[PATCH] vhost-net: Acquire device lock when releasing device
From: Sasha Levin
Date: Fri Nov 18 2011 - 04:20:30 EST
Device lock should be held when releasing a device, and specifically
when calling vhost_dev_cleanup(). Otherwise, RCU complains about it:
[ 2025.642835] ===============================
[ 2025.643838] [ INFO: suspicious RCU usage. ]
[ 2025.645182] -------------------------------
[ 2025.645927] drivers/vhost/vhost.c:475 suspicious rcu_dereference_protected() usage!
[ 2025.647329]
[ 2025.647330] other info that might help us debug this:
[ 2025.647331]
[ 2025.649042]
[ 2025.649043] rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 1
[ 2025.650235] no locks held by trinity/21042.
[ 2025.650971]
[ 2025.650972] stack backtrace:
[ 2025.651789] Pid: 21042, comm: trinity Not tainted 3.2.0-rc2-sasha-00057-ga9098b3 #5
[ 2025.653342] Call Trace:
[ 2025.653792] [<ffffffff810b4a6a>] lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0xaf/0xb9
[ 2025.654916] [<ffffffff818d4c2c>] vhost_dev_cleanup+0x342/0x3ac
[ 2025.655985] [<ffffffff818d4f18>] vhost_net_release+0x48/0x7f
[ 2025.657247] [<ffffffff811416e3>] fput+0x11e/0x1dc
[ 2025.658091] [<ffffffff8113f1ec>] filp_close+0x6e/0x79
[ 2025.658964] [<ffffffff81089ed7>] put_files_struct+0xcc/0x196
[ 2025.659971] [<ffffffff8108a034>] exit_files+0x46/0x4f
[ 2025.660865] [<ffffffff8108a716>] do_exit+0x264/0x75c
[ 2025.662201] [<ffffffff8113f490>] ? fsnotify_modify+0x60/0x68
[ 2025.663260] [<ffffffff81bbdbca>] ? sysret_check+0x2e/0x69
[ 2025.664269] [<ffffffff8108acc1>] do_group_exit+0x83/0xb1
[ 2025.665448] [<ffffffff8108ad01>] sys_exit_group+0x12/0x16
[ 2025.666396] [<ffffffff81bbdb92>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: kvm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/vhost/net.c | 2 ++
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/vhost/net.c b/drivers/vhost/net.c
index 882a51f..c9be601 100644
--- a/drivers/vhost/net.c
+++ b/drivers/vhost/net.c
@@ -586,6 +586,7 @@ static int vhost_net_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *f)
struct socket *tx_sock;
struct socket *rx_sock;
+ mutex_lock(&n->dev.mutex);
vhost_net_stop(n, &tx_sock, &rx_sock);
vhost_net_flush(n);
vhost_dev_cleanup(&n->dev);
@@ -596,6 +597,7 @@ static int vhost_net_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *f)
/* We do an extra flush before freeing memory,
* since jobs can re-queue themselves. */
vhost_net_flush(n);
+ mutex_unlock(&n->dev.mutex);
kfree(n);
return 0;
}
--
1.7.8.rc1
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