From patchwork Wed Aug 7 06:54:46 2019 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Jason Wang X-Patchwork-Id: 11081143 Return-Path: Received: from mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (pdx-wl-mail.web.codeaurora.org [172.30.200.125]) by pdx-korg-patchwork-2.web.codeaurora.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B24C4912 for ; Wed, 7 Aug 2019 06:56:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A25D127FAE for ; Wed, 7 Aug 2019 06:56:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix, from userid 486) id 96F04284C8; Wed, 7 Aug 2019 06:56:01 +0000 (UTC) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on pdx-wl-mail.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-7.9 required=2.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI autolearn=unavailable version=3.3.1 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5555427FAE for ; Wed, 7 Aug 2019 06:56:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1728321AbfHGGz2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Aug 2019 02:55:28 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:13179 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1727675AbfHGGz1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Aug 2019 02:55:27 -0400 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx07.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.22]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AD0ED30C5859; Wed, 7 Aug 2019 06:55:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from hp-dl380pg8-01.lab.eng.pek2.redhat.com (hp-dl380pg8-01.lab.eng.pek2.redhat.com [10.73.8.10]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33C2A1001281; Wed, 7 Aug 2019 06:55:24 +0000 (UTC) From: Jason Wang To: mst@redhat.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, jgg@ziepe.ca, Jason Wang Subject: [PATCH V3 07/10] vhost: don't do synchronize_rcu() in vhost_uninit_vq_maps() Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2019 02:54:46 -0400 Message-Id: <20190807065449.23373-8-jasowang@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20190807065449.23373-1-jasowang@redhat.com> References: <20190807065449.23373-1-jasowang@redhat.com> X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.84 on 10.5.11.22 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.5.110.46]); Wed, 07 Aug 2019 06:55:27 +0000 (UTC) Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: kvm@vger.kernel.org X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP There's no need for RCU synchronization in vhost_uninit_vq_maps() since we've already serialized with readers (memory accessors). This also avoid the possible userspace DOS through ioctl() because of the possible high latency caused by synchronize_rcu(). Reported-by: Michael S. Tsirkin Fixes: 7f466032dc9e ("vhost: access vq metadata through kernel virtual address") Signed-off-by: Jason Wang --- drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c index c12cdadb0855..cfc11f9ed9c9 100644 --- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c +++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c @@ -333,7 +333,9 @@ static void vhost_uninit_vq_maps(struct vhost_virtqueue *vq) } spin_unlock(&vq->mmu_lock); - synchronize_rcu(); + /* No need for synchronize_rcu() or kfree_rcu() since we are + * serialized with memory accessors (e.g vq mutex held). + */ for (i = 0; i < VHOST_NUM_ADDRS; i++) if (map[i])