[PATCH net] virtio-net: fix the race between channels setting and refill

From: Jason Wang
Date: Wed Jul 03 2013 - 08:26:47 EST


Commit 55257d72bd1c51f25106350f4983ec19f62ed1fa (virtio-net: fill only rx queues
which are being used) tries to refill on demand when changing the number of
channels by call try_refill_recv() directly, this may race:

- the refill work who may do the refill in the same time
- the try_refill_recv() called in bh since napi was not disabled

Which may led guest complain during setting channels:

virtio_net virtio0: input.1:id 0 is not a head!

Solve this issue by scheduling a refill work which can guarantee the
serialization of refill.

Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 5 +----
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
index c9e0038..47b4882 100644
--- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
+++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
@@ -901,7 +901,6 @@ static int virtnet_set_queues(struct virtnet_info *vi, u16 queue_pairs)
struct scatterlist sg;
struct virtio_net_ctrl_mq s;
struct net_device *dev = vi->dev;
- int i;

if (!vi->has_cvq || !virtio_has_feature(vi->vdev, VIRTIO_NET_F_MQ))
return 0;
@@ -915,10 +914,8 @@ static int virtnet_set_queues(struct virtnet_info *vi, u16 queue_pairs)
queue_pairs);
return -EINVAL;
} else {
- for (i = vi->curr_queue_pairs; i < queue_pairs; i++)
- if (!try_fill_recv(&vi->rq[i], GFP_KERNEL))
- schedule_delayed_work(&vi->refill, 0);
vi->curr_queue_pairs = queue_pairs;
+ schedule_delayed_work(&vi->refill, 0);
}

return 0;
--
1.7.1

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