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From: physicalmtea@gmail.com
To: mst@redhat.com
Cc: jasowangio@gmail.com, michael.christie@oracle.com,
	pbonzini@redhat.com, stefanha@redhat.com, eperezma@redhat.com,
	nab@linux-iscsi.org, asias@redhat.com,
	virtualization@lists.linux.dev, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] vhost-scsi: do not relock event vq mutex on send_evt fallback
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 17:42:44 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260915094244.7900-3-physicalmtea@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260915094244.7900-1-physicalmtea@gmail.com>

From: Jia Jia <physicalmtea@gmail.com>

vhost_scsi_send_evt() is called with the event virtqueue mutex held.
If the worker is gone, the fallback currently calls
vhost_scsi_complete_events(), which tries to acquire the same mutex again
and deadlocks the caller.

Split event completion into a helper for callers that already hold the
mutex and a locking wrapper for the event worker. Use the helper on the
fallback path.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260905005352.1E5B01F00A3D@smtp.kernel.org/
Fixes: b1b2ce58ed23 ("vhost-scsi: Handle vhost_vq_work_queue failures for events")
Signed-off-by: Jia Jia <physicalmtea@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Christie <michael.christie@oracle.com>
---
 drivers/vhost/scsi.c | 15 +++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/vhost/scsi.c b/drivers/vhost/scsi.c
index 37f681aab..9cd181cb1 100644
--- a/drivers/vhost/scsi.c
+++ b/drivers/vhost/scsi.c
@@ -630,19 +630,26 @@ vhost_scsi_do_evt_work(struct vhost_scsi *vs, struct vhost_scsi_evt *evt)
 	vhost_scsi_log_write(vq, vq_log, log_num);
 }
 
-static void vhost_scsi_complete_events(struct vhost_scsi *vs, bool drop)
+/* Caller must hold the event virtqueue mutex. */
+static void __vhost_scsi_complete_events(struct vhost_scsi *vs, bool drop)
 {
-	struct vhost_virtqueue *vq = &vs->vqs[VHOST_SCSI_VQ_EVT].vq;
 	struct vhost_scsi_evt *evt, *t;
 	struct llist_node *llnode;
 
-	mutex_lock(&vq->mutex);
 	llnode = llist_reverse_order(llist_del_all(&vs->vs_event_list));
 	llist_for_each_entry_safe(evt, t, llnode, list) {
 		if (!drop)
 			vhost_scsi_do_evt_work(vs, evt);
 		vhost_scsi_free_evt(vs, evt);
 	}
+}
+
+static void vhost_scsi_complete_events(struct vhost_scsi *vs, bool drop)
+{
+	struct vhost_virtqueue *vq = &vs->vqs[VHOST_SCSI_VQ_EVT].vq;
+
+	mutex_lock(&vq->mutex);
+	__vhost_scsi_complete_events(vs, drop);
 	mutex_unlock(&vq->mutex);
 }
 
@@ -1829,7 +1836,7 @@ vhost_scsi_send_evt(struct vhost_scsi *vs, struct vhost_virtqueue *vq,
 
 	llist_add(&evt->list, &vs->vs_event_list);
 	if (!vhost_vq_work_queue(vq, &vs->vs_event_work))
-		vhost_scsi_complete_events(vs, true);
+		__vhost_scsi_complete_events(vs, true);
 }
 
 static void vhost_scsi_evt_handle_kick(struct vhost_work *work)
-- 
2.34.1



      parent reply	other threads:[~2026-09-15  9:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-09-15  9:42 [PATCH 0/2] vhost-scsi: preserve event ordering and fix fallback deadlock physicalmtea
2026-09-15  9:42 ` [PATCH 1/2] vhost-scsi: preserve event ordering physicalmtea
2026-09-15 21:00   ` Mike Christie
2026-09-15  9:42 ` physicalmtea [this message]

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