linux-kernel - [PATCH V5 8/9] vhost: correctly set dirty pages in MMU notifiers callback

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Message-Id: <20190809054851.20118-9-jasowang@redhat.com>
Date:   Fri,  9 Aug 2019 01:48:50 -0400
From:   Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
To:     mst@...hat.com, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, jgg@...pe.ca, Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH V5 8/9] vhost: correctly set dirty pages in MMU notifiers callback

We need make sure there's no reference on the map before trying to
mark set dirty pages.

Reported-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@...hat.com>
Fixes: 7f466032dc9e ("vhost: access vq metadata through kernel virtual address")
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
---
 drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
index 29e8abe694f7..d8863aaaf0f6 100644
--- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
+++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
@@ -386,13 +386,12 @@ static void vhost_invalidate_vq_start(struct vhost_virtqueue *vq,
 	++vq->invalidate_count;
 
 	map = vq->maps[index];
-	if (map) {
+	if (map)
 		vq->maps[index] = NULL;
-		vhost_set_map_dirty(vq, map, index);
-	}
 	spin_unlock(&vq->mmu_lock);
 
 	if (map) {
+		vhost_set_map_dirty(vq, map, index);
 		vhost_map_unprefetch(map);
 	}
 }
-- 
2.18.1