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This fixes a deadlock with vhost reported in the field, as well as a theoretical race issue found by code review. Patches 1+2 are needed for stable. Thanks to Qin Chuanyu for reporting the issue! Michael S. Tsirkin (3): kref: add kref_sub_return vhost: fix ref cnt checking deadlock vhost: fix a theoretical race in device cleanup include/linux/kref.h | 33

This fixes a deadlock with vhost reported in the field, as well as a theoretical race issue found by code review. Patches 1+2 are needed for stable. Thanks to Qin Chuanyu for reporting the issue! Michael S. Tsirkin (3): kref: add kref_sub_return vhost: fix ref cnt checking deadlock vhost: fix a theoretical race in device cleanup include/linux/kref.h | 33

...ks are always invoked from bh, synchronize_rcu_bh seems enough and will help release complete a bit faster. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at redhat.com> --- drivers/vhost/net.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/vhost/net.c b/drivers/vhost/net.c index 7eaf2de..78a9d42 100644 --- a/drivers/vhost/net.c +++ b/drivers/vhost/net.c @@ -308,6 +308,8 @@ static void vhost_zerocopy_callback(struct ubuf_info *ubuf, bool success) struct vhost_virtqueue *vq = ubufs->vq; int cnt; + rcu_read_lock_bh(); + /* set len to mark this desc buffers done DMA */ vq...