On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 10:46 AM, Jorgen Hansen <[email protected]> wrote: > When using the host personality, VMCI will grab a mutex for any > queue pair access. In the detach callback for the vmci vsock > transport, we call vsock_stream_has_data while holding a spinlock, > and vsock_stream_has_data will access a queue pair. > > To avoid this, we can simply omit calling vsock_stream_has_data > for host side queue pairs, since the QPs are empty per default > when the guest has detached. > > This bug affects users of VMware Workstation using kernel version > 4.4 and later. > > Testing: Ran vsock tests between guest and host, and verified that > with this change, the host isn't calling vsock_stream_has_data > during detach. Ran mixedTest between guest and host using both > guest and host as server. > > Reviewed-by: Adit Ranadive <[email protected]> > Reviewed-by: Aditya Sarwade <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Jorgen Hansen <[email protected]> > --- > net/vmw_vsock/vmci_transport.c | 10 +++++++--- > 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <[email protected]>

