Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] hyperv compose_msi_msg fixups

From: Wei Liu
Date: Wed May 11 2022 - 13:51:36 EST


On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 09:22:11AM -0600, Jeffrey Hugo wrote:
> While multi-MSI appears to work with pci-hyperv.c, there was a concern about
> how linux was doing the ITRE allocations. Patch 2 addresses the concern.
>
> However, patch 2 exposed an issue with how compose_msi_msg() was freeing a
> previous allocation when called for the Nth time. Imagine a driver using
> pci_alloc_irq_vectors() to request 32 MSIs. This would cause compose_msi_msg()
> to be called 32 times, once for each MSI. With patch 2, MSI0 would allocate
> the ITREs needed, and MSI1-31 would use the cached information. Then the driver
> uses request_irq() on MSI1-17. This would call compose_msi_msg() again on those
> MSIs, which would again use the cached information. Then unmask() would be
> called to retarget the MSIs to the right VCPU vectors. Finally, the driver
> calls request_irq() on MSI0. This would call conpose_msi_msg(), which would
> free the block of 32 MSIs, and allocate a new block. This would undo the
> retarget of MSI1-17, and likely leave those MSIs targeting invalid VCPU vectors.
> This is addressed by patch 1, which is introduced first to prevent a regression.
>
> Jeffrey Hugo (2):
> PCI: hv: Reuse existing ITRE allocation in compose_msi_msg()
> PCI: hv: Fix interrupt mapping for multi-MSI

Applied this version to hyperv-next. Thanks.