On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 4:49 AM Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Apr 11, 2021 at 01:36:18PM +0800, Yongji Xie wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 12:16 AM Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 04:05:12PM +0800, Xie Yongji wrote:
> > > > Use vhost_dev->mutex to protect vhost device iotlb from
> > > > concurrent access.
> > > >
> > > > Fixes: 4c8cf318("vhost: introduce vDPA-based backend")
> > > > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > > Signed-off-by: Xie Yongji <xieyongji@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Reviewed-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > I could not figure out whether there's a bug there now.
> > > If yes when is the concurrent access triggered?
> > >
> >
> > When userspace sends the VHOST_IOTLB_MSG_V2 message concurrently?
> >
> > vhost_vdpa_chr_write_iter -> vhost_chr_write_iter ->
> > vhost_vdpa_process_iotlb_msg()
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Yongji
>
> And then what happens currently?
>
Then we might access vhost_vdpa_map() concurrently and cause
corruption of the list and interval tree in struct vhost_iotlb.
Thanks,
Yongji
