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 08:09:26 +0000 (10:09 +0200)
commit065a13c299b493ba63d526bbba4e44b2dbc2962e
treed6f3f43a757c70a207acf6b70586bc630c00cb84
parentf41c7462d8ae8e0a8623b54280f397c0169a9008
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