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Re: [PATCH] hw/virtio: Fix the de-initialization of vhost-user devices


From: Thomas Huth
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hw/virtio: Fix the de-initialization of vhost-user devices
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2024 18:06:42 +0200
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On 01/07/2024 17.06, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
On Mon, Jul 01, 2024 at 04:07:56PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
On 18/06/2024 14.19, Thomas Huth wrote:
The unrealize functions of the various vhost-user devices are
calling the corresponding vhost_*_set_status() functions with a
status of 0 to shut down the device correctly.

Now these vhost_*_set_status() functions all follow this scheme:

      bool should_start = virtio_device_should_start(vdev, status);

      if (vhost_dev_is_started(&vvc->vhost_dev) == should_start) {
          return;
      }

      if (should_start) {
          /* ... do the initialization stuff ... */
      } else {
          /* ... do the cleanup stuff ... */
      }

The problem here is virtio_device_should_start(vdev, 0) currently
always returns "true" since it internally only looks at vdev->started
instead of looking at the "status" parameter. Thus once the device
got started once, virtio_device_should_start() always returns true
and thus the vhost_*_set_status() functions return early, without
ever doing any clean-up when being called with status == 0. This
causes e.g. problems when trying to hot-plug and hot-unplug a vhost
user devices multiple times since the de-initialization step is
completely skipped during the unplug operation.

This bug has been introduced in commit 9f6bcfd99f ("hw/virtio: move
vm_running check to virtio_device_started") which replaced

   should_start = status & VIRTIO_CONFIG_S_DRIVER_OK;

with

   should_start = virtio_device_started(vdev, status);

which later got replaced by virtio_device_should_start(). This blocked
the possibility to set should_start to false in case the status flag
VIRTIO_CONFIG_S_DRIVER_OK was not set.

Fix it by adjusting the virtio_device_should_start() function to
only consider the status flag instead of vdev->started. Since this
function is only used in the various vhost_*_set_status() functions
for exactly the same purpose, it should be fine to fix it in this
central place there without any risk to change the behavior of other
code.

Fixes: 9f6bcfd99f ("hw/virtio: move vm_running check to virtio_device_started")
Buglink: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-40708
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
---
   include/hw/virtio/virtio.h | 8 ++++----
   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/hw/virtio/virtio.h b/include/hw/virtio/virtio.h
index 7d5ffdc145..2eafad17b8 100644
--- a/include/hw/virtio/virtio.h
+++ b/include/hw/virtio/virtio.h
@@ -470,9 +470,9 @@ static inline bool virtio_device_started(VirtIODevice 
*vdev, uint8_t status)
    * @vdev - the VirtIO device
    * @status - the devices status bits
    *
- * This is similar to virtio_device_started() but also encapsulates a
- * check on the VM status which would prevent a device starting
- * anyway.
+ * This is similar to virtio_device_started() but ignores vdev->started
+ * and also encapsulates a check on the VM status which would prevent a
+ * device from starting anyway.
    */
   static inline bool virtio_device_should_start(VirtIODevice *vdev, uint8_t 
status)
   {
@@ -480,7 +480,7 @@ static inline bool virtio_device_should_start(VirtIODevice 
*vdev, uint8_t status
           return false;
       }
-    return virtio_device_started(vdev, status);
+    return status & VIRTIO_CONFIG_S_DRIVER_OK;
   }

Michael, any concerns or comments about this patch?

If not, I could also take it via my s390x tree since this fixes vhost-ccw
devices on s390x.

  Thomas

I'm working on a pull request with this today.
I can drop it if you prefer ...

Ah, perfect, please include it in your PR then!

 Thanks,
  Thomas




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