This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
vhost: Add smp_rmb() in vhost_enable_notify()
to the 6.1-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
vhost-add-smp_rmb-in-vhost_enable_notify.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From df9ace7647d4123209395bb9967e998d5758c645 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gavin Shan <gshan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 10:21:48 +1000
Subject: vhost: Add smp_rmb() in vhost_enable_notify()
From: Gavin Shan <gshan@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit df9ace7647d4123209395bb9967e998d5758c645 upstream.
A smp_rmb() has been missed in vhost_enable_notify(), inspired by
Will. Otherwise, it's not ensured the available ring entries pushed
by guest can be observed by vhost in time, leading to stale available
ring entries fetched by vhost in vhost_get_vq_desc(), as reported by
Yihuang Yu on NVidia's grace-hopper (ARM64) platform.
/home/gavin/sandbox/qemu.main/build/qemu-system-aarch64 \
-accel kvm -machine virt,gic-version=host -cpu host \
-smp maxcpus=1,cpus=1,sockets=1,clusters=1,cores=1,threads=1 \
-m 4096M,slots=16,maxmem=64G \
-object memory-backend-ram,id=mem0,size=4096M \
: \
-netdev tap,id=vnet0,vhost=true \
-device virtio-net-pci,bus=pcie.8,netdev=vnet0,mac=52:54:00:f1:26:b0
:
guest# netperf -H 10.26.1.81 -l 60 -C -c -t UDP_STREAM
virtio_net virtio0: output.0:id 100 is not a head!
Add the missed smp_rmb() in vhost_enable_notify(). When it returns true,
it means there's still pending tx buffers. Since it might read indices,
so it still can bypass the smp_rmb() in vhost_get_vq_desc(). Note that
it should be safe until vq->avail_idx is changed by commit d3bb267bbdcb
("vhost: cache avail index in vhost_enable_notify()").
Fixes: d3bb267bbdcb ("vhost: cache avail index in vhost_enable_notify()")
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxx> # v5.18+
Reported-by: Yihuang Yu <yihyu@xxxxxxxxxx>
Suggested-by: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Message-Id: <20240328002149.1141302-3-gshan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 12 +++++++++++-
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
+++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
@@ -2572,9 +2572,19 @@ bool vhost_enable_notify(struct vhost_de
&vq->avail->idx, r);
return false;
}
+
vq->avail_idx = vhost16_to_cpu(vq, avail_idx);
+ if (vq->avail_idx != vq->last_avail_idx) {
+ /* Since we have updated avail_idx, the following
+ * call to vhost_get_vq_desc() will read available
+ * ring entries. Make sure that read happens after
+ * the avail_idx read.
+ */
+ smp_rmb();
+ return true;
+ }
- return vq->avail_idx != vq->last_avail_idx;
+ return false;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vhost_enable_notify);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from gshan@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-6.1/vhost-add-smp_rmb-in-vhost_enable_notify.patch
queue-6.1/vhost-add-smp_rmb-in-vhost_vq_avail_empty.patch
