We get pointer ring from the exported sock, this means we should keep rx_ring and vq->private synced during both vq stop and backend set, otherwise we may see stale rx_ring. Fixes: c67df11f6e480 ("vhost_net: try batch dequing from skb array") Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/vhost/net.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/vhost/net.c b/drivers/vhost/net.c index 60f1080..efb9306 100644 --- a/drivers/vhost/net.c +++ b/drivers/vhost/net.c @@ -973,6 +973,7 @@ static struct socket *vhost_net_stop_vq(struct vhost_net *n, vhost_net_disable_vq(n, vq); vq->private_data = NULL; vhost_net_buf_unproduce(nvq); + nvq->rx_ring = NULL; mutex_unlock(&vq->mutex); return sock; } @@ -1162,14 +1163,14 @@ static long vhost_net_set_backend(struct vhost_net *n, unsigned index, int fd) vhost_net_disable_vq(n, vq); vq->private_data = sock; vhost_net_buf_unproduce(nvq); - if (index == VHOST_NET_VQ_RX) - nvq->rx_ring = get_tap_ptr_ring(fd); r = vhost_vq_init_access(vq); if (r) goto err_used; r = vhost_net_enable_vq(n, vq); if (r) goto err_used; + if (index == VHOST_NET_VQ_RX) + nvq->rx_ring = get_tap_ptr_ring(fd); oldubufs = nvq->ubufs; nvq->ubufs = ubufs; -- 2.7.4