linux-kernel - Re: [syzbot] [kvm?] [net?] [virt?] general protection fault in vhost_work

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Message-ID: <e4589879-1139-22cc-854f-fed22cc18693@oracle.com>
Date:   Tue, 30 May 2023 11:09:09 -0500
From:   Mike Christie <michael.christie@...cle.com>
To:     Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@...hat.com>,
        "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
Cc:     syzbot <syzbot+d0d442c22fa8db45ff0e@...kaller.appspotmail.com>,
        jasowang@...hat.com, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        syzkaller-bugs@...glegroups.com,
        virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org, stefanha@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [syzbot] [kvm?] [net?] [virt?] general protection fault in
 vhost_work_queue

On 5/30/23 11:00 AM, Stefano Garzarella wrote:
> I think it is partially related to commit 6e890c5d5021 ("vhost: use
> vhost_tasks for worker threads") and commit 1a5f8090c6de ("vhost: move
> worker thread fields to new struct"). Maybe that commits just
> highlighted the issue and it was already existing.

See my mail about the crash. Agree with your analysis about worker->vtsk
not being set yet. It's a bug from my commit where I should have not set
it so early or I should be checking for

if (dev->worker && worker->vtsk)

instead of 

if (dev->worker)

One question about the behavior before my commit though and what we want in
the end going forward. Before that patch we would just drop work if
vhost_work_queue was called before VHOST_SET_OWNER. Was that correct/expected?

The call to vhost_work_queue in vhost_vsock_start was only seeing the
works queued after VHOST_SET_OWNER. Did you want works queued before that?