race between the driver + * checking for more work, and enabling callbacks. * * Locking rules are straightforward: the driver is responsible for * locking. No two operations may be invoked simultaneously. |