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From: "Eelco Chaudron" <echaudro@redhat.com>
To: "Maxime Coquelin" <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, tiwei.bie@intel.com, amorenoz@redhat.com,
	zhihong.wang@intel.com, stable@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] vhost: fix deadlock on port deletion
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2020 09:25:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <60527675-3D43-47E1-B0E7-49F88F62F574@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200114185357.25819-1-maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>



On 14 Jan 2020, at 19:53, Maxime Coquelin wrote:

> If the vhost-user application (e.g. OVS) deletes the vhost-user
> port while Qemu sends a vhost-user request, a deadlock can
> happen if the request handler tries to acquire vhost-user's
> global mutex, which is also locked by the vhost-user port
> deletion API (rte_vhost_driver_unregister).
>
> This patch prevents the deadlock by making
> rte_vhost_driver_unregister() to release the mutex and try
> again if a request is being handled to give a chance to
> the request handler to complete.
>
> Fixes: 8b4b949144b8 ("vhost: fix dead lock on closing in server mode")
> Fixes: 5fbb3941da9f ("vhost: introduce driver features related APIs")
> Cc: stable@dpdk.org
>
> Signed-off-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>

Acked-by: Eelco Chaudron <echaudro@redhat.com>


  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-01-15  8:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-14 18:53 Maxime Coquelin
2020-01-15  4:51 ` Tiwei Bie
2020-01-15  8:25 ` Eelco Chaudron [this message]
2020-01-15 11:17 ` Maxime Coquelin

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