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Date:	Tue,  4 Mar 2014 12:02:10 -0800
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, Qin Chuanyu <qinchuanyu@...wei.com>,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
	Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: [PATCH 3.13 046/172] vhost: fix ref cnt checking deadlock

3.13-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>

[ Upstream commit 0ad8b480d6ee916aa84324f69acf690142aecd0e ]

vhost checked the counter within the refcnt before decrementing.  It
really wanted to know that it is the one that has the last reference, as
a way to batch freeing resources a bit more efficiently.

Note: we only let refcount go to 0 on device release.

This works well but we now access the ref counter twice so there's a
race: all users might see a high count and decide to defer freeing
resources.
In the end no one initiates freeing resources until the last reference
is gone (which is on VM shotdown so might happen after a looooong time).

Let's do what we probably should have done straight away:
switch from kref to plain atomic, documenting the
semantics, return the refcount value atomically after decrement,
then use that to avoid the deadlock.

Reported-by: Qin Chuanyu <qinchuanyu@...wei.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@...hat.com>
Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/vhost/net.c |   41 ++++++++++++++++++++---------------------
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/vhost/net.c
+++ b/drivers/vhost/net.c
@@ -70,7 +70,12 @@ enum {
 };
 
 struct vhost_net_ubuf_ref {
-	struct kref kref;
+	/* refcount follows semantics similar to kref:
+	 *  0: object is released
+	 *  1: no outstanding ubufs
+	 * >1: outstanding ubufs
+	 */
+	atomic_t refcount;
 	wait_queue_head_t wait;
 	struct vhost_virtqueue *vq;
 };
@@ -116,14 +121,6 @@ static void vhost_net_enable_zcopy(int v
 	vhost_net_zcopy_mask |= 0x1 << vq;
 }
 
-static void vhost_net_zerocopy_done_signal(struct kref *kref)
-{
-	struct vhost_net_ubuf_ref *ubufs;
-
-	ubufs = container_of(kref, struct vhost_net_ubuf_ref, kref);
-	wake_up(&ubufs->wait);
-}
-
 static struct vhost_net_ubuf_ref *
 vhost_net_ubuf_alloc(struct vhost_virtqueue *vq, bool zcopy)
 {
@@ -134,21 +131,24 @@ vhost_net_ubuf_alloc(struct vhost_virtqu
 	ubufs = kmalloc(sizeof(*ubufs), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!ubufs)
 		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
-	kref_init(&ubufs->kref);
+	atomic_set(&ubufs->refcount, 1);
 	init_waitqueue_head(&ubufs->wait);
 	ubufs->vq = vq;
 	return ubufs;
 }
 
-static void vhost_net_ubuf_put(struct vhost_net_ubuf_ref *ubufs)
+static int vhost_net_ubuf_put(struct vhost_net_ubuf_ref *ubufs)
 {
-	kref_put(&ubufs->kref, vhost_net_zerocopy_done_signal);
+	int r = atomic_sub_return(1, &ubufs->refcount);
+	if (unlikely(!r))
+		wake_up(&ubufs->wait);
+	return r;
 }
 
 static void vhost_net_ubuf_put_and_wait(struct vhost_net_ubuf_ref *ubufs)
 {
-	kref_put(&ubufs->kref, vhost_net_zerocopy_done_signal);
-	wait_event(ubufs->wait, !atomic_read(&ubufs->kref.refcount));
+	vhost_net_ubuf_put(ubufs);
+	wait_event(ubufs->wait, !atomic_read(&ubufs->refcount));
 }
 
 static void vhost_net_ubuf_put_wait_and_free(struct vhost_net_ubuf_ref *ubufs)
@@ -306,22 +306,21 @@ static void vhost_zerocopy_callback(stru
 {
 	struct vhost_net_ubuf_ref *ubufs = ubuf->ctx;
 	struct vhost_virtqueue *vq = ubufs->vq;
-	int cnt = atomic_read(&ubufs->kref.refcount);
+	int cnt;
 
 	/* set len to mark this desc buffers done DMA */
 	vq->heads[ubuf->desc].len = success ?
 		VHOST_DMA_DONE_LEN : VHOST_DMA_FAILED_LEN;
-	vhost_net_ubuf_put(ubufs);
+	cnt = vhost_net_ubuf_put(ubufs);
 
 	/*
 	 * Trigger polling thread if guest stopped submitting new buffers:
-	 * in this case, the refcount after decrement will eventually reach 1
-	 * so here it is 2.
+	 * in this case, the refcount after decrement will eventually reach 1.
 	 * We also trigger polling periodically after each 16 packets
 	 * (the value 16 here is more or less arbitrary, it's tuned to trigger
 	 * less than 10% of times).
 	 */
-	if (cnt <= 2 || !(cnt % 16))
+	if (cnt <= 1 || !(cnt % 16))
 		vhost_poll_queue(&vq->poll);
 }
 
@@ -420,7 +419,7 @@ static void handle_tx(struct vhost_net *
 			msg.msg_control = ubuf;
 			msg.msg_controllen = sizeof(ubuf);
 			ubufs = nvq->ubufs;
-			kref_get(&ubufs->kref);
+			atomic_inc(&ubufs->refcount);
 			nvq->upend_idx = (nvq->upend_idx + 1) % UIO_MAXIOV;
 		} else {
 			msg.msg_control = NULL;
@@ -785,7 +784,7 @@ static void vhost_net_flush(struct vhost
 		vhost_net_ubuf_put_and_wait(n->vqs[VHOST_NET_VQ_TX].ubufs);
 		mutex_lock(&n->vqs[VHOST_NET_VQ_TX].vq.mutex);
 		n->tx_flush = false;
-		kref_init(&n->vqs[VHOST_NET_VQ_TX].ubufs->kref);
+		atomic_set(&n->vqs[VHOST_NET_VQ_TX].ubufs->refcount, 1);
 		mutex_unlock(&n->vqs[VHOST_NET_VQ_TX].vq.mutex);
 	}
 }


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