virtio: Improve vq->broken access to avoid any compiler optimization
authorParav Pandit <parav@nvidia.com>
Wed, 21 Jul 2021 14:26:45 +0000 (17:26 +0300)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 3 Sep 2021 07:44:40 +0000 (09:44 +0200)
commit5a8a6356d895eae726bd10562170039541f13ff3
tree9506bb03220572d0e41f3f24468ed509894f6d25
parent68e616e484740d26dd1ec7d29332095dc1bf9997
virtio: Improve vq->broken access to avoid any compiler optimization

[ Upstream commit 60f0779862e4ab943810187752c462e85f5fa371 ]

Currently vq->broken field is read by virtqueue_is_broken() in busy
loop in one context by virtnet_send_command().

vq->broken is set to true in other process context by
virtio_break_device(). Reader and writer are accessing it without any
synchronization. This may lead to a compiler optimization which may
result to optimize reading vq->broken only once.

Hence, force reading vq->broken on each invocation of
virtqueue_is_broken() and also force writing it so that such
update is visible to the readers.

It is a theoretical fix that isn't yet encountered in the field.

Signed-off-by: Parav Pandit <parav@nvidia.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210721142648.1525924-2-parav@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c