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)
committerMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Tue, 10 Aug 2021 15:50:54 +0000 (11:50 -0400)
commit60f0779862e4ab943810187752c462e85f5fa371
tree27575f63cc1973c87b8be9a32db44f20ba069df7
parent36a21d51725af2ce0700c6ebcb6b9594aac658a6
virtio: Improve vq->broken access to avoid any compiler optimization

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>
drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c