Re: Re: [PATCH v7 11/12] vduse: Introduce VDUSE - vDPA Device in Userspace

[Yongji Xie]

On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 1:00 PM Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> 在 2021/5/27 下午12:57, Yongji Xie 写道:
> > On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 12:13 PM Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> 在 2021/5/17 下午5:55, Xie Yongji 写道:
> >>> +
> >>> +static int vduse_dev_msg_sync(struct vduse_dev *dev,
> >>> +                           struct vduse_dev_msg *msg)
> >>> +{
> >>> +     init_waitqueue_head(&msg->waitq);
> >>> +     spin_lock(&dev->msg_lock);
> >>> +     vduse_enqueue_msg(&dev->send_list, msg);
> >>> +     wake_up(&dev->waitq);
> >>> +     spin_unlock(&dev->msg_lock);
> >>> +     wait_event_killable(msg->waitq, msg->completed);
> >>
> >> What happens if the userspace(malicous) doesn't give a response forever?
> >>
> >> It looks like a DOS. If yes, we need to consider a way to fix that.
> >>
> > How about using wait_event_killable_timeout() instead?
>
>
> Probably, and then we need choose a suitable timeout and more important,
> need to report the failure to virtio.
>

Makes sense to me. But it looks like some
vdpa_config_ops/virtio_config_ops such as set_status() didn't have a
return value.  Now I add a WARN_ON() for the failure. Do you mean we
need to add some change for virtio core to handle the failure?

Thanks,
Yongji