Re: [PATCH net V2 3/4] Revert "net: vhost: lock the vqs one by one"

From: Jason Wang
Date: Wed Dec 12 2018 - 21:27:39 EST



On 2018/12/12 äå10:24, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 06:08:18PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
This reverts commit 78139c94dc8c96a478e67dab3bee84dc6eccb5fd. We don't
protect device IOTLB with vq mutex, which will lead e.g use after free
for device IOTLB entries. And since we've switched to use
mutex_trylock() in previous patch, it's safe to revert it without
having deadlock.

Fixes: commit 78139c94dc8c ("net: vhost: lock the vqs one by one")
Cc: Tonghao Zhang<xiangxia.m.yue@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang<jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin<mst@xxxxxxxxxx>

I'd try to put this in 4.20 if we can
and it's needed for -stable I think.

Also looks like we should allow iotlb entries per vq
to improve locking. What do you think?


Yes, we can do it for -next.

Thanks