[PATCH] vhost: add runtime locking check in unsafe APIs
Maxime Coquelin
maxime.coquelin at redhat.com
Tue May 10 11:09:13 CEST 2022
On 5/10/22 11:00, Ding, Xuan wrote:
> Hi Maxime,
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin at redhat.com>
>> Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2022 4:25 PM
>> To: dev at dpdk.org; Xia, Chenbo <chenbo.xia at intel.com>; Ding, Xuan
>> <xuan.ding at intel.com>; Hu, Jiayu <jiayu.hu at intel.com>; Jiang, Cheng1
>> <cheng1.jiang at intel.com>; Pai G, Sunil <sunil.pai.g at intel.com>;
>> david.marchand at redhat.com
>> Cc: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin at redhat.com>
>> Subject: [PATCH] vhost: add runtime locking check in unsafe APIs
>>
>> This patch adds runtime checks in unsafe Vhost async APIs, to ensure the
>> access lock is taken.
>>
>> The detection won't work every time, as another thread could take the lock,
>> but it would help to detect misuse of these unsafe API.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin at redhat.com>
>> ---
>> lib/vhost/vhost.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
>> 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/lib/vhost/vhost.c b/lib/vhost/vhost.c index
>> df0bb9d043..39cbeb415c 100644
>> --- a/lib/vhost/vhost.c
>> +++ b/lib/vhost/vhost.c
>> @@ -1732,6 +1732,12 @@
>> rte_vhost_async_channel_register_thread_unsafe(int vid, uint16_t queue_id)
>> if (unlikely(vq == NULL || !dev->async_copy))
>> return -1;
>>
>> + if (unlikely(!rte_spinlock_is_locked(&vq->access_lock))) {
>> + VHOST_LOG_CONFIG(ERR, "(%s) %s() called without access
>> lock taken.\n",
>> + dev->ifname, __func__);
>> + return -1;
>> + }
>> +
>> return async_channel_register(vid, queue_id); }
>>
>> @@ -1796,6 +1802,12 @@
>> rte_vhost_async_channel_unregister_thread_unsafe(int vid, uint16_t
>> queue_id)
>> if (vq == NULL)
>> return -1;
>>
>> + if (unlikely(!rte_spinlock_is_locked(&vq->access_lock))) {
>> + VHOST_LOG_CONFIG(ERR, "(%s) %s() called without access
>> lock taken.\n",
>> + dev->ifname, __func__);
>> + return -1;
>> + }
>> +
>> if (!vq->async)
>> return 0;
>>
>> @@ -1925,6 +1937,12 @@ rte_vhost_async_get_inflight_thread_unsafe(int
>> vid, uint16_t queue_id)
>> if (vq == NULL)
>> return ret;
>>
>> + if (unlikely(!rte_spinlock_is_locked(&vq->access_lock))) {
>> + VHOST_LOG_CONFIG(ERR, "(%s) %s() called without access
>> lock taken.\n",
>> + dev->ifname, __func__);
>> + return -1;
>> + }
>> +
>> if (!vq->async)
>> return ret;
>
> Just to confirm, is the rte_vhost_clear_queue_thread_unsafe() API missed the check?
I missed it, I thought they were all in vhost.c.
I'll send a v2.
Regards,
Maxime
> Thanks,
> Xuan
>
>>
>> --
>> 2.35.1
>
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