Currently vq->broken field is read by virtqueue_is_broken() in busy
loop in one context by virtnet_send_command().
vq->broken is set to true in other process context by
virtio_break_device(). Reader and writer are accessing it without any
synchronization. This may lead to a compiler optimization which may
result to optimize reading vq->broken only once.
Hence, force reading vq->broken on each invocation of
virtqueue_is_broken() and ensure that its update is visible.
Signed-off-by: Parav Pandit <pa...@nvidia.com>
---
changelog:
v0->v1:
- removed fixes tag from commit log
- using WRITE_ONCE() as its enough for smp cache coherency as well as
undesired compiler optimization
---
drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
index 89bfe46a8a7f..e179c7c7622c 100644
--- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
+++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
@@ -2373,7 +2373,7 @@ bool virtqueue_is_broken(struct virtqueue *_vq)
{
struct vring_virtqueue *vq = to_vvq(_vq);
- return vq->broken;
+ return READ_ONCE(vq->broken);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(virtqueue_is_broken);
@@ -2387,7 +2387,9 @@ void virtio_break_device(struct virtio_device *dev)
list_for_each_entry(_vq, &dev->vqs, list) {
struct vring_virtqueue *vq = to_vvq(_vq);
- vq->broken = true;
+
+ /* Pairs with READ_ONCE() in virtqueue_is_broken(). */
+ WRITE_ONCE(vq->broken, true);
}
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(virtio_break_device);
--
2.27.0
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