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Commit 60f07798 authored by Parav Pandit's avatar Parav Pandit Committed by Michael S. Tsirkin
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virtio: Improve vq->broken access to avoid any compiler optimization



Currently vq->broken field is read by virtqueue_is_broken() in busy
loop in one context by virtnet_send_command().

vq->broken is set to true in other process context by
virtio_break_device(). Reader and writer are accessing it without any
synchronization. This may lead to a compiler optimization which may
result to optimize reading vq->broken only once.

Hence, force reading vq->broken on each invocation of
virtqueue_is_broken() and also force writing it so that such
update is visible to the readers.

It is a theoretical fix that isn't yet encountered in the field.

Signed-off-by: default avatarParav Pandit <parav@nvidia.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210721142648.1525924-2-parav@nvidia.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
parent 36a21d51
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