From: Michael S. Tsirkin Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 13:28:53 +0000 (+0200) Subject: virtio: order used ring after used index read X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2d61ba95034f1abbdec7729d52c740870a5eddb6;p=GitHub%2Fmoto-9609%2Fandroid_kernel_motorola_exynos9610.git virtio: order used ring after used index read On SMP guests, reads from the ring might bypass used index reads. This causes guest crashes because host writes to used index to signal ring data readiness. Fix this by inserting rmb before used ring reads. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell Cc: stable@kernel.org --- diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c index f53600580726..fbd2ecde93e4 100644 --- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c +++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c @@ -285,6 +285,9 @@ static void *vring_get_buf(struct virtqueue *_vq, unsigned int *len) return NULL; } + /* Only get used array entries after they have been exposed by host. */ + rmb(); + i = vq->vring.used->ring[vq->last_used_idx%vq->vring.num].id; *len = vq->vring.used->ring[vq->last_used_idx%vq->vring.num].len;