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<title>vhost/net: fix heads usage of ubuf_info</title>
<updated>2013-03-28T19:17:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael S. Tsirkin</name>
<email>mst@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2013-03-17T02:46:09+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 46aa92d1ba162b4b3d6b7102440e459d4e4ee255 ]

ubuf info allocator uses guest controlled head as an index,
so a malicious guest could put the same head entry in the ring twice,
and we will get two callbacks on the same value.
To fix use upend_idx which is guaranteed to be unique.

Reported-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 46aa92d1ba162b4b3d6b7102440e459d4e4ee255 ]

ubuf info allocator uses guest controlled head as an index,
so a malicious guest could put the same head entry in the ring twice,
and we will get two callbacks on the same value.
To fix use upend_idx which is guaranteed to be unique.

Reported-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>vhost_net: handle polling errors when setting backend</title>
<updated>2013-01-29T20:43:03+00:00</updated>
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<name>Jason Wang</name>
<email>jasowang@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2013-01-28T01:05:18+00:00</published>
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Currently, the polling errors were ignored, which can lead following issues:

- vhost remove itself unconditionally from waitqueue when stopping the poll,
  this may crash the kernel since the previous attempt of starting may fail to
  add itself to the waitqueue
- userspace may think the backend were successfully set even when the polling
  failed.

Solve this by:

- check poll-&gt;wqh before trying to remove from waitqueue
- report polling errors in vhost_poll_start(), tx_poll_start(), the return value
  will be checked and returned when userspace want to set the backend

After this fix, there still could be a polling failure after backend is set, it
will addressed by the next patch.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wang &lt;jasowang@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Currently, the polling errors were ignored, which can lead following issues:

- vhost remove itself unconditionally from waitqueue when stopping the poll,
  this may crash the kernel since the previous attempt of starting may fail to
  add itself to the waitqueue
- userspace may think the backend were successfully set even when the polling
  failed.

Solve this by:

- check poll-&gt;wqh before trying to remove from waitqueue
- report polling errors in vhost_poll_start(), tx_poll_start(), the return value
  will be checked and returned when userspace want to set the backend

After this fix, there still could be a polling failure after backend is set, it
will addressed by the next patch.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wang &lt;jasowang@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>vhost_net: correct error handling in vhost_net_set_backend()</title>
<updated>2013-01-29T20:43:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Wang</name>
<email>jasowang@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-01-28T01:05:17+00:00</published>
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Currently, when vhost_init_used() fails the sock refcnt and ubufs were
leaked. Correct this by calling vhost_init_used() before assign ubufs and
restore the oldsock when it fails.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wang &lt;jasowang@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Currently, when vhost_init_used() fails the sock refcnt and ubufs were
leaked. Correct this by calling vhost_init_used() before assign ubufs and
restore the oldsock when it fails.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wang &lt;jasowang@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>vhost-net: enable zerocopy tx by default</title>
<updated>2012-12-06T15:09:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael S. Tsirkin</name>
<email>mst@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-12-06T12:56:00+00:00</published>
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Zero copy TX has been around for a while now.
We seem to be down to eliminating theoretical bugs
and performance tuning at this point:
it's probably time to enable it by default so that
most users get the benefit.

Keep the flag around meanwhile so users can experiment
with disabling this if they experience regressions.
I expect that we will remove it in the future.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
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Zero copy TX has been around for a while now.
We seem to be down to eliminating theoretical bugs
and performance tuning at this point:
it's probably time to enable it by default so that
most users get the benefit.

Keep the flag around meanwhile so users can experiment
with disabling this if they experience regressions.
I expect that we will remove it in the future.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>vhost-net: skip head management if no outstanding</title>
<updated>2012-12-06T15:09:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael S. Tsirkin</name>
<email>mst@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-12-06T15:00:18+00:00</published>
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For short packets zerocopy mode adds overhead
of managing heads which isn't necessary: we
could simly update used ring directly
same as with zerocopy disabled.

Things seem to run a bit faster if we detect
and bypass head management when zcopy isn't used.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
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For short packets zerocopy mode adds overhead
of managing heads which isn't necessary: we
could simly update used ring directly
same as with zerocopy disabled.

Things seem to run a bit faster if we detect
and bypass head management when zcopy isn't used.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>vhost-net: flush outstanding DMAs on memory change</title>
<updated>2012-12-06T15:09:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael S. Tsirkin</name>
<email>mst@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-12-03T22:17:14+00:00</published>
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When memory map changes, we need to flush outstanding
DMAs as they might in theory reference old memory addresses.
To do this simply stop initiating new DMAs
and wait for ubufs ref count to drop to 0.
Afterwards reset the count back to 1.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
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When memory map changes, we need to flush outstanding
DMAs as they might in theory reference old memory addresses.
To do this simply stop initiating new DMAs
and wait for ubufs ref count to drop to 0.
Afterwards reset the count back to 1.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>vhost: avoid backend flush on vring ops</title>
<updated>2012-12-06T15:09:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael S. Tsirkin</name>
<email>mst@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-12-06T12:03:34+00:00</published>
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vring changes already do a flush internally where appropriate, so we do
not need a second flush.

It's currently not very expensive but a follow-up patch makes flush more
heavy-weight, so remove the extra flush here to avoid regressing
performance if call or kick fds are changed on data path.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
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vring changes already do a flush internally where appropriate, so we do
not need a second flush.

It's currently not very expensive but a follow-up patch makes flush more
heavy-weight, so remove the extra flush here to avoid regressing
performance if call or kick fds are changed on data path.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>vhost-net: initialize zcopy packet counters</title>
<updated>2012-12-03T18:42:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael S. Tsirkin</name>
<email>mst@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-12-03T07:31:51+00:00</published>
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These packet counters are used to drive the zercopy
selection heuristic so nothing too bad happens if they are off a bit -
and they are also reset once in a while.
But it's cleaner to clear them when backend is set so that
we start in a known state.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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These packet counters are used to drive the zercopy
selection heuristic so nothing too bad happens if they are off a bit -
and they are also reset once in a while.
But it's cleaner to clear them when backend is set so that
we start in a known state.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net</title>
<updated>2012-11-10T23:32:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2012-11-10T23:32:51+00:00</published>
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Conflicts:
	drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_main.c

Minor conflict between the BCM_CNIC define removal in net-next
and a bug fix added to net.  Based upon a conflict resolution
patch posted by Stephen Rothwell.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Conflicts:
	drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_main.c

Minor conflict between the BCM_CNIC define removal in net-next
and a bug fix added to net.  Based upon a conflict resolution
patch posted by Stephen Rothwell.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>vhost-net: reduce vq polling on tx zerocopy</title>
<updated>2012-11-03T01:29:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael S. Tsirkin</name>
<email>mst@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-11-01T09:16:55+00:00</published>
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It seems that to avoid deadlocks it is enough to poll vq before
 we are going to use the last buffer.  This is faster than
c70aa540c7a9f67add11ad3161096fb95233aa2e.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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It seems that to avoid deadlocks it is enough to poll vq before
 we are going to use the last buffer.  This is faster than
c70aa540c7a9f67add11ad3161096fb95233aa2e.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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