On 12/10/21 4:28 AM, Oleksandr Andrushchenko wrote:
From: Oleksandr Andrushchenko <oleksandr_andrushchenko@xxxxxxxx> While working with Xen's libxenvchan library I have faced an issue with unmap notifications sent in wrong order if both UNMAP_NOTIFY_SEND_EVENT and UNMAP_NOTIFY_CLEAR_BYTE were requested: first we send an event channel notification and then clear the notification byte which renders in the below inconsistency (cli_live is the byte which was requested to be cleared on unmap): [ 444.514243] gntdev_put_map UNMAP_NOTIFY_SEND_EVENT map->notify.event 6 libxenvchan_is_open cli_live 1 [ 444.515239] __unmap_grant_pages UNMAP_NOTIFY_CLEAR_BYTE at 14 Thus it is not possible to reliably implement the checks like - wait for the notification (UNMAP_NOTIFY_SEND_EVENT) - check the variable (UNMAP_NOTIFY_CLEAR_BYTE) because it is possible that the variable gets checked before it is cleared by the kernel. To fix that we need to re-order the notifications, so the variable is first gets cleared and then the event channel notification is sent. With this fix I can see the correct order of execution: [ 54.522611] __unmap_grant_pages UNMAP_NOTIFY_CLEAR_BYTE at 14 [ 54.537966] gntdev_put_map UNMAP_NOTIFY_SEND_EVENT map->notify.event 6 libxenvchan_is_open cli_live 0 Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Oleksandr Andrushchenko <oleksandr_andrushchenko@xxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
