linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFC v8 02/11] vhost: use batched get_vq

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <0332b0cf-cf00-9216-042c-e870efa33626@redhat.com>
Date:   Wed, 17 Jun 2020 11:19:26 +0800
From:   Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
To:     "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     kvm@...r.kernel.org, virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, eperezma@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC v8 02/11] vhost: use batched get_vq_desc version


On 2020/6/11 下午7:34, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>   static void vhost_vq_free_iovecs(struct vhost_virtqueue *vq)
>   {
>   	kfree(vq->descs);
> @@ -394,6 +400,9 @@ static long vhost_dev_alloc_iovecs(struct vhost_dev *dev)
>   	for (i = 0; i < dev->nvqs; ++i) {
>   		vq = dev->vqs[i];
>   		vq->max_descs = dev->iov_limit;
> +		if (vhost_vq_num_batch_descs(vq) < 0) {
> +			return -EINVAL;
> +		}


This check breaks vdpa which set iov_limit to zero. Consider iov_limit 
is meaningless to vDPA, I wonder we can skip the test when device 
doesn't use worker.

Thanks