On Sun, Jan 29, 2023 at 06:58:09PM +0100, Eric Auger wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 1/17/23 16:15, Eric Auger wrote:
> > When the vhost iotlb is used along with a guest virtual iommu
> > and the guest gets rebooted, some MISS messages may have been
> > recorded just before the reboot and spuriously executed by
> > the virtual iommu after the reboot. This is due to the fact
> > the pending messages are not cleared.
> >
> > As vhost does not have any explicit reset user API,
> > VHOST_NET_SET_BACKEND looks a reasonable point where to clear
> > the pending messages, in case the backend is removed (fd = -1).
> >
> > This version is a follow-up on the discussions held in [1].
> >
> > The first patch removes an unused 'enabled' parameter in
> > vhost_init_device_iotlb().
> 
> Gentle Ping. Does it look a reasonable fix now?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Eric

Yes I applied this - giving it a bit of time in next.

> >
> > Best Regards
> >
> > Eric
> >
> > History:
> > [1] RFC: [RFC] vhost: Clear the pending messages on 
> > vhost_init_device_iotlb()
> > https://lore.kernel.org/all/20221107203431.368306-1-eric.au...@redhat.com/
> >
> > Eric Auger (2):
> >   vhost: Remove the enabled parameter from vhost_init_device_iotlb
> >   vhost/net: Clear the pending messages when the backend is removed
> >
> >  drivers/vhost/net.c   | 5 ++++-
> >  drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 5 +++--
> >  drivers/vhost/vhost.h | 3 ++-
> >  3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> >

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