[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/4] vhost: Fix virtio-net on VHOST_USER_RESET_OWNER

[Yuanhan Liu]

Acked-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu at linux.intel.com>

Thanks.

	--yliu

On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 11:44:25AM +0200, Jerome Jutteau wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a bug when Qemu with two vhost interfaces gently stops (SIGINT).
> When stopping, it sends two RESET_OWNER for each interface:
> - Before stopping, we have two interfaces identifers: 0 and 1.
> - The first reset_owner call resets device 1 (and this id device_fh) to zero,
>   the device list now contains two devices with id 0.
> - The second call don't find device 1 and segfault as reset_owner don't
>   check if the device has been found or not.
> - Later, user_get_vring_base can also segfault for the same reason.
> 
> This series of patches propose to fix the way reset_owner alter a device and
> add more checks when searching for a device.
> 
> In this v2, we use get_device instead of get_config_ll_entry to get an error
> message when a device is not found.
> 
> Jerome Jutteau (4):
>   vhost: avoid device identifier to be reset to 0 in reset_owner
>   vhost: check that a device exists during reset_owner
>   vhost: protect user_get_vring_base from unknown devices
>   vhost: change method to get device in reset_owner
> 
>  lib/librte_vhost/vhost_user/virtio-net-user.c |  2 ++
>  lib/librte_vhost/virtio-net.c                 | 14 +++++++++-----
>  2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> jerome