Re: [PATCH v2] vhost_vdpa: fix unmap process in no-batch mode

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On Sat, Apr 15, 2023 at 10:20 AM Cindy Lu <lulu@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> While using the no-batch mode with vIOMMU enabled
> Qemu will call a large memory to unmap. Much larger than the memory
> mapped to the kernel. The iotlb is NULL in the kernel and will return fail.

This patch looks good but I don't understand the above. I think it's
better to explain why such large unmap will lead to this error:

Is it a batched unmap or a [0, ULONG_MAX] map? How could we end up the NULL?

> Which causes failure.
> To fix this, we will not remove the AS while the iotlb->nmaps is 0.
> This will free in the vhost_vdpa_clean
>
> Signed-off-by: Cindy Lu <lulu@xxxxxxxxxx>

Do we need a fix tag and does it need to go for -stable?

Thanks

> ---
>  drivers/vhost/vdpa.c | 8 +-------
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vdpa.c b/drivers/vhost/vdpa.c
> index 7be9d9d8f01c..74c7d1f978b7 100644
> --- a/drivers/vhost/vdpa.c
> +++ b/drivers/vhost/vdpa.c
> @@ -851,11 +851,7 @@ static void vhost_vdpa_unmap(struct vhost_vdpa *v,
>                 if (!v->in_batch)
>                         ops->set_map(vdpa, asid, iotlb);
>         }
> -       /* If we are in the middle of batch processing, delay the free
> -        * of AS until BATCH_END.
> -        */
> -       if (!v->in_batch && !iotlb->nmaps)
> -               vhost_vdpa_remove_as(v, asid);
> +
>  }
>
>  static int vhost_vdpa_va_map(struct vhost_vdpa *v,
> @@ -1112,8 +1108,6 @@ static int vhost_vdpa_process_iotlb_msg(struct vhost_dev *dev, u32 asid,
>                 if (v->in_batch && ops->set_map)
>                         ops->set_map(vdpa, asid, iotlb);
>                 v->in_batch = false;
> -               if (!iotlb->nmaps)
> -                       vhost_vdpa_remove_as(v, asid);
>                 break;
>         default:
>                 r = -EINVAL;
> --
> 2.34.3
>

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