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
prev 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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