Re: [PATCH 2/2] vhost: handle polling failure

2012-12-27 Thread Jason Wang
On 12/27/2012 06:01 PM, Wanlong Gao wrote:
> On 12/27/2012 02:39 PM, Jason Wang wrote:
>> > Currently, polling error were ignored in vhost. This may lead some issues 
>> > (e.g
>> > kenrel crash when passing a tap fd to vhost before calling TUNSETIFF). Fix 
>> > this
>> > by:
> Can this kernel crash be reproduced by hand?
>
> Thanks,
> Wanlong Gao
>
>> > 
Yes, it could be simply reproduced by: open a tap fd but does not cal
TUNSETIFF, then pass it to qemu and enable vhost.
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Re: [PATCH 2/2] vhost: handle polling failure

2012-12-27 Thread Wanlong Gao
On 12/27/2012 02:39 PM, Jason Wang wrote:
> Currently, polling error were ignored in vhost. This may lead some issues (e.g
> kenrel crash when passing a tap fd to vhost before calling TUNSETIFF). Fix 
> this
> by:

Can this kernel crash be reproduced by hand?

Thanks,
Wanlong Gao

> 
> - extend the idea of vhost_net_poll_state to all vhost_polls
> - change the state only when polling is succeed
> - make vhost_poll_start() report errors to the caller, which could be used
>   caller or userspace.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang 
> ---
>  drivers/vhost/net.c   |   75 
> +
>  drivers/vhost/vhost.c |   16 +-
>  drivers/vhost/vhost.h |   11 ++-
>  3 files changed, 50 insertions(+), 52 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/vhost/net.c b/drivers/vhost/net.c
> index 629d6b5..56e7f5a 100644
> --- a/drivers/vhost/net.c
> +++ b/drivers/vhost/net.c
> @@ -64,20 +64,10 @@ enum {
>   VHOST_NET_VQ_MAX = 2,
>  };
>  
> -enum vhost_net_poll_state {
> - VHOST_NET_POLL_DISABLED = 0,
> - VHOST_NET_POLL_STARTED = 1,
> - VHOST_NET_POLL_STOPPED = 2,
> -};
> -
>  struct vhost_net {
>   struct vhost_dev dev;
>   struct vhost_virtqueue vqs[VHOST_NET_VQ_MAX];
>   struct vhost_poll poll[VHOST_NET_VQ_MAX];
> - /* Tells us whether we are polling a socket for TX.
> -  * We only do this when socket buffer fills up.
> -  * Protected by tx vq lock. */
> - enum vhost_net_poll_state tx_poll_state;
>   /* Number of TX recently submitted.
>* Protected by tx vq lock. */
>   unsigned tx_packets;
> @@ -155,24 +145,6 @@ static void copy_iovec_hdr(const struct iovec *from, 
> struct iovec *to,
>   }
>  }
>  
> -/* Caller must have TX VQ lock */
> -static void tx_poll_stop(struct vhost_net *net)
> -{
> - if (likely(net->tx_poll_state != VHOST_NET_POLL_STARTED))
> - return;
> - vhost_poll_stop(net->poll + VHOST_NET_VQ_TX);
> - net->tx_poll_state = VHOST_NET_POLL_STOPPED;
> -}
> -
> -/* Caller must have TX VQ lock */
> -static void tx_poll_start(struct vhost_net *net, struct socket *sock)
> -{
> - if (unlikely(net->tx_poll_state != VHOST_NET_POLL_STOPPED))
> - return;
> - vhost_poll_start(net->poll + VHOST_NET_VQ_TX, sock->file);
> - net->tx_poll_state = VHOST_NET_POLL_STARTED;
> -}
> -
>  /* In case of DMA done not in order in lower device driver for some reason.
>   * upend_idx is used to track end of used idx, done_idx is used to track head
>   * of used idx. Once lower device DMA done contiguously, we will signal KVM
> @@ -252,7 +224,7 @@ static void handle_tx(struct vhost_net *net)
>   wmem = atomic_read(&sock->sk->sk_wmem_alloc);
>   if (wmem >= sock->sk->sk_sndbuf) {
>   mutex_lock(&vq->mutex);
> - tx_poll_start(net, sock);
> + vhost_poll_start(net->poll + VHOST_NET_VQ_TX, sock->file);
>   mutex_unlock(&vq->mutex);
>   return;
>   }
> @@ -261,7 +233,7 @@ static void handle_tx(struct vhost_net *net)
>   vhost_disable_notify(&net->dev, vq);
>  
>   if (wmem < sock->sk->sk_sndbuf / 2)
> - tx_poll_stop(net);
> + vhost_poll_stop(net->poll + VHOST_NET_VQ_TX);
>   hdr_size = vq->vhost_hlen;
>   zcopy = vq->ubufs;
>  
> @@ -283,7 +255,8 @@ static void handle_tx(struct vhost_net *net)
>  
>   wmem = atomic_read(&sock->sk->sk_wmem_alloc);
>   if (wmem >= sock->sk->sk_sndbuf * 3 / 4) {
> - tx_poll_start(net, sock);
> + vhost_poll_start(net->poll + VHOST_NET_VQ_TX,
> +  sock->file);
>   set_bit(SOCK_ASYNC_NOSPACE, &sock->flags);
>   break;
>   }
> @@ -294,7 +267,8 @@ static void handle_tx(struct vhost_net *net)
>   (vq->upend_idx - vq->done_idx) :
>   (vq->upend_idx + UIO_MAXIOV - vq->done_idx);
>   if (unlikely(num_pends > VHOST_MAX_PEND)) {
> - tx_poll_start(net, sock);
> + vhost_poll_start(net->poll + VHOST_NET_VQ_TX,
> +  sock->file);
>   set_bit(SOCK_ASYNC_NOSPACE, &sock->flags);
>   break;
>   }
> @@ -360,7 +334,8 @@ static void handle_tx(struct vhost_net *net)
>   }
>   vhost_discard_vq_desc(vq, 1);
>   if (err == -EAGAIN || err == -ENOBUFS)
> - tx_poll_start(net, sock);
> + vhost_poll_start(net->poll + VHOST_NET_VQ_TX,
> +  sock->file);
>   break;
>   }
>   if (err != len)
> @@ -623,7 +598,6 @@ static int