Re: [PATCH v2 3/7] vhost: Add kthread support in function vhost_workers_free()

[Cindy Lu]

On Tue, 15 Oct 2024 at 14:52, Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Oct 15, 2024 at 02:05:47PM +0800, Cindy Lu wrote:
> >On Tue, 15 Oct 2024 at 05:06, Mike Christie <michael.christie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 10/3/24 8:58 PM, Cindy Lu wrote:
> >> > +static void vhost_workers_free(struct vhost_dev *dev)
> >> > +{
> >> > +     if (enforce_inherit_owner)
> >> > +             vhost_workers_free_task(dev);
> >> > +     else
> >> > +             vhost_workers_free_kthread(dev);
> >> > +}
> >>
> >> With patch 7, userspace could change enforce_inherit_owner after
> >> we created thread and we would call the wrong function above.
> >>
> >enforce_inherit_owner will only change before the owner was set.
>
> As I pointed out in patch 7, enforce_inherit_owner seems to be shared
> among all vhost devices, so what happens if for example a user sets it
> to /dev/vhost-net, while /dev/vhost-vsock is already initialized and
> therefore already has an owner?
>
> Thanks,
> Stefano
>
You are correct, I will think about this and provide a new version
Thanks
cindy

> >the process is like set enforce_inherit_owner---->set owner->
> >thread/task creating
> >in in patch 7's code I have add the check for vhost's owner, if the
> >owner was set, the ioctl
> >to set enforce_inherit_owner will fail
> >Thanks
> >Cindy
> >
> >
>